Module 1
Vowels: Coming Alive with Resonance

Experiencing the 5 primary vowel sounds in your own body is the first step towards revealing any mantra’s full potency, understanding the brilliant sonic architecture of creation, and is the crucial prerequisite to accurate pronunciation.

• Explore the fundamental anatomy of mantra through precise sound production in 5 mouth positions.
• Feel each sound come alive through Anandra’s animated storytelling embedded with the liberating gems of Kashmiri Shaivism Tantrik non-dual philosophy. 
• Embed the structure of the Sanskrit transliteration system into your mind and body through novel visual-auditory-kinesthetic learning techniques.
• This Module will make accurate pronunciation of the rest of the alphabet (and indeed any Sanskrit word) easy to implement in the future.

Module 2
Consonants: Grounding Consciousness into Form

Train your tongue and breath into a coordinated enunciation of Sanskrit’s refined beauty as you learn the formula for making the precise sounds of Sanskrit’s 25 consonants.

• Practice with special techniques proven to quickly make a demonstrable difference in your chanting quality.
• Explore the connection between each sound and its function as an elemental form.
• Learn how to easily spot accurate Sanskrit resources from the proliferation of inaccurate material available today.
• Using the precisely controlled breath of Sanskrit letters, stoke the fire of your mantra chanting love to transform dullness, stagnation, and vague yearning into brilliant, overflowing, resonant fullness.

Module 3
Semi-vowels & Sibilants: Tantrik Playgrounds

Learn the remaining alphabet sounds and their special transliteration marks in the most widely-used system.

• Weave your direct experience of these titillating subtle sounds into a joy-based approach to your chanting practice.

• Explore the radically liberating concept of “Concealing and Revealing Grace” from Kashmiri Shaivism, and the surprising invitation to discard notions of shame, guilt, and sin that these sounds provide (if used consciously).
• Learn the simple explanation to the most common pronunciation confusions inside and outside of India (based on Anandra’s two decades of living and teaching in India).

Module 4
Four Way Alphabet Embodiment

A Step-by-Step, Call-and-Response Review

• Practice your alphabet chanting with Anandra in a slow, sweet, and steady savoring of each sound.
• Apply your new knowledge of mantra fundamentals with each sound’s precise effect on your physical and metaphysical bodies.
• Learn and experience 4 different approaches to meditating with the 50 Sanskrit sounds: 50 petals on the cakras, 50 points mapped onto your physical body, and as both “revealing” and “concealing” grace.
• Get crucial reflection on your sound production early on, with our scheduled live calls and buddy practice sessions following our specific checklist of listening/feedback points.

Module 5 
#Empowerment: Your Mantra Repertoire, Revealed!

If you were excited before, this module is where the full potential transformation of your sound-based practice comes alive! 

• Learn how to read the Sanskrit transliteration marks so you can sound closer to a native on EVERY Sanskrit word in the future.
  
• Delight as we connect the dots between your new reading skills and your new chanting precision!
• Apply your knowledge to (rare-to find!) properly transliterated Sanskrit mantras in the manual.
  
• Use step-by-step proven practice techniques that make learning (or re-learning) fun and accessible for people from any language background. (Anandra has taught this to people from 100+ countries and the method works consistently!)
  
• Learn to listen for and avoid the top 3 most ubiquitous mantra chanting blunders (which most non-Indian kīrtan recording artists and international yoga teacher trainers don’t know)
• Learn how to spot accurate Sanskrit resources in books and online (they’re rarer than you’d think!)
• Engage the course community for buddy practice sessions and attend 1-on-1 sessions with Anandra who is passionate about help people enliven their mantra repertoire!
• After completing the written and audio homework, quizzes, and group + buddy practice assignments, schedule your 15-minute 1-on-1 feedback session. (Yes, we’re VERY thorough and serious about your end results in this program!).

Module 6
The Musical Dimension of Mantra

Catapult your personal chant experience into heightened bliss as we layer on the musical skills. Our approach, developed and tested over 5 years of Heart of Sound teacher trainings, is easy enough for total non-musicians to painlessly implement!

• Learn how to set a drone for your chanting using your choice of instruments or technology
  
• Learn to read, sing, and play the traditional “Vedic” style pitch marks in your favorite mantras from the handbook on a harmonium or keyboard. (No physical instruments required if you have a smartphone or tablet.)
• Listen for the most common musical mistakes that chant artists make in rendering Sanskrit mantras. (This is an absolute must for singers, songwriters, recording artists, and touring musicians who use mantra lyrics!)
• Apply these basic chant leadership techniques in a variety of environments (informal chant circles, yoga studios, festivals, etc.)
• Whether you're learning solely for your own enjoyment, or you have a deep wish to serve others through mantra, this module will give you the foundational skills for a well-rounded chant practice!
  

Module 7
The Global Chant Renaissance

Join us in promoting the profound benefits of chanting while maintaining authenticity and respect for the source culture.

• Explore effective strategies for continuing to refine your profound new skills amidst chant communities that mostly don’t know what they don’t know
  
• Empathize with yourself and others in a proactive, non-judgmental way that encourages you to be a cheerleader for the transformational benefits of sonic refinement rather than the “Sanskrit Police”
• Consider ethics, humility, and integrity with sharing your newfound foundational skills in clear context of the wondrous infinity that is true mastery of mantra and sacred sound
• Brainstorm strategies to uplift those who may consciously or unconsciously be using spiritual bypassing and gaslighting techniques to defend their ignorance about cultural appropriation in the global chant community.
  
• Take your implementation to the next level with resources on how to type in transliterated Sanskrit, and other practical skills.