Live online classes in Dubai

Indian culture classesfor families in Dubai.

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 Dubai.

Dubai is the most transient of the cities on this list, and that changes what families ask for. A posting here runs three years, or five, or turns into fifteen, and a child may have started school in Kochi and expect to finish it in Toronto. What a parent wants from us is therefore continuity rather than a local class: something that survives the next move, taught by the same teacher from the same place, on a timetable that does not need renegotiating when the address changes.

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Our batches, in Dubai time

Asia/Dubai

Saturday morning8am ISTSat 6:30amin Dubai
Saturday evening7pm ISTSat 5:30pmin Dubai
Sunday morning9am ISTSun 7:30amin Dubai
Sunday evening8pm ISTSun 6:30pmin Dubai

Times are shown for a term-time weekend and follow Dubai'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 Dubai 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 Dubai 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 Dubai

We may leave the UAE in a year or two. Does the class move with us?

It does, because it was never in Dubai to begin with. The teacher is in Bengaluru and the batch is a video call, so a move to Toronto, London or back to India changes your class time and nothing else. Tell us the new city and we will place you in a batch that lands at a sensible hour there.

Does it fit a Dubai school week?

It sits outside it. Schools here run Monday to Friday and the weekend is Saturday and Sunday, which is exactly where every batch on our timetable already is, so nothing collides with a school day.

Are Abu Dhabi and Sharjah the same?

Identical. The whole of the UAE is on one clock, so the times above hold in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman and Ras Al Khaimah exactly as they do in Dubai, and the country page carries the same table.

What time are the classes in Dubai?

Our batches run Saturday morning IST (Sat 6:30am in Dubai), Saturday evening IST (Sat 5:30pm in Dubai), Sunday morning IST (Sun 7:30am in Dubai), Sunday evening IST (Sun 6:30pm in Dubai). 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 Dubai?

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 Dubai learn from a teacher who grew up inside this tradition rather than one who is the nearest available.

How do we pay from UAE?

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