Online Puja Classes in the Bay Area
Learn to perform the puja, not just attend one
Most households in the Bay Area perform some form of daily puja, and most perform it from memory — a sequence half-learnt from a grandparent, with the mantras approximated and a few steps quietly dropped. These classes teach the procedure as it is actually laid down: each step in its place, each mantra pronounced correctly, and the reason behind both.
Enquire about classes in the Bay Area
Add the student’s name and your number, then continue on WhatsApp or call us. We’ll come back with the next available slot for the Bay Area.
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Learn to perform the puja, not just attend one
A video can show you the order of a puja. It cannot hear that your Saṅkalpa is garbled, or notice that you have been skipping Ācamana for a year. Classes are live and small for that reason, and every learner chants and performs alone while the teacher listens.
The Bay Area is our single largest catchment in the USA, and the one where parents arrive with the clearest brief. Many work in tech, many learned their own shlokas from a grandparent in India, and most have already tried an app or a recorded course before writing to us.
Every mantra corrected live rather than imitated from a recording
The meaning of each step, so the actions are understood and not merely copied
Ṣoḍaśopacāra, the sixteen offerings, taught one at a time with their mantras
Saṅkalpa and Kalasha puja, the steps most households skip or rush
Batch timings for the Bay Area
Live classes on PT, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Saturday and Sunday mornings Pacific are the slots that fill first, because 9 AM in Fremont is 9:30 PM in Bengaluru and both ends of the call are awake and functioning. Weekday batches run 6:00 to 7:30 PM Pacific. We will not put a child in a 5 AM class to make a batch work.
Fremont, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Cupertino, Milpitas and Santa Clara are where most of our Bay Area families are. Several batches have ended up entirely Bay Area, which children like — nobody has to explain why they are learning this.
What you walk away able to do
Performing the complete nitya puja at home with confidence
Correct Sanskrit pronunciation across the whole sequence
Understanding what every offering and mantra actually means
Inside the online puja classes curriculum
A few of the modules a year of online puja classes covers. The full sequence is on the class page.
- 01Preparing to Worship
- 02Purification: Ācamana & Prāṇāyāma
- 03Ṣoḍaśopacāra: The Sixteen Offerings
- 04Stotra, Kṣamā and Maṅgalam
Three simple steps to begin
1. Tell us who the class is for
Call or WhatsApp us and say who is joining and where they are starting from. For online puja classes that matters — the mentor pitches the first class to their age, body and experience.
2. Personal guidance from a mentor
A real, live class, not a sales call. The mentor works with you for the full session and then tells you honestly whether this is the right class and batch of ours.
3. Pick a slot that fits your week
We place you in a batch scheduled for PT, around work, family and daily routine rather than across them.
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Online Puja Classes in the Bay Area, FAQs
No. Mantras are taught sound by sound and corrected live, with the meaning explained line by line. Most learners arrive knowing the shape of the puja but not the words.
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