Test Your Yoga Knowledge

I just played a really cool online game. It's sort of like "memory" but instead of matching one picture to another you are matching the name of a yoga pose with a picture of that yoga pose. It really is a great way to learn all your pose names because it goes beyond just memorizing them. Each time you play there are different poses to match up. Some of them even stumped me a few times after years of yoga practice.

Check it out:

Rodney Yee's Daily Yoga Pose

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Urban Zen Yoga Training Programs

Rodney and Colleen are members of the Urban Zen Foundation, which "creates, connects and collaborates to raise awareness and inspire change in the areas of well-being, preserving cultures and empowering children".

As part of this initiative, Donna Karan, Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee are launching the Urban Zen Teacher Training Program in 2009. This yoga teacher training class can be taken as a prerequisite for the UZIT program or on it's own. It is a 200-hour class during March thru September of 2009 in New York, NY. Tuition is $5,000. Learn more HERE!

Rodney heads to Yoga Journal conference in Estes Park, CO

Looks like some great classes Rodney's teaching at the Yoga Journal conference this week. Friday: Forward Bends Without Stretching; The Pillars of Backbends. Saturday: Understanding the Sacrum; Balancing the Hip Joints with Arm Balances. Also on Saturday he'll be at the Gaiam booth with Colleen from 1 to 2 p.m. Wish I could be there.

Gotta Love Twitter!

So I'm one of Rodney Yee's "friends" on Twitter (you can be too - just click here) so I get the privy on events sometimes that I wouldn't have otherwise known about. This morning he "Tweeted" about an upcoming appearance on public television in the San Francisco Bay area:

"To our friends in San Fran - You can catch the Practical Power of Yoga with me and Colleen on KQED September 4th at 8pm and 9:30pm."

I'm just waiting for the one that says "We're coming to Denver".

Russell Simons Gets the Pretzle Treatment During Yoga Class

Rap music mogul turned philanthropist Russell Simons got schooled - yoga schooled, that is - by Colleen Saidman recently after saying her classes had become too easy and that the yoga routines being taught were "for pussies". Excuse my language - I'm just quoting!

According to an article in the New York Post, Colleen ramped up the following week's yoga lesson at Yoga Shanti to "torture level" causing Simons to double over into fetal position. Even Saidman's husband, my favorite teacher (in case you haven't guessed) yoga icon Rodney Yee was said to have felt the burn in this session.

Colleen Saidman: Rodney Yee's Other Half

If Rodney Yee is the Brad Pitt of yoga (check out the comments on this YouTube video) that would make Colleen Saidman yoga's equivalant to Angelina Jolie. She's beautiful, talented, famous and highly respected in her own right, having taught yoga for many years and been featured in publications like The New York Times, New York Magazine and the Yoga Journal. Colleen even runs her own yoga studio in Sag Harbor called Yoga Shanti.


As mentioned in a previous post, Yoga's version of Brangelina has teamed up to start an online yoga club. How do they have time, I wonder, to travel for guest classes, run their own yoga studios (each), make yoga DVDs and now run an online yoga club? I have a hard enough time just making it to class three times a week.