Rodney Yee is an American yoga instructor who rose to national prominence in the mid-1990s when he was featured on the cover of Yoga Journal magazine and later starred in a series of Gaiam/Living Arts yoga instructional videos and DVDs.[2] Yee has narrated meditation audios and written two books.
Yee became a yoga enthusiast in the Iyengar school, but now teaches a blend of Iyengar Yoga and his own invented style. He began his yoga teaching career at a studio called The Yoga Room in Berkeley; in 1987 he co-founded the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland.[3]
In 2002, several students of Yee's stated that they were having sexual relations with Yee and that the behavior had been going on for some time.[4] Yee was sued for breach of contract, the claim alleging multiple sexual affairs with his students.[5]
Personal life
Yee has three children from his first marriage to Donna Fone, whom he divorced in 2002 after twenty-four years of marriage.[6] He married former model Colleen Saidman, one of his students, in December 2006.[7] Since dating students violates the precepts of yoga teacher conduct as defined by the Yoga Alliance, this led to division in Yee-oriented communities.[4] Yee and Saidman live in The Hamptons.
Bibliography
Yoga, The Poetry of the Body, Saint Martin's Griffin, 2002. ISBN978-0312273316