“TRUE COMMUNITY IS BASED ON EQUALITY, MUTUALITY, AND RECIPROCITY. IT AFFIRMS THE RICHNESS OF INDIVIDUAL DIVERSITY AS WELL AS THE COMMON HUMAN TIES THAT BIND US TOGETHER.”
WE ARE COMMITTED TO EXPANDING YOGA ACCESS AND INCLUSIVITY, CHALLENGING DELUDED CONCEPTS ABOUT WHAT YOGA IS AND DOES, AND SHARING YOGA IN WAYS THAT HONOR THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF ALL.
Community Yoga Initiative is a movement committed to expanding yoga access and inclusivity by offering free opportunities to learn about and practice yoga. As part of this movement, Community Yoga Center leaders, mentors, and students offer over twelve yoga sessions every week - FREE - open to everyBODY in commUNITY. All offerings are provided solely through voluntary giving - at no cost to participants.
Our community facilitators are known for nurturing inclusive community and co-creating space for connection and refuge by emphasizing collective collaboration, where everyone is an important part of the group yoga experience. The facilitators honor the infinite aspects of individuality and welcome all bodies, backgrounds, traditions, and situations. They adapt yoga practices to meet individual needs and encourage personal responsibility and intuitive direction.
THE BEGINING
Community Yoga Initiative was co-created by five friends who loved practicing yoga together and sharing yoga with others. They loved how yoga strengthened, stretched, and destressed their bodies; soothed, relaxed, and decompressed their minds; and opened their hearts. They loved how yoga invited them to feel fully alive - to experience deep intimacy with life itself - by feeling into it with awareness, honesty, and love. Yoga made them feel more alive to life - more in synch with the flow and wholeness of life and more connected to what’s most meaningful to them. They appreciated how practicing yoga together in community nurtured a sense of belonging and connectedness to something greater than the boundaries of their separate selves. They hoped through their sharing of yoga others might also feel a sense of belonging in community and more intimately connected to the grace of life itself.
THE LEGACY
This effort is now sustained by a growing group of incredible yogis who practice and share yoga from the heart.
