IDGY DEAN
Lindsay Sanwald (stage name Idgy Dean) is a musical artist, creative producer, chaplain, and teacher. She has been practicing Kriya yoga and meditation techniques for 20 years (trained and certified in the ISHTA lineage), and guiding her students in this tradition for over a decade.
Lindsay earned her Master of Divinity degree from Harvard University, where she devoted three years to studying the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras, Buddhist scriptures, Christian mysticism, monasticism, chaplaincy, creative writing, and music ritual.
Lindsay won the 2021 Billings Preaching Prize for her sermon on Virginia Woolf, and was selected to deliver Harvard University’s Graduate Student Address at the 2022 commencement ceremony.
She is presently based in Brooklyn NYC, leading private students and small seminars on the poetics of spiritual experience.
☀️ FREE KRIYA MEDITATION EVERY WEDNESDAY AT HIGH NOON EST ON ZOOM ☀️
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DIV/LIT
DIVINE LITERACY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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*NEXT CLASS*
GOD'S SONG: MEDITATING WITH THE GITA
TUESDAYS, SEPTEMBER 8TH - NOVEMBER 24TH (12 WEEKS)
DEATH AS TEACHER: READING THE KATHA UPANISHAD
DECEMBER 2026
DIV/LIT: READING THE BARDO THODOL
WINTER 2027
THE WAVES: MEDITATING WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF
SUMMER 2025
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE: MEDITATING WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF
SUMMER 2026
WINTER 2026
DEATH AS TEACHER: READING THE KATHA UPANISHAD
DECEMBER 2025
OCTOBER 2025
*EDGE CITY PATAGONIA*
BECOMING THE SEER: SUTRAS & SOBRIETY
FALL 2025
THE WAVES: MEDITATING WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF
SUMMER 2025
DISCIPLINES OF DIVINITY: BARDO THODOL
WINTER 2025
FALL 2024
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE: MEDITATING WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF
SUMMER 2024
BECOMING THE SEER: INTRO TO KRIYA MEDITATION & THE YOGA SUTRAS
SPRING 2024
WINTER 2024
LATEST MUSIC: "EPIPHANY"
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