Rodney Yee is an American New Age yoga instructor who rose to national prominence in the early 1990s when he began starring in a series of Gaiam/Living Arts yoga instructional videos and DVDs.^[1] More than thirty such programs now exist, selling in the millions worldwide.

Yee has also been featured on calendars, magazines and natural product advertisements; narrated meditation audios; written a book; and done extensive charitable work. He has made guest appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, PBS, and elsewhere.

Life and career[link]

Rodney Yee was born in 1957, the Chinese-American son of an Air Force Colonel, and spent his childhood on military bases in Altus, Oklahoma and Puerto Rico. He was a gymnast during his high school years and later became a ballet dancer, performing with the Oakland Ballet Company and the Matsuyama Ballet Company of Tokyo, Japan. He studied philosophy and physical therapy at the University of California, Berkeley. He dropped out in order to pursue ballet full-time.

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; later, he co-founded the Piedmont Yoga Studio in Oakland.

Yee now teaches around the world at workshops, retreats and conferences.

He has three children from his first marriage to Donna Fone, which ended in divorce in 2002. Four years later, he married former model Colleen Saidman. They live in The Hamptons.

Controversy[link]

Yee became divorced from his first wife in 2002 and went on to marry Colleen Saidman, one of his students. Since dating students violates the precepts of yoga teacher conduct as defined by the Yoga Alliance, this conflict led to division in Yee-oriented communities.

Despite the controversy over the beginnings of their relationship, Rodney Yee and Saidman have now been married since December, 2006. Both yoga instructors continue to pursue their own careers (Yee with YeeYoga and Gaiam; Saidman with Yoga Shanti) and in May, 2008 opened an online yoga club / virtual yoga studio together called The Gaiam Yoga Club.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Rodney Yee at the Internet Movie Database
• Gaiam Yoga Club featuring Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman
• Rodney Yee's website
• Rodney Yee's videos produced by Gaiam

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Colleen Saidman, an American yoga instructor and yoga celebrity, is the cofounder and codirector of Yoga Shanti in Sag Harbor, N.Y., and teaches along with her husband, popular yoga teacher Rodney Yee, in the Gaiam Yoga Club, online yoga club/virtual yoga studio. A yoga practitioner for over 20 years and a graduate of Jivamukti's Teacher Training, Colleen has been teaching for 12 years. She is also certified in Shiatsu.

Appearances[link]

Colleen has been featured in several Gaiam DVDs including the Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Menopause ^[1] and Yoga Burn.^[1] She has also been featured in Vanity Fair of June 2007; Dan's Hampton Style of May 2007; Southwest Airlines Spirit of June 2005; First 5 magazine of spring 2004; Yoga Journal of November 2003; New York Magazine of June 2002 and July 2000; and The New York Times in January 2001.^[2] More recently, Colleen is hosting her own television show, Yoga With a View on the high-end luxury TV network, Plum TV.

Involvement[link]

Colleen Saidman serves as a cochair of the Urban Zen Foundation's Health and Wellness Initiative,^[1] which plans to bring yoga, meditation and massage to hospital patients around the country.^[1] She worked with Mother Theresa at the Home of the Destitute and Dying in Calcutta, India.^[3] Colleen teaches at yoga workshops, teacher trainings as well as retreats for women nationally and internationally.^[4]

Marriage to Rodney Yee[link]

Colleen Saidman and Rodney Yee married in December 2006 ^[1] and live in The Hamptons. There was some initial concern from the yoga community because Colleen had been a student of Rodney Yee's at the time. Since dating students violates the precepts of yoga teacher conduct as defined by the Yoga Alliance, this led to division in Yee-oriented communities.^[5] Despite the controversy over the beginnings of their relationship, Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman have now been married since December 2006. Both yoga instructors continue to pursue their own careers (Rodney with YeeYoga and Gaiam; Colleen with Yoga Shanti) and in May 2008 opened an online yoga club / virtual yoga studio together called The Gaiam Yoga Club.

References[link]

Mariel Hemingway
Hemingway at the Farm Sanctuary Gala, 2006.[clarification needed]
Born	Mariel Hadley Hemingway (1961-11-22) November 22, 1961 (age 50) Mill Valley, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, writer
Years active	1976–present

Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961)^[1] is an American actress.

Early life[link]

Hemingway was born in Mill Valley, California, the third daughter of Byra Louise (née Whittlesey) Hemingway and Jack Hemingway, a writer.^[2] Her sisters are Joan Hemingway (born 1950) and Margaux Hemingway (born 1954). Margaux, who became an actress and model, died of a barbiturate overdose in 1996 at age 42.

Her paternal grandparents were Hadley Richardson and writer Ernest Hemingway (who committed suicide several months before she was born). She was named after the Cuban port of Mariel—her father and grandfather visited the village regularly to go fishing. Her middle name is from her paternal grandmother.

Hemingway grew up primarily in Ketchum, Idaho, where her father lived, and where her paternal grandfather had spent a great deal of time as a sportsman and writer. Mariel also spent part of her adolescence growing up in Los Angeles and New York City.

Career[link]

Hemingway's first role was with her sister Margaux in the film Lipstick (1976). The movie was not considered especially good, but Mariel received notice for her acting and was nominated as "Best Newcomer" for the Golden Globes Award that year.

Hemingway's most famous role was in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979), a romantic comedy in which she plays Tracy, a high school student and Allen's lover. Only sixteen during filming (within the film she is said to be seventeen), she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In Personal Best (1982), she played a bisexual track and field athlete in a film noted for some explicit (by mainstream standards) lesbian love scenes. In connection with Personal Best, she appeared in a pictorial in the April 1982 issue of Playboy and was also on the cover.

She starred as Dorothy Stratten in Star 80 (1983), a film about the Playboy model's life and murder. Reports circulated for years that Hemingway had had her breasts enlarged to play the role of Stratten, but during a 2007 appearance on the late-night talk and variety show, Fashionably Late with Stacy London, she said she had had the surgery before Star 80. Her breast implants were removed years later after they had ruptured.^[3]

Hemingway was also featured in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) as Lacy Warfield. Subsequently released additional footage showed an expansion of her role. It was released in a very rough edit with unfinished visual effects in a November 2006 deluxe edition DVD and as part of The Superman Ultimate Collector's Edition. She also co-starred in the 1991-93 ABC series Civil Wars.

Hemingway has played a lesbian or bisexual woman in several films and television shows, including, Personal Best, The Sex Monster, In Her Line of Fire, and episodes of the TV series "Roseanne" ("Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and "December Bride") and Crossing Jordan. Hemingway, however, is not gay. She has said she formed a "big connection with the gay-and-lesbian community" after Personal Best and enjoys taking roles in "cutting-edge" productions.^[4]

Hemingway has a perfume, "Mariel", by H₂O+.

She is currently the host of Spiritual Cinema,^[5] a monthly television show dedicated to spiritual films. She has begun hosting a series of yoga practice videos Yoga Now, with guru Rodney Yee.^[6]

Personal life[link]

In December 2008, Hemingway announced via her web site's blog that she had separated from her husband earlier in the year.^[7] Hemingway had been married since December 9, 1984 to Stephen Crisman. They had two daughters together: model Dree Hemingway (born 1987) and Langley Fox Hemingway (born 1989).^[8] As of early 2011, Hemingway is romantically involved with Bobby Williams, with whom she is working on a lifestyle guide.^[9]

Bibliography[link]

Mariel Hemingway is the author of:

• Hemingway, Mariel (2002). Finding My Balance: A Memoir (1st ed.). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-3807-9. 
• Hemingway, Mariel (2006). Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out: Every Woman's Guide to Real Beauty, Renewed Energy, and a Radiant Life (1st ed.). HarperOne. ISBN 978-0-06-089039-1. 
• Hemingway, Mariel (2009). MARIEL'S KITCHEN Simple Ingredients for a Delicious and Satisfying Life (1st ed.). HarperOne. ISBN 978-0-06-164987-5. 

Filmography[link]

References[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Mariel Hemingway

External links[link]

• Mariel Hemingway at the Internet Movie Database
• Mariel Hemingway at AllRovi
• Mariel Hemingway.com - official website for Mariel's book Healthy Living
• Yoga Now website