Yoga Sangraha with Eddie Stern

Yoga Sangraha Weekend Workshop with Eddie Stern
Helsinki June 4-7, 2026
Practice place Friday-Sunday: Yrjönkatu 21B, 6th floor (Fri-Sun)
Thursday meeting at Yoga School: Annankatu 29B, 2nd floor.

Eddie Stern teaching Yoga Sangraha

Yoga Sangraha is a contemporary, breath-led practice of classical yoga sequences that gently guide the nervous system toward balance, leaving you feeling calmer, clearer, and more connected to yourself and your life.

Eddie is an esteemed yoga teacher, author, and researcher based in New York City. He is the founder of Broome Street Ganesha Temple in Manhattan, author of the best-selling One Simple Thing, A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How it can Change Your Life, and is the co-creator of the Breathing App. He has a multi-disciplinary approach to yoga which includes studying traditional texts and combining the application of the practices contained within them to science, research, technology and collaboration.

Eddie is involved in evidence-based research in the healing capacities of Yoga, recently completing a masters in science for yoga research at the Vivekananda Yoga University.

Eddie’s new offerings include ‘Healing through Breathing’ an Audible Original and The Breathing App for Diabetes, both released in January 2024. Eddie has been practicing yoga since 1987 and has spent the past 35 years traveling yearly from New York to study yoga, philosophy, ritual, and Sanskrit with his teachers in India. Whether in conversation, class or lecture, Eddie makes learning yoga and yogic traditions accessible to all and easily understandable with an approach that is intentionally uncomplicated.

Workshop Description

Yoga Sangraha is a contemporary, breath-led practice of classical yoga sequences that gently guide the nervous system toward balance, leaving you feeling calmer, clearer, and more connected to yourself and your life.

1. Classical Roots Meets Modern Science

Yoga Sangraha is a contemporary, breath-led practice of classical yoga. Drawing from the broader Hatha Yoga tradition rather than any single lineage, it weaves together carefully ordered sequences informed by both ancient texts and modern research on how yoga affects the body and brain. The practice follows a deliberate arc: beginning with slow, grounding movements and building gradually before guiding you to rest. Rather than focusing on how postures look, attention turns toward why we practice and what the practice is doing. The result is a clear, repeatable framework that leaves you feeling calm, focused, and connected.

2. All-Level Accessibility

Whether you are trying yoga for the first time or have decades of practice behind you, Yoga Sangraha is open to everyone. The sequences are designed so you can simply place your body in a posture, remain there, and breathe. There is no forceful stretching, no performance or hands-on adjustments. The breath stays quiet and even, centered on the natural movement of the belly. Postures are grouped to gently ramp your energy up and then bring it back down, following a pattern your nervous system can easily receive. You don’t need flexibility or experience, just an interest in being present with your breath and your body.

3. Nervous System Regulation

Yoga Sangraha is designed around how the nervous system works. The sequences follow the patterns the nervous system uses to signal safety, engagement, and recovery. They are structured to move you progressively from calm alertness, through energizing postures, and back to deep rest. Forward bends activate the parasympathetic response; inversions deepen inward awareness; gentle backbends stimulate the sympathetic system in a controlled way, and closing twists consolidate information between brain hemispheres, preparing the body for alert relaxation.

4. A Practice of Depth Without Strain

For experienced practitioners or newcomers seeking depth without dogma or depletion, Yoga Sangraha offers a challenge that replenishes and restores the body, mind and nervous system. Yoga Sangraha slows things down while keeping nuance and subtlety intact. Movement and breath connect naturally and logically; the emphasis shifts from doing āsanas to sensing them: you will notice  what a posture does to your breathing, your awareness, and your state of mind. Grounded in tradition and informed by science, Yoga Sangraha is a return to the why of practice.

5. Connecting to the Heart of Practice

Yoga Sangraha — meaning ”collection” or ”compendium” — is an invitation to reconnect with what yoga is actually for. Philosophy, meditation, and simple presence are woven throughout. Whether you come for physical wellbeing or something deeper, you’ll leave feeling calmer, clearer, and more at home in yourself.

What Yoga Sangraha is
  • A collection of classical Hatha Yoga techniques: kriyas, prāṇāyāmas, varied sun salutations, and āsanas from different lineages, assembled into clear, repeatable sequences.
  • A contemporary, science-informed approach that keeps traditional language and intent, while drawing on research about how yoga affects the body, breath, and brain.
  • Not a new “style,” but a structured approach to yoga that shows how yoga works on the nervous system, rather than teaching how to perform individual poses.
What it does for people
  • Regulates and balances the nervous system, supporting homeostasis, stress recovery, and a shift toward calm alertness.
  • Builds strength, flexibility, and postural stability in a way that feels sustainable rather than depleting.
  • Increases lung capacity and supports and back health through integrated breath and movement.
  • Cultivates mental clarity, steadiness, and emotional balance, helping you handle stress and maintain equanimity.
  • Rekindles enjoyment and curiosity in practice for long-time practitioners, while offering beginners a safe, non-competitive introduction to Yoga.
How the practice feels

The atmosphere is supportive and non-performative, creating space for philosophy, meditation, and simply returning attention to everyday life with more presence.

Sequences are intentionally arranged to move through focusing, energising, calming, grounding, and resting phases, so people leave feeling integrated rather than overstimulated.

Classes are described as dynamic yet accessible: you can ramp intensity up or down according to time, energy, and circumstances.

Asanas, Pranayamas, and Kriyas

Pranayama level 1

This is an introductory pranayama practice where you will learn how to slow the breath down in order 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 one-hour, including a short relaxation practice.

Pranayama Level 2

This pranayama practice introduces short breath holds and classic kumbhakas practices from the Hatha Yoga tradition. You will also learn interesting mudras and a highly effective and centering pratyahara practice. This class is suitable for all who have attended the Level 1 practice. 

Yoga Sangraha Level 1

This is an all-levels class that is grounding and calming. We will move through a sequence of postures in the order of lying down, standing, Sun Salutations, seated, inversions, backbends, stabilizing postures, twists, followed by pratyahara practices and relaxation. We will also pay attention to a healthy back – how to avoid back pain and how to reduce it.

 Yoga Sangraha Level 2

This class will follow the same sequences as Level 1, but will add variations of Sun Salutations, some additional back extension postures, and headstand. Options will be given for all of the challenging postures. This class is also open to all levels, though attendance of the Level 1 class is suggested in order to become familiar with the structure before trying Level 2.

Sun Salutation Class

The Sun Salutation class is a lot of fun! We do the 6 different types of Sun Salutes from Yoga Sangraha, and then six different dands from the Hindu wrestling tradition called Kushti. This is followed by a few standing asanas, cool down seated postures, and slow breathing and meditation to finish. In this class you will also be introduced to some of the fundamental building blocks of Yoga Sangraha Level 1. It is an energetic class, but accessible to all.

Yoga and Strength

This class is based on strength building practices followed by simple asanas. It includes different types of Sun Salutations, push-ups, planks, axial muscle strengthening, squats, and other exercises that build strength, functional mobility, and endurance in different ways. Many of the practices are drawn from Indian physical exercise systems such as kushti, the Hindu wrestling system that uses lots of different squats push-up positions such as found in Sun Salutations. These practices are followed by calming, slow held asanas, and relaxation.

Om Chanting and Ishvara Pranidhana Sutras

This is a meditation from Yoga Sutras on the transcendent consciousness in the heart called Purusha. We will chant, in call and response fashion, the six sutras that describe Ishvara, along with the translated meaning, and then together chant the sound of Om twenty-one times. The sound of Om is described as the verbalization of Ishvara, who is beyond limitation of time and space, and so can only be described in the abstract. This is a deeply quieting and meditative practice.

Lectures

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, using Yogic texts and scientific research as our base. Finally, we will discuss the concept of mind, what and where it is, and how we can work with it, according to Yoga Sutras.

* * * * *

Feel welcome to join in a softer, slower, gentler yoga program. This workshop is suitable for beginners, those with mobility concerns and/or recovering from injury; or those who wish to gain the benefit of the Yoga practices through holistic framework.

Venue & Prices

Venue
  • Thursday: Annankatu 29B, courtyard, 2nd floor
    (Helsinki Ashtanga Yogaschool)
  • Friday – Sunday: Yrjönkatu 21b, 6th floor.
Full workshop price: 290 €

Single days:
  • Friday 130€
  • Saturday: 130 €
  • Sunday: 90 €

Payment details

Astanga Jooga Helsinki Oy
IBAN: FI08 218518 000 70600
BIC: NDEAFIHH
Message: Eddie – ”name of the workshop attendee”
(for example: Eddie – Alice Ashtangi)
Payment confirms your spot in the workshop.
[In case of availability it will also be possible to book single classes and lectures closer to the date]

Contact us

Ursula Aaltonen
Email: ursisa@gmail.com
Whatsapp: +358 50 3246024

Book your spot


Yoga Sangraha with Eddie Stern

Yoga Sangraha Weekend Workshop with Eddie Stern
Helsinki June 4-7, 2026
Practice place Friday-Sunday: Yrjönkatu 21B, 6th floor (Fri-Sun)
Thursday meeting at Yoga School: Annankatu 29B, 2nd floor.

Eddie Stern teaching Yoga Sangraha

Yoga Sangraha is a contemporary, breath-led practice of classical yoga sequences that gently guide the nervous system toward balance, leaving you feeling calmer, clearer, and more connected to yourself and your life.

Eddie is an esteemed yoga teacher, author, and researcher based in New York City. He is the founder of Broome Street Ganesha Temple in Manhattan, author of the best-selling One Simple Thing, A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How it can Change Your Life, and is the co-creator of the Breathing App. He has a multi-disciplinary approach to yoga which includes studying traditional texts and combining the application of the practices contained within them to science, research, technology and collaboration.

Eddie is involved in evidence-based research in the healing capacities of Yoga, recently completing a masters in science for yoga research at the Vivekananda Yoga University.

Eddie’s new offerings include ‘Healing through Breathing’ an Audible Original and The Breathing App for Diabetes, both released in January 2024. Eddie has been practicing yoga since 1987 and has spent the past 35 years traveling yearly from New York to study yoga, philosophy, ritual, and Sanskrit with his teachers in India. Whether in conversation, class or lecture, Eddie makes learning yoga and yogic traditions accessible to all and easily understandable with an approach that is intentionally uncomplicated.

Workshop Description

Yoga Sangraha is a contemporary, breath-led practice of classical yoga sequences that gently guide the nervous system toward balance, leaving you feeling calmer, clearer, and more connected to yourself and your life.

1. Classical Roots Meets Modern Science

Yoga Sangraha is a contemporary, breath-led practice of classical yoga. Drawing from the broader Hatha Yoga tradition rather than any single lineage, it weaves together carefully ordered sequences informed by both ancient texts and modern research on how yoga affects the body and brain. The practice follows a deliberate arc: beginning with slow, grounding movements and building gradually before guiding you to rest. Rather than focusing on how postures look, attention turns toward why we practice and what the practice is doing. The result is a clear, repeatable framework that leaves you feeling calm, focused, and connected.

2. All-Level Accessibility

Whether you are trying yoga for the first time or have decades of practice behind you, Yoga Sangraha is open to everyone. The sequences are designed so you can simply place your body in a posture, remain there, and breathe. There is no forceful stretching, no performance or hands-on adjustments. The breath stays quiet and even, centered on the natural movement of the belly. Postures are grouped to gently ramp your energy up and then bring it back down, following a pattern your nervous system can easily receive. You don’t need flexibility or experience, just an interest in being present with your breath and your body.

3. Nervous System Regulation

Yoga Sangraha is designed around how the nervous system works. The sequences follow the patterns the nervous system uses to signal safety, engagement, and recovery. They are structured to move you progressively from calm alertness, through energizing postures, and back to deep rest. Forward bends activate the parasympathetic response; inversions deepen inward awareness; gentle backbends stimulate the sympathetic system in a controlled way, and closing twists consolidate information between brain hemispheres, preparing the body for alert relaxation.

4. A Practice of Depth Without Strain

For experienced practitioners or newcomers seeking depth without dogma or depletion, Yoga Sangraha offers a challenge that replenishes and restores the body, mind and nervous system. Yoga Sangraha slows things down while keeping nuance and subtlety intact. Movement and breath connect naturally and logically; the emphasis shifts from doing āsanas to sensing them: you will notice  what a posture does to your breathing, your awareness, and your state of mind. Grounded in tradition and informed by science, Yoga Sangraha is a return to the why of practice.

5. Connecting to the Heart of Practice

Yoga Sangraha — meaning ”collection” or ”compendium” — is an invitation to reconnect with what yoga is actually for. Philosophy, meditation, and simple presence are woven throughout. Whether you come for physical wellbeing or something deeper, you’ll leave feeling calmer, clearer, and more at home in yourself.

What Yoga Sangraha is
  • A collection of classical Hatha Yoga techniques: kriyas, prāṇāyāmas, varied sun salutations, and āsanas from different lineages, assembled into clear, repeatable sequences.
  • A contemporary, science-informed approach that keeps traditional language and intent, while drawing on research about how yoga affects the body, breath, and brain.
  • Not a new “style,” but a structured approach to yoga that shows how yoga works on the nervous system, rather than teaching how to perform individual poses.
What it does for people
  • Regulates and balances the nervous system, supporting homeostasis, stress recovery, and a shift toward calm alertness.
  • Builds strength, flexibility, and postural stability in a way that feels sustainable rather than depleting.
  • Increases lung capacity and supports and back health through integrated breath and movement.
  • Cultivates mental clarity, steadiness, and emotional balance, helping you handle stress and maintain equanimity.
  • Rekindles enjoyment and curiosity in practice for long-time practitioners, while offering beginners a safe, non-competitive introduction to Yoga.
How the practice feels

The atmosphere is supportive and non-performative, creating space for philosophy, meditation, and simply returning attention to everyday life with more presence.

Sequences are intentionally arranged to move through focusing, energising, calming, grounding, and resting phases, so people leave feeling integrated rather than overstimulated.

Classes are described as dynamic yet accessible: you can ramp intensity up or down according to time, energy, and circumstances.

Asanas, Pranayamas, and Kriyas

Pranayama level 1

This is an introductory pranayama practice where you will learn how to slow the breath down in order 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 one-hour, including a short relaxation practice.

Pranayama Level 2

This pranayama practice introduces short breath holds and classic kumbhakas practices from the Hatha Yoga tradition. You will also learn interesting mudras and a highly effective and centering pratyahara practice. This class is suitable for all who have attended the Level 1 practice. 

Yoga Sangraha Level 1

This is an all-levels class that is grounding and calming. We will move through a sequence of postures in the order of lying down, standing, Sun Salutations, seated, inversions, backbends, stabilizing postures, twists, followed by pratyahara practices and relaxation. We will also pay attention to a healthy back – how to avoid back pain and how to reduce it.

 Yoga Sangraha Level 2

This class will follow the same sequences as Level 1, but will add variations of Sun Salutations, some additional back extension postures, and headstand. Options will be given for all of the challenging postures. This class is also open to all levels, though attendance of the Level 1 class is suggested in order to become familiar with the structure before trying Level 2.

Sun Salutation Class

The Sun Salutation class is a lot of fun! We do the 6 different types of Sun Salutes from Yoga Sangraha, and then six different dands from the Hindu wrestling tradition called Kushti. This is followed by a few standing asanas, cool down seated postures, and slow breathing and meditation to finish. In this class you will also be introduced to some of the fundamental building blocks of Yoga Sangraha Level 1. It is an energetic class, but accessible to all.

Yoga and Strength

This class is based on strength building practices followed by simple asanas. It includes different types of Sun Salutations, push-ups, planks, axial muscle strengthening, squats, and other exercises that build strength, functional mobility, and endurance in different ways. Many of the practices are drawn from Indian physical exercise systems such as kushti, the Hindu wrestling system that uses lots of different squats push-up positions such as found in Sun Salutations. These practices are followed by calming, slow held asanas, and relaxation.

Om Chanting and Ishvara Pranidhana Sutras

This is a meditation from Yoga Sutras on the transcendent consciousness in the heart called Purusha. We will chant, in call and response fashion, the six sutras that describe Ishvara, along with the translated meaning, and then together chant the sound of Om twenty-one times. The sound of Om is described as the verbalization of Ishvara, who is beyond limitation of time and space, and so can only be described in the abstract. This is a deeply quieting and meditative practice.

Lectures

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, using Yogic texts and scientific research as our base. Finally, we will discuss the concept of mind, what and where it is, and how we can work with it, according to Yoga Sutras.

* * * * *

Feel welcome to join in a softer, slower, gentler yoga program. This workshop is suitable for beginners, those with mobility concerns and/or recovering from injury; or those who wish to gain the benefit of the Yoga practices through holistic framework.

Venue & Prices

Venue
  • Thursday: Annankatu 29B, courtyard, 2nd floor
    (Helsinki Ashtanga Yogaschool)
  • Friday – Sunday: Yrjönkatu 21b, 6th floor.
Full workshop price: 290 €

Single days:
  • Friday 130€
  • Saturday: 130 €
  • Sunday: 90 €

Payment details

Astanga Jooga Helsinki Oy
IBAN: FI08 218518 000 70600
BIC: NDEAFIHH
Message: Eddie – ”name of the workshop attendee”
(for example: Eddie – Alice Ashtangi)
Payment confirms your spot in the workshop.
[In case of availability it will also be possible to book single classes and lectures closer to the date]

Contact us

Ursula Aaltonen
Email: ursisa@gmail.com
Whatsapp: +358 50 3246024

Book your spot