An Online Yoga Club to Help You Create a Personal Home Yoga Practice
Free online yoga offer - Practice yoga at home with Rodney & Colleen
The only online yoga club with exclusive access to world-renowned yoga teachers Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman. The Gaiam Yoga Club offers everything you need to learn and develop a private home yoga practice safely and effectively. Join us today for a free trial!
Developed by world-renowned instructors Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman, Gaiam Yoga Club is a revolutionary online yoga training that shows you how to start and personalize a home yoga practice for greater flexibility, improved core strength, enhanced focus and overall well-being.
Gaiam Yoga Club gives you:
- 9 videos that guide you step-by-step through 75 poses
- 63 downloadable podcasts for yoga instruction and guided meditation
- Printable pose guide to accompany every podcast
- Personal connections with Rodney and Colleen through community chats
- Member support and discussion through message boards
- Inspiration from Rodney and Colleen's blogs
- Your own personal blog to document your journey and connect with the community
What You'll Learn
With guided instruction from Rodney & Colleen you'll learn:
- The strong, grounded confidence of standing poses
- How sun salutations – a series of poses linked by the breath – are like a moving meditation
- Backbends' fatigue-fighting and slouch-reversing benefits
- How twists help cleanse you emotionally and physically
- The amazing ability of inversions - headstand, legs-up-the-wall pose — to change your mood instantly
- Why calming poses help you feel balanced, even off the mat
- When to use a headstand, and when you shouldn't
- How balanced sequences aid in circulation as well as centering
- Ways to explore advanced poses step-by-step
- Which health sequences to turn to for lower back problems, sinus infections, weight loss and pregnancy
- How to find emotional balance with poses for getting energized, easing sadness and more
- Meditation & breath work to quiet the mind and center yourself
About Rodney & Colleen
About Rodney Yee
Rodney Yee first began studying yoga about 26 years ago while dancing with the Oakland Ballet and studying physical therapy. When he was with the Matsuyama Ballet Company of Tokyo, Rodney continued taking yoga classes. By the time he returned to the U.S. in 1983, Rodney was committed to sharing his knowledge. He began teaching at The Yoga Room in Berkeley, Calif., and later opened Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, Calif. He has studied yoga in India with B.K.S. Iyengar, and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. Although he has studied extensively in the Iyengar tradition, he relies strongly on his own practice, intuition, philosophy and spirituality to influence his teaching.
Read more about Rodney
Now one of the most recognized and popular yoga instructors in the world, Rodney has been a guest on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," CNN and PBS. He is featured in over 30 yoga DVDs, which are often among the top 10 fitness titles in the U.S. Rodney also co-authored two books with Nina Zolotow — Yoga: The Poetry of the Body, and Moving Toward Balance, a guide to home practice.
Rodney leads workshops and teacher trainings around the world including many with his wife Colleen Saidman. He also 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.
About Colleen Saidman
Colleen's introduction to yoga was at the urging of a roommate who convinced her to attend a class at a loft space in New York City over 20 years ago. It was not long after that first class, that her wornout running shoes, her basketball and her boxing gloves became relics of the past. And in 1994, after enduring back surgery, Colleen's commitment to her yoga practice deepened.
Read more about Colleen
A graduate of Jivamukti's Teacher Training program in 1998, she has been teaching ever since. Colleen has been featured in both The New York Times and New York Magazine, the November 2003 cover of Yoga Journal and several best-selling yoga DVDs.
Her passion for working in health care started in junior high at a geriatric center. Certified in Shiatsu, Colleen has traveled throughout Europe and Asia studying complementary medicine and spiritual healing. She also lived in Calcutta, India working with Mother Theresa at the Home of the Destitute and Dying. Currently, Colleen 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.
Colleen co-owns and co-directs Yoga Shanti in Sag Harbor, N.Y. She also leads retreats and teacher trainings nationally and internationally, many with her husband Rodney Yee.
People are saying...
"In my town, I haven't found yoga classes that run with any real regularity or that fit around my schedule of teaching, going to graduate school, and raising my children. Being able to work at my own pace using the tools available at the Gaiam Yoga Club online, I feel that I have finally discovered the broad community of yoga practitioners that I have been hoping to find."
"Rodney Yee, with his trademark ponytail and mega-watt smile, has long been one of the most recognizable and widely respected yogis in America. He is a highly intuitive teacher who brings a unique perspective to the power of yoga both on the mat and off. His unbridled passion, deep knowledge, and abiding love for this practice has enriched and guided the lives of thousands of students."
"This is a great online yoga program. I recommend it to anyone and all levels of experience. There's something peaceful about doing Yoga in the comfort of your own home. Not to mention, it's a great time saver because you don't have to drive to the local studio or gym (It's cold here this time of year)!"
"I've seen a good number of yoga DVDs. Thi online yoga club is up there with the best ones for beginners. Each week's material is divided up into 10-12 segments that can be viewed independently. Yee and Saidman take turns demoing the poses and vinyasas. They provide a huge volume of insight and tips into the poses."
