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.

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