Immerse yourself in vocal training paired with a comparative study of devotional mantras from traditions around the world — taught by a classically trained vocal performer with a Ph.D. in Vocal Performance and forty years teaching voice.
Request an InvitationThis program is part vocal technique training, part academic study of mantras and devotional chants from a wide range of world traditions — including Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, and West African, among others. Dr. Sandra teaches each with real cultural and religious context, translation, and respect for the tradition it comes from.
This is not a single-lineage devotional practice. It's a genuinely niche offering for people who are curious about vocal technique and comparative mantra study.
You might come to this for a personal mantra practice of your own, to train your voice as a discipline in itself, or to build toward the confidence to one day lead Kirtan. All three are welcome here.
"One thing I have found in my many years leading mantra chanting, is that many people who enjoy mantras are intimidated by their own voice. Some have had voice lessons before, and know how to produce their voice, but most people haven't."
— Dr. Sandra Sluberski
Dr. Sandra built this immersion around two things she's spent decades with separately: real vocal technique, and a genuine, wide-ranging fluency in mantra traditions from around the world. Most mantra teaching assumes you already know how to use your voice. Most vocal training has nothing to do with mantra. This program treats both as worth studying properly, together — with the specific context, pronunciation, and cultural respect each tradition deserves.
Kirtan — Sanskrit for "praise" or "glorification" — is a devotional call-and-response chanting practice rooted in Bhakti yoga, the path of devotion within the Hindu tradition. One voice offers a mantra, the room chants it back, and the practice builds through repetition. It is fundamentally a devotional practice, not a performance or a wellness technique borrowed from it.
In this immersion, learning to lead a short Kirtan is presented as the culminating academic and vocal exercise of the program — a way to put technique and study into direct practice.
Some of its well-reported effects:
Rhythmic repetition gives the mind a simple melody to hold onto in place of daily chatter, while lowering cortisol and lifting mood through dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin.
Collective chanting activates the parasympathetic nervous system and stimulates the vagus nerve — lowering heart rate and blood pressure, easing anxiety, and supporting deeper sleep.
Group chanting fosters genuine community and eases isolation, bypassing overthinking to open real feelings of peace, joy, and spiritual grounding.
Voice has been Dr. Sandra's entire career — decades of opera and concert recitals across the United States and Southeast Asia, alongside voiceover recording work for industrial films and audiobooks. With a Ph.D. in Vocal Performance and forty years teaching at the collegiate level, she brings the rigor of a classically trained vocal artist to this material.
Alongside her vocal career, she has spent years studying and leading mantras and Kirtan from a wide range of traditions, and teaches each one with its own cultural and religious context — the story behind a mantra, its translation, and the tradition it comes from — rather than treating them as interchangeable.
You may already know Dr. Sandra as one of our core faculty at Sound School — our 9-week Certification in Therapeutic Sound. This immersion is a distinct, separate offering: smaller, shorter, and academic in nature rather than a certification program.
Below is exactly what's covered, week by week.
Breath technique and postural alignment (the E-S-H-A framework), toning to find your natural "chant pitch," and monotone chanting as the entry point into vocal range work.
Two- and three-note chanting technique, the Mul Mantra, the three essential Sanskrit mantras, and Buddhist mantras from the Pali tradition — each taught with translation and cultural context.
English-language mantras for self-affirmation and women's empowerment, and original mantras composed by Dr. Sandra herself.
Mantras and devotional chants from Spanish, Hebrew, Yoruba, Chinese, Norwegian, Arabic, and German traditions, each with its translation, pronunciation, and religious or cultural origin.
Mantras for daily personal use, an introduction to Kirtan as a devotional practice, study of real sample Kirtan programs, and your capstone project.
Three options, each a direct application of the vocal technique and mantra study from the five weeks.
Introduce, explain, and chant three mantras of your choosing, each repeated eight times — with any instrument, or your voice alone.
Write and submit a full 45–60 minute Kirtan plan as sole wallah, complete with mantras, translations, and a draft participant guide.
Plan and record a 30-minute themed Kirtan — around an element, a chakra, or a figure from Vedic tradition — with other musicians if you like.
A certificate of completion is issued by The Ohm Store — this is an academic completion record, not a professional certification.
Taught directly by Dr. Sandra, released one week at a time.
A live session with Dr. Sandra and the group of 10 each week.
A short, hands-on assignment each week tied directly to that week's material.
An academic completion record from The Ohm Store upon finishing the capstone.
This is a small, intimate immersion — an inaugural group of 10, studying directly with Dr. Sandra. It is not open enrollment. Requesting an invitation takes a few minutes and helps us make sure this is genuinely the right fit before you commit.
Across the five weeks: Hindu (Sanskrit), Sikh (Punjabi), Buddhist (Pali), and devotional/folk material from Jewish, Christian, West African (Yoruba), Chinese, Arabic, Norwegian, German, and Spanish-language traditions, alongside English-language mantras. Each is taught with its translation and cultural or religious context.
It's academic in approach — Dr. Sandra teaches the history, translation, and cultural context of each mantra with genuine respect for the tradition it comes from, without asking you to adopt any of them personally. That said, the material itself is devotional and sacred to the cultures it comes from, so this is worth engaging thoughtfully rather than casually.
No — in Dr. Sandra's words, you don't need to read music or have a background in choirs or voice lessons. Chanting and singing are different techniques; this course trains the former.
This is the inaugural group, and the format is intentionally intimate — live weekly check-ins with direct access to Dr. Sandra rather than a large cohort.
Dr. Sandra is Sound School faculty, but this is a separate, distinct offering — shorter, smaller, and structured as an academic immersion rather than a certification program.
We'll follow up directly to confirm fit and answer any questions. If you're a fit for the inaugural group, you'll receive your official invitation to enroll on September 29th. The immersion itself begins in mid-October.
Request an invitation to be considered for the inaugural group of 10.
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