Live online classes in London

Indian culture classesfor families in London.

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 London.

London is five and a half hours behind India in winter and four and a half in summer, the gentlest offset of any city on this list. The Indian evening batches land in a London afternoon, which is the whole reason British families rarely need anything built specially. The Indian morning batches fall before dawn here and nobody takes them, so in practice London runs on the two evening slots.

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Our batches, in London time

Europe/London

Saturday morning8am ISTSat 2:30amin London
Saturday evening7pm ISTSat 1:30pmin London
Sunday morning9am ISTSun 3:30amin London
Sunday evening8pm ISTSun 2:30pmin London

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

Which slot works best in London?

The two Indian evening batches, which fall in a London Saturday or Sunday afternoon. That is the rare case where the class is convenient at both ends at once: an afternoon for the child, and an evening rather than a small hour for the teacher.

Does the time change when British clocks do?

By an hour, on the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday of October. India does not change at all, so your Indian class time is fixed and the London time moves. We write before it happens rather than after.

Do you teach outside London?

Britain is one time zone, so the table above holds in Birmingham, Leicester, Manchester and Glasgow exactly as it does in London. The classes are online, so where in Britain you are makes no difference to anything except the accent in the room.

What time are the classes in London?

Our batches run Saturday morning IST (Sat 2:30am in London), Saturday evening IST (Sat 1:30pm in London), Sunday morning IST (Sun 3:30am in London), Sunday evening IST (Sun 2:30pm in London). 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 London?

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

How do we pay from UK?

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.

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