June 23rd - 30th
Mysore practice each morning, followed by lectures on Ashtanga yoga philosophy, chanting and meditation in the afternoon.
Eddie Stern & Jocelyne Stern
Eddie and Jocelyne Stern learned yoga, chanting and philosophy under Sri K.Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, South India, from 1991 until 2009.
They reside in NYC where they run Ashtanga Yoga New York, a branch of Pattabhi Jois’s old institute in India, and maintain a traditional Hindu temple that was established in 2001 under his guidance. Eddie has published four books on Pattabhi Jois and Ashtanga Yoga, including a translation of Yoga Mala, a treatise on Ashtanga Yoga written by Jois in 1958, and is the co-publisher and co-editor of Namarupa, Categories of Indian Thought, a monthly Hindu philosophical journal. He serves on the board of directors of Bent On Learning, a not-for-profit organization that teachers yoga and meditation to 3,300 disadvantaged school children every week.