Aadil Palkhivala JD, is an Author, Yoga master, Certified Yoga Therapist-IAYT, Jurist Doctor, Co-founder of Puma Yoga® College & Co-director of Alive and Shine® Center. Aadil is the protegee of grand-master B.K.S. Iyengar, whose teachings form the foundation of most yoga taught today. Aadil’s entire family studied yoga with Iyengar, and Aadil started at the age of 7.
Practicing regularly for over 8 hours a day, Aadil was the youngest person to be awarded the Advanced Yoga Teacher’s Certificate from Iyengar at the age of 22. He has been training yoga teachers in India, Asia, Europe, and the United States since 1976. He has a unique teaching style, mixing melodious instructions with recitations of poetry, philosophical insights, and in-the-moment humor. He is currently teaches workshops, trainings and more at Alive & Shine, the company he co-founded with Savitri, the creator of Heartfull® Meditation.
With degrees in law, physics, and mathematics, Aadil is known as one of the world’s top yoga teachers and, for over 40 years, has had the reputation as the “teacher of teachers,” since the world’s finest teachers study with him. Aadil is the author of Fire of Love: for Students of Life, for Teachers of Yoga, a book that seeks to restore the essence of yoga, as well as the book that teaches how to strengthen the eyes, SuperVision.
He has also co-authored five Teacher Training manuals with Savitri, which are used in his beginning, intermediate, and therapeutic teacher trainings. In addition, Aadil has taught and lectured worldwide including Yoga Journal Conferences, Omega Institute, The Himalayan Institute, Yoga International, Asia Yoga Conference and Cologne Yoga Conference. He has written extensively for Yoga Journal, developed and taught the first year-long Teacher Training at YogaWorks, was a founder of Yoga Alliance (fka Unity in Yoga). Aadil’s passion is to help his students find health, wealth and happiness.
Aadil has served as advisor/board member to many organizations including Prevention Magazine, Yoga Alliance, Yoga Journal, The Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States, and The National Association Certification Committee.
Aadil is the co-founder and co-director of internationally-renowned Alive and Shine® Center and Puma Yoga® College, which offers 200- hour, 500-hour, 2,000-hour,
5,000+ hour and Yoga Therapy Teacher Training programs.
