Udi Bilu

Udi Bilu was born in 1960 in Petah Tikva

Udi Bilu was born in 1960 in Petah Tikva and grew up in Ashdod. His parents are Amram and Yedida Bilu. He lives in Ramat Gan and in the Kinneret moshava, and is married with 2 children.

In the IDF he completed the naval officers course and served as an officer in the Navy, leaving with the rank of major. In 1988 he earned a B.Ed in physical education and movement at the Kibbutzim College. From 1997 to 2000 he studied therapeutic counselling in Montreal, and he later trained as a certified Feldenkrais teacher.

He began teaching yoga in 1984 and later worked with children with special needs in Tel Aviv and Bat Yam. After returning from the Far East and Australia in 1991, he founded the Inner Sound school in Tel Aviv. He also developed yoga programs for people with intellectual disabilities at Akim Israel and led its yoga instructor course from 1997 to 2007.

In 1994 he met the yogi Shiva Shankar Tripathi, and Bhrigu yoga became his main field. From 1999 he organized student trips to Varanasi, India. In 2004 he and Ronen Katz founded a Bhrigu yoga teacher training track, and a senior teacher program was added in 2012.