On the Road
Upcoming events.
Cyndi’s workshops, trainings and courses will all be online for the time being. Everything is listed on the calendar, and more details and online classes can be found under “Online Classes & Trainings.”
IN PERSON: Sustainable Compassion, Sustainable Yoga
Throughout the weekend at our scenic wellness retreat in Northern California, you'll engage in nourishing movement, guided meditations, and inspiring dharma talks, all aimed at embodying sustainability in your physical and mental practices.
ONLINE: Saddha Meditation Series: Fruition
The Saddha Meditation Series offers you the opportunity to develop your meditation practice by: committing to a series of three retreats and growing your capacity to meditate by participating in progressively longer sessions. Each retreat will include a dharma talk, sitting mindfulness meditation practice, stretching, breathwork, Q & A.
ONLINE: Mindfulness Meditation Mini-Retreat
Each day I will offer a lesson on the nuts and bolts of meditation, as well as how the practice relates to the rest of your life. On Day 1 I will give specific mindfulness meditation instruction and we will sit for a short period. Every day the instruction will deepen and the length of the sitting periods will grow. By the end of five days we will sit together for 30 minutes…or more.
IN PERSON: Sustainable Yoga: Movement and Breath for Your Future Self
Join legendary yoga teacher, Cyndi Lee, for a program that explores the notion of sustainability in yoga. This work is about presence, curiosity, and personal connection; it is never goal-oriented or performative.
Return home feeling more energized and expanded in your capacity to move, breathe, and live well into the future.
IN PERSON: Developing a Sustainable Practice: Breathwork, Meditation and OM Yoga
Spiritual refuge offers a path for connecting to the basic goodness of the body, breath, and mind. Breathwork, meditation, and OM Yoga are all effective tools that offer healing, self-awareness, compassion, and mindfulness.
Each day’s work will build on the day before so you can observe the effects of your practice. Return home with resources that offer you a refuge for the rest of your life.
ONLINE: Mindfulness Meditation Mini-Retreat
Each day I will offer a lesson on the nuts and bolts of meditation, as well as how the practice relates to the rest of your life. On Day 1 I will give specific mindfulness meditation instruction and we will sit for a short period. Every day the instruction will deepen and the length of the sitting periods will grow.
IN PERSON: Lifting the Gaze: Meditation & Motion
This retreat is open to everyone! Our practice will focus primarily on sitting and walking mindfulness meditation, sustainable yoga, and restorative yoga. Yoga props will be available in the yoga studio and modifications will be offered for everyone. Each morning will include a short dharma talk and group discussion.
ONLINE: Mindfulness Meditation Mini-Retreat
Each day I will offer a lesson on the nuts and bolts of meditation, as well as how the practice relates to the rest of your life. On Day 1 I will give specific mindfulness meditation instruction and we will sit for a short period. Every day the instruction will deepen and the length of the sitting periods will grow.
ONLINE: Saddha Meditation Series: Path
The Saddha Meditation Series offers you the opportunity to develop your meditation practice by: committing to a series of three retreats and growing your capacity to meditate by participating in progressively longer sessions. Each retreat will include a dharma talk, sitting mindfulness meditation practice, stretching, breathwork, Q & A.
ONLINE: Mindfulness Meditation Mini-Retreat
Each day I will offer a lesson on the nuts and bolts of meditation, as well as how the practice relates to the rest of your life. On Day 1 I will give specific mindfulness meditation instruction and we will sit for a short period. Every day the instruction will deepen and the length of the sitting periods will grow. By the end of five days we will sit together for 30 minutes…or more.
IN PERSON & ONLINE: Sustainable Yoga
Sustainable Yoga is a medium-paced asana practice designed to balance your physical and mental strength, stability, clarity and mobility by integrating vinyasa, precise alignment and resting. Based on the long view of Sustainability, the practice will energize and enhance you today as well as expand your capacity to move, breath and live well into the future.
IN PERSON: Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
This course is open to yogis, yoga teachers, body workers, social workers — anyone who would like to deepen their own yoga practice and/or share this work with others.
ONLINE: Saddha Meditation Series: Ground
The Saddha Meditation Series offers you the opportunity to develop your meditation practice by: committing to a series of three retreats and growing your capacity to meditate by participating in progressively longer sessions. Each retreat will include a dharma talk, sitting mindfulness meditation practice, stretching, breathwork, Q & A.
ONLINE & IN PERSON: Sustainable Yoga - 6 Week Series
Sustainable Yoga is a medium-paced asana practice designed to balance your physical and mental strength, stability, clarity and mobility by integrating vinyasa, precise alignment and resting. Based on the long view of Sustainability, the practice will energize and enhance you today as well as expand your capacity to move, breath and live well into the future….
ONLINE & IN PERSON: Mindfulness 101 - 3 Week Series
We will start a new session of the Lifting the Gaze sangha on February 1, 2024. The sangha has been a touch point, a home, a refuge for us in 2023 as we have shared meditation practice together, studied the Satipattadhana Sutra (the Mindfulness Sutra), shared a lot in group discussions and done a little stretching and breathing, too.
ONLINE: Meditation Invitation: #15minutesaday
Every day for a week we will sit together for 15 minutes and create a habit for the year ahead. Sessions will begin with a short 5-minute-or-less talk and then we will sit together. The talks will offer clarification on meditation technique, inspiration and motivation, and preparations for sitting such as grounding touch, body scan or breathing exercises.
ONLINE: New Year's Eve Meditation
Let’s practice together!
We will mark this liminal time of old, new, past, future, change, movement by BEING HERE NOW!
ONLINE: Year End Practice Period: The 4 R’s
A practice period for reflecting on the past year with good heart and clear mind and no judgement.
Cyndi will introduce the Buddhist teaching of the 4Rs, a contemplative practice to help us review, refresh and resolve. We will discuss and practice this useful method for growing our practice commitment. Along with meditating, stretching, breathwork and some restorative yoga, we will embody this transitional period with grounding and openness.
ONLINE: Mini-Meditation Retreat
This week - between America Thanksgiving and December holidays is the perfect time to stabilize your mind, steady yourself, get grounded. Because we are all busy this online retreat will be just 45 minutes a day. A short dharma talk followed by sitting meditation, stretching and discussion. The goal is to feel both refreshed and relaxed as we move into the end of 2023.
IN PERSON: The Refuge Hour in North Carolina
In this OM yoga class, Cyndi will talk about what spiritual refuge really means and how to find it in your life as a yogi. Sustainable asana, pranayama, restorative yoga and mindfulness meditation will be our skillful means for an embodied exploration of refuge in mind, body, breath, and balance.
IN PERSON & ONLINE: Upaya Dharma Talk
Join Cyndi online or in person for a Dharma talk at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
IN PERSON: Lifting the Gaze Retreat
Lifting the Gaze is a way of expanding our practice, letting in the sounds and sights of the world. It is also a way of expanding our scope of practice; knowing that when we see each other, when we practice together, we begin to create the world we want.
Meditation Invitation: #15minutesaday
Every day for a week we will sit together for 15 minutes and create a habit for the year ahead. Sessions will begin with a short 5-minute-or-less talk and then we will sit together. The talks will offer clarification on meditation technique, inspiration and motivation, and preparations for sitting such as grounding touch, body scan or breathing exercises.
In Person & Online: The Refuge Hour
Spiritual refuge offers a path for connecting to the basic goodness of our own body, breath and mind. Cyndi will talk about what refuge means for yogis and how the practice of Sati or Mindfulness helps us develop a personal refuge that can support our daily lives.
Mindfulness Meditation Mini-Retreat
Each day I will offer a lesson on the nuts and bolts of meditation, as well as how the practice relates to the rest of your life. On Day 1 I will give specific mindfulness meditation instruction and we will sit for a short period. Every day the instruction will deepen and the length of the sitting periods will grow. By the end of five days we will sit together for 30 minutes…or more.
Summer Half-Nyinthun
Join Cyndi for a half-day retreat online: Grounding work and pranayama, Dharma talk, meditation, discussion and Q & A, a small restorative practice.
Breath by Breath, Stitch by Stitch
Meditation and Knitting have so much in common and yet they are also completely distinct activities. You can be a meditator and not knit and you can be a knitter and not meditate. Or you can knit and meditate. What does it all mean?!
Mindfulness Meditation Mini-Retreat
Each day I will offer a lesson on the nuts and bolts of meditation, as well as how the practice relates to the rest of your life. On Day 1 I will give specific mindfulness meditation instruction and we will sit for a short period. Every day the instruction will deepen and the length of the sitting periods will grow. By the end of five days we will sit together for 30 minutes…or more.
20 Minutes a Day: Lunchtime Meditation Retreat
Every day for a week we will sit together for 20 minutes and create a habit for the year ahead. Sessions will begin with a short 5-minute-or-less talk and then we will sit together. The talks will offer clarification on meditation technique, inspiration and motivation, and preparations for sitting such as grounding touch, body scan or breathing exercises.
Meditation Invitation: #15minutesaday
Every day for a week we will sit together for 15 minutes and create a habit for the year ahead. Sessions will begin with a short 5-minute-or-less talk and then we will sit together. The talks will offer clarification on meditation technique, inspiration and motivation, and preparations for sitting such as grounding touch, body scan or breathing exercises.
Mindfulness Meditation Mini-Retreat
Each day I will offer a lesson on the nuts and bolts of meditation, as well as how the practice relates to the rest of your life. On Day 1 I will give specific mindfulness meditation instruction and we will sit for a short period. Every day the instruction will deepen and the length of the sitting periods will grow. By the end of five days we will sit together for 30 minutes…or more.
Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training: Level 2
This 15-hour mindfulness meditation teacher training level II (12 hours online plus homework) is for people interested in learning to teach meditation to a group. In addition to longer sitting meditations sessions to develop stamina and insight.
Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training + Immersion: Level I
Learn a clear and straightforward technique for practicing mindfulness meditation, as drawn from the Buddhist tradition. Experience how this down-to-earth method of mindfulness meditation will lead to personal insights, clarity, groundedness and joy. Open to all.
Bodhisattva Basics Part 2
The Six Steps to Becoming a Bodhisattva - the activist seeking freedom and happiness for all. When times get tough, when the world is confusing, these six practices will give you direction, clarity and motivation for becoming a Bodhisattva in the world.
Meditation Invitation: #15minutesaday
I am inviting you to step into 2023 by establishing your regular meditation practice! Every day for a week we will sit together for 15 minutes and create a habit for the year ahead.
New Year's Eve Pop-Up Meditation
Let’s practice together! We will mark this liminal time of old, new, past, future, change, movement by BEING HERE NOW! Will include a short dharma talk, touching into your motivation (as opposed to intention) for practicing in 2023, mindfulness meditation sitting practice, a little stretch and a dedication.
Tend and Befriend
Join Cyndi for Tend and Befriend, part of the weeklong event Mindful of Rest: A Series of Daily Pauses for Yoga, Meditation, & Relaxation.
ONLINE: Mindfulness Meditation Mini-Retreat
Each day I will offer a lesson on the nuts and bolts of meditation, as well as how the practice relates to the rest of your life. On Day 1 I will give specific mindfulness meditation instruction and we will sit for a short period. Every day the instruction will deepen and the length of the sitting periods will grow. By the end of five days we will sit together for 30 minutes…or more.