Colleen Saidman Yee - Yoga for life : a journey to inner peace and freedom

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Praise for Yoga for Life

Colleen tells her story and how yoga has unraveled the knots that have been stored from different traumas and everyday life. The yoga solutions she offers are a first aid kit. This book is a must for your library of home health.

Mark Hyman, MD, director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, and author of The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet

Colleen Saidman Yees life has been a wild ride that, thankfully, led her to yoga. Her story, her insights, and her yoga sequences will improve your emotional, physical, and mental well-being, and help you onto the path of peace and freedom.

Frank Lipman, MD, author of Revive

Colleen inspires me as a woman, a mother, and a girlfriend, always coming from a place of love and kindness. Her teaching is that yoga is as simple as a breath. Reading her book is like having a woman-to-woman conversation with an honest, nurturing, and encouraging friend who shares and cares with all her heart. It is a powerful wake-up call to the spirit within, with real down-to-earth strategies to empower yourself through this beautiful journey called life.

Donna Karan, founder and chief designer of Donna Karan New York and Urban Zen

Here in Yoga for Life are fantastic instructions and sequences for feeling and releasing the stories and games that bind us. Colleens confessions and experiences teach a compassionate embrace of the shadow. I highly recommend her book to anyone wanting to be free.

Richard Freeman, author of The Mirror of Yoga

Like Gandhi, Colleen is s atyagraha meaning possessed by the truth. She tells her story honestly, without pretense, no makeuptotally fearless while at the same time gracefully imbuing every word with infectious joy, gratitude, and compassion. You will find no blaming or complaining in this memoir, for this is the story of a remarkable woman who approaches life as an adventure, armed with a bewitching ability to transform obstacles into opportunities and the ordinary into something magical. She is living proof that yoga is for life.

Sharon Gannon, Jivamukti Yoga

Colleen is a strong, empowering woman who I look to for sisterhood and wisdom. She has used every crazy twist and turn of her own life to find her spiritual center, and now she teaches us how to do the same. Her unfiltered honesty will break you open and give you courage to find personal freedom as you reevaluate your own stories. Colleens funny, moving, and compassionate approach helps women set down their shame and pick up their voices. Her work has helped me to find more joy and contentment through asana, honest self-reflection, and loving-kindness. This book is a treasure.

Kris Carr, author of Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips

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This publication contains the opinions and ideas of its author. It is intended to provide helpful and informative material on the subjects addressed in the publication. It is sold with the understanding that the author and publisher are not engaged in rendering medical, health, or any other kind of personal professional services in the book. The reader should consult his or her medical, health, or other competent professional before adopting any of the suggestions in this book or drawing inferences from it.

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Cover Design by Chelsea McGuckin

Cover Photograph by Zev Starr-Tambor

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Saidman Yee, Colleen.

Yoga for life : a journey to inner peace and freedom / Colleen Saidman Yee, with Susan K. Reed. First [edition].

pages cm

Includes index.

Saidman Yee, Colleen. 2. YogisUnited StatesBiography. I. Title.

B132.Y6S36365 2015

613.7'046092dc23

[B]

2014045823

ISBN 978-1-4767-7678-1

ISBN 978-1-4767-7680-4 (ebook)

I dedicate this book to the strong, feisty Irishwoman who showed me what love is.

I miss you, Mom.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?

The world would split open.

KATHE KOLLWITZ, MURIEL RUKEYSER

I watch womens chests. I watch the arches of their feet. I watch the positions of their pelvises and the placement of their heads. I watch women holding it all together, afraid that if they slow down, everything will fall apart. I watch women being ashamed that they are aging and feeling unworthy of love. I watch women collapse.

I also watch womens perfection, courage, compassion, and grace. We women can balance our heads over our lifted chests, supported by strong legs that are connected to the earth. We can raise the arches of our feet and we can soften our faces. We can carry ourselves in the world with confidence and ease.