Eddie Stern is the NYC head of curriculum development for the Sonima Foundation. He has been teaching yoga since 1989. Other work in the public school system include eleven years as a founding board member of Bent On Learning, a non-profit that pioneered teaching yoga and meditation in the NYC public school system, and the creation of the Urban Yogis Initiative, with Deepak Chopra and Erica Ford, teaching inner-city youth tools of transformation.