History

In 1988 he decided to stop the practice of medicine and start working in the yoga therapy field, research, innovation, and scientific approach to words ancient yoga science gives prosperity to yoga therapy. Day by day the plant of yoga therapy groan into a tree. Patients with a heart problem, asthma, diabetes, lumbar pain, neck pain, knee pain got tremendous positive results, till 2000 Dr cured more than 10000 patients of various ailments. Till today number are more than 52000. Many surgeries were avoided and because of the result more and more people started attracted towards yoga therapy named ‘Sunjevvan yoga therapy” because this method of curing start giving new life, new hope to that patients those who are lost hope.

Augmented yoga in which rope, belts, pillow, bolster various props are used to rectify postural corrections, and because of postural correction lumbar pain, neck pain, knee pain can easily remove. Increasing numbers of patients push Dr karandikar to think about multiplying helping hands, but the Medical professional was not ready because of low income, helping people with yoga was a charity at that time and no one medical profess to want to do such type of charity. so Dr karandikar decide to start a post-graduate diploma in yoga therapy. Dr Karandikar used to call these diploma holders “barefoot Doctors”. Till today he train more than 250 therapists and they are working very well not only in India but abroad also and one of them is prof. Shankar Khedkar.

Mr Shankar start working with dr Karandikar in 2002. In 2009 he acquired deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology, yoga practice, yoga philosophy with this he was treating various patients. One example is Dr Balram Jakhad, who was ex-Governor of Madhya Pradesh in December 2008. After an experience is 6 years he started his yoga therapy centre name 'Aadyam yoga' means initiation towards good health. Now Aadyam has three therapy centres around Pune and people come there for treatment worldwide.

Prof. Khedkar come to know that there is a very close relationship between the human mind and body pain for that he started studying for a master in psychology, as well as a master in yoga science from S-Vyas university Bangalore. Yogic counselling also playing important role in cure. More than 8000 patients are cured by prof. Khedkar For this work he was awarded as ‘achievement award 2017’ by the Fadtare trust. After 18 years of experience and knowledge want to share his knowledge with others for that he clear NET in yoga in 2018 and now he is working as a professor at renowned Savitribai Phule Pune University. Augmented yoga therapy is very useful in postural rectification, thus very few patients have a requirement of surgery, others can be cured by yoga theory like lumber, arthritis of the knee, neck pain, IHD, Asthma, Diabetics are psychosomatic diseases and that can be easily controlled or managed by yoga therapy.