💚✨Online Sunday Chanting Sangha with Sheela Shankar✨💚 (Recording available)

Yoga Sangha, in partnership with Yoga Nidhi, invites you to join us for a monthly Chanting Sangha, taught live online from Chennai, India. Sessions will be held on select Sundays once per month

These sessions will be a supportive, inclusive and interactive opportunity to listen and learn to chant confidently in Sanskrit.

The sessions will be built around short, simple yet powerful mantras that are accessible to all, useful for learning to read, and/or memorise the Sanskrit mantras, while also learning to chant confidently for yourself.
Ideally, regular attendance in these sessions will mean the content can gently increase in length/complexity to build skill. However, our aim is to keep these as stand-alone sessions so that whatever your level, whether you attend regularly or periodically, the sessions will be open and useful to you. The sessions will be held online/via Zoom. Students will have the opportunity to unmute and chant for themselves to receive direct support from the teacher, though this is not compulsory; especially if you are new to Sanskrit.

Sheela Shankar is a student of T.K.V. Desikachar. She has undergone the 2-year teacher training Diploma in Yoga at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, and along-side her husband Ravi, supported the editing and producing of the journal Darsanam. She was one of TKV Desikachar’s foremost teachers of Vedic Chanting and is also a trained classical singer in both the Carnatic and the Hindustani tradition.

Sheela continues to share her love and knowledge of sacred sound with students, both at home in Chennai, and across the world, through 1 to 1 coaching, and her Vedic Chanting Certificate Course facilitated by Sadhana Mala in the UK.

Sheela held an online workshop with us in July, which was very well received by all who attended. Her compassionate, encouraging approach moved and inspired the participants, and many have asked us to offer more sessions with her. Chanting is not only a beautiful complement to a yoga practice, it is also a wonderful independent meditation tool that can calm the nervous system, and help focus and silence the mind. Whether you’re an experienced practitioner or a complete beginner, we welcome you to these beautiful sessions to add light and rest to your Sundays, and energy for the week ahead.