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Vaidya Yogesh Bele
- AYURVEDA -

Vaidya Yogesh K. Bele is a dynamic Ayurvedic practitioner in Mumbai, with a deep love for nature, spiritual living, and humanity. Yogeshji has a passion for inspiring people from all walks of life -- from the elite to Mumbai's slum dwellers -- to benefit from incorporating the principles of Ayurveda into their daily living.

Yogeshji was inspired to study and practice the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda by his mother, who had been helped tremendously by this transformative science. His spiritual orientation was ignited by his father, who introduced Yogeshji at a young age to the practice of Agnihotri, the ritual worship of the sun at dawn and fire at dusk.

Yogeshji earned his Ayurvedacharya degree (B.A.M.S.) from the University of Pune, Bharti Vidyapeeth, where he graduated with honors. His mentor has been Vaidya Sarang Phadke, an unassuming living legend of Ayurveda.

Yogeshji is the Ayurveda Consultant for busy three clinics in Mumbai: his own clinic in Central Mumbai, the Patanjali Chikitsalay in South Mumbai, and a clinic in the impoverished Dhobi Ghat slums of Mumbai where he offers his services and treatments at minimal cost in the spirit of humanitarian service. He has run free village and school health programs in the outskirts of Pune, and conducted ayurvedic health seminars. He is loved by his patients for his effective and heartfelt Ayurvedic counseling. His wife is also an enthusiastic traditional Ayurvedic Consultant specializing in fertility problems.

Yogeshji has worked with several leading ayurvedic pharmaceutical companies on projects related to ayurvedic rasayanas, researching the scriptural references that inform the ideal cultivation, production and dispensing of certain herbs and how those companies could best adopt those principles for the honey, chyavanprasha and gulkand they were preparing to offer to the public.

Yogeshji's father had taught him that if there is a fruit you love to eat, you should save its seeds and grow them as an expression of gratitude for that fruit and so that many people can benefit. He instructed Yogeshji to plant and tend at least 101 trees in lifetime, and that these trees would be like a temple for him. So Yogeshji developed a passion for cultivating the fruits and herbs that the sages of Ayurveda described. He has a beautiful farm in rural Maharashtra where he grows mangoes, custard apples, and chikus with a variety of Ayurvedic herbs in between. Even in the densely crowded city of Mumbai, Yogeshji and his family maintain a deep, spiritual connection with nature through the wisdom and practice of Ayurveda.