About
Colleen’s teachings help practitioners feel both safe and challenged through thoughtful sequences and a dash of silliness. Her classes range from physically demanding vinyasa, restorative healing practices, to warm meditations. Colleen’s hybrid teaching style draws influence from over three decades of studentship under yoga luminaries Sharon Gannon, David Life, Richard Rosen, Richard Freeman, and husband Rodney Yee. Colleen’s vast resume includes being a mother and wife, author, former athlete and model, co-director of Urban Zen’s Integrative Therapist program, studio owner of Yoga Shanti in New York, world-renowned yoga teacher, and working with Mother Theresa at the Home for the Destitute and Dying. When not leading trainings and teaching to her New York community, Colleen can be found savoring kombucha and chocolate, bird watching, and spending time with her beloved family. Discover more about Colleen: https://www.colleensaidmanyee.com
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Colleen Saidman Yee
Fluid, Mobile Joints
Use the body as a pump to address every part of the body in order to release stagnation and stiffness that inhibits mobility. A great practice for any age, ability, or energy level.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Healthy Heart for Postmenopause
A practice for women postmenopause to keep the cardiovascular system working optimally and to maintain muscle integrity. Begin standing to get the heart pumping, then move through playful strengthening movements for the whole body.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Fluid Joints Postmenopause
A strong yet approachable class designed for postmenopausal women to move and lubricate every joint in the body. Move systematically through each of the major joints with fluid movement, explore balancing, and close with a moment of relaxation.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Balance and Rejuvenation
A vigorous practice to increase blood flow and spine mobility to leave you feeling balanced and invigorated. Flow through strong standing poses, stretches for the hips and hamstrings, then move to the ground for a gentle inversion and final relaxation.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Awareness Through Grief: Audio Meditation
A guided audio meditation to be with the human experience of grief. Take your mind for a walk through the present moment and observe physical sensations with kindness while holding space for your loss.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Presence in Grief
A gentle practice for navigating the grief of a loss. Begin curled up on your mat and honor the place where you’re starting. Slowly unwind the body and acknowledge present-moment sensations through sound and awareness while staying in the here and now.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Take on the Day with Energy
Wake up with this sweet, vitality-boosting practice for sustained energy throughout the day. Start slow and low to the ground, then gradually increase the intensity while working into each major area of the body. Close the practice with tension-relieving stretches and final relaxation to help keep the body humming all day long.
Colleen Saidman Yee
A Moment for Caregivers: Audio Meditation
A guided audio meditation for caregivers. Caregivers are prone to burnout, caregiver stress, and the simultaneous, contradictory feelings of exhaustion and of not doing enough. Take a moment of pause for yourself, wherever you are, to recharge your own batteries.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Less Stress for Longevity
Release stress and optimize your nervous system to promote a healthy, long life. Flow through this fluid practice of continuous, active movement and breath to release tension and excess heat, then down to the ground with gentle seated postures and a moment of rest.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Stretch and Restore
A chair yoga practice for the whole body. Practice at home, in the office, or during a study break with this accessible practice full of spinal movements, balancing, hip stretches, and overall strengthening. Close the practice with gentle, restorative poses to release stress.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Healthy Relationships: Audio Meditation
Invite compassion and equanimity with this guided audio meditation for cultivating healthy relationships. Learn to listen to yourself and release "hooks" by widening the back body and softening the front body.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Post-Menopause Strengthening Flow
Explore full body strength in this energetic practice geared toward women post-menopause. Begin seated to work on arms and low core toning, then move to a brief standing and downward facing dog series. Complete your practice with supine hip lifts and a final seated series of arm movements.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Autumnal Equinox: Audio Meditation
Ground down and embrace the shift of the seasons with this audio-only meditation to tune into the sensations of the present moment. Settle into the breath and find ease in your mind to embrace the inevitable changes in the seasons, and in your life, rather than resisting them.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Revamp Your Practice
Fall back in love with your yoga practice in this invigorating sequence to inspire your body and mind. Begin low to the ground to rediscover your vitality through fundamental movements in your spine and shoulders, then rise to your feet to explore your full body strength in fluid movements through warrior II, triangle, extended side angle, and pyramid pose.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Tender Heart
Find solace and comfort in this moment with a slow and soothing practice. Begin with comforting supine (lying down) and seated postures before gently blossoming into standing movements. Close the practice with small backbends to reawaken your heart space.
Yoga Foundations
Embrace Your Journey
Enjoy a well-rounded practice that starts with seated twists and moves onto some big standing poses and breath-to-movement. Close the practice with a short meditation.
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