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Wednesday 10/01/2025 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Wednesday 10/08/2025 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Wednesday 10/15/2025 8:00 am - 9:00 am
Wednesday 10/22/2025 8:00 am - 9:00 am

Pricing
$60.00 Sounds of Sanskrit Series

Deepen your practice and your teaching with authenticity, clarity, and reverence.

Sanskrit (meaning “well-composed” or “well put together”) is a powerful vehicle for connecting practitioners to primordial sound and to an experience of the divine through spoken word. Learn about the symbolism behind the sounds, the pauses, and the way the syllables come together,  and how to connect to the deeper meaning when speaking sanskrit words and mantras. 

Explore:

• The Architecture of Sacred Sound
  Begin with the building blocks of the Sanskrit language: its sound system. Learn how the Sanskrit syllabary (alphabet) is organized by the placement of sound in the mouth, and how this intentional design reflects the yogic understanding of the body and cosmos.
  
  

• Pronunciation & Practice
  Work with transliteration, diacritic marks, and foundational pronunciation rules. Practice reciting common Sanskrit words, asana names, and mantras to build confidence and clarity in speaking.
  
  

• Sandhi: How Sounds Meet
  Discover how Sanskrit sounds and words blend together through sandhi—the dynamic rules that guide sound combinations—uncovering the deeper rhythm and flow of sacred speech. For example: yhy does “Om namo (om namah.) become ong namo? 

• Asana Names & Etymology
  Go beyond memorization: dive into the roots, meanings, and pronunciations of commonly used Sanskrit terms and pose names, revealing their symbolic and spiritual significance and bringing more depth of meaning to your understanding.
  
  

• Mantra & Chanting
  Recite Sanskrit verses and mantras with greater awareness and authenticity, integrating your growing knowledge of sound, meaning, and pronunciation into a lived, embodied chanting practice.
  
  

This workshop is open to all. Yoga teachers, teachers in training, and those with a love for yoga and its depths! This course meets online in four one-hour sessions. Each session will begin with brief centering and meditation, followed by lecture, discussion, and Q&A. We’ll close each class with guided chanting and pronunciation practice to integrate what we’ve explored.

$60 for all four sessions - includes recordings, printed materials, and one follow-up group meeting.  Proceeds support Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies.

If finances are a barrier to participation, please reach out! 

Sarah Spiegel

Sarah opened Samudra in 2016 built on her long-time love of building community, creating connections, and fostering transformation through yoga, meditation, and the sharing of the Tibetan Buddhist yoga practices that have transformed her life.  Sarah’s offerings focus on bringing students into a state of flow and encourage mindfulness both on and off the mat through breath and body awareness. In addition to owning and operating Samudra Studio, Sarah leads yoga and meditation retreats locally and internationally, offers mindfulness and meditation to groups and individuals and offers instruction in mindful and embodied strength training.  She is a mentor and lead instructor for Fluid Yoga Teacher Training programs.

She is forever grateful to the dear teachers and mentors who have supported and encouraged her and who continue to share wisdom and teachings: Khenpo Lama Migmar Tseten, Kevan Gale, and Betty Riaz. Sarah completed her 200 and 500 teacher training with Fluid Yoga school. She continues her studies in Sanskrit translation with Dr. Ben Williams, and in Vajrayana Buddhism with Kevan Gale and Khenpo Lama Migmar Tseten.