Rodney Yee & Colleen Saidman Yee’s Favorite Quotes

Rodney Yee & Colleen Saidman Yee’s Favorite Quotes

In honor of our new Yoga Foundations Guide with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee, Gaiam TV sat down with them to get their favorite inspirational quotes as we begin the building blocks to a solid yoga for life practice. This guide is excellent for yoga for beginners or anyone looking to revisit the defining elements of a strong asana practice.

This guide includes sun salutations for beginners and beginning yoga routines perfect for anyone new to yoga.

Get a sneak peek of day 3 sun salutations!

Rodney Yee’s Favorite Quotes

Cling to the one thing that matters, hold onto “I am” and let go of all else. ::Nisargatta Maharaj

…and it is this immediate perception, this choiceness awareness that puts an end to sorrow. ::J. Krishnamurti

Feel the motions of tenderness around you, the buoyancy. ::Rumi

Colleen Saidman Yee’s Favorite Quotes

How long, babe, will you search for what’s not lost? ::Bob Dylan

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ::Mark Twain

The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. ::Mother Teresa

Yoga Foundations with Rodney Yee & Colleen Saidman Yee

Yoga guides — they’re not just for beginners anymore. That’s why Gaiam TV partnered with yoga pioneers Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee. Over the last 15 years, they’ve cultivated the best approach to foundational yoga.

Watch the video below, and sign up for the guide.



5 Tips to Reclaim Your Calm

5 Tips to Reclaim Your Calm

Stress and anxiety have become everyday realities, especially over the last year. In fact, a survey conducted in 2020 reported that 62% of adult respondents reported experiencing anxiety on a regular basis. But what if it didn’t have to be that way?

Yoga, breathwork, and meditation can create a foundation of synchronicity in your body that allows you to regain control of your life in a way that calms your sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight response) and supports an overarching sense of calmness in our chaotic world. 

These practices, while not a panacea for anxiety, can improve stress response, and have been clinically proven to do so. A recent study at New York University Grossman School of Medicine discovered that in a group of randomly selected people with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), 54% met the criteria for “meaningfully improved symptoms,” after practicing yoga.

So, what can you do to reclaim a peaceful mind and life? Here are 5 tips to get you started: 

 

1.) Develop a regular physical yoga practice (or re-commit if you already have one

All types of physical exercise are beneficial for decreasing stress response by improving the health of the cardiovascular system (also potentially reducing the risk of heart disease) and releasing endorphins. Yoga, however, offers a special twist of calmness and relaxation while still allowing an exertion of physical effort, creating a fertile environment to build self-awareness through mindful movement. 

Because of the flexibility and strength gained through regular practice, joint and muscle pain may also be soothed through a physical yoga practice (also called Asana) by reducing stressors related to pain responses in the body. Over time, and with dedicated practice, these benefits add up dramatically, even to the point of correcting scoliosis or reducing heart palpitations. Vinyasa or Yin yoga are generally the most beneficial practices for these physical benefits.

One common misconception about yoga is that you must practice for an hour to benefit. This fallacy was derived from the fact that studio classes often run for an hour. Any amount of time spent practicing physical yoga counts, whether it be 10, 60, 90 minutes, or more! 

 

2.) Practice 5-10 minutes of breathwork

Breathwork (or Pranayama) can be easily overlooked, even by seasoned yoga practitioners, but it is one of the most beneficial aspects of your practice. How we breathe is often directly correlated to how we feel; short and shallow breathing makes us feel closed off and more anxious, whereas long, mindful breathing creates a sense of abundance, while also promoting a more meditative and mindful state. Taking as few as five minutes a day to breathe deeply and mindfully can literally re-oxygenate the mind and body. This allows more clarity and direction in everyday scenarios, and (with the use of some specific practices, like this one), can create a space of time between a personal cause and retort, transforming reactions into more thoughtful responses.

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