In this six-part, self-paced journey, you’ll be guided into the living experience of the mantra: learning its rhythm and pronunciation, exploring its deeper meaning, and discovering how its sound can become a steady support for daily meditation.
Together we’ll explore the mantra not simply as words to be recited, but as a path—from the physical world of everyday experience towards the light of awareness that lies at the heart of who we are.
Through breathwork, chanting, meditation and reflection, you’ll develop a personal relationship with the gāyatrī mantra and create a practice that can continue to support and inspire you long after the course has ended.
Whether you are completely new to mantra meditation or have been chanting gāyatrī for years, this course offers a spacious and nourishing way to deepen your relationship with this timeless practice.
The course I wish I had found
When I first encountered the gāyatrī mantra almost twenty years ago, I was drawn to its sound before I understood its words. I learned different melodies and ways of chanting it, but I longed to understand more: its pronunciation, its rhythm, the meaning carried within the Sanskrit and the deeper tradition surrounding it.
I found pieces of this teaching in different places, but not the kind of complete, embodied journey I was searching for.
This course brings those elements together. It is an invitation not simply to learn the mantra, but to enter into relationship with it—through voice, breath, meaning, meditation, silence and deep listening.
Sacred Sound & Rhythm
Learn the mantra with confidence and discover the beauty of its threefold rhythm. Explore how sound, breath and awareness work together, and experience how the mantra’s cadence can become a steady support for meditation.
Meaning & Inner Illumination
Journey word by word through the Sanskrit, exploring the rich symbolism of Gāyatrī, Savitṛ and the radiant light invoked by the mantra. Discover why its wisdom has inspired seekers for thousands of years.
Establish a Living Practice
Move beyond intellectual understanding into direct experience. Through guided meditation, chanting and the traditional practice of 108 recitations, you’ll cultivate a meaningful personal practice rooted in clarity, devotion and attentive listening.
The journey through six parts
Each part contains a guided session of approximately 45 minutes to one hour, weaving together teaching, chanting, meditation, silence and space for your own experience.
PART ONE
Preparing for the gāyatrī
Before entering the mantra itself, we prepare through the seven sacred utterances that traditionally precede it. Through breath and sound, we gather body, mind and heart and become receptive to the light of the gāyatrī.
PART TWO
Entering the light
We meet the long form of the mantra and begin learning its pronunciation and cadence. Rather than trying to understand it only through translation, we listen for what is communicated through sound, rhythm and repetition.
PART THREE
The three pādas
The gāyatrī mantra moves through three pādas—three lines of eight syllables. We listen closely to the changing textures of the sounds and experience how each step of the mantra carries us more deeply inward.
PART FOUR
The language of light
We journey through the Sanskrit word by word, exploring the qualities held within tat, Savitṛ, vareṇyam, bhargaḥ, dhīmahi, dhīyaḥ and pracodayāt.
Meaning is approached not as an academic exercise, but as another doorway into relationship with the mantra.
PART FIVE
Honouring the ṛṣiḥ, chandaḥ and devatā
We explore three elements traditionally associated with mantra: the ṛṣiḥ who received it, the chandaḥ or metre that carries it, and the devatā invoked through it.
Here we meet Gāyatrī as rhythm and Savitṛ as the radiant presence of light at the heart of the mantra.
PART SIX
108 repetitions
Our journey culminates in an extended meditation in which we chant the gāyatrī mantra 108 times.
Afterwards, we rest in silence—listening to the resonance and to the space the mantra has opened within and around us.
A glimpse into the teaching
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One of the words at the heart of the gāyatrī mantra is:
dhīmahi — we meditate
Not “I meditate.”
There is a softening within that “we”—a reminder that we do not practise alone. We are held within a stream of practice and supported by those who have walked this path before us.
This course attends to details such as these: not to analyse or conquer the mantra, but to listen more deeply to what its language, sounds and rhythm carry.
About Lucia Guerin
My relationship with voice and sound began in 2005 through The Naked Voice. I later trained as a Sound Healing practitioner and tutor with the College of Sound Healing and as a yoga teacher.
My first encounter with Sanskrit mantra came through kirtan. I felt drawn to the sounds before I understood their origins or meaning, and that curiosity gradually led me into deeper study.
I have studied Sanskrit with Lucy Crisfield of Original Wisdom as part of my continuing exploration of mantra, pronunciation and sacred sound. Learning more about the origins, meanings and pronunciation of these sounds has allowed me to approach them with greater understanding, precision and respect.
My teaching brings together Sanskrit, embodied voice, Sound Healing, meditation, silence and deep listening. I offer this course with respect for the tradition from which the mantra comes, and with the acknowledgement that my own learning continues.
For me, pronunciation is not about proving that we can chant something correctly. It is a way of honouring the sounds and listening more deeply to what they carry.
I would be honoured to share this journey with you.
Reflections from participants in the original live course
Kerryn Godfrey
Your rendition has far more resonance than when I have done them previously and it really does feel like a bell being struck.
I have found the course to be really deeply nourishing and reaching into parts of me that I don’t usually access.
Yoga Australia Level 2 Teacher | Certified Svaroopa® Yoga Teacher | Embodyment® Yoga Therapist | Art of Living Foundation Teacher
Alexandra Rigazzi-Tarling
Many thanks for a beautiful and deeply healing six-week course. The sessions were a perfect balance between theory and practice and I was able to deepen my understanding and feeling of both Sanskrit healing sounds and the oṁ. Much gratitude.
Vocal Coach, Singing Teacher and Sound Healing Practitioner
Donna LePerle
I took this course to learn about chanting. I loved listening to the chants we studied and the root of the chants. There is so much I don't know about in the world and I appreciated the safe surroundings you held us in.
I felt the rhythm of the chants through Zoom and the energy of the class was welcomed into my heart. It was great to experience what you love to teach and how well you teach it.
What’s included
- Six guided video sessions, each approximately 45–60 minutes.
- The traditional preamble and long form of the gāyatrī mantra
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Detailed guidance in pronunciation and its threefold rhythm
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Exploration of the Sanskrit word by word
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Teaching on the three pādas
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An introduction to the ṛṣiḥ, chandaḥ and devatā
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Guided chanting, breathwork, meditation and reflective practice
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Downloadable audio recordings and written notes
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A closing meditation of 108 repetitions
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Ongoing access while the course remains hosted on The Listening Field website
Course fee: €54
One payment for full access.
Begin whenever you are ready and return to the material in your own time.
Ongoing access while the course remains hosted on The Listening Field website.
Begin the CourseWe don’t truly understand gāyatrī through translation; we meet it through its sound and rhythm.
Begin your journey with the gāyatrī mantra
Six-part, self-paced online course
Begin whenever you are ready
€54
