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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Why Do We Say Namaste?
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
Why do we bow and say Namaste during a yoga class? Rodney and Colleen discuss the various meanings of the word used to share a heart connection with fellow yogis.
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Is Yoga a Religion?
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
Rodney and Colleen return to their earlier conversation: “What is yoga?”
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Yoga and Loving Your Body
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
Colleen Saidman shares how yoga helped her learn to love her body after years of being insecure about her appearance. Watch this Yoga Talk to find out more.
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How Does Meditation Relate to Yoga?
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
Rodney and Colleen explain that yoga encompasses poses, breathing and meditation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Why Yoga?
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
In this intimate interview, Rodney shares with Colleen why he was drawn to yoga.
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How Does Yoga Work?
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
Rodney explains the holistic effect of the yoga practice on your body, mind and spirit.
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How Did You Start Yoga?
Yoga Talks with Rodney & Colleen
Colleen explains how she felt about yoga before a friend convinced her try it.
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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.
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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.
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Introduction
Yoga Foundations
What is the Yoga Foundations series all about? Rodney and Colleen give a brief overview of what you can expect.