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 Most Riverhead Books are available at special quantity discounts for bulk purchases for sales promotions, premiums, fund-raising, or educational use. Special books, or book excerpts, can also be created to fit specific needs.   For details, write: Special Markets, The Berkley Publishing Group, 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. Every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this book is complete and accurate. However, neither the publisher nor the author is engaged in rendering professional advice or services to the individual reader. The ideas, procedures, and suggestions contained in this book are not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician. All matters regarding your health require medical supervision. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be liable or responsible for any loss, injury, or damage allegedly arising from any information or suggestion in this book.

RIVERHEAD BOOKS Published by The Berkley Publishing Group A division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014   Copyright 2004 by Cyndi Lee Interior photographs by David Bartolomi   All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or via any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author''s rights is appreciated.   First Riverhead trade paperback edition: August 2004   Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data   Lee, Cyndi. Yoga body, Buddha mind / Cyndi Lee.

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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.