Reviews & feedback

I had been opening my classes with the Gāyatrī for six years without ever being taught how to pronounce it. Two sessions in, I realised how much I had been getting wrong — and Yogashree corrected it without ever once making me feel foolish.

This is the first time anyone has taught me the Sūtras from the Sanskrit rather than from somebody's translation of somebody's translation. The difference is enormous. She also says clearly when the commentaries disagree, which I have never had a teacher do before.

I started with no Sanskrit at all. Within the first month I was reading Devanāgarī, and by the end of the second I could take a verse of the Gītā apart word by word. The worksheets after every lesson are what made it stick.

I came back to music at fifty-two after twenty years away. She rebuilt my voice from the first exercise upward, patiently, and never once made the age an issue. My śruti is steadier now than it was when I was twenty.

Level 2 finally explained the marks above and below the letters, which nobody had ever done for me. She was also honest about where the sources disagree instead of pretending there is only one answer. I trust what she teaches because of that.

I am not a musician and I was nervous about joining. It turned out not to be about singing at all — it was about listening. I have carried the practice into my morning sitting and it has changed it completely.