Online Puja Classes in the USA
Learn to perform the puja, not just attend one
Most households in the USA 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 USA
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 USA.
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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 USA is our largest community outside India, and it is spread across four time zones, which shapes everything about how we schedule. Most families who write to us are second-generation parents whose own Sanskrit came from a grandparent, and who have realised their children have no equivalent person to learn it from.
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
A practice that needs no priest for the everyday worship of the home
Batch timings for the USA
Live classes on PST/EST, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Weekend mornings Eastern and Pacific are the two slots that fill first, because they land in the Indian evening and work for both coasts. Weekday batches run at 6:30 to 8:00 PM local on the East Coast. We do not ask a child in California to attend at 5 AM, and if the only slot we can offer you is a bad one we will say so.
Families join us from the Bay Area, New Jersey, Dallas, Seattle, Atlanta and Chicago in the largest numbers. Several batches have ended up entirely North American, which children like, they are learning alongside others in exactly the same position.
What you walk away able to do
Performing the complete nitya puja at home with confidence
Understanding what every offering and mantra actually means
A fixed, calm daily practice the household can keep
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 PST/EST, 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 the USA, 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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