Insights: Source Texts, Saṃskṛt, and Yoga Philosophy

Explore yoga source texts, philosophy and Sanskrit with clear explanations, practical tools and learning games, alongside breathwork and meditation for your practice.

Sanskrit Workshop

Look up a word, convert a text or practise letters and vocabulary. Choose a tool or learning game that helps you take your next step.

Look up Sanskrit words and their meanings

Search for a Sanskrit word or part of a word. Compare dictionary entries, follow its derivation and find passages where it occurs.

Convert Sanskrit between scripts and transliteration

Convert Sanskrit between Devanāgarī and Latin transliteration. Select the input and output writing systems, then enter your text.

Learn Devanāgarī by matching letters and transliteration

Learn to read Devanāgarī by matching its characters with Latin transliteration. Choose a group of characters and practise in short rounds.

Practise Sanskrit words and explore their word families

Match Sanskrit words with their meanings. Choose words from a source text or passage and include their roots and other source words.

Handwritten Devanāgarī lines on a manuscript page.

Sanskrit declensions

Practise how Sanskrit words change with case and number. Choose a classical or Vedic table and match the forms with their translations.

Learn to recognise Sanskrit verb forms

Start with the present tense or choose another verb table. Match forms with their translations and compare how they are formed.

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Explore Philosophy as a Living Tradition

Where do yoga's ideas come from - and what do they mean today? Explore traditions, key figures and ways of thinking critically, vividly and close to practice.

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Discover the Source Texts in the Original

Encounter yoga, tantra and Vedānta at their sources: in the original, in translation and with word-by-word guidance. Historical texts become a living conversation.

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Saṃskṛt as a Key

Listen more closely, read for yourself and understand more. Pronunciation, Devanāgarī, transliteration and grammar open up mantras and source texts step by step.

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Sit & Reflect: Experience Insight

Prāṇāyāma, meditation, source-text recitation and philosophical impulses translate knowledge into direct experience. Choose a class and let yoga continue inwardly.

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