May I Be Happy, Cyndi Lee
May I Be Happy, Cyndi Lee
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May I Be Happy
A Memoir of Love, Yoga, and Changing My Mind

Author: Cyndi Lee

Narrator: Cyndi Lee

Unabridged: 7 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/24/2013

Synopsis

How can I help others grow and transform if I haven’t done it myself...?" Cyndi Lee asks in the opening pages of her memoir, May I Be Happy, where she makes a surprising revelation. 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, which was infecting her closest relationships - including her relationship with 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 knowing women, friends and strangers both. Author and actress Jamie Lee Curtis; visionary health pioneer Dr. Christiane Northrup; and a founder of the self-help movement, Louise Hay, each have wisdom to impart. Applying the ancient Buddhist practice of loving-kindness meditation - "Normally you do it for others," a sage scholar advises, "but you must do this for yourself right now" - Lee comes to learn that compassion is the only antidote to hate. With candid, contemplative prose, 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.

About Cyndi Lee

Cyndi Lee is the founder of New York City’s OM yoga center and provides OM yoga teacher training worldwide. A regular columnist for Yoga Journal, she lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on August 09, 2013

Can't say I really liked this one. There are better books about body image and better ones about yoga. I think the most glaring problem (after the obsessive name dropping) was it just felt way too self-centered even for an autobiography. And while the author focuses on her issues it just never seems......more

Goodreads review by Katie on June 10, 2013

A friend in publishing who knows I'm an avid yogini passed this memoir along to me. I enjoyed it. Lee reflects on what it means to be a woman inhabiting a woman's body, and how she has struggled with her body image her whole life. While I found the inspiration for the memoir well-founded––the desire......more

Goodreads review by Kasey on March 28, 2013

I found this such a brave and moving book. Brave because the subject--Cyndi Lee's unhappy and critical relationship with her body--isn't one yoga teachers, especially famous yoga teachers, are "supposed" to have (and Lee acknowledges this). So, to not only admit to this kind of self-hatred, but to a......more

Goodreads review by Heather on August 19, 2014

This book really spoke to me. I especially loved hearing the audio book read aloud by the author, whose voice once guided me on CD throughout my first years of yoga practice. The memoir is very personal, completely grounded in the author's experiences with negative body image. Yet it's also a more u......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on March 22, 2016

I couldn't get enough of this book! This memoir is very real, as it combines the wisdom of a Buddhist yogi with the reality that is body image of women in America, in one woman's story. I found so many parts of the book paralleled exactly what I have been thinking about, and even learning about in m......more

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