“Often a lustrous inner dawn shall come
Lighting the chambers of the slumbering mind;
A sudden bliss shall run through every limb
And nature with a mightier Presence fill.”

- Sri Aurobindo

The beauty and power of poetry, yogic philosophy, mantra, and chants will create the container for this rare workshop for experienced students of asana and Purna Yoga. Asana will be used to open up the four major chakras-pelvic, belly, heart and throat. A careful and detailed analysis and experience of twists, backbends and inversions will prepare your body to receive the beautiful energy of poetry and mantra. Aadil will use words and sound to help you release limitations you have held in your body, mind, and heart. Poetry, chants, and philosophy are used as tools to facilitate transformation, not to escape from reality. Learn ancient and mystic chants designed for freeing the mind and body from the bondage of an illusory reality and learn how to use secret methods for bringing your own inner light into the forefront of your life.

If you have ever wanted a quiet, calm and focused mind, a strong, energized and flexible body, control over your emotional responses, and desire to make all that you do more fulfilling, this is the workshop for you. Be prepared to let go of old thoughts that bind you, old feelings that entrap you, and old tensions that limit you. Be prepared to do yoga. This workshop will change your life for the better, leaving you internally joyous.

This workshop is highly recommended for teachers; Aadil draws on the material from his own, acclaimed teacher training and the principles you will learn are the foundational principles for all teaching. If you are a teacher you will learn not only principles and practices, but being in the presence of a master teacher, you will learn how to teach these more subtle aspects to your students even more profoundly.

Prerequisite: Minimum of 3 years alignment-based asana

Purna Yoga

“Purna” means “complete,” and Purna Yoga distills and integrates the vastness of yoga into an invaluable set of tools for transformation and healing.  Reminding us that yoga is far more than a system of exercise, Purna Yoga offers wisdom and techniques for the union of the body and the mind with the spirit.  Using awareness, precision, and concentration, Purna Yoga inspires the evolution from our lower nature to our Divine Self.  Purna Yoga is the art of loving yourself by living from the heart. 

Purna Yoga practitioners learn alignment-based asana, pranayama, and Purna Yoga Meditation (the art of aligning inner energies for transformation), along with nutrition and yogic philosophy, adapted for our lifestyles today.  Like a tuning fork, Purna Yoga aligns our entire being with the vibration of truth and the Divine essence within us and all around us. 

The lineage of Purna Yoga is based on the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, the Vedas, Patanjali, B.K.S. Iyengar, and the systems of Ayurvedic, Chinese and Western nutrition, synthesized by the personal experience of Aadil Palkhivala and Mirra, the founders of Purna Yoga.  With its roots in the past and its reach into the future, Purna Yoga is here to help create the world which we have all dreamed of.

Bio

For nearly thirty years, Aadil has had a reputation as a “teacher of teachers.” He has a unique teaching style, mixing melodious instructions with recitations of poetry and philosophical insights with in-the-moment humor. Aadil began the study of yoga with B.K.S. Iyengar at the age of 7 and was introduced to the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother at the age of 10.

When Aadil was twenty, he embarked on his first teaching tour of Europe and North America. Two years later, Iyengar awarded him the Advanced Yoga Teacher’s Certificate.

Aadil and his wife, Mirra, are the founders and directors of internationally-renowned Yoga Centers in Bellevue, Washington and The College of Purna Yoga, a 200-hour, 500-hour and Certificate-Level teacher training program licensed by the State of Washington and Yoga Alliance Certified.

Aadil is the author of the book, Fire of Love: For Students of Life, For Teachers of Yoga, and is an “asana expert” for Yoga Journal magazine and website. He is regularly featured in My Yoga Mentor email newsletter and is constantly educating himself in his passion for teaching the “whole yoga.” www.aadil.com