Yoga Vidya Niketan
The Founder and Director of the Yoga Vidya Niketan Shri Sadashiv P. Nimbalkar, son of a Primary School Teacher started his career also as a School Teacher and retired as Vice Principal of the Marwari Commercial High School and Junior College after rendering a long dedicated service for 32 years in 1984. During these 32 years, Shri Nimbalkar managed School Gymnasium, conducted various sports meets and various programmes on Discipline Management, First Aid, educational exhibitions, national propagation, etc. in the areas related to education in school. He also conducted Marathi classes for the benefit of non-Marathi students and Hindi classes for the benefit of non-Hindi students.
A successful dramatist, gymnast and a sports person, Shri Nimbalkar was also deeply involved with Homeopathy and Yoga. His association with a pioneer of Yogic Science, Swami Kuvalayanandaji, changed his entire life style. He then cherished the dream of taking Yogic Science to every household and commoners for their good health and for the development of their personality. He realised that the traditional method of doing yoga was difficult. He, therefore, started specializing in Yoga Education, Homeopathy and simplified methods of Yogic Practices.
He was initiated to Yoga and Yogic Science at Kaivalyadhama, Mumbai in 1957 by Swami Kuvalayanandaji, a pioneer of research in Yogic Science, who was the first scholar in to give a scientific approach to Yoga. Association with Guru Kuvalayanandaji was a great fortune for Shri Nimbalkar as this gave him an opportunity to enlighten and enrich himself with a new vision, a scientific approach to Yogic Science. Hatha Yoga, which was deemed to be secretive, young Nimbalkar, took a challenge to take this esteemed science to masses and to spread Yoga to commoners for their welfare and good health.
At Kaivalyadhama progress of Shri Nimbalkar in the field of yoga was so amazing that he was chosen by Swami Kuvalayanandaji for yoga demonstrations before eminent personalities like first astronaut Mr. Yuri Gagarin. He continued as a teacher at Kaivalyadhama, Mumbai. From 1959, for the next five years he organized and taught the participants of Residential Teachers’ Training Course conducted during the Summer at Kaivalyadhama, Lonavala on all basis. This course was recognized by Central Education Ministry.
Till 1974, he was teaching at Kaivalyadhama, conducting Summer Teachers’ Training Courses and classes for the Medical Officers. In 1974, he founded ‘Yoga Vidya Niketan’ in Mumbai to impart yoga education to commoners. He has been the founder Director of this institution. Through this Institution, he continued his work of familiarising masses of the benefits of yoga for positive health. All these activities are being done with a spirit of dedication and with a missionary zeal.
Yoga Vidya Niketan (YVN) was founded in 1974 by a small group of Yoga lovers under the dynamic leadership of Padma Shri Yogacharya Sadashiv P. Nimbalkar, who is the Founder-Director.
The main objective of YVN is to reach our ancient heritage, the Yoga Shastra, to every door step and spread the knowledge and the technique of performing Yoga Practices for attaining and maintaining positive health and personality development irrespective of any caste, creed, age, sex or religion. Starting from the modest beginning, YVN’s activities have grown manyfold and rapidly over the years.
Our specially designed, easy-to-perform yogic courses are based on the ancient principles of yoga, blended with the modern tenets of Physiology, Bio-chemistry, Health, etc. and tailor made to suit every individual’s needs. The courses presently conducted are:
Regular classes for the above courses are conducted at the Dadar and its own premises “Yoga Bhavanâ€, at Vashi. Besides regular classes are conducted predominantly at different parts of Mumbai and Navi Mumbai for the good health of common man and to cater to the need of ailing people with tailor-made Yogic Practices. In addition, special programmes are conducted at other cities in Maharashtra (like Pune, Satara, Nagpur, etc.), in our country and even in USA, Canada, Thailand and Singapore.
Vision & Objectives Yoga & Holistic Health
Today, we see more and more people are becoming conscious of holistic health. Holistic Health, what is it? It is a concept, wherein we look out for total health rather than fragmenting it into physical, mental or spiritual health. Yogic concept of health is also based on same holistic approach. Yoga means to join, communion, i.e., to integrate to become a whole, total or complete at all levels – physical, mental, emotional or spiritual.
At physical level, yoga improves the functions of all the systems in the body and obtains desirable integration amongst them. Yoga also improves the correlation and co-operation within various aspects of our thought process of mind, may it be conscious, semiconscious or unconscious state of mind and makes the mind to function as one whole well integrated unit. Spiritually, yoga enables the individual soul to merge into the universal soul, i.e., attain “Kaivalyaâ€. On the physical level, yoga betters the synthesis of the body, mind, living force, which in turn, improves the total personality by bestowing it holistic health.
