Gaiam Yoga Club is an online yoga program that uses daily podcasts and other resources to provide at-home training for yoga students of all levels. Developed by yoga instructors Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman, Gaiam Yoga Club provides a combination of tools to help students develop and deepen their yoga practice.
Comprehensive Yoga Training
Using videos, podcasts, printable guides, online forums and blogs, Gaiam Yoga Club provides all the necessary elements for starting and personalizing a home yoga practice. Developing and maintaining a home practice is challenging for beginners and seasoned yoga students alike, says Yoga Journal writer Judith Hanson Lasaster. "Beginners face the task of remembering poses to practice; more experienced students face the dilemma of deciding what emphasis to choose during any particular session."
Features
Gaiam Yoga Club membership provides nine videos that feature instruction on 75 yoga poses. Also included are 63 podcasts that guide you through yoga routines and meditation exercises and a printable pose guide for every podcast. You will also receive support and discussion opportunities through community forums, access to the instructors' yoga blogs, and your own yoga blog to help you document your journey and connect with other yoga students.
Benefits
The sequences and exercises offered by Gaiam Yoga Club are designed to increase flexibility, improve core strength, enhance focus, build strength and confidence, and promote an overall sense of well-being. The at-home instruction helps people who want to develop an understanding of yoga before joining a studio or who don't have access to a local yoga studio.
Core Curriculum
In addition to instruction on beginner, intermediate and advanced versions of 75 yoga poses, Gaiam Yoga Club explains various postures and sequences to help students build yoga routines. You will learn how twists can clean you emotionally and physically, how inversions can release tension in the neck and spine, and when you should avoid headstands. You will have access to balanced sequences that are targeted to health needs such as back pain, sinus infections, weight loss and pregnancy. The curriculum also includes information on how to use backbends to fight fatigue and improve posture, use sun salutations as a moving meditation and safely progress to more advanced poses.
Instructors
Rodney Yee, a former professional ballet dancer, studied yoga in India with B.K.S Inyengar and has been a guest on Oprah Winfrey's show, CNN and PBS. Yee has been designing and performing in Gaiam instructional videos for more than 10 years. Colleen Saidman experienced yoga's ability to heal after enduring back surgery in 1994. She is the co-owner and co-director of Yoga Shanti in Sag Harbor, New York, and has been featured in the New York Times, New York Magazine and Yoga Journal.
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