Sanskrit: Level 3

Sanskrit: Level 3 2

This course builds upon our Level 1 and 2 Sanskrit courses. We will study chapters 5 and 6 of Yogāvatāraṇam: The Translation of Yoga, integrating traditional Indian and Western academic methods of learning for an engaging experience of learning Sanskrit.

We we will learn more nouns (ending in -i, -u and -ṛ), as well as other verbal forms, such as the imperative, optative and past tense, and also gerunds and infinitives. This will allow us to continue to read from yoga texts, putting theory into practice by chanting and translating verses together.

Start Date: 12 October 2025

Course Duration: Nine Weeks

Course Creator(s): Dr Zoë Slatoff

Course Tutor(s): Dr Zoë Slatoff

60 pages

Pathway(s): Sanskrit

On-Demand Video

The main video component of your course. On-demand means you can watch at the time that suits you.

3hr 57min

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


You will also be invited to join five 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!

Sanskrit: Level 3

£275

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Each week you are provided with course notes (or you can follow along in the book if you have it), video, and audio files. We focus on proper pronunciation and learning through sound as well as reading, writing, and grammar.

There are weekly assignments.

 

Your Tutor

Zoe Slatoff

Dr Zoë Slatoff

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.

Sanskrit: Level 3 3
Sanskrit: Level 3
£275

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