CAVEMAN COLLECTIVE“ALL LIFE IS YOGA,” SAYS AADIL PALKHIVALA, quoting
one of his teachers, the Indian spiritual master Sri
Aurobindo. It’s an apt tagline for someone who credits
his birth to the practice. (Palkhivala’s mother struggled
to get pregnant. But after she and Palkhivala’s father
started practicing yoga with B.K.S. Iyengar, voilà, a son
was born!) Palkhivala, a lifelong student of yoga, created
a holistic healing system with his wife, Savitri, called
Purna Yoga™. The Sanskrit term purna means “com-plete,” and Purna Yoga aims to provide students
with tools and practices for living full, complete lives,
such as alignment-based asana, Heartfull™ Meditation,
applied philosophy, and nutrition and healthful lifestyle
wisdom. On the following pages, Palkhivala shares his
incredible story and an exclusive asana sequence to get
you started on the Purna path—the focus of his online
Master Class workshop with Yoga Journal, which
launches this month.Aadil Palkhivala
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