ONLINE COURSE
Beginners Sanskrit Course
(April to May’ 2025)
Duration: Apr 01, 2025 – May 30, 2025
Days: Tuesday(s) and Thursday(s)
Time: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm IST
This course is meant for those who want to deepen their knowledge of Indian spiritual sciences like yoga, tantra and ayurveda. Basic knowledge of Sanskrit language opens innumerable possibilities of understanding, insight and personal experience.
The course is designed in two parts to allow for learning of each component in a relaxed manner. The first part takes care of the very basic components that need to be mastered before we move on to the next level where we introduce compounds, suffixes, and causatives etc.
Basic Sanskrit Part -1
In this two months, twice a week (30 hours course), we propose to cover:
- Initiation into the Devanagri alphabet ( 3hours)
- Verbs – conjugations for present, past and future
- Nouns – Masculine, Feminine and Neuter ( a, aa, u, ri and sa ending)
- Basic Pronouns – Sa(He), Saa (She) and Tat (That)
- Basic invocation mantras
- Om Ganananam..
- Nattva Sarasvateem Deveem..
- Nrittavasaane…
- Maaheshwar Sutras
- Quotations (each class will end with learning a quotation i.e. a pearl of wisdom from famous Sanskrit texts.
Course Fee: INR- …/ –
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ONLINE COURSE
Vijnanabhairava Tantra: Study and Practice
(April to September’ 2025)
Duration: Apr 01, 2025 – September 30, 2025
Days: Monday(s) and Wednesday(s)
Time: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm IST
The Vijnanabhairava Tantra is one of the classical texts of Tantric Shaivism. It offers theoretical framework of non-dual reality. It reveals 112 meditation techniques to experience the expansive field of non-dual unified consciousness. In this state, called as Bhairava state, the seeker can connect with the plenitude of one’s own inner self which is nothing different from the cosmic self.
Every session is designed to expound the philosophical base through textual study along with the guided meditation from the Tantra under study.
The Tantric Shaivism especially the Kashmiri Trika Shaivism believes that the seeker must work on removal to two kinds of ignorances – the intellectual and ignorance rising from limitation of embodied self.
In this course, the student seekers are encouraged to grow beyond the two ignorances as they are exposed to knowledge of original text as well as the meditation techniques that tantra offers. The former leads to solid intellectual grounding that removes the Bauddha-Ajnana (the intellectual ignorance) and the latter removes the Paurush Ajnana ( the inherent ignorance that is consequent to being in the body).
Vijnanabhairava Tantra
In the six months, twice a week ( 70 hrs approx.), we shall cover:
- Introduction to Kashmiri Trika Tantric Shaivism
- Vijnanabhirava Tantra and the Non-dual system
- Nature of Supreme Consciousness conceived as Bhairava, the Supreme Reality in the Tantra (Verses 1st 23 and verses 139-163)
- The meditations (verses 24 to 138)
Each session will have following components:
- Invocation chants
- Textual exposition
- Questions and doubts, if any,
- Guided meditation culled from the Tantra itself.
Course Fee: INR- …/ –
[please make an enquiry through Email: [email protected], or WhatsApp: +919958427452]
Retreats & Workshops
Trika Śaiva texts and practices for spiritual growth and intellectual understanding of tantric traditions
Trika philosophy puts emphasis on attainment of two types of knowledges – intellectual and esoteric (Bauddha Jñāna and Pauraṣa Jñāna) for experience of one’s own Śivahood. Read More…
BASIC
Parāprāveśikā: Entrance into Śakti – Three days
INTERMEDIATE
1. Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam: The Heart of Recognition – One week
2.Vijñānabhairava Tantra – Realization of Supreme Consciousness – One week
ADVANCED
Śiva Sūtras: Aphorisms of Siva – One week
Retreats & Workshops
Satyananda Yoga® and the lineage
Yoga sadhanas developed by Sri Swami Satyananda Saraswati and the Bihar School of Yoga aim to integrate all levels of human life and experience. Read More…
BASIC
Asanas, Pranayama, Chakra Awareness, Tattva Shuddhi – One week
INTERMEDIATE
Dhayāna and Kriyās – One week
Retreats & Workshops
Classical yoga for complete health and well-being
Classical Yoga has its base in the in the pre-medieval scriptures and texts of Yoga Sūtras, Haṭhayoga Pradīpikā, and Gheranḍasaṃhitā. Read More…
All the courses need immersion and are residential.
Hatha Yoga: One week
1. Body Cleansing
[Śankhaprakṣālana, Neti, Kunjal]
2. Asana
3. Pranayama
4. Pratyahāra:
a) Mantra Chanting
b) Withdrawal of senses with Kāyā Sthairyam and Yoga Nidrā
5. Meditations: Ajapā Japa, Antara Mauna (Inner silence) and Trataka (to fix the gaze)
The workshops are retreats conducted in a quiet place, close to nature.
Testimonials
Member Secretory, IGNCA
Dr. Sachidanand Joshi
“A good human being and an evolved sadhak with a finesse of technique, Alka truly is a master of her craft. Every course, workshop or session is a unique experience in itself, leaving one with a clarity and awareness that lasts. On top of being able to explain various concepts and their utility in depth, her simplicity and calming presence are always a welcome sight that makes you want to stay in the session for a bit longer.”
Ex-Navy Seal, USA
Tom Katana
“Empathic, gentle yet firm and strong, doctor Alka has been my mentor and dear friend since 2008. In all my years of learning some of my major breakthroughs, lessons and epiphanies have been a product of the long speculations and practice sessions we’ve sat through.”
Founder, Travelscope
Mohan Narayan Swami
“Alka has the ability to arrest the room and focus the diverse energies flowing through a funnel that transmute blocks into beautiful waves. Every group that has sat down with her becomes one with the flow, working as one body and one collective while working on individual process- a phenomenon uncommon to group teachings.”