by Sophia French | Apr 18, 2024 | Personal & community
Practising Yoga and Veda recitation enabled UAE-Based Lavita Dhar to reconnect to her Indian roots and find stillness in India’s chaos. What does India mean to us Indians? When I began practising yoga (or some form of it) 20 years ago, I started with āsana practice...
by Sophia French | Apr 15, 2024 | Personal & community
Jenny Tumas and Jenna Love are both yoga, Sanskrit and Veda recitation teachers, they’re both graduates of the Veda Studies’ first TTC, and they’ve both inspired Veda Studies’ Sophie French to learn how to read and write Devanāgarī. Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati said...
by Sophia French | Apr 2, 2024 | Personal & community
Merike Taza tells Veda Studies’ Sophie French how the ancient runo songs of Estonia share mystic similarities with ancient India’s Veda, and that’s not the only thing the two countries have in common. Merike Taza found it easy to relate to the teachings and sounds of...
by Sophia French | Mar 13, 2024 | Personal & community
LA-Based Johanna Bennett couldn’t reconcile the West’s āsana-centric approach to yoga with how she experienced spirituality when she travelled to India, until she started studying Vedānta and reciting Veda. After that, there was only clarity. “I live in California...
by Sophia French | Mar 6, 2024 | Personal & community
Artist Drdha Vrata Gorrick reveals how to turn a drawing into a vessel for the divine. In conversation with Veda Studies’ Sophie French. na ca rūpaṃ vinā dhyātuṃ kenapi śakyate ||sarva rūpa nivṛttā hi buddhiḥ kutrāsya tiṣṭhati | nivṛttā glāyate buddhir...
by Sophia French | Feb 27, 2024 | Personal & community
Clinical Psychologist Katinka Thorne Salvesen tells Veda Studies’ Sophie French how reciting Veda can tame and train the mind to teach it new ways of being. When I interview most people, it is me asking the questions, but this interview with Oslo-based Clinical...
