Yoga Body Buddha Mind with Cyndi Lee and David Nichtern
February 17-19, 2012
Cyndi Lee, founder of OM Yoga in NYC, and David Nichtern, a senior Shambala Buddhist teacher, return to Blue Point in February to present their always popular weekend of meditation and asana. Prices are $55 for single sessions or $200 for the entire weekend.
Yoga Body Buddha Mind, Part I: The first session of the weekend will introduce mindfulness meditation and explore how it can be incorporated into flowing asana sequences as a method for developing strength, stability, and clarity in both your mind and body.
Friday, February 17; 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Yoga Body Buddha Mind, Part II: This sessions will focus on finding balance in working with our own mind and body as a basis for being not too tight and not too loose in our changing lives.
Saturday, February 18; 9:00am - 12:00pm
Yoga Body Buddha Mind, Part III: In the third session of the weekend, we will explore how the difficulties we discover in our practice can really be the juice for going deeper!
Saturday, February 18; 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Yoga Body Buddha Mind, Part IV: Our final session is a guided meditation and heart opening yoga class designed to help us develop loving kindness and compassion for ourselves and others.
Sunday, February 19; 9:00am - 12:00pm
Cyndi Lee
Cyndi Lee founded OM yoga center in New York City in 1998. Her first yoga class was in college in 1972. After completing her MFA thesis on Women, Spirituality and Indian Dance at UC, Irvine, Cyndi arrived in New York as a recipient of an Art History Fellowship to the Whitney Museum of American Art. This was a wonderful opportunity to learn but not enough cash so Cyndi began teaching yoga in Greenwich Village.
Soon she became a fixture in NYC's downtown modern dance scene, choreographing and performing primarily in XXY Dance/Music and Cyndi Lee Dance Company/Big Moves, Inc. Cyndi also choreographed over 20 music videos for Rick James, Simple Minds, Appolonia, the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, and many more including Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," which won the 1983 MTV Best Female Video of the Year award.
After meeting her root guru, Gelek Rinpoche, in the late 1980s, Cyndi's practice of yoga and Buddhism merged with her choreography. In 1994, "Dharma Dances" was her last concert, which featured Allen Ginsberg singing his own songs and accompanying himself on harmonium.
Cyndi teaches classes, teacher training and special workshops at OM yoga Center as well as leading retreats worldwide – everywhere from Moscow to Memphis, Costa Rica to Copenhagen, London to Las Vegas. Hong Kong to Istanbul.
Cyndi is the author and artist of Yoga Body, Buddha Mind; OM yoga Today; OM yoga, A Guide to Daily Practice; OM at Home, A Yoga Journal; and the OM yoga in a Box series. Cyndi is a contributing author to Will Meditation and Yoga Change My Life?; Joyful Mind; Joyful Wedding; and The Idiot's Guide to Fitness and her work was featured in The Best Buddhist Writings of 2009.
A regular contributor to Yoga Journal magazine, Cyndi originated Yoga Journal's Home Practice column and is currently the YJ Basics columnist for 2010-2011. In addition to being featured on the cover of The Shambhala Sun, she has written two cover articles as well as their yoga column 2000-2003. Cyndi has also written for Tricycle, Dance Magazine, BalletTanz, Cooking Light, Spa Finder, Seventeen, Natural Health, MIndful and Breathe.
Cyndi and OM yoga have been featured on ABC's Early Show; Live with Regis and Kathie Lee; CBS's Good Morning, America; FCNN; and other television shows as well as numerous publications such as The Wall Street Journal; The New York Times; Vogue and Time Out.
Cyndi lives in New York City with her husband, David Nichtern, a Emmy award winning musician and meditation teacher, and their chocolate poodle, Leroy Brown.
David Nichtern
David Nichtern is a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage founded by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and continued by his son Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.
David is Director of Buddhist Studies and Practice at OM yoga Center and leads joint yoga/meditation retreats with Cyndi Lee around the world. They are co-creators of the OM Yoga & Meditation DVD/CD.
David is also a 2-time Grammy nominee and 4-time Emmy award winning composer/guitarist/producer, and creator of the hit song "Midnight at the Oasis". He has produced several records for Krishna Das and is the founder of Dharma Moon and 5 Points Records.
