Live online classes in Sydney

Indian culture classesfor families in Sydney.

Sanskrit, shlokas, chanting, the Ramayana and the Gita, storytelling, public speaking, Bharatanatyam and yoga, taught live from India, in small batches, at hours that work in Sydney.

Sydney is four and a half hours ahead of India through the Australian winter and five and a half once daylight saving starts in October, so the class is ahead of the teacher rather than behind them. The Indian morning batches land in a Sydney afternoon, and that is the whole appeal: nobody at either end is doing this at the edge of their day. The Indian evening batches fall after midnight here, so in practice Sydney runs entirely on the two morning slots.

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Our batches, in Sydney time

Australia/Sydney

Saturday morning8am ISTSat 1:30pmin Sydney
Saturday evening7pm ISTSun 12:30amin Sydney
Sunday morning9am ISTSun 2:30pmin Sydney
Sunday evening8pm ISTMon 1:30amin Sydney

Times are shown for a term-time weekend and follow Sydney's own daylight-saving calendar, so they may shift by an hour in summer. If none of these suit, tell us the hours that do: batches are built around the families who join them.

What families in Sydney can learn

Every class below is open to every age, and every one is taught live in a small batch.

Samskara Seeding

through Culture & Scriptures

The texts, the stories and the customs, taught so a child grows up inside the tradition rather than visiting it once a year. This is the track most families begin with.

Confidence Building

Voice, argument and presence

Speaking, debating and standing in front of a room. The skills that decide whether what a child knows ever reaches anybody else.

Art & Craft

Dance, drawing and making, in the Indian tradition

Classical dance, drawing, painting and making, taught through the forms and festival crafts this culture produced, including live online Bharatanatyam for beginners. Batches are opening now; timings are arranged with the families who join.

Yoga & Wellness

For kids, adults and seniors, and for the back and neck that ache

Live online yoga in small batches, taught by qualified teachers in the tradition it comes from. Separate batches for children, adults and older learners, and focused batches for what people actually come to yoga with: back pain, a stiff neck and shoulders, weight, sleep and stress.

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For Adults

Gita, sutras, chanting and song

Adult batches, taught at adult pace and without any assumption of prior knowledge. Most of these learners are beginners who never had the chance earlier, and evening batches are set with the group.

Taught from India, live

Teachers in Bengaluru, in small batches, with the camera on. Nothing recorded, nothing outsourced to an app.

Built around Sydney hours

Two 45-minute classes a week at a time that works on a school night where you are, not where we are.

English throughout

Instruction is in English. No prior Sanskrit, Hindi or reading of Devanagari is assumed of anybody.

Batches by age

4 to 6years

Learning by ear, through story and repetition

6 to 10years

Sound and meaning together, with reading begun

10 to 15years

Text, grammar and discussion in full

Questions from families in Sydney

Does Sydney's daylight saving change the class time?

Yes. New South Wales moves forward on the first Sunday of October and back on the first Sunday of April, and India never moves, so the Sydney time on this page shifts by an hour twice a year while the Indian time stays exactly where it is.

Is Sydney the same as Brisbane and Perth?

Not through the summer. Queensland and Western Australia do not observe daylight saving at all, so Brisbane holds still while Sydney moves, and Perth is two hours behind Sydney for half the year and three for the other half. Use the Brisbane and Perth pages for those.

Does this fit around an Australian school day?

Every batch is a weekend batch, so it never touches a school day. The two Indian morning slots land in a Sydney weekend afternoon, which is the part of the weekend most families already have free.

What time are the classes in Sydney?

Our batches run Saturday morning IST (Sat 1:30pm in Sydney), Saturday evening IST (Sun 12:30am in Sydney), Sunday morning IST (Sun 2:30pm in Sydney), Sunday evening IST (Mon 1:30am in Sydney). If none of those suit, tell us the hours that do and we will build a batch around them. We schedule around the learner, not around Indian hours.

Do you have a centre in Sydney?

No, and we would rather say so plainly. Every class is taught live over video by teachers in India, and our office is in HSR Layout, Sector 2, Bengaluru. That is what lets a family in Sydney learn from a teacher who grew up inside this tradition rather than one who is the nearest available.

How do we pay from Australia?

Fees depend on the batch and how often it meets, and we take international payments. Message us on WhatsApp for the current fee list in your currency. The 30-minute trial class is free, with no payment details taken.

Free 30-minute trial class