Lynda Lester: Presenter

Lynda Lester graduated from the University of Colorado-Boulder with a bachelor of science degree in education. During her last year in college, she had a series of spontaneous openings to the inner consciousness that led her to an all-absorbing study of spirituality.

She helped organize a large spiritual festival and conference held in Boulder in June 1974. Upon hearing a talk by Madhusudan Reddy, a scholar of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Lynda realized Integral Yoga would be her path for life. Shortly thereafter she visited the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville.

She spent the next six years in a nomadic sangha that moved from city to city, pursuing an unusual but serious practice of Integral Yoga. In 1979-80 she spent five months at Matagiri, a Sri Aurobindo center near Woodstock, NY, then joined Sri Aurobindo's Action Center in Boulder. From 1981-87 she lived with a French disciple, focusing on Mother's Agenda, the works of Satprem, and continuing to explore the works of Sri Aurobindo.

Lynda served on the board of Auroville International USA in the late 1980s and co-organized AUM 1988 in Boulder. In 1994-95 she became editor of NexUs, then Collaboration (two Integral Yoga journals), and was editor of Collaboration for ten years. She is past president of the Sri Aurobindo Association, of which she has been a member since 1995. From 2000-2003 she served as a moderator of the Integral Yoga Forum, an experimental online discussion group. She hosts the Sri Aurobindo Circle of Boulder, a study group that has been intermittently active since the mid 90s.

She has given numerous presentations on the yoga to groups and centers around the U.S., including the Cultural Integration Fellowship, Sri Aurobindo Sadhana Peetham, the Institute for Noetic Sciences, Savitri House, the Boulder Sri Aurobindo Circle, various professional and study groups, and the last four AUMs.

Lynda has had a career in publishing and is currently a writer/editor at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, where she writes about high-performance computing and climate modeling. She loves Integral Yoga, believes profoundly in transformation, and feels an ever-expanding wonder at Mother, Sri Aurobindo, and the Divine.