Upcoming Vedic Events

Acharya Shunya offers Monthly Veda Sangha on the second Saturday of each month. The next gathering will be held on August 8, 2026. 

This gathering is open to all sincere seekers and offered on a free will donation basis.

Each month, Acharya Shunya shares accessible teachings from the Vedic tradition for those who want to live with greater meaning, peace, clarity, and inner freedom. These sessions are rooted in ancient wisdom, yet offered in a way that speaks to modern life, relationships, work, family, spiritual longing, and the search for truth.

Topics may include karma, how our actions shape our life and consciousness; dharma, the art of living with truth and inner alignment; purushartha, the four aims of a meaningful life; and ashrama dharma, the wisdom of life stages and natural human propensities.

Teachings may also include sacred householder living, Ayurveda, Goddess wisdom, Yoga, Vedanta, and the four yogas as pathways for inner growth.

All sincere seekers are welcome.

Begins: August 8, 2026

When: Second Saturday of each month 

Time: 10:00 to 11:00 AM, PT

Access: Live online gathering

Offering: Free will donation
Who may attend: All sincere seekers are welcome

Join Acharya Shunya alongside renowned Kirtan artist Krishna Das, with Nina Rao, David Nichtern, Raghu Markus and others for a transformative summer retreat hosted by the Love Serve Remember Foundation.

Set in the peaceful mountains of Boone, North Carolina, this retreat offers a sacred space for healing, reflection, and reconnecting with inner freedom.

Experience spiritual teachings, community, and the restorative power of nature in a deeply supportive environment.

This monthly drop-in class is offered on the first Sunday of each month. 

Acharya Shunya hosts this live online class on the first Sunday of every month from 7:00 to 8:00 AM PT. The next class will be held on September 6, 2026.

Each month offers a new sadhana and a time-tested ancient technique from the Vedic tradition, often including rare mantras, meditation, sacred sound, chanting, and contemplative practice rooted in Acharya Shunya’s living Vedic lineage.

You are welcome to join the class live. If the timing does not work for you, you will receive private access to the class recording afterward, with access available for 3 months. This allows seekers from around the world to participate in their own time and return to the teaching whenever their heart is ready.

Upasana means drawing near. Through mantra, dhyana, chanting, and sacred attention, the mind becomes quieter, steadier, and more available to truth.

This monthly drop-in offers a rare doorway into that sacred path.

When: Join us on Sunday, September 6, 2026

Time:   7 :00 AM, PT

How: Register and a Zoom link will be sent to you.

Member Rate: $35 • Standard Rate: $40

The Mandukya Upanishad invites us to question a deeply held assumption: that we are small beings living within a vast universe. The Upanishads offer another perspective. We do not live in the universe. The universe lives inside us.

Through the states of waking, dream, and deep sleep, Acharya Shunya will guide participants in exploring the awareness that remains constant through every changing experience and the nature of the Self beyond these states.

This live, interactive session includes teachings from the Mandukya Upanishad, chanting of select verses, traditional Vedic exposition, experiential meditation on the four states of consciousness, and live questions and responses.

No prior background is required. The program will be recorded, with registrants receiving on-demand access for four weeks after the session.

When: Saturday, October 3, 2026

Time: 1:00 to 3:00 PM, CT

How: Register and a Zoom link will be emailed during the week before the program.

For over 15 years, seekers around the world have gathered with Acharya Shunya during Navratri to pause, pray, and return to the wisdom of the Divine Mother.

This year, join a global community for daily morning satsang, where Acharya Shunya will guide mantra, meditation, and teachings on the Goddess of the day.

Come if you are tired from carrying too much. Come if your heart longs for strength, softness, clarity, and sacred renewal.

The Essential Navratri Journey includes nine morning transmissions, an opening orientation, a closing celebration, community access, and a rich Navratri resource library.

Optional afternoon immersions are also available for those who wish to go deeper into the Goddess of the day.

Where: Online

When: Registered participants will be sent Zoom links for the introductory workshop on October 4th, morning discourses from October 11–19, and the concluding retreat on October 20th.

Join Acharya Shunya for a week-long Gayatri Mantra Sadhana immersion, offered every March to a devoted community of seekers.

Gayatri is one of the most revered mantras of the Vedic tradition, a mantra of divine light, awakened intelligence, and inner guidance. In this immersion, Acharya Shunya introduces Gayatri not only as a chant, but as a living sadhana, a sacred practice that can be returned to again and again.

You will receive traditional Gayatri meditation, word-by-word meaning of the mantra, Gayatri Pranayama, and practical sadhana guidance for your daily life. Acharya Shunya will also teach the four subtle levels of sacred speech through which mantra deepens: outer speech, mental speech, perceptive speech, and transcendental speech.

This beloved annual immersion often fills to capacity, with many students returning year after year and reporting meaningful inner change through repeated practice.

Registration includes lifetime access to the video recordings and access to a dedicated community space, so you can continue deepening your relationship with Gayatri over time.

Your true Self is not weak, broken, confused, or incomplete.

In the Vedic tradition, this inner presence is known as the Sakshi, the witnessing consciousness. It is the quiet, aware Self within you that sees your thoughts, emotions, fears, roles, and life experiences, without being limited by them.

In this course, Acharya Shunya reveals nine hidden qualities of this true Self, spiritual powers that can transform the way you live, love, lead, heal, and meet the world.

In this 12-week course, Vedic scholar, author, and lineage-ordained master teacher Acharya Shunya guides you into a direct and practical understanding of Sakshi Bhava, the sacred art of standing in the awareness of the witness. Through this recognition, you begin to access the sovereignty, clarity, courage, compassion, and freedom that already live within you.

Since Sovereign Self was published in 2020, this course has been offered every year and has become one of Acharya Shunya’s most beloved and popular programs. Students often describe it as life-changing because it does not merely offer ideas. It gives you a way to return to your own unbounded consciousness, again and again, in the midst of real life.

As you awaken to your essential nature as limitless awareness, life begins to transform through this recognition itself.

When: Next cohort begins June 10th

Where: Online

Online: Register early to reserve your seat. Participants will be sent a Zoom link and provided access to recordings and a community hub where they can share with co-participants and teacher.