Books
Cyndi Lee is the author of:
Long Life Yoga: Essential Practices for Longevity, Well-Being, and Joy at Any Age
Yoga Body, Buddha Mind
May I Be Happy: A Memoir of Love, Yoga, and Changing My Mind
OM yoga: A Guide to Daily Practice
OM yoga Today
OM at Home: A Yoga Journal
the OM yoga in a Box series
Cyndi is also a contributing author to:
The Best Buddhist Writings of 2009
Yoga Rising: 30 Empowering Stories from Yoga Renegades
for Every Body
Will Meditation and Yoga Change My Life?
Joyful Mind; Joyful Wedding
The Idiot’s Guide to Fitness
Cyndi has written the forewords for:
Breathing
by Mark Stephens
Fearless After Fifty: How to Thrive with Grace, Grit and Yoga
by Michelle Marchildon and Desiree Rumbaugh
Teaching Beyond the Poses: A Practical Workbook for Integrating Themes, Ideas, and Inspiration into Your Class
by Sage Roundtree and Alexandra DeSiato
Stack Your Bones: 100 Simple Lessons for Realigning Your Body and Moving with Ease
by Ruthie Fraser
Yoga for Cancer: A Guide to Managing Side Effects, Boosting Immunity, and Improving Recovery for Cancer Survivors
by Tari Prinster
Long Life Yoga
Essential Practices for Longevity, Well-Being, and Joy at Any Age
In this essential guide to health and well-being, world-renowned yoga teacher Cyndi Lee provides simple, empowering yoga practices to help you feel your best at any age.
Yoga has proven benefits at every age, including increasing one's lifespan. Set yourself up for success by starting your yoga practice for longevity now[JT1] . Whether you're dealing with aches and pains, stress, sleep issues, or simply looking for ways to feel healthier and more fulfilled, these pages are brimming with techniques proven to improve the quality of your life.
For absolute beginners, seasoned practitioners, and everyone in between, this practical guide includes more than 100 poses and simple-to-follow sequences to support the essential elements of vitality and longevity. Organized to allow you to choose a particular focus area, or combine those that meet your needs, each chapter provides specific poses, sequences, and tips for:
Strength
Flexibility
Balance
Energy
Calm
Inflammation
Restoration
And more
Featuring hundreds of helpful illustrations paired with expert tips and sidebars featuring accessible meditations, breathing exercises, and relaxing rituals, Long Life Yoga makes it simple to enrich your daily routine with proven well-being techniques to live a long, healthy, joyful life.
LIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST: Tap into ancient wisdom to increase flexibility, balance, and strength that will serve you as you age and change.
FOR BEGINNERS AND EXPERIENCED YOGIS: Every pose in this handy manual is illustrated and includes helpful annotations and tips indicated with arrows. There's also a visual overview of each sequence so you can easily see all the poses in one place.
EXPERT AUTHOR: One of the most influential teachers in the US, Cyndi Lee has trained thousands of meditators and yogis worldwide. She is the author of five books, including the classic yoga text Yoga Body, Buddha Mind. She is also a regular contributor to Yoga Journal, Lion's Roar, and Real Simple.
Perfect for:
Yoga and mindfulness practitioners of all levels
Anyone interested in learning more about restorative yoga, stretching, and mobility
Retirees and people looking for retirement gifts
Gift-giving to parents and grandparents
Fans of activity guides like Yoga Deck and longevity bestsellers like Outlive, Young Forever, and Secrets of Longevity
Or click here to see where Cyndi is Long Life Yoga workshops and Teacher Trainings:
May I Be Happy
A Memoir of Love, Yoga, and Changing My Mind
In the candid, contemplative memoir May I Be Happy, revered yoga teacher Cyndi Lee gives readers an unforgettable gift: the ability to focus on our experiences as we have them, on the way to a lighter life.
For all her wisdom as a teacher, Cyndi Lee—founder of New York’s world renowned OM yoga Center—understood intuitively that she still had a lot to learn. In spite of her success in physically demanding professions—dancer, choreographer, and yoga teacher—Lee was caught in a lifelong cycle of repetitive self-judgment about her body. Instead of the radical contentment expected in international yoga teachers, she realized that hating her body was a form of suffering, which was infecting her closest relationships—including her relationship to herself.
Inspired by the honesty and vulnerability of her students, Lee embarked on a journey of self-discovery that led her outward—from the sacred sites of the parched Indian countryside to the center of the 2011 earthquake in Japan—and inward, to seek the counsel of wise women, friends and strangers both. Applying the ancient Buddhist practice of loving-kindness meditation to herself, Lee learned that compassion is the only antidote to hatred, thereby healing her heart and changing her mind.
With prose as agile as the yoga sequences she creates, May I Be Happy gives voice to Lee’s belief that every life arises, abides, and ultimately dissolves. By becoming her own best student, Lee internalizes the strength, stability, and clarity she imparts in her Buddhist-inspired yoga classes.
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Yoga Body, Buddha Mind
From Cyndi Lee, creator of the OM yoga method comes the first guide to developing clarity in the mind while developing strength for the body.
The Buddha said: “Cultivate positive qualities and reduce negative emotions. This is the way to enlightenment.”
As Cyndi Lee says, “People’s bodies will change but their minds will still be jumping, their hearts still buried under layers of tension and fear.” “Yoga Body, Buddha Mind” is the first book to join these two powerful, uplifting practices, Cyndi shares her longtime experience as a practicing Tibetan Buddhist and one of the country’s most famous yoga teachers. Offering a unique combination of playfulness, precision, and curiosity, Cyndi shows how blending the Buddhist practices of opening the heart, reducing anger, and developing clarity and awareness with yoga practice can give you a balanced body and a spacious mind all at the same time!
Written in the same personal, comfortable and charismatic style that Cyndi Lee brings to her OM yoga classes.
OM yoga
A Guide to Daily Practice
Too busy to attend yoga class but can’t be bothered to read the endless instructions in the latest yoga book? In OM Yoga: A Daily Practice, celebrated yoga instructor Cyndi Lee brings the rigors and reqards of yoga class to the home with a totally unique method of teaching. Instead of wordy direction and minimal pictures, each series of asanas is communicated entirely through easy-to-follow illustrations and tips. Designed in a practical, concealed Wire-O format that lays flat on the floor while being used, OM Yoga is organized in tabbed sections for each day of the week. Monday is devoted to the Sun Salutation to welcome the week’s start. Thursday’s practice focusses on sitting poses, when the week’s energy is dwindling. When joined together, each day’s recipe cultivates a yoga practice that is challenging, energizing, and restorative. Including sections on meditation, breathing, and do-it-yourself yoga “recipes” for all levels, OM Yoga: A Guide to Daily Practice creates the possibility for a meaningful yoga practice in the privacy of the home.