41. Urban Zen with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee, co-founders of Urban Zen, discuss the importance of contemplative care and how it can help fix a broken healthcare system. When focus is put on healing the patient as a human being and not just simply healing a disease, we can truly get to the core of what ails us. Through the bonds they have with one another and with those around them, they are sharing their own individual bliss with the world. Learn more about Commune courses and events at onecommune.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers.
0:14.7	We're on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring the world closer together.
0:20.7	This is the Commune podcast, where each week we explore these ideas and practices to help
0:26.8	us live healthy, connected, and purpose-filled lives.
0:30.4	You can learn more about our courses, our community, and everything else we do at OneCommune.com.
0:41.5	Today, we talk with Rodney Yee and Colleen Sedman Yee, two pioneer yoga teachers and the creators and directors of Urban Zen's Integrative Yoga
0:47.7	Therapist Program, which is Donna Karen's worldwide initiative to transform hospital care.
0:56.3	The mission of Urban Zen is to change the present health care paradigm by treating the patient and not just the disease. The program
1:03.2	trains health care workers and the yoga community in the healing modalities of yoga therapy,
1:09.0	Reiki, Essential Oil Therapy, Nutrition, essential oil therapy, nutrition, and contemplative
1:12.6	care, both to manage the stress of being a health care provider and to help patients heal
1:18.7	holistically. Today, Colleen and Rodney share with us how their experiences led them to an
1:24.6	understanding of what it means to heal the whole person through all five senses and through bearing witness to another suffering.
1:33.3	I'm Jeff Krasno, host of the commune podcast, and here's Kalline to start us off.
1:38.1	Comey, where are we going? I think that Urban Zen started when Donna Karen cared for her late husband, Stephen Weiss, while he was suffering from lung cancer for seven years.
2:10.6	And I don't know if you've ever met Donna, but she's in the ozone.
2:15.6	And she's jumped on every spiritual bandwagon since she was a teenager
2:21.3	and is very into all of what her late husband, Stephen, would call the woo-woo's.
2:31.3	They weren't tangible to him. It was like some fairyland thing that keeps Donna
2:37.3	happy and occupied. But when Stephen was sick, Donna would bring in her woo-wos, whether that was
2:46.2	somebody with essential oil or green juice or rakey or, you know, breath work, or whatever it would be,
2:55.6	she would bring in these woo-wooes.
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