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June's Vanity Fair features a photo portfolio about a burgeoning trend you may have heard about: yoga! Saggy-faced gurus are pictured alongside American acolytes such as yoga trendpiece usual suspect Christy Turlington ("Her commitment to an active life on the mat continues to inspire those of us still wildly in thrall to ... her perfect yoga butt.") Also pictured are yoga poster couple Colleen Saidman and Rodney Yee. Here's how the magazine describes their yogic union.
When Yee, dubbed the "stud-muffin guru" by Time magazine, hooked up with Saidman and both of them left their spouses of more than 20 years, he took a drubbing in the press for crossing the teacher-student line. Now, several years later, however, with both their careers thriving, the two seem to have achieved a blissful degree of balance, even serenity.Aw, cute! But that's not, of course, the whole story. As we realized after the last time we wrote about the Saidman-Yee marriage, Colleen is far from the first student who Rodney had an affair with: in fact, he was sued by one in 2002. "The reality is that most teachers fall in love with their students, but sex is such a small part of it," he said then. But who knows? Perhaps he feels differently now. People can change, after all!
Spiritual Stretching [VF.com]
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Honest to god, last week I threw in my Rodney Yee 'Yoga for the Back' tape and couldn't get through it I was so skeeved at the thought of him doing some weird tantric yoga sex move (e.g. downward doggie style) on the current missus that I had to turn it off and send it to the incinerator.
She should borrow his conditioner. And whatever phone book he's been lifting.
Hey, the heart chakra wants what it wants.
That picture might singlehandedly undo all the good work Al Gore has done for our troubled planet over the last few years.
@Sally Tomato: The smug expression of "we're so fucking serene" on their faces makes me want to do a downward facing doggie-dump on them.
Good God. Look at those smug faces. The only thing I can imagine worse than floating loinclothed and cross-legged on a pond full of lilypads with these two would be if Sting was playing that damn lute nearby.
@Sally Tomato: Wait ...
"Honest to god, last week I threw in my Rodney Yee 'Yoga for the Back' tape..."
Tape?
Oh, you gave me the best laugh I've had all week.
Thanks Sally, really.
Is that pose called the "Stick Up The Ass?"
Hey, I've got a new yoga position for them. Its called The Upwards Facing Bird.
what the hell are they sitting on exactly? is it mean to look as if they are floating on pond lilies? I just threw up a little in my third eye.
People tell me that yoga is supposed to decrease my stress level, but whenever I see that guy I just get really really angry.
They are yoga-brand douchebags. Namaste.
I find him hot and appalling at the same time. He is fearfully and wonderfully made.
She looks pissed. Perhaps Rodney and his five head have found a new student to focus his trantric love on?
Then again, maybe all that spritual blissed makes you angry.
@bizasizzalizzyizzo: Guess which finger I'm holding up?
They look like that creepy coulpe up the street from me growing up who sold Amway for a living. The ones whose house smelled of stale sweat and garlic.
"Now, several years later, however, with both their careers thriving, the two seem to have achieved a blissful degree of balance, even serenity."
Some call this the Lesbian Bed Death Syndrome.
Seems to me that the real takeaway here is that Vanity Fair is, and has been for the longest time, a vile, shallow pile of crap.
With all the news stories about female teachers having sex with their male pupils, it is refreshing to finally read about a male instructor shagging his student.
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@kathotdog: Ditto. I took yoga classes for a while but then figured out it wasn't for me as the voice in my head kept screaming "FUCKINGHURRAYUPALREADY!!!"
@Sally Tomato: just be grateful you didn't buy the tape "yoga on your back". mind you, i believe he saves that for his special students.
They look exactly like John Redcorn and Nancy Gribble from King of the Hill. Okay this proves I watch too much tv.
@KarenUhOh:
Rodney should also lay off the soy milk. Sting has nicer clavicles.
All the downward dog in the world ain't gonna fix that bad juju.
She looks like she's ready to graduate.
You know, if they both left their spouses of 20 years, than surely he didn't leave his wife for someone 25 years younger...surely that must means something.
Just joking...it means nothing.
@Tootie:
I misread that as stale twat and garlic, which is is almost enough to get me to stop drinking for the night.
is is?
like i said, almost.
Judging by their expressions, the eventual divorce will be a spectacular supernova and make a much better VF story.
My God they skeeve me out.
@Sally Tomato: Hopefully the one that helps you relax.
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