Rodney Yee
Rodney Yee is an American yoga instructor who shot to national prominence in the mid-1990s after appearing on the cover of Yoga Journal and then appearing in a series of films and a Gaiam/Living Arts yoga instruction DVD. Yee published two books and voiced the meditation audio.
Rodney Yee, who took his first yoga class in 1980, is now one of the world's most well-known yoga teachers and is widely regarded as a yoga pioneer in the United States. Rodney does and teaches yoga to put philosophy into practice and explore the innate beauty that exists inside each of us. Yoga's ability to clear the mind and body, allowing for being, appeals to him. Yee founded Gaia Yoga Studio with his wife, Colleen Saidman, to make home yoga accessible to a wider audience.
Rodney Yee has been fascinated by the mind and body for as long as he can remember, relying primarily on his personal practice and intuition to inform his teaching. He is a gymnast, a ballet dancer with the Oakland Ballet Company and Tokyo's Matsuyama Ballet Company, and a philosophy and physical therapy expert at the Universities of California, Davis, and Berkeley. Rodney Yee has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, and PBS, and his educational shows are frequently in the top 10. He has created and appeared in more than 30 video titles and several recordings produced by Gaia. The best workout program in the United States. Yee is the co-chair of the Urban Zen Health and Wellness Initiative, an organization dedicated to bringing yoga, massage, and other therapies to life. He also organizes seminars and teacher training worldwide for hospitals all throughout the country.
If you've ever taken one of Yee's yoga sessions, you know that his yoga practice focuses on emptying the mind and body to allow for a greater connection with the present time. The work he did to build the Gaia Yoga Studio, which brought yoga into the homes of millions of Americans, is one of the key reasons Yee has become such a renowned teacher. For those reasons, it is certain that Rodney Yee will be one of the amazing yoga teachers in the US you’ll love.
Born: 1957
