Rodney Yee

Rodney Yee

Taking his first yoga class in 1980, Rodney Yee is now one of the most recognized yoga teachers in the world and is considered a pioneer of yoga in the United States.

Rodney practices and teaches yoga to bring philosophy into action and to unveil the natural beauty of our spirits. He loves the ability of yoga to cleanse the mind and body which allows for presence of being. With his wife Colleen Saidman, Yee developed the Gaia Yoga Studio, designed to make a yoga home practice accessible to a wide audience.

Relying strongly on his own practice and intuition to influence his teaching, Rodney Yee has been curious about the mind and body for as long as he can remember. He was a gymnast, a ballet dancer with the Oakland Ballet Company and the Matsuyama Ballet Company of Tokyo, and a philosophy and physical therapy major at the University of California Davis and Berkeley.

Having created and appearing in over 30 video titles and numerous audio recordings produced by Gaia, Rodney Yee has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN and PBS, and his instructional programs are often among the top 10 fitness programs in the US. Yee leads workshops and teacher trainings around the world and serves as a co-chair of the Urban Zen Health and Wellness Initiative, a foundation dedicated to bringing yoga, massage and holistic therapies to hospitals around the nation.

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An accessible practice to find gentle movement, strength, and openness for optimal alignment in the chest, shoulders, and neck. Includes some lunges for a great posture reset anytime.
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Explore the full range of motion in the shoulders throughout this exploratory practice. Discover freedom in this area of the body through rhythm, strength and coordination.
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Connect to the earth and the sun to build balanced, whole-body energy. Move through a variety of shapes and movements including strong standing poses, fluid hip stretches, twists, and flowing sun salutations.
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Relax any binding in the hips with this gentle movement practice. Start on the ground and make your way up to standing balance poses to explore and find space in the muscles around your hips.
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Lean into the natural, vital vibration of the body and breath. This practice includes a combination of flowing movements and long holds to feel the springy, celebratory nature that exists in each of us.
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Invite ease and lightness into days that feel heavy or stressful. Feel your emotions and let them flow through you with this steady practice full of grounded standing poses.
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Take a break from your computer with a gentle practice to release tension in the hands and wrists. Begin seated in a chair or on the ground for shoulder movements, then come to standing sun salutations, and back down to the ground for plank pose, kneeling movements, and close with seated mudras (hand gestures).
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A mid-day refresh to release tension throughout your body and re-energize your workday. Begin lying down with leg and hip stretches, and release tension in the head, neck, and shoulders. Move into kneeling movements for playful exploration, then into standing for strong, grounded postures. Close the practice lying down to observe your breath and continue your day renewed.
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Start the day with a well-rounded practice to invite steadiness and balance in the mind and body. Begin with strong standing and balancing poses for grounding and vitality, then move to the ground for seated spinal and hip movements, forward bends, and reclined hamstring stretches.
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A restful practice of long-held postures to help unwind and release tension in support of the immune system. Options to use lots of props, which can be substituted for blankets, pillows, or whatever you have around the house. Drop in, release, and restore.
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Feeling sluggish? Try this flowing, heart-pumping mini break inspired by sun salutations and simple calisthenics to re-energize and reset your day.
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Counterbalance the impact of technology on your posture with a quick reset for "tech neck." Move through gentle shoulder and neck releases on your yoga mat or seated in a chair.
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Whether your forward fold means yoga asana or tying your shoes, folding forward is an essential movement.
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Connect with your core muscles to create a strong foundation for a healthy spine in this short practice.
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Rodney Yee
Practice falling out of shapes in order to feel the fluidity of your inherent movement. Strengthen the muscles that assist balance in yoga postures, walking, and general stability.
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Flow through a wide range of postures in this powerful sequence to warm and energize your whole body.
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Feel your practice as a channel for your body, breath, and mind in this brisk, well-rounded sequence.
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This energetic, full-body practice with minimal instruction is perfect for yogis who have limited time to practice. Begin in downward dog, move through a series of balanced standing postures to stretch and strengthen each plane of the body, and close with seated twists and folds.