Sag Harbor Yoga Classes - Yoga Classes in the Hamptons
Colleen Saidman Yee, Director
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. It was not long after that first class, that her worn out 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.
A graduate of Jivamukti’s Teacher Training program in 1998, she has been teaching ever since. Colleen has been featured in Vanity Fair, New York Times, USA today, New York Magazine, Oprah, Marie Claire, Allure, and has been on the cover of yoga journal, fit yoga and natural health. Colleen is featured in the PBS special called The Practical Power of Yoga. She has also been a guest on the Good Morning America Show. She is co-writing the masters class column for yoga journal for 2009. A consummate student, Colleen’s thirst for yoga knowledge is insatiable. Colleen has taught several teacher trainings, both 500 and 200 hour programs. Colleen holds a certification in Shiatsu and lived in Calcutta, India working with Mother Theresa at the Homes for the dying destitute.
Colleen owes tremendous gratitude for her studies of bhakti and vinyasa to David Life and Sharon Gannon. She studies with Richard Rosen and Richard Freeman as frequently as possible. She also offers thanks to the many other teachers with whom she has studied, as well as to her husband Rodney Yee, who remains her principal teacher.
Together with Rodney, she presents the Gaiam Yoga Club as well as several popular Yoga DVD's. In recent years, they helped to create and now co-direct Urban Zen's Integrative Yoga Therapist Program, a world-wide initiative of Donna Karan. Colleen lives in Sag Harbor where she is the director of the famous Yoga Shanti yoga studio. She and Rodney are raising 4 wonderful teenagers, and are teaching Teacher Trainings and retreats worldwide.
Tonia D'Angelo
Tonia has been a devoted yoga practitioner for over 12 years. She took the leap to become a teacher herself, and is grateful for the Yoga Shanti 500+ hour teacher training she completed in 2004. She is especially thankful for the teachings from Jessica Bellafatto, Heidi Fokine, Jenna Minardi, Colleen and Rodney Yee who have helped her to deepen her insight, practice and teachings of yoga. Tonia’s classes are a blend of breathing techniques, alignment specific vinyasa and little doses of spirituality to brighten your day. She is a patient teacher who has much to offer all those who attend her classes. Tonia has three wonderful children and is a native to East Hampton. She has a strong belief in the mind body connection and is also a certified Holistic Health Counselor and Iridologist. To find out more please visit beyourbesthealth.com.
dhruva corrigan
Dhruva began practicing yoga with Corey DeRosa in Sag Harbor. He received his certification to teach Ashtanga yoga from It’s Yoga in San Francisco in the summer of 2007. His love for and faith in the Ashtanga system is certainly evident in any class that he teaches, and his real passion is in teaching teenagers and adolescents. Having begun practicing himself at the age of 15, Dhruva knows the immense benefits that yoga can have for all people, and especially for young bodies and minds growing into unique and independent individuals.
Diana DiMenna
During a long and rewarding career as a health and fitness expert, Diana gradually added more and more yoga poses and principles from her personal practice into her work with clients. By 2002, she was ready to give up "exercise" altogether and devote her teaching entirely to yoga. She received her certification from Yoga Shanti, where she has been a grateful and passionate student since the old days in a small room behind the kite store. "A natural teacher and leader," according to her own teachers, Diana blends patience, humor, warmth and gentle adjustments into her Absolute Beginners classes. "I am thrilled to have the chance to welcome people into the gracious practice of yoga, and into the supportive and loving Yoga Shanti community," she says. Diana is the author of The Easy Spirit Guide to Women's Health and Fitness and has contributed articles to American Health and Lear's magazine. As a fitness model, she has appeared in Elle, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and American Health. She is grateful to Colleen and Rodney, and to Jessica Bellafatto, her principal teachers.
steve eaton
Steve Eaton has been experimenting with music all his life! He began at the age of 5 with the piano and now plays a number of instruments including the guitar, djembe, harmonium, tambura, melodica...(the list goes on and on). Steve graduated from Princeton University with a Degree (BA) in Music. There he was able to explore many musical forms and ensembles. Steve also began his studies of buddhism and veganism while attending Princeton. It was at a yoga class in Amagasnett where Steve fell in love with the practice. Since then Steve has studied many forms of yoga including Hatha, Kundalini, Iyengar and Bhakti, or devotional, Yoga. In 2008 Steve traveled to India where he immersed himself in the sounds of the country.
Steve is very excited to be collaborating with his partner Jennifer by accompanying her class with a number of instruments. His attempt is to deepen the experience of yoga through sound, vibration and chanting. He welcomes all feedback relating to this experimental yogic experience.
Subhadra (Bridget) Fleming
Once a professional ballet dancer, and then a trial lawyer, Subhadra stepped into the amazing world of yoga in 1998 and hasn’t looked back. She received certification from the Integral Yoga Institute in New York City in 2000, where she taught regularly and still maintains close ties. Her classes combine inspiring music with an unbridled joy in movement and an extensive knowledge of the body and breath. Subhadra understands that the body and soul work together and, with a generous spirit and sense of humor, shares insight from her longstanding personal meditation practice. She has studied extensively with her friend and teacher Swami Ramananda, as well as Angela Farmer, Rodney Yee, Jyothi Larson, Swami Jyothirmayandanda, Manorama, and Jai Uttal. Subhadra shares the teachings of yoga with the prayer that all may find the deep peace that resides within.
Heidi Fokine
Born the daughter of an atheist, Heidi’s spiritual awakening happened around the age of 14 when she began to pursue her passion for dance.
The transcendent experience of dancing; moving on the earth with other people, and the rich insights the art form offered was fertile ground for the development of self and sense of community. She received a BFA in dance from North Carolina School of the Arts in 1981.
Somewhere along a happy and always surprising fifteen year dance career, (touring internationally with Mark Dendy, David Gordon, and Susan Marshall), she found yoga. In the first Jivamukti class Heidi attended in 1991 she had the quiet revelation, “this is my future”. Since then Heidi has studied many styles of yoga but finds the teachings of Genevieve Kapuler and Rodney Yee most enduring. She also studies Light Body Meditation with Diane Goldner. Her classes combine precise knowledge of anatomy and alignment, reverence for the intelligence and mysteries of the body-mind- spirit with a quest for freedom and fun.
Yoga stripped away all the extraneous from dance, revealing in new ways what continues to fascinate her: space, light, rhythm, form, energy and the pulsation of the life community on this earth. Visit Heidi's web site
jennifer frasher
Born in Germany and raised in Sag Harbor, Jennifer emphasizes breath and pranayama in a strong yet fluid vinyasa flow. She refines the practice with precise alignment, hands on adjustments and mindful meditation. Believing in the Krishnamacharya lineage in that you "adapt the yoga to the individual" Jennifer strives to develop a unique yoga practice for each person. Forever a student, Jennifer is continually furthering her spiritual knowledge with daily practice both at home and in the classroom. She has taken numerous courses with exceptional teachers such as Angela Farmer, Patricia Walden, Bonnie Bainbridge-Cohen, David Swenson, WAH, Genny Kapuler, Gurumukh, Manorama, Rodney Yee and many others. Jennifer has studied intensely with Mark Whitwell, with whom she became certified with as well as completing the 200 hour Nosara teacher training in Costa Rica. Jennifer is also certified to teach children through Universal Force Healing Center. In 2008 Jennifer traveled to India for the first time where she completed the Level 1 course at The Art of Living ashram in Bangalore with His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Jennifer incorporates live music, chanting, pranayama and Iyengar alignment to suit all levels of students. You will find her teachings fresh, inspirational and ever surprising! She would like to thank the many beings that inspire her teachings and her life.
Erika Halweil
Erika Halweil was born and raised in New York City. Her first experience with the yoga practice was close to one decade ago, although, it wasn't until 1997 that she focused her attention on the endless journey into the present moment. Recognizing the importance of a playful spirit and limitless curiosity, Erika tries to challenge herself, and others, through a unique vinyasa practice (inspired by the many traditions to which she has been exposed). She has furthered her knowledge of the human body through the study of nutrition (with a degree from NYU), anatomy and physiology and reflexology. She is, wholeheartedly grateful for all of her teachers; to Manorama D'Alvia and Uma Nanda Saraswati for helping her to find her inner bhakti; to Colleen Saidman and Jessica Bellofatto for their open hearts and thirst for knowledge; to Krishnamurti and Pema Chodron for their insight, honesty and courage. She is also indebted to the many people who have shared their practice with her, as she honors that each student is her guru.
Sarah Halweil
Sarah Halweil graduated from the Yoga Shanti Teacher Training Program in 2004. Previously she had practiced Ashtanga, Iyengar, and Jivamukti Yoga, but knew that she had found something special when she moved to Sag Harbor and started practicing at Yoga Shanti. "I was in awe in every class," she remembers. "The chanting. The intelligent sequencing. The focus on anatomy. The spiritual education and guidance. It satisfied all of my yoga expectations, and all in a tiny, whaling town."
Sarah strives to push the yoga practice beyond the classroom and into everyday life. "I feel grateful to be able to study with Colleen and Jessica, Rodney Yee and Manorama, and to share this powerful practice with others," she says.
Sarah holds a BA in Environmental Science and Latin American Studies from the University of Colorado in Boulder and a BSN from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She is a labor and delivery nurse at Southampton Hospital.
Kari Harendorf
Kari discovered yoga in 1996 while recovering from a knee injury suffered during the Off-Broadway production of "Tony 'n Tina's Wedding". Inspired, Kari has been practicing ever since, becoming certified through the Integral Yoga Teacher Training Program in 2002, the Bhava Teacher Training program in 2003, and founding her own studio, East Yoga Center in New York City’s East Village in 2004. (http://eastyoga.com) Kari’s passion for yoga continues through her continued study with John Friend in the anusara tradition of yoga and Rodney Yee, who never fails to change her practice again and again.
Kari is also an accomplished dog trainer, having merged her passion for yoga and dogs with a monthly Dog Yoga class at East Yoga. This has led to features in numerous publications, including Yoga Journal, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal as well as the 2005 Animal Planet television series, “K9 Karma” which followed Kari and her dog Charlie both in and out of the yoga studio.
Kari hails from Toronto, holds a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and splits time between New York City and Sag Harbor with her husband, baby daughters, and 4 dogs. She would like to thank Jessica and Colleen, her primary teachers and constant source of inspiration.
Shana Kuhn-Siegel
In high school, Shana Kuhn-Siegel found mentorship from a beloved theater teacher whose mantra of instruction remains indelible in her mind, “Do the work”. Through improvisation and movement, a yoga practice was born, one that started as self study outside the asana classroom. It was not until college, that Shana began to explore yoga more traditionally, beginning with her early visits to the Sivananda center in Manhattan. Her passion for the physical practice, however, did not fully ignite until she found Astanga. Disenchanted with the monotony of the treadmill that she was on, she renounced her shoes and began Mysore classes at a local Crunch gym. This experience led to a daily practice and more in-depth study with such teachers as Richard Freeman. Shana also had the great fortune of working privately with Rebecca Menashe, a Jivamukti certified teacher, who introduced her to the philosophical teachings found in such texts as the Yoga Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita. In 2003, Shana took her practice on the road when she enrolled in the Peace Corps. Each morning, her practice of the Primary Series became the most watched program in her small village in Paraguay, South America. Returning prematurely from service to care for her dying grandmother, Shana found the true power of sangha at Yoga Shanti in Sag Harbor that has helped her to become the teacher she is today. There Shana enrolled in a year long teacher training program to receive her certification. Shana is endlessly grateful and bows humbly to her teachers Jessica Bellofatto and Colleen Saidman who believed in her potential and offered instruction from a place of the utmost compassion and sincerity. Their lessons remain the force behind Shana’s asana instruction and her spiritual inquiry.
Shana also offers pranams to the many teachers who were also part of the year long process: Manorama, Rodney Yee, Stan Woodman, Heidi Fokine, Anna Holder, Kate “Lalita” Rabinowitz, John Seelye, Leslie Kaminoff, and the nineteen other amazing students who were part of the first Yoga Shanti Teacher Training program. Shana bows to the support of her family, her friends, and most especially to the students that she learns from every day. Shana’s classes are mindful and playful; combining focused and integrated asana sequencing, philosophy and chanting. Inspired by Krishnamurti’s expression, “life is a movement in relationship,” Shana hopes to convey her amazement in life’s endless possibilities to her students. In addition to being a yoga teacher, Shana’s commitment to the moral precepts of satya and ahimsa have led her to pursue a Masters degree in Social Work, working toward the enhancement of educational opportunities for young people so that they too may have the opportunity to walk the path of self-realization.
Leah Kinney
Leah began a regular yoga practice during her last year of college, finding that savasana provided the perfect respite from the brain overload of thesis writing. While home for Thanksgiving, Leah took a VERY crowded class at Yoga Shanti! Not sure what to expect and totally nervous about falling on someone, she unfolded her mat onto the uneven, creaky, wood floor and took her seat. As the first OM reverberated throughout the room, she was wholly intrigued.
In 2003, during an extended winter vacation in Costa Rica, Leah completed the Nosara Yoga Institue’s 200 hour teaching training program. Upon returning home, she enrolled in Yoga Shanti’s teacher training program where her heart grew full of love and gratitude for this practice and her truly wonderful teachers.
Born and raised in Montauk, Leah has a deep appreciation and love for the East End. She is so pleased to be sharing and participating in the practice of yoga within this community. Leah graduated from Georgetown University in 2001 with a BA in Women’s Studies and Spanish.
HEATHER LILLESTON
Originally from Northern California, Heather has been living and teaching Jivamukti Yoga in New York City since 2003. She completed the Jivamukti teacher training with Sharon Gannon and David Life while finishing her bachelors at New York University. She then completed her 800-hour Advanced Certification in 2008. She currently teaches Jivamukti at Pure Yoga New York City.
Her classes integrate creative vinyasa sequences with meditation, visualization and chanting, honeyed with uplifting music. Interweaving scripture from both the Yoga and Tibetan Buddhist traditions, her goal is to create a space for practitioners to realign themselves with conscious intention and physical presence, leading to both an inner and outer transformational experience. She is known for her sweetness, passion and authenticity.
She has studied with a myriad of teachers: Sharon Gannon, David Life, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Gurumayi, Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally.
Heather also teaches at Pure Yoga in New York City.
Stephanie Livaccari
Stephanie first experienced the healing power of movement while leaping across a dance studio. Being 5 years old at the time, she was unaware of how profoundly this would impact her life and work. The need for movement - as a means to heal, release, express and communicate - became a natural part of her self and spirit. To have the opportunity to bring yoga into children's lives and awaken this part of their spirit is deeply gratifying for her.
Stephanie first discovered yoga in 1996 and has been practicing ever since. Her interest truly deepened when she became pregnant with her daughter Miachesca in 2004. In the prenatal and kids classes at Yoga Shanti she observed the natural link between yoga and children. Watching them slither like snakes and jump like frogs around the studio, she was inspired to learn how to share this wonderful gift with others.
Stephanie is certified to teach children's yoga through Neney's Yoginis and through the Karma Kids studio in Manhattan. She is deeply grateful to Sheryl Hastalis, Ann Fristoe, Subhadra Fleming, Jessica Bellafatto and Colleen Saidman for their wisdom, support and encouragement. She brings a light-hearted and playful approach to each class and is an encouraging teacher who believes in a respect for all students . . . no matter the age.
Alexandra McLaughlin
A native to Sag Harbor, Alex fled to New York City to pursue a degree in fashion at FIT. It was not long before she became exasperated by the endless whirlwind and began to search for more meaning. She knew that she needed to slow down and become more present. Her love of yoga and dedication to her own practice awakened a desire to further her study and humbly pursue the possibility of teaching. And once she began, there was no turning back!
Alex has received certifications from Sivananda, Jivamukti and most recently at Yoga Shanti, in a 10 month residency program. Blending the many traditions that she has studied, Alex brings flowing sequences, chanting and mindful instruction to all of her classes. She is grateful to all of her extraordinary teachers: Sharon Gannon and David Life, Manorama, Patricia Borrego, Mary Buffo, Jessica Bellofatto and Colleen Saidman, her family, as well as the many others who bring inspiration to her life daily.
Lilia Mead
In January 2000, Lilia opened Go Yoga with the help and support of countless others. Her practice and classes include Vinyasa, Pranayama, Meditation, and Chanting. In 1997, she completed her Jivamukti training with her first and most profound teachers Sharon Gannon and David Life. Since then, she's had the opportunity to study with many great masters, including T.K.V Desikachar, Mary Dunn, Genny Kapular, Geshe Michael Roach and Lama Christie McNally. She traveled to India in 1999 to study with the esteemed Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, and in 2002 returned to study with meditation master Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. In 2006, Lilia's spiritual practice expanded to include the birth of her daughter and three years later, a son. Becoming a mother has proved to be the most challenging, yet fulfilling spiritual practice to date.
lois nesbitt
Lois Nesbitt, Certified Anusara Yoga teacher, credits her teachers John Friend and Douglas Brooks with transforming not only her yoga practice and teaching but her whole outlook on inspired living. Lois also practiced Ashtanga Yoga for a decade under Eddie Stern of the Patanjali Yoga Shala in New York and Sri K. Pattabhi Jois of Mysore, India. Her teaching combines the flow of vinyasa yoga with the alignment and heart quality of Anusara Yoga. Voted one of New York City's top five yoga teachers by New York Magazine, Lois is known for her engaging and informative style. She has devoted herself to teaching students in New York and the Hamptons for over a decade.
Mayan Montanari-Perez
Mayan Montanari-Perez was lucky enough to begin her yoga experience under the guidance of Megan Chaskey, while attending The Ross School. Upon graduation in 2004 she worked as a Mother’s Helper to many lovely families, cementing her love of children. While pregnant she began taking prenatal classes with Kate Rabinowitz. Astounded by Kate’s incredible style of teaching, she hoped to one day be able to educate people in the same loving manner. She is trained to teach children through Karma Kids Yoga and is currently looking into their prenatal teaching program.
In October 2006, after having the privilege of welcoming her first child, Miloe Reef, at home, she began to educate herself on all aspects of motherhood. She was especially interested in educating families on childbirth choices, gentle childbirth, natural parenting, and alternative education. She began by starting her own company called Yemaya, which primarily makes one of a kind baby slings and organic onesies. Mayan, along with her friend, currently directs an Enki style playgroup/school in her home, which educates children through the interconnectedness of the world around them.
Mayan is inspired everyday by her growing boy, being in his presence is a constant reminder to pass on all the knowledge she has picked up along the way. She would like to thank her many yoga teachers and friends for their clarity, encouragement and teachings.
kate rabinowitz
Kate Rabinowitz has been studying and practicing yoga since 1972. She has trained extensively with BKS Iyengar, his son Prashant and daughter Geeta in India, and senior teachers in Europe and the USA, including Dona Holleman, Karin Stephan, Patricia Walden, Rodney Yee, Mary Dunn, Judith Lasater, Mark Whitwell and many others. Kate has taught for twenty five years refining the therapeutic aspects of yoga teaching adults, seniors, pre natal and treating injuries. After birthing her own children, now 10 and 12 she trained in Yoga Ed, becoming certified to teach children and school teachers in yoga and wellness. She believes yoga for children is essential for this new generation, to give them tools to navigate the challenging times.
Besides yoga, Kate is a certified Natural Gourmet Chef from Ann Marie Colbin in NYC, and is a practitioner of Healing Arts from the IM School of Healing Arts. She has studied at the Ayurvedic Institute with Dr Vasant Lad in New Mexico, at the Kushi Institute in Boston with Michio Kushi, and currently completing training in Shiatsu therapy at the Ohashi Institute in NYC. She is at heart a traveler and adventurer, for years studying traditional arts and teaching yoga in Japan, immersing in India, living in a monastery in Thailand, trekking the Himalyas in Nepal, and walking alone across Tibet to Lhasa from Southwestern China. She visits India regularly to visit her teachers and the temples in the Himalyas.
She now lives in East Hampton with her husband and two children running the Integrated Wellness Program at Springs Elementary in East Hampton for grades K-6 and teaching private and group classes in the Hamptons and New York City.
Maxine Tobias
Internationally renowned Yoga Teacher, Maxine Tobias, brings more than 40 years of in-depth study and knowledge to her practice and teaching.
Whilst still at school Maxine developed an interest in philosophy and metaphysics and came upon a book about Yoga. This sparked a life long passion for this subject which led her to pursue its study and eventually meet BKS IYENGAR in 1969. To this day she communicates her integrity and excitement for Yoga and the development of our creativity. After her degree course in English and Drama she taught in schools in England and built a successful drama department in a Secondary School in the East End of London. She went on to teach in France and Switzerland, where she was introduced to the works of J.Krishnamurti at his Summer Lecture series. These talks were a pivotal event in Maxine’s life and led her to return to London to find a yoga teacher.
In the late 1960’s, Maxine met and began her studies with BKS Iyengar. She began teaching Yoga in 1971 at the behest of BKS Iyengar. For many years she dedicated herself to teaching Yoga in Adult Education for The Inner London Educational Authority. She served on the committee, edited the first Iyengar Newsletter in the UK and ran one of the first Iyengar Teacher Training programmes, achieving 100% passes for all of her trainees. She was accredited with an Advanced Level Certificate by BKS Iyengar for her dedication and achievement in Yoga.
Her other passions are opera, literature and the performing arts. She is the author of three books;
“Stretch and Relax”, ( Dorling Kindersley1984) and “Complete Stretching” (Knopf;1992) have both been world best sellers. Her video “Basic Yoga”, Carlton 1995.
Geoffrey Nimmer
Geoffrey discovered yoga while living in New York, working as a modern dancer, performing in New York City, and around the world with choreographers Lucinda Childs, Robert Wilson, Peter Healy, and Joann Fregalette-Jansen. He discovered the Jivamukti Yoga Center while looking for an alternative to the routine of dance class. He was instantly attracted to the physicality of the yoga practice and by way of some great teachers, he found the spiritual aspects of yoga sneaking up on him through the physical. This was in 1990, he has been practicing regularly since.
Geoffrey has studied with diverse teachers such as; Mary Dunn, James Murphy, Dharma Mittra, Rodney Yee, Sri R.P.S. Symbollah, and Cyndi Lee. He moved to the east end of Long Island to pursue a career as a garden designer, and discovered a vibrant yoga community there. He continues to be inspired by Colleen Saidman Yee, and his other fellow teachers at Yoga Shanti, as well as Corey Derosa, and Patricia Borrego.
In 2003 Geoffrey was certified as a teacher through the Om Yoga Teacher Training program in NYC. As well as practicing and teaching, he continues to design gardens, and marvels at the relationships between Yoga, the community, and the connection to the earth and all living things. Check out Geoffrey's trip to Mysore India, as he pursues his interest in Ashtanga Yoga, at geoffreynimmer.com
Mitten Wainwright
Mitten was introduced to Yoga at the age of 55 and in her very first class realized that the asana practice is a special gift to the body, mind, and spirit. She believes that it gives one the opportunity and ability to move with greater harmony and grace through the rhythms of life. Having lived in NYC for 60 years, of which 30 of those years she taught early childhood education at Park Avenue Christian School, Mitten was more than delighted to move east and continue teaching here, this time Yoga to adults as well as children. With practical insights, she encourages her students to take a playful but carefully aligned asana practice on the mat out into their daily life.
Mitten honors her many Anusara teachers and John Friend’s tradition, gives gratitude to those who have encouraged her to teach, and appreciates the many students who continually open her eyes to new possibilities.
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. In 1981, Rodney began to study yoga full time at the San Francisco Iyengar Yoga Institute and at The Yoga Room in Berkeley. In 1987, after becoming a certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher, he opened the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland, CA, with Richard Rosen and Claire Finn.
Presently, in addition to teaching at Yoga Shanti, Rodney leads teacher trainings, workshops, and retreats nationally and internationally with Colleen. In Spring 2007, Rodney and Colleen were co-chairs and panelists for the Urban Zen Initiative, a forum dedicated to integrating eastern healing arts into the western medical paradigm. They are now co-directing Urban Zen's Integrative Yoga Therapist Program. Rodney has also been featured in over 30 video titles and numerous audio recordings with Gaiam. He has written two books, Yoga: the Poetry of the Body and Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee, both in collaboration with Nina Zolotow.
Most importantly, Rodney and Colleen are raising and being raised by four awesome children, Evan, Adesha, Rachel, and Johanna. At this point in his life journey, Rodney realizes that Colleen and the kids are the real source of all of his yogic growth. Rodney and Colleen also present the Gaiam Yoga Club online.
Lisa Zaloga
Lisa’s formal certification was with Sivananda but that doesn't really reflect her style of teaching. She has been inspired by the Jivamukti, Ashtanga, and Iyengar lineages. She is studied in Om, influenced by Yee Yoga and Anusara. She has had the privilege of studying with, and access to some of today’s modern master teachers. Her vinyasa style of teaching is a cohesive eclectic blend of it all. Her vinyasa class (zalogayoga) is "a seamless experience" not just a class, and includes a theme, rockin' music, concentration, and focus on breath being the leader through a flow of intelligent sequencing. In class Lisa encourages students to challenge their 'edges', to honor their bodies but to remember that being complacent or comfortable doesn't always teach us the more profound life lessons. Her classes include a psyco-spiritual element including yogic philosophy and 'real life' tools to guide students toward developing a stronger moral compass. Lisa’s classes are challenging for every level but with a gentle force.
