by Sophia French | May 15, 2024 | Personal & community
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. “You want your Karma to catch up with you? Plan a trip to...
by Sophia French | May 8, 2024 | About our team, Personal & community
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. The famous proverb, Behind Every...
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...