Anandra George
Feel your mantras come alive when you chant — like a direct, embodied connection to the Divine guiding your heart and healing your life.
Learn the 5 mouth positions that stimulate hidden nerve pathways in your physical and metaphysical body — and unlock the ancient vibrational intelligence encoded in the sacred language of Sanskrit.
Do you sense something missing from your mantra chanting or kirtan practice? Like you’re just not fully tapping into the deep resonance and spiritual power you long for?
Maybe you hesitate to use Sanskrit in your personal practice or professional work as a sound healer or yoga teacher… worried about mispronouncing sacred words and unintentionally disrespecting Indian culture.
Or, you may love chanting — or feel drawn to explore it — yet sense that the sounds don’t have the same transformation or response in your body that you’ve heard others describe.
Sound yoga therapist Anandra George confirms that this feeling of disconnection is more common than you think — and there’s a reason for it.
She explains that most Sanskrit mantras chanted outside of India aren’t spoken using the correct parts of the vocal anatomy. Instead, many teachers and mantra music artists rely on "sounds like" approximations that miss the mark — and as a result, the sounds don’t deliver the full spiritual or vibrational effect.
You’re invited to a Anandra's transformative 7-module journey — to unlock the power and pleasure of precise Sanskrit pronunciation.
Authentic Sanskrit pronunciation is anything but dry — it’s an embodied, healing experience, says Anandra. Using just five precise mouth positions, you can dramatically amplify the power, pleasure, and effectiveness of your mantra practice.
Anandra knows this firsthand. After 13 years of chanting with great devotion — but poor tuning — she learned she’d been mispronouncing the very mantras she loved. That humbling wake-up call led to a deep dive into Tantrik sound teachings.
The moment she was shown the correct anatomy, mantra lit up her body with an electrifying clarity — as if the true spirit of Sanskrit had finally come alive.
This inspired the creation of her Sanskrit Tuning method — a joyful, life-changing approach that helps modern practitioners access the true potency of sacred sound.
During these seven sessions, you’ll begin by exploring the five foundational mouth positions of Sanskrit — the gateway to fully experiencing the energetic and healing potential of mantra.
Through embodied anatomy, vocal resonance, and guided chanting, Anandra helps you activate specific nerve pathways and access the vibrational intelligence of the 50 sacred Sanskrit sounds.
Anandra guides you to refine your pronunciation, learn how consonants shape subtle forms, and discover why mantra works even without intellectual understanding.
You’ll integrate music and pitch from traditional Vedic chanting — and experience firsthand how correct pronunciation transforms rote, habitual chanting into a precise, powerful spiritual tool.
Anandra’s trauma-informed, pleasure-centered approach invites deep listening, joy, and self-empowerment. You’ll learn to tune in to what feels resonant and alive — and finally chant with confidence, integrity, and cultural reverence.
Since 1997, Anandra has studied extensively in India and shared mantra, music, and Sanskrit sound with students from over 100 countries. Now based in both India and Hawai‘i, she’s helped thousands experience the liberating, transformative magic of chanting with precision, integrity, and love.
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to sound out Sanskrit words accurately, chant with deeply embodied awareness, and access the transformative power of sound.
You’ll cultivate a lifelong skill — and a deeply attuned connection to the sacred sounds of mantra that will resonate through your personal or professional practice for years to come.
During this life-enriching 7-module course, you’ll:
- Learn to feel the 5 mouth positions of Sanskrit in your own body — a foundational skill for activating specific nerve pathways and unlocking the full power of mantra
- Discover how clenching or clipping vowel sounds dulls their power, and embody the resonance that Sanskrit was designed to awaken
- Explore how the precise articulation of Sanskrit’s consonants and semi-vowels turns sound into sacred architecture — and why you must feel the difference to access the full vibrational potential
- Learn to produce all 50 Sanskrit sounds using specific points in your vocal anatomy, and begin reading with empowered accuracy
- Experience how correct pronunciation can transform fuzzy, flat mantras into vibrationally potent tools for spiritual connection
- Sense how tuned mantras pierce through noise and create deep resonance — with chanting, feedback, and embodied listening exercises
- Weave pronunciation, breath, tone, and musical pitch into a deeply coherent spiritual experience
- Chant using traditional Vedic melody marks and feel why properly tuned mantras yield exponentially more impact
- Learn how sound can be a liberating, healing force when tuned to the body instead of striving for perfectionism
- Dissolve shame and awaken joy through your mantra practice with Anandra’s trauma-informed, pleasure-centric approach
- Accurately sound out any Sanskrit word with confidence, clarity, and cultural respect
- Feel fully empowered with practical ways to integrate Sanskrit into your personal and professional life
- Chant a universal peace mantra that brings together everything you’ve learned — spelling, pronunciation, tone, and resonance — into a full-body experience
Once you’ve experienced mantra with Sanskrit Tuning, you’ll never chant the same way again — and your voice, body, and spirit will thank you.
Whether you’re a sound healer, a Bhakti lover, a Yoga teacher who uses Sanskrit professionally, or you’re just passionate about mantra and want to feel more connection and resonance — you’ll develop the lifelong skill to pronounce this sacred language with joy, confidence, and integrity.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-part transformational course, Anandra guides you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to feel the electrifying power of mantras through true pronunciation and frequency.
This course features step-by-step teachings and experiential practices from Anandra. Each session builds harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to embark on a transformative journey into the embodied anatomy of mantra. Your purchase includes 24/7 ongoing access to your course content, allowing you time to review the materials at your own pace and integration.
Module 1 Sanskrit Sounds Anatomy, Part 1: The Power of Vowels to Stimulate Specific Nerve Pathways in Your Physical & Metaphysical Bodies
If you assume learning Sanskrit is difficult, dry, or boring, you’re in for a pleasant surprise!
Anandra’s approach is to first feel the 50 Sanskrit sounds by feeling the core positions of Sanskrit in your body, unleashing the full power of the vowel sounds, and involving your entire body as an instrument.
Start with the five mouth positions of the Sanskrit alphabet. Without learning these positions, you will not be able to pronounce Sanskrit. Without them, your mantras will forever be slightly “off.”
Receive a printable PDF of the Sanskrit alphabet, cakra, tattva (elements), and mantra puru?a (ayurvedic acupressure points and tissue) to refer to over the next seven weeks.
In this module, you’ll:
- Feel how the five mouth positions of the Sanskrit alphabet stimulate specific nerve pathways in your physical and metaphysical body
- Learn how to optimize your vocal resonance on the Sanskrit vowels
- Discover how the typical practice of clipping or clenching the vowels also caps the full sakti (power) of your favorite mantras
- Experience how the five mouth positions are crucial to tuning your ear to Sanskrit pronunciation and helping you make the sounds yourself
Module 2 Sanskrit Sounds Anatomy, Part 2: Receive the Elemental Building Blocks to Access the Full Vibrational Power of the Language
The key to feeling the meaning of Sanskrit is at the tip of your tongue.
Sanskrit sounds precisely trigger nerve-rich zones of your vocal anatomy.
Explore the subtle differences in how Sanskrit mouth positions shape sound — notice how familiar words shift once you start to feel and pronounce them correctly.
As you tune into these distinctions, discover that Sanskrit anatomy is truly the body of sound, and explore the full vibrational power of the language.
By working with the precise articulation points of the 50 sacred Sanskrit sounds, you'll be able to produce them through specific parts of your vocal anatomy, enhancing both the resonance and transformational impact of your chanting practice.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn the different ways of making sounds in the five positions to produce the remaining Sanskrit sounds that literally “put together subtle form”
- Chant through the 25 consonants, 4 semi-vowels, and 4 hissing sounds, feeling the important sonic/creative distinctions of each
- Tune into how consonants shape sound into elemental building blocks — from intention to thought, word to form
- Explore embodied reading during an introduction to properly transliterated Sanskrit — so you’ll feel empowered to read from reliable sources and chant accurately
Module 3 The Magic of Mantra, Demystified: Tune Your Mantras With Embodied Sanskrit Anatomy for Clear Communion & Deep Resonance
Fuzzy, dull, and inaccurate Sanskrit pronunciation is sadly widespread outside of India and nearly everywhere Sanskrit words are spoken. Anandra gentlys guide you to refine your pronunciation and notice subtle but powerful shifts in sound.
With nuanced tuning, pay close attention to how each sound feels in your body — and witness the real impact of correct articulation. It’s not just about accuracy. It’s about unlocking the full spiritual potential of mantra through the body of sound.
She helps you feel the difference that proper articulation makes.
If your path is bhakti yoga or devotional chanting, experience cascading breakthroughs in your practice. As your newly tuned mantras align more precisely with the embodied anatomy of Sanskrit sound, they begin to pierce the veil of ordinary awareness — opening up deeper communion, clarity, and resonance in your chanting.
In this module, you’ll:
- Experience the profound truth that the sound IS the meaning in your chanting practice
- Practically explore the metaphysical “magic” of how mantras work (whether or not you understand their meaning intellectually)
- Chant through the alphabet in breakout rooms and get tuning feedback
- Feel and hear the difference between fuzzy, dull, inaccurate Sanskrit pronunciation and clear, resonant, precisely tuned Sanskrit sounds
- Chant together a well-known, often mispronounced mantra and feel the mind-blowing difference that Sanskrit tuning makes
- Use your new Sanskrit chanting skills with your most commonly used words/mantras to write and read them, using the properly transliterated materials provided
Module 4 Add Music to Your Mantras for Spiritually Transformational Chanting
All the skills you’ve practiced now integrate into an embodied resonance that will forever change how you experience Sanskrit sounds.
Once you feel the clarity, potency, and precision of truly attuned chanting, then fuzzy or dull recitation simply won’t cut it. From this point forward, your mantra practice will be far more effective, efficient, and spiritually charged.
Anandra introduces the musical dimension of Sanskrit. Learn how to read pitch marks used in traditional Vedic-style chanting, and explore why there are so many different melodies associated with certain mantras.
Pitch, alphabetic distinctions, and vocal elements all play a role in shaping the vibrational impact of your chanting.
Begin to understand why the ancient texts make such extraordinary claims about the transformative power of mantra. Most people are unknowingly working with fuzzy, distorted sound portals — Anandra offers precise, skillful effort that delivers exponential results. This is where you truly lock in the potential of mantra as a powerful tool for spiritual evolution.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn how to read and chant the Vedic traditional mantra melodies
- Apply your new Sanskrit chanting skills to the mantra the poll Anandra will have taken the previous week
- Let Anandra lead you through a step-by-step approach to fully embodied mantra chanting
- Hear, read, make the Sanskrit sound, and chant syllable-by-syllable in a call and response
- Practice all you’ve learned so far in small groups
Module 5 Chant With Awareness & Precision to Tune Into What Feels Resonant, Expansive & Alive Within You
What if the way you chant could actually set you free — from not only looping negative thoughts, but from the entire paradigm of right and wrong, self-criticism, and shame?
Explore how mantra can become a liberating practice of self-love and healing when approached through the body and breath, rather than mental perfectionism.
Anandra’s trauma-informed perspective on sound yoga therapy pioneers a pleasure-centered path for sound lovers — one rooted in embodiment, gentleness, and joy. This isn’t about performing mantras flawlessly or meeting someone else’s standards. It’s about tuning in to what feels resonant, expansive, and alive within you.
Emotional reactions may surface when you realize no one ever taught you this way of chanting before. It can be sobering — even frustrating — but it’s also a doorway to liberation. Once you feel how good it is to chant with awareness and precision, you’ll realize it’s worth every bit of the effort.
This isn’t about getting it “right.” It’s about accessing more of what’s possible — more energy, more peace, more pleasure — through your mantra practice.
In this module, you’ll:
- Push all of your magic buttons with the Sanskrit mantra ultrasonic penetration during an empathetic listening exercise to discover what’s alive in you
- Explore six keys to a pleasure-centric mantra experience, rather than a performative right-or-wrong approach
- Engage in a group chant using juicy power sounds with exquisitely sensuous Sanskrit to support the shift
- Allow “shoulds” and “have to’s” to dissolve in a full-body “YES!” to sacred sound!
Module 6 Mantra Mastery - Empowerment Skills Review to Accurately Sound Out Any Sanskrit Word With Confidence & Cultural Reverence
Surprise yourself with how much you’ve learned!
Pause to celebrate and integrate everything you’ve practiced so far — from listening closely with precision to making the full range of Sanskrit sounds and chanting mantras using the three traditional musical pitch formulas.
Feel amazed at how these once-unfamiliar skills now feel like second nature.
This session is about practical mastery. You won’t just memorize words by rote — you’ll become empowered with the lifelong ability to sound out any Sanskrit word accurately, confidently, and with cultural reverence.
Whether you’re incorporating Sanskrit into your personal mantra practice or your professional life as a teacher, healer, or facilitator, you’ll know how to chant and share these sacred sounds with integrity. Anchor your learning and step into a more empowered, respectful, and resonant relationship with the language of yoga.
In this module, you’ll:
- Chant through the alphabet with Anandra and your classmates as you review the anatomy
- Practice reading and chanting from properly transliterated Sanskrit words
- Explore a common mantra (the winner of a previous class poll) syllable by syllable, with traditional Vedic musical notation
- Participate in a group listening exercise from YouTube — can you hear the Sanskrit tuning? What sounds “off”?
Module 7 Ripen Into Full Resonance With Powerful Mantras For Peace
Now that your Sanskrit sound tuning is accurately calibrated, you’re ready to experience the effortless fullness that lives at the heart of mantra.
In this celebratory session, chant a beautifully resonant universal peace mantra — one that brings the coherent brilliance of sa?sk?tam (the “putting together of subtle form”) to life in your body, mind, and spirit.
See how correct pronunciation depends on correct spelling — and how, with your newly attuned skills, you can trust yourself to hear and speak Sanskrit with greater precision and confidence.
Explore non-dogmatic, cross-cultural peace mantras and feel the power of shared resonance. This is more than just a chant — it’s a deeply embodied experience that will shift how you hear, feel, and relate to Sanskrit forever.
Feel empowered and attuned, with your relationship to sound and sacred language forever changed. Plus, Anandra gives you a printable 20-page Ebook full of properly transliterated mantras for peace.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn one of the most important Santipa?h (peace-bestowing) mantras of the yoga tradition
- Connect the vowels and consonants of this mantra to their elemental powers to settle into the undeniable embodiment of sound = meaning.
- Chant it together, embracing the full spectrum of the human experience, bringing both the tragic heartbreaks and the effervescent joys of life into settled, expansive harmony
- Learn to play the melody and harmony on the harmonium — this is optional, no harmonium required for this course!
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Anandra’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Mantras for Peace Reference Manual
20-Page PDF From Anandra George
How does accurate, loving Sanskrit pronunciation embody the resonance of mantra? How can mantra help you become an instrument of peace? Absorb the wisdom of these hard-to-find, properly transliterated Sanskrit mantras. Apply your new skills to the most common universal mantras as you make this word-by-word translation and the Sanskrit script part of your personal library.
Multi-Dimensional Sanskrit Anatomy Charts
A PDF Guide From Anandra George
Anandra’s printable PDF features all 50 Sanskrit sounds through four integrated lenses: numbered according to the five mouth positions, represented as the 50 chakra petals, aligned with the 50 tattvas of Tantrik Saivism, and mapped onto the Mantra Puru?a — the cosmic body of sound — which corresponds to 50 Ayurvedic acupressure points, organs, and tissues. This elegant chart reveals the profound connections between sound, energy, and the human body, serving as both a practical reference and a spiritual teaching tool. It’s ideal for deepening your understanding of mantra as a living, embodied language of creation.
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Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven Pre-Recorded 90-Minute Modules
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from Anandra George, international teacher of Sanskrit mantra and the yoga of sound — from the comfort of your own home. Each session includes a streaming video and guides you to explore Anandra’s practical, embodied mystic approach to Sanskrit sounds.
Seven Transcripts of Sessions
You’ll also receive transcriptions. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Sanskrit Tuning for Mantra Lovers
We feel honored that Anandra George has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive online course. This is a unique opportunity to learn from an international teacher of Sanskrit mantra and the yoga of sound whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about learning a radical embodied approach to hear, feel and speak the true Sanskrit sounds, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
Your Satisfaction Is 100% Guaranteed!
If you don’t absolutely LOVE Sanskrit Tuning for Mantra Lovers — or don’t feel that it meets your needs — please submit your refund request form 14 days from your date of purchase and we’ll happily issue qualifying customers a refund.
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About Anandra George
Anandra George is a pioneer in the global yoga community, re-introducing the ancient practice of sound as a fundamental practice. She created the world’s first registered yoga teacher training based entirely on the transformational power of sound (including Sanskrit, mantra, Indian classical vocal meditation, and nonviolent communication for everyday life).
American by birth, Indian by soul, and global citizen by expression, she helps people transform their limiting belief systems and cultivate their most fulfilling contribution to the world.
Anandra, who divides her time between India, Japan, and on Kaua’i island, Hawaii, teaches mantra workshops and intensives worldwide. For more than 20 years, she’s been on “the path” and has been teaching and seeing private clients since 1999.
An internationally respected mantra teacher and sacred musician, she is frequently invited to teach and lead chanting/kirtan at the world’s largest yoga festivals. Her students from online meditation groups, workshops, and teacher trainings speak highly about their experiences.
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