We love writing about the Vedas & chanting!

Marie Meera Karanath grew up in an atheist country with no religion, but she found faith and the divine in Veda rituals and recitation.

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.

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…

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.

Practising Yoga and Veda recitation enabled UAE-Based Lavita Dhar to reconnect to her Indian roots and find stillness in India’s chaos.

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.

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.

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.

Artist Drdha Vrata Gorrick reveals how to turn a drawing into a vessel for the divine. In conversation with Veda Studies’ Sophie French.

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.

Says Sanja Wieland as she felt she heard herself for the first time while practising mantras. She tells Veda Studies’ Sophie French about the many ways in which Veda recitation affected her body-mind-intellect.

Sand artist Anne Löper practises Veda recitation to invite Sarasvatī to inspire her and give her ideas, and she studies Vedānta for the clarity required to execute those ideas and turn them into art. In conversation with Veda Studies’ Sophie French…

Our way of celebrating our diverse but united community is to highlight the accomplishments of our students and community members who have put aside individual identities and issues to work towards a higher goal. This is the first in a series of interviews and blogs that will be written by Veda Studies’ Sophie French.

I'd like to share a little background on how the Friday community classes came to be. When I first started to teach chanting, it was mainly to very small groups in Brussels, in a lovely space called Shanti Home where I felt at home. Friday evenings were mantra...