What's up party people? I'm Marie Forlejo and for the last 20 years I've helped

millions of people transform their businesses and lives. If you're ready to make the

difference you were born to make,

get ready because this is the Marie Forelleo Podcast.

Today is a very special day because I get to introduce you

to someone who's been a teacher and a mentor in my life.

Colleen Seidmini is an internationally respected yoga teacher who has been teaching since 1998.

Before that, she was a top fashion model with elite and Ford and also lived in Calcutta,

working with Mother Teresa.

She's the founder of Yogashanti in Sag Harbor,

and, along with her husband Rodney E, other studios in West Hampton and New York City.

Colleen has been featured in Vanity Fair, Yoga Journal, New York magazine, Oprah,

Marie Claire, and Inelure. In her new book, Yoga for Life, we learn about how

she went from a rebellious young woman with a heroin habit to a globe trotting fashion model

to, as the New York Times calls her, the First Lady of Yoga.

Colleen, thank you so much for being here.

It is my honor.

Oh, it's my honor.

So if you guys don't know, Colleen has been my yoga teacher for almost 10 years now,

started taking class with you back in 2006, and I have to tell you before I started practicing with you and

then with you and Rodney I liked yoga but it wasn't anything that I felt so drawn

to and you have been such a great teacher in my life.

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