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10 Facts About Cyndi Lee

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Cyndi Lee is a teacher of mindful yoga, a combination of Tibetan Buddhist practice and yoga as exercise.

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Cyndi Lee has an international reputation and is the author of several books on her approach.

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Cyndi Lee was born in Seattle; her father was a protestant minister; her mother was a tailor and ceramicist.

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Cyndi Lee was educated at Chapman College, California, starting in 1971.

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Cyndi Lee gained her MFA at University of California, Irvine, with a thesis on "Women, Spirituality and Indian Dance".

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Cyndi Lee won an Art History Fellowship to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and started to teach yoga around 1980 in Greenwich Village, working as a choreographer of music videos.

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Cyndi Lee founded the OM yoga centre in New York City in 1998, closing it in 2012.

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Cyndi Lee trained as a lay Buddhist chaplain under Roshi Joan Halifax at Upaya Zen Center in 2013, and was ordained in 2018.

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Yoga and meditation teacher and author Anne Cushman, reviewing Yoga Body, Buddha Mind for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, writes that Cyndi Lee's book was the most readable of the three mindful yoga works she was reviewing.

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Cyndi Lee describes Lee as an "influential and soulful yoga teacher".

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