BIOGRAPHY

Lucinda Vardey is a writer and teacher of the spiritual life. A Catholic by background and upbringing, she also studied (through her books and her own practice) how Eastern religious philosophies and teachings relate to western life, particularly the mystical and feminine experience of the Divine.

Born in England into a creative family – her mother and maternal grandparents were all writers, her father an artist and musician – Lucinda began writing novels when she was eight years old. She emigrated to Canada in 1970 and established a career in book publishing and founded her own company of literary agents in Toronto, London and Sydney. She wrote books in her spare time and trained as an experiential teacher and gestalt facilitator in the North American School of Gestalt and Experiential Teaching in California. Having studied yoga in a Hindu ashram and taught classical yoga for Christians at Regis College, University of Toronto, she was called to leave her professional occupation and open a retreat house in Tuscany, Italy. With her husband (writer/theologian John Dalla Costa) she has offered weeklong summer pilgrimages and private retreats for over twelve years. A past faculty member of the Toronto Transpersonal Therapy Centre’s Living Spirit three-year program, Lucinda also co-founded The Catherine Collective which was formed to serve women in need especially in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.

She is a current affiliate of The Contemplate Alliance.

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