Sanskrit: Level 11

In Sanskrit Level 11 we will build upon what we have learned in the previous 10 courses, continuing to develop understanding through learning grammar and chanting and translating verses from yoga-related texts.

In this course, we will finish the book – Yogāvatāraṇam: The Translation of Yoga – studying chapter 21 and completing the final review section. Over the course of the 9 weeks, we will learn about the conditional and benedictive moods as well as composite verbs and cvi formation, and directional words with the suffix -anc.

We will mainly be reading passages from the early Upaniṣads, as well as verses from classical and haṭha yoga texts and some popular mantras. By the end of the course, we will have covered pretty much all of the grammatical constructs and you will be ready to read texts on your own.

Now with dedicated Zoom sessions!

Course Details

Start Date 11 October 2026

Duration Nine Weeks

Assessment Weekly Coursework

Course Notes 37 pages

Tutor Dr Zoë Slatoff

Course Creator Dr Zoë Slatoff

Video

Video Lectures 4hr 11min of on-demand video, released weekly.

Community Sessions

Zoom sessions
This course contains four dedicated live Zoom sessions with Dr Zoë Slatoff (recordings available for any you miss).

You will also be invited to join three general-interest Zoom sessions. These are open to all enrolled students and cover a range of topics related to Indian thought and philosophy.

They are a great way to meet students and tutors from other courses!

Course Outline

In this course, we build upon what we learned in our Level 1–10 Sanskrit courses.

Dr Zoë Slatoff

Course Tutor

Dr Zoë Slatoff has created and tutors a comprehensive series of Sanskrit courses for the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. She has a PhD in Religion and Philosophy from Lancaster University and an MA in Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University. She teaches Sanskrit and Yoga Philosophy in the Yoga Studies MA program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.  Zoë is the author of Yogāvatāraṇam: The Translation of Yoga, a Sanskrit textbook based on classic yoga texts. She also taught for many years at her yoga shala in NY, Ashtanga Yoga Upper West Side.