18. + 19.05.2024
Eddie Stern is a yoga teacher, author, and researcher based in New York City. He has a multi-disciplinary approach to yoga which includes studying traditional Yoga texts, scientific research, technology, and collaboration. He is involved in evidence-based research in the healing capacities of Yoga, recently completing a masters in science with a specialization in yoga research. He has published several scientific papers and books, including the best-selling One Simple Thing, A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How it can Change Your Life. Eddie has been practicing yoga since 1987 and has spent the past 35 years traveling from New York to study yoga, philosophy, ritual, and Sanskrit with his teachers in India. Nineteen of those years were spent studying yearly at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysuru. His upcoming book release is an Audible Original on breathing, due out in January.
This is an introductory pranayama practice where you will learn how to slow the breath down to bring a deep calm to the nervous system. It is an accessible, gentle, but highly effective practice, suitable for all levels. We will do eight different breathing patterns over the course of 40 minutes, followed by a short relaxation practice.
Sangraha means “a collection” or “compendium.” This class is a grounding and calming sequence of postures that moves from lying down, to standing, seated, inversions, backbends, stabilizing, twists, and pratyahara practices, in order to have an intentional effect on the signaling of the nervous system. The postures come from the larger Hatha Yoga tradition, but not from any one lineage. I have put these sequences together over the past couple of years of experimentation and exploration of Hatha Yoga practices and texts, and this class is reflective of how I currently practice asanas – after 5 years of practicing and teaching Sivananda Yoga (1987-1992), and then 30 years of Ashtanga Yoga (starting from 1992 till the present).
The standard, traditional practice of the Yoga Cikitsa, or Primary Series of Ashtanga Yoga.
The entire series of lectures this weekend will be oriented towards understanding the underlying mechanisms that make yoga a highly effective practice of our body-mind-spirit existence. We will discuss from Yogic and Western views how the different yoga practices effect the neuroendocrine system, which is largely responsible for how we respond, adapt, and perceive ourselves and reality. We will discuss how the practice of yoga can create enduring states of calm, quiet, and insight in the body and mind.
SATURDAY
9am-10:30am
Yoga Asana Sangraha
11:30am-12:30pm
The Means of Self-Knowing: An Introduction to Yogic and Western Sciences
14:30-15:30pm
Lecture: Why do Pranayama?
15:45pm-16:30 pm
Practice: Pranayama Level 1
SUNDAY
9am-10:30am
Led Primary
11am-12pm
Lecture: Yoga and the Neuroendocrine System
14:00-14:45
Practice: Pranayama Level 2
15:00-16:00
Lecture: Yoga and the Neuroendocrine System
2-DAY WORKSHOP 300€*
Early bird 260€* (until Dezember 31, 2023)
* Can not be canceled after booking
18.+19. May 2024
Workshop
Eddie Stern is a yoga teacher, author, and researcher based in New York City. He has a multi-disciplinary approach to yoga which includes studying traditional Yoga texts, scientific research, technology, and collaboration. He is involved in evidence-based research in the healing capacities of Yoga, recently completing a masters in science with a specialization in yoga research. He has published several scientific papers and books, including the best-selling One Simple Thing, A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How it can Change Your Life. Eddie has been practicing yoga since 1987 and has spent the past 35 years traveling from New York to study yoga, philosophy, ritual, and Sanskrit with his teachers in India. Nineteen of those years were spent studying yearly at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysuru. His upcoming book release is an Audible Original on breathing, due out in January.
This is an introductory pranayama practice where you will learn how to slow the breath down to bring a deep calm to the nervous system. It is an accessible, gentle, but highly effective practice, suitable for all levels. We will do eight different breathing patterns over the course of 40 minutes, followed by a short relaxation practice.
Sangraha means “a collection” or “compendium.” This class is a grounding and calming sequence of postures that moves from lying down, to standing, seated, inversions, backbends, stabilizing, twists, and pratyahara practices, in order to have an intentional effect on the signaling of the nervous system. The postures come from the larger Hatha Yoga tradition, but not from any one lineage. I have put these sequences together over the past couple of years of experimentation and exploration of Hatha Yoga practices and texts, and this class is reflective of how I currently practice asanas – after 5 years of practicing and teaching Sivananda Yoga (1987-1992), and then 30 years of Ashtanga Yoga (starting from 1992 till the present).
The standard, traditional practice of the Yoga Cikitsa, or Primary Series of Ashtanga Yoga.
The entire series of lectures this weekend will be oriented towards understanding the underlying mechanisms that make yoga a highly effective practice of our body-mind-spirit existence. We will discuss from Yogic and Western views how the different yoga practices effect the neuroendocrine system, which is largely responsible for how we respond, adapt, and perceive ourselves and reality. We will discuss how the practice of yoga can create enduring states of calm, quiet, and insight in the body and mind.
SATURDAY
9am-10:30am
Yoga Asana Sangraha
11:30am-12:30pm
The Means of Self-Knowing: An Introduction to Yogic and Western Sciences
14:30-15:30pm
Lecture: Why do Pranayama?
15:45pm-16:30 pm
Practice: Pranayama Level 1
SUNDAY
9am-10:30am
Led Primary
11am-12pm
Lecture: Yoga and the Neuroendocrine System
14:00-14:45
Practice: Pranayama Level 2
15:00-16:00
Lecture: Yoga and the Neuroendocrine System
2-DAY WORKSHOP 300€*
Early bird 260€* (until Dezember 31, 2023)
* Can not be canceled after booking
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