by Shantala Sriramaiah | Dec 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
My recent visit to India was deeply nourishing, rooted in study, teaching, and sacred ritual. I’m happy to share some highlights with our community. Teaching at Mysuru Yoga Utsava I taught a session at Mysuru Yoga Utsava, a gathering of scholars and practitioners from...
by Shantala Sriramaiah | Oct 16, 2025 | Authors & translators, Personal & community, Uncategorized
Many in our Gāyatrī upāsana community will know the name Jean Le Mée, whose translation of the Gāyatrī mantra and his book Hymns from the Ṛg Veda opened the Veda to a wide modern readership with rare clarity and poetic depth. Let us bring our minds to rest inthe glory...
by Sophia French | Jun 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Anikó is a formally trained language teacher, and the sound of mantras drew her to Sanskrit and the study of Veda recitation… By Sophia Ann French Anikó Pribojszkiné was born and raised in Hungary, and while she has never been to India, she felt “at home” when she...
by Sophia French | Dec 23, 2024 | Chanting practice, Personal & community, Uncategorized
Krupa compares reciting Veda to the work of Leonardo Da Vinci, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Salvador Dalí — you can’t experience any of them in a hurry. “Take your time to take them in,” advises Krupa… By Sophia Ann French The first time I heard Krupa recite Veda in an...
by Sophia French | Jul 2, 2024 | Personal & community, Uncategorized
Lucia Vimercati found the one-pointed focus she was seeking for her mind when she started practising Veda recitation. She shares how the practice is both recitation and sound but simultaneously a form of silence. By Sophia Ann French I started practising āsana in my...
by Sophia French | Jun 5, 2024 | Personal & community, Uncategorized
Peggy Leviton loves the challenge of studying Veda’s phonetics, metre, and melody, which have rules like Western music but are still so different from any music or sound she’s ever heard. Chanting Awareness Who is this “I”?Am I the one who breathes...
