Online Puja Classes in Chicago
Learn to perform the puja, not just attend one
Most households in Chicago 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.
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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.
Chicago families come to us with long winters in mind — a live class a child can attend from a warm room, in a season when getting to a weekend cultural class across the metro is genuinely difficult, is a large part of the appeal here.
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 Chicago
Live classes on CT, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Weekday 6:00 to 7:30 PM Central and Saturday and Sunday mornings Central. Central time makes the Indian-morning mentor slots workable without anybody in the household getting up early.
Naperville, Schaumburg, Aurora, Bolingbrook and the Devon Avenue neighbourhoods are where most of our Chicago families are. Several found us through the Bharatanatyam circuit our parent academy Nrithyakshetra is part of.
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
- 02Ganesha, Kalasha, Guru
- 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 CT, around work, family and daily routine rather than across them.
“Living in California, we worried our kids would lose their roots. The online Shloka and Gita classes changed that. They chant every morning now, and understand what the words mean.”
Online Puja Classes in Chicago, 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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