Living Spirituality

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 …

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. I was born and …

With Love, Always

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 …

Healing Is An Act Of Faith

Ayurveda Practitioner and Yoga Teacher Ivy Ingram is training to be a Veda recitation teacher to pass on the tradition and the benefits of this practice to her students… According …

Rhythm And Poetry

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 …

The Power Of Spiritual Healing

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 …

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. What does India mean to us Indians? When I …

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 …

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 …

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. -By Sophia Ann French …