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
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Colleen Saidman Yee
Feel Into the Moment
Focus on your present moment sensations throughout this well-rounded practice full of twists and backbends.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Postmenopause Bone Care
A strength-building practice full of weight-bearing poses to support your bones during postmenopause. Move through plank variations, strong standing movements, and core strengthening poses.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Unplug
Unplug in this relaxing practice that acts as a yawn for the body. Explore a variety of seated twists and forward folds to calm down the nervous system and mind.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Comprehensive Chair Yoga
A well-rounded full-body stretch using a chair to support and encourage flexibility. Move through poses seated on the chair, find strong standing and balancing shapes to strengthen your legs and hips, then move toward the ground for sweet forward folds and a generous guided relaxation.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Postmenopause Flexibility
This gentle practice helps to promote flexibility in the whole body after menopause. Find fluidity in the spine, which can get stiff from time to time, and then move to the floor for stretching and hip opening postures.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Gentle Mobility
A gentle practice to introduce mobility back into the body. Explore small movements in the spine in a rhythm that will increase energy little by little.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Positively Energized
Invite positivity with this well-rounded practice of energizing movements. Move through backbends, twists, and playful movement before moving to the ground for some sweet restorative poses.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Step by Step
A sweet practice to help make unmanageable days seem more manageable by taking it one step at a time. Move through seated twists, strong standing poses, and gentle forward folds.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Kind to Mind and Body
A gentle chair yoga practice focused on allowing kindness rather than forcing movement. Keep your seat on the chair the entire practice while moving through stretches for your spine, shoulders, and hips.
Colleen Saidman Yee
Step Forward with Confidence
A playful, confidence-boosting practice exploring big postures with unattached, compassionate steps. This practice includes a healthy dose of strengthening, stretching, and balancing. Observe the line between arrogance and humility, strength and softness, within your practice.
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
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.
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