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Aadil B. Palkhivala, J.D., C.Y.T, A.H.S.P, Naturopath |
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Aadil's experience of holistic
healing was originally prenatal, his mother having practiced yoga with
B.K.S. Iyengar throughout her pregnancy. Aadil
began observing Iyengar's classes at the age of three, formal study at
the age of seven, and was awarded his Advanced Yoga Teacher's
Certificate at the age of 22. Integrating his insights as well as the
work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother of Pondicherry, India into his
teaching of yoga, Aadil is recognized as one of the world's top yoga
teachers. In addition, Aadil holds degrees in
law, physics, mathematics, is a certified Shiatsu and Swedish bodywork
therapist, a clinical hypnotherapist, a prominent public educator and
powerful speaker. He is a federally
licensed Naturopath and an Ayurvedic Health Science Practitioner
recognized as a professional specialist by The American Ayurvedic
Association. Aadil has won awards in
painting, operatic singing, elocution and Japanese flower arrangement.
He continues to study yoga, nutritional cooking, carpentry, music,
photography and a multitude of healing arts. His all-inclusive style of
teaching yoga is named after Sri Aurobindo's "Purna Yoga." Acclaimed
as "the teacher of teachers", Aadil is the founder-director of the
internationally renowned health center, Yoga CentersÔ in
Bellevue, Washington, a customized three-studio yoga facility offering
over 60 weekly yoga classes and workshops as well as meditation and
nutrition lecture series, encompassing the range of Purna Yoga. Aadil
teaches classes as well as teacher trainings and workshops at Yoga CentersÔ,
which are attended by teachers and students from around the world. Additionally, Aadil teaches yoga workshops and
teacher trainings throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan and
Mexico. He is the author of Teaching
Yoga: The Beginning Teacher Training Manual, The Intermediate Teacher Training Manual, Therapeutic
Yoga, and numerous cassettes, CDs and videos on
yoga and health-related topics. He is currently working on his new
books, Teaching Yoga and Teaching Asana I. Aadil is the
2003 Asana Columnist for Yoga Journal, a contributing writer,
as well as the "Asana Expert" in the magazine and on its website. Aadil
has served as advisor/board member to many organizations including Prevention
Magazine, Unity in Yoga International, Yoga Journal, The
Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States, The National
Association Certification Committee... His educational lectures take
him throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan, Canada, Mexico and India. He has given keynote addresses on the
mind-body-energy connection at conventions nationwide, and is author of
numerous articles published in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Aadil has been featured in newspaper and
magazine articles locally (such as The Seattle PI, The
Eastside Journal, The New Times), nationally and
internationally, and also has been a guest speaker and presenter on
television and radio programs and news shows, including KOMO TV.
He has been the keynote speaker at all the Body, Mind and Spirit Symposiums since 1998.
Aadil is a national speaker for continuing education for
medical doctors in alternative/complementary medicine. Aadil resigned from a corporate law
practice in Washington State to pursue yoga, educational public
speaking, and the Sunrider® healing foods and products business.
Aadil is the president and founder of Eastern Essence TM, an organically-grown and processed,
dehydrated, Ayurvedic Indian food line. Eastern EssenceTM foods are nutritious, homemade tasting,
extremely convenient to prepare, and 100% free of anything
artificial. Aadil has spent nine years developing these
dehydrated products to help Indian farmers produce more organic foods
in order to prevent the birth defects, mutations and cancers that
pervade the farming community. Eastern Esence provides an
economic incentive that discourages the use of artificial pesticides,
insecticides, herbicides, etc., some of which are banned in the USA,
and hence shipped to India. Now we, in the West, can finally
enjoy healthy, delicious foods from a company with a caring mission.
Aadil currently works
diligently with people who desire a better quality of life through a
humanistic approach to wealth and health. He
is the founder of the Yoga Centers College of Yoga and
president and CEO of The Innerworks CompanyTM, and lives in Bellevue with his wife
Mirra, and daughter Zenia.
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