by Shantala Sriramaiah | Jul 21, 2024 | Chanting practice, Festival chanting
Today (Sunday 21 July), we celebrate Gurupūrṇimā to honour teachers and the source of teaching on this day. It is perhaps the most important day in the year for all Indic knowledge systems based practitioners. We honour the entire teaching “parampara”...
by Shantala Sriramaiah | May 20, 2023 | Chanting practice
In collaboration with INDICA, we launched our first Chanting teacher training program in 2022, which comes to an end this month with a graduation ceremony on the 27 of May. Congratulations to all our graduating teachers! We present here a synopsis of this intensive...
by Shantala Sriramaiah | Apr 14, 2023 | Chanting practice
The tradition of chanting has been passed down through Śruti Parampara over millennia in India. To this day it continues to be a profound practice of expressing devotion, learning and imbibing the teachings of ancient scriptures and an integral part of ritual,...
by Shantala Sriramaiah | Mar 14, 2023 | Chanting practice
In collaboration with INDICA, we have been running a Chanting teacher training program, the first of which will soon be coming to an end. We will announce the next program starting January 2024. Learning to teach mantras from both the Veda as well as the daily prayer...
by Shantala Sriramaiah | May 20, 2020 | Chanting practice
The Vedas are the collective intelligence and experiences of over 400 super yogīs, or ṛṣi-s in Sanskrit. The Sanskrit word Ṛṣi literally translates to “seer”. Through their intense yogic practices, they had acquired a vision of how the universe functioned and our...
by Shantala Sriramaiah | Mar 8, 2018 | Chanting practice
The Taittīrīya Upaniṣat’s Sīkṣāvalli lists the responsibilities of students in their life long journey of discovering the Self. In the very beginning, students are encouraged to master the Vedic phonetics by adhering to strict rules of varṇa, svara, mātra,...
