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.

 


For more information about or to participate in any of his businesses,
Aadil can be reached at:

  Yoga Centers, 2255-140th Ave. N.E., Suite F, Bellevue, WA  98005; (425) 746-7476; fax: (425) 867-9769; Email: yoga@yogacenters.com
 www.yogacenters.com