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 certified Naturopath and an Ayurvedic Health Science Practitioner recognized as a professional specialist by The American Ayurvedic Association. Aadil also has studied and practiced painting, music, operatic singing, elocution, nutritional cooking, carpentry, Japanese flower arrangement and a multitude of healing arts.

Acclaimed as “the teacher of teachers,” Aadil is the founder and director of the internationally renowned health center, Yoga Centers 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. Aadil teaches regular classes as well as teacher trainings and workshops at Yoga Centers, which are attended by teachers and students from around the world. Currently 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, 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 has served as advisor/board member to various organizations including Prevention Magazine, Unity in Yoga International, Yoga Journal, The Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States, and 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 as well as internationally, and also has been a guest speaker and presenter on television and radio programs and news shows, including KOMO TV. He was the keynote speaker at the 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001 Body, Mind and Spirit Symposium. 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 (R) healing foods and products business. Aadil is the founder of Eastern Essence (TM) foods (www.easternessence.com), an organically-grown-and-processed dehydrated, Ayurvedic Indian food line. Eastern Essence (TM) foods are 100% free from anything artificial, nutritious, homemade tasting, and extremely convenient to prepare. Aadil has spent 8 years developing these dehydrated products to help Indian farmers produce more organic foods, preventing birth defects, mutations and cancers that pervade the farming community from using artificial pesticides, insecticides, herbicides etc., some of which are banned in the USA, and hence shipped to India.

Aadil currently works diligently with people who desire a better quality of life through a humanistic approach to wealth and health. He is the president and CEO of The Innerworks Company (TM), and lives in Bellevue with his wife, Mirra, and daughter, Zenia.

Aadil's Web site can be found at: www.aadilpalkhivala.com.