We love writing about the Vedas & chanting!
I sometimes post things I don't teach - stotrams, kavacams etc 🙂
Janmāṣṭamī 2024 – a practice for our community
Janmāṣṭamī, the festival marking the birth of Lord Kṛṣṇa, is celebrated with great enthusiasm and devotion across the world. Falling on śrāvaṇa kṛṣṇa aṣṭamī, this auspicious day commemorates the divine appearance of Kṛṣṇa, a central figure in Hinduism, known for his teachings in the Bhagavad Gīta and his divine pastimes described in the Bhāgavatam.
The end of an era – some personal news
My father, ex-Indian Air Force Officer, special advisor to Veda Studies, legend of a dad, grandfather to a big flock and my biggest cheerleader, left his body today…
Rudra Krama Pāṭhaḥ – What is it?
Krama Pāṭhaḥ is a crucial method for preserving the Vedas through precise and controlled chanting.
Finding Faith with Ellen Miles
Ellen Miles has found a lifetime’s worth of learning in Veda and loves how Indic spirituality has transformed and nurtured her understanding of faith and divinity.
Gurupūrṇimā 2024 – Dakṣiṇāmūrti mūla mantra
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" - the tradition...
A Fine Balance of Science and Faith – with Marie Meera Karanath
Marie Meera Karanath grew up in an atheist country with no religion, but she found faith and the divine in Veda rituals and recitation.
With Love, Always – Jens & Sophia
Jens Keygnaert and Sophia Gomis have spent a lifetime together after meeting in a yoga class. They both walk the spiritual path and study Veda together, realising with each mantra that the divine cannot be achieved without love.
Recitation, Concentration, Meditation – with Lucia Vimercati
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.
Healing is an Act of Faith – with Ivy Ingram
Ayurveda Practitioner and Yoga Teacher Ivy Ingram is training to be a Veda recitation teacher so she can pass on the tradition and the benefits of this practice to her students…
Rhythm and Poetry – with Peggy Leviton
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.
The Power of Spiritual Healing – with Martha Moore Benson
Martha Moore Benson is a lawyer, herbalist, yoga teacher and Ayurveda practitioner, but her primary focus shifted to Veda recitation when she heard authentic Veda mantras and experienced love at first sound.
Veda Studies – Behind the scenes with Edgar Hütte
Edgar Hütte tells Sophie French about what goes on behind the teaching at Veda Studies, how the students’ donations help support various causes and why we should all be thrilled about the new Veda Studies website and teaching platform.
A Discovery of Bhārata
Practising Yoga and Veda recitation enabled UAE-Based Lavita Dhar to reconnect to her Indian roots and find stillness in India’s chaos.
The Transcendental Qualities of Sanskrit
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.
The Mysticism of Sound
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.
The Unconditioned Reality of the Self
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.
Manifesting Sarasvatī
Artist Drdha Vrata Gorrick reveals how to turn a drawing into a vessel for the divine. In conversation with Veda Studies’ Sophie French.
The Healing Sound of Veda
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.