Rodney Yee

Rodney Yee

Rodney Yee has been curious about the mind and body for as long as he can remember. He was a gymnast, a ballet dancer, and a philosophy and physical therapy major. Following the thread of curiosity about mind and body, he took his first yoga class in 1980. He went to yoga in search of flexibility and found a practice that would turn into his life-long passion and career.

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Rodney Yee
  • Find Your Breath

    Feel your breath become the focus of your meditation practice with internationally acclaimed yoga teacher Rodney Yee. Instead of controlling your breath, learn how to receive and release it so it becomes an anchor for your mind to steady itself on.

  • Seated Moving Meditation

    Spend time examining the internal actions of the body that support you while seated. By moving the legs, arms, and spine while seated, you reveal the undulating patterns of movement that remain intact even when you are in the deep stillness of meditation.

  • Breathing at Work

    In this practice with Rodney Yee, we will learn fundamental yogic breathing exercises, including Kapalabhati breath, and will sync our breath with simple chair-based movements that you can do from the comfort of your workplace.

  • Standing Moving Meditation

    Enjoy a 15-minute moving meditation to help cultivate awareness so that you can be centered in the world. By getting familiar with each part of your body through gentle movement and articulation, you become aware of your entire body breathing and moving.

  • Anxiety Release Meditation

    Use this 20-minute guided meditation for stress and anxiety to remind yourself that there is beauty to be found in moments of silence. Rather than thinking of meditation as a way to remove yourself from life, use it as a chance to immerse yourself in it.

  • Chair Yoga One

    From a chair, find length and expansion in your body through simple movements for your legs, spine, and arms in this 20-minute yoga class. Learn how to use a chair in a unique way, enjoying a yoga practice that's accessible for almost everyone.

  • Chair Yoga Two

    Improve digestion and relieve constipation from the comfort of your bed with simple movements that mimic walking in order to release binding and irritation. This practice helps you find the rhythm necessary to bring your body's systems back to normal.

  • Bed Yoga Practice

    Enjoy a simple yoga practice you can do when you're restricted to bed. Keep your spine and joints healthy and comfortable by subtly articulating the spine and finding easy movement for the joints. Encourage the breath to move freely through the body.

  • Wheelchair Yoga Practice

    Designed specifically for individuals using a wheel chair, this 20-minute sequence asks you to find rhythm and fluidity in the body with simple movements. Bring awareness, breath and ease to familiar movements so that you experience them in a new way.

  • Chair Practice

    For many years, Rodney has been offering "yoga in a chair" practices. The modifications and leverage provided by the chair have been innovated and expanded over the years and Rodney presents his latest techniques along with a few of his favorites.

  • Bed Yoga for Constipation

    Improve digestion and relieve constipation from the comfort of your bed with simple movements that mimic walking in order to release binding and irritation. This practice helps you find the rhythm necessary to bring your body's systems back to normal.

  • Bed Yoga for Pain

    Use meditation to better understand the qualities of your pain by bringing your awareness to the inhale, exhale and pausing of the breath. While in bed, create a sanctuary for you to observe the sensations of the body, both the painful and pleasant.

  • Chair

    Learn chair exercises to stretch the back and hips.

  • Relaxation

    Transition from your busy day to a series of slow, mindful movements allowing you to calm the mind and release stress. Take it down, one pose at a time.

  • Better Than Coffee

    Sometimes our coffee buzz turns into a coffee comedown. In this caffeine-free, upbeat practice featuring Sun Salutations and dynamic Vinyasa, you will both generate energy and anchor it in your center.

  • Center to Start

    Get in touch with your physical and emotional center in this guided meditation with Rodney Yee. As you arch your attention inwards, you will encounter how the architecture of your true being is built simply out of peace, love, and light.

  • Essential Poses

    Essentials for your day – As if you were by the seashore, listening to the waves of the ocean, this is your breath. An everyday-all-play yoga class, Rodney is at his best when offering something for everyone, while keeping your focus on the breath.

  • Better Balance Practice

    Create better balance in your body and mind with this 20-minute yoga class. Explore your balance in standing poses, like Mountain, Triangle and Half Moon, by feeling the subtleties of your feet and breath and noticing the sensation of grounding to rise.

  • Flow- Twists & Bends

    This beginner's practice from Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee is designed to integrate forward bends and closed twists into your practice.

  • Embrace Beginning

    This first class in the beginner's practice from Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee is designed to help you welcome presence into your asana.

  • Foundation- Poses

    This beginner's practice from Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee is designed to help you grow and feel your roots before you flow.

  • Flow- Intro Sun

    This beginner's practice from Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee is designed to introduce you to the grounding empowerment of saluting the sun.

  • Refine- Poses

    This beginner's practice from Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee is designed to help you self-adjust your standing asana.

  • Foundation- Twists & Back

    This beginner's practice from Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee is designed to introduce you to experimenting with backbends and open twists.