Colleen Saidman Yee

Colleen Saidman Yee

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

64 classes found

Why Is Alignment Important?
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
Rodney asks Colleen to describe the importance of alignment, and their conversation explores how focusing on the nuances of the pose offers freedom. When you find alignment,
Yoga Foundations
Learn to lengthen and ground to create space in the spine. A spacious spine allows ease in twists and backbends. Follow Colleen for modified variations.
Yoga Foundations
Focus on refining twists and backbends to help make them feel effortless and safe. Move methodically with attention to alignment in seated and standing postures.
Yoga Foundations
Explore twists and bends to give extra attention to the places where you might feel stuck. Wring out slow-moving energy with twists and open your mind with backbends.
How Does Meditation Relate to Yoga?
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
Rodney and Colleen explain that yoga encompasses poses, breathing and meditation.
Yoga, Breath and Prana
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
Colleen and Rodney dive deep into the words you hear often in yoga class: breath and prana.
Yoga Foundations
Standing poses are the foundation for your practice. This grounding and strengthening practice focuses on the legs and feet and by holding the poses for longer periods of time you will develop a sensitivity to your personal body architecture.
Yoga Foundations
Dive into the subtleties and anatomy of standing poses to better understand how to correctly align your feet and legs throughout your yoga practice.
Yoga Foundations
Focus on mindful transitions as you move from pose to pose in this slow flowing practice with an emphasis on common standing postures in hatha yoga.
Why Yoga?
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
In this intimate interview, Rodney shares with Colleen why he was drawn to yoga.
How Did You Start Yoga?
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
Colleen explains how she felt about yoga before a friend convinced her try it.
Yoga Foundations
This practice is designed intentionally for those newer to the practice of yoga. Learn the foundations of through this sequence of accessible movements, standing poses, balancing poses, forward bends, twists and backbends.
How Does Yoga Work?
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
Rodney explains the holistic effect of the yoga practice on your body, mind and spirit.
Why This Guide?
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
Calling it “an offering from our heart,” Rodney and Colleen want to share the gift of yoga with everyone.
Introduction
Yoga Foundations
What is the Yoga Foundations series all about? Rodney and Colleen give a brief overview of what you can expect.
Balance and Restore
Calorie Killer Yoga
Slow down to create space in your body and mind. Practiced completely seated, this class provides an opportunity to increase flexibility and muscle tone in a relaxed way.
Rise and Shine
Calorie Killer Yoga
Learn how starting each day with a sun salutation invigorates the body and gets your engine revving to burn calories all day long.
Sustained Burn
Calorie Killer Yoga
Sustain calorie burn by building and maintaining heat in the body.