Yoga Body, Buddha Mind: A Complete Manual for Physical and Spiritual Well-Being from the Founder of the Om Yoga Center - Softcover

Lee, Cyndi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594480249 ISBN 13: 9781594480249

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 2004

Synopsis

A complete manual for physical and spiritual well-being from the founder of the OM yoga center.

In Yoga Body, Buddha Mind, the first book to give readers the best of both inextricably linked practices, Cyndi Lee -- author of the bestselling series OM Yoga in a Box -- shares her twenty years of experience as a practicing Tibetan Buddhist and one of the country's most famous yoga instructors. This easy-to-use guide shows readers of all yoga levels how to combine the basic tenets of Buddhism and meditation with yoga practice. Her book offers simple meditation programs and exercise sequences that can be done just about anywhere, in addition to more advanced and rigorous regimens. Written in the same personal, comfortable, and charismatic style that Cyndi Lee has brought to her classes, Yoga Body, Buddha Mind is a comprehensive how-to guide for spiritual well-being and the ultimate enlightening experience.

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About the Author

Cyndi Lee is the founder of New York City's OM yoga center and provides OM yoga teacher training worldwide. Her works include May I Be Happy and Yoga Body, Buddha Mind. A regular columnist for Yoga Journal, she lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Reviews

Lee's title is a bit suspect. Is her book about a slimmed-down, more flexible Buddha or just another book fusing distinct Eastern cultures to suit Western readers? Happily, it's neither. The director of the trendy OM Yoga Center in Manhattan and a former dancer, Lee found yoga physically exhilarating but its purported spiritual benefits elusive. Instead, she found the spiritual nourishment she was seeking in Buddhist teachings and meditations, then realized that the physical work of yoga helped her embody them. So her book follows her personal journey and explains how she began to incorporate Buddhist meditation techniques into the practice of yoga asanas. Lee writes clearly, with down-to-earth explanations of Buddhist and yoga philosophy. She includes many interesting meditation exercises and yoga sequences, vinyasas, or poses that flow from one to another, and that reflect her love of movement. The sequences progress in difficulty from those suitable for beginners to those that will challenge advanced yoga students. Jane Tuma
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Table of Contents

 

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

 

ONE - AWAKENED UNION

TWO - CALM ABIDING

THREE - THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE

FOUR - THE MIDDLE PATH

FIVE - PATH WITHOUT A GOAL

SIX - HOW TO BE A WARRIOR

SEVEN - DYNAMIC EQUANIMITY

EIGHT - THE GROUND OF NON-HARMING

NINE - AWAKENED HEART

TEN - TOPSY-TURVY WORLD

ELEVEN - HOW TO RELAX

TWELVE - CREATING THE MANDALA

 

CONCLUSION

CLASS PROGRAMS

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Copyright © 2004 by Cyndi Lee

Interior photographs by David Bartolomi

 

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First Riverhead trade paperback edition: August 2004

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Lee, Cyndi.

Yoga body, Buddha mind / Cyndi Lee. p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-101-00741-9

1. Yoga, Haòha—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Exercise—Handbooks, manuals, etc.

3. Health—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title.

 

RA781.7.L438 2004

613.7’046—dc22

2004046793

 

 

For all my teachers,
especially Gehlek Rimpoche and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

 

and

 

for all my students,
especially the OMmies

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to Melvin McLeod—without his initial encouragement, generosity, and guidance as well as the opportunity to write a yoga column in the Shambhala Sun for the past three years, this book would not exist.

Way back when, my dear student Jean Gallagher, who is a writing teacher and poet, read my first little work in progress. She helped me make it so much better, and she liked it! To her I make a low gassho.

I am very grateful to Shayna Samuels for actually putting me on a schedule, nudging me about deadlines, and then editing the whole book twice before it even went to the publisher.

Much appreciation to my patient and supportive editor, Amy Hertz, for her passion for yoga, dharma sisterhood, and two crucial pieces of advice that were just what I needed. Her assistant, Marc Haeringer, has been so helpful every step of the way.

A huge thank-you to my agent, Sarah Jane Freyman, who told me there was a book inside me and gave me the tools to unearth it.

Hugs and bows to Catherine Lippincott, publicist and yogini, and Brian Liem, OM Yoga Center’s director of programming as well as an OM yoga teacher, for being the yoga models in this book. Margi Young and Jennifer Brilliant were the sharp and kind eagle eyes for our asanas.

I offer sincere thanks to the fine, committed, and talented yoga teachers at OM Yoga Center who use their hearts and hands in equal measure to share this practice of yoga and Buddhist teachings with all of our students.

Thank you also to all the front desk folks and those who have held down the fort in the back office each time I vanished to work on this book.

The people at OM that play the part of students are truly why OM is a home and a family. We have been through so much together and I can never express how much you all mean to me. Thanks for letting me try out all these stories on you and for coming along on the ride.

I have been extremely fortunate to learn about yoga and life from many teachers and I am grateful to them all, especially the sweet and smart Judith Lasater and the masterful Rodney Yee.

Edition details

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594480249
• ISBN 13: 9781594480249
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288