Lindsay Sanwald (stage name Idgy Dean) works as a musical artist, creative producer, chaplain, and teacher. She is a 500-hour trained yoga and meditation instructor certified in the ISHTA lineage. Lindsay has been practicing Kriya meditation techniques for 20 years and sharing them with others for over a decade.
In 2022, she 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 miraculous music, and was selected to deliver Harvard University’s Graduate Student Address at the 2022 commencement ceremony.
She is presently based in Brooklyn NYC, developing new material while teaching meditation and comparative theology to private students and groups.​
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NEXT COURSE
BECOMING THE SEER: SUTRAS & SOBRIETY
September 2nd to October 28th 2025
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NEW MUSIC
OUT ON 8/8
READ PRESS RELEASE​​​
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