by Sophia French | Aug 28, 2024 | Personal & community
Sucheta Kadethankar quit her corporate job to pursue adventure and study Veda recitation, realising that spiritual life can be applied to everyday life, too. In 2011, Sucheta Kadethankar became the first Indian to cross the Mongolian Gobi Desert on foot. At the time,...
by Shantala Sriramaiah | Aug 3, 2024 | About our team, Personal & community
On Saturday, 3 August 2024, my father Sriram, left his body peacefully. Next to my mother Saroja, he has been the greatest influencer, supporter, and advisor in realising Veda Studies. An engineer by training, he was a pilot in the Indian Air Force before becoming an...
by Sophia French | Jul 30, 2024 | Personal & community
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. By Sophia French I was born and raised in a Christian-Muslim home surrounded by faith and parents who...
by Sophia French | Jul 17, 2024 | Personal & community
Marie Meera Karanath grew up in an atheist country with no religion, but she found faith and the divine in Veda rituals and recitation. By Sophia Ann French Most of my non-Indian classmates in the Indica Veda Studies Teacher Training Programme have visited India...
by Sophia French | Jul 10, 2024 | Personal & community
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. By Sophia Ann French “Love is a very...
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...
