Yoga of Healing & Awakening Summit Registration Bonus
Welcome Message From Your Summit Hosts
Join summit co-hosts Cyndi Lee, founder of OM yoga, author, and lay Buddhist chaplain, and Philip Hellmich, Director of Peace at The Shift Network and author of God and Conflict, in an inspiring dialogue and introduction to the Yoga of Healing & Awakening Summit.
Philip explains that, after four years of producing The Yoga Day Summit, The Shift Network is upleveling with a brand-new program focusing on the many ways yoga promotes healing and awakening.
Cyndi and Philip share how yoga is an ancient scientific method for healing trauma and physical and emotional wounding — as well as the challenges we experience when we don’t feel our wholeness.
This summit is about waking up to our own wholeness and goodness, and the goodness in each other. It’s a gathering packed full of grounded and inspiring speakers offering their vast perspectives on yoga as a way of awakening to what already exists inside us.
It’s about discovering yoga as a way of being and doing and acting in the world...
… because participating in this summit can result not only in your own personal healing… it can open you to the compassion that resides within you, and a desire to be of service in the world. Plus you’ll become part of an essential support network — a global community of yogis.
Cyndi and Philip provide a glimpse into some of the brilliant, world-renowned masters and practitioners who are speaking in the Yoga of Healing & Awakening Summit… and give you some great tips on preparing for this powerful event so you can get the most out of it.
Philip Hellmich
Philip M. Hellmich is a thought leader in creating a new narrative of peace, from inner peace to international peacebuilding. As the Director of Peace at The Shift Network, Philip is the chief architect of the Summer of Peace, Yoga Day Summit and World Peace Library - online global forums that seek to inspire, inform and involve people in the many ways that peace is emerging around the world. He also is the co-lead faculty of the Peace Ambassador Training. These peace programs provide skills training, inspirational stories, and powerful solutions from the world’s top peacebuilders, social change leaders, scientists, Indigenous elders and spiritual mentors. Philip and his colleagues design these peace programs in partnership with a number of organizations while advancing strategic initiatives, including the International Cities of Peace in creating 1,000 Cities of Peace by 2020; Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education in promoting global compassion education; the Alliance for Peacebuilding on countering violent extremism, PeaceJam and 13 Nobel Peace Laureates in promoting global peace education and Parmarth Niketan Ashram in promoting a deeper understanding of yoga.
Philip has dedicated most of his life to global and local peacebuilding initiatives, including 14 years with Search for Common Ground. He also served for four years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone where he lived and worked in small remote bush villages. A published writer, Philip is author of God and Conflict: A Search for Peace in a Time of Crisis with a Foreword by Lama Surya Das. He also serves as adviser to The Global Peace Initiative of Women.
Philip’s passion is exploring peace along the Peace Continuum, from inner to international levels, and his framing purpose coincides with the key questions: How is inner peace a global responsibility; and, how does the world affect inner peace? A long-time meditation practitioner, Philip enjoys studying and teaching about the parallels between inner and outer peace.
Cyndi Lee
Cyndi Lee is the first female Western yoga teacher to fully integrate yoga asana and Tibetan Buddhism in her practice and teaching. In 1998, she founded the OM yoga Center in NYC, which became a mecca for yogis worldwide. One of the most influential teachers in the U.S., Cyndi’s teaching work is now focussed on yoga, meditation and resiliency workshops worldwide. Cyndi is known as a “teacher’s teacher” and she has trained thousands of yoga teachers worldwide. She currently offers Meditation TT and Restorative TT on-line.
She is the author of Yoga Body Buddha Mind, May I Be Happy: A Memoir of Love, Yoga and Changing My Mind and OM Yoga: A Guide to Daily Practice. She is a regular contributor to numerous publications including Yoga Journal, Real Simple and Lion’s Roar.
Cyndi is an ordained Zen Buddhist Chaplain under the guidance of Roshi Joan Halifax at Upaya Zen Center. Her root guru is the Tibetan master, Gelek Rimpoche. She has been teaching yoga for 40 years. To find more of her online classes, courses, and trainings, as well as IRL teaching activities, please go to her website.
