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Vedic Fire Ceremonies · Vrindavan, India

Your name,
spoken in sacred fire

Ancient Vedic fire ceremonies performed for you by Vrindavan's Brahmins. Your name spoken aloud in the Sankalpa, your intention carried in the fire. Monthly subscription or single ceremony, delivered as a private recording within 24 hours.

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What is a Yagya

An ancient practice,
performed for you

A Yagya (yah·gee·uh) is an ancient Vedic fire ceremony in which a Brahmin builds a sacred fire and speaks your name directly into it, reciting Sanskrit sound formulas called mantras, each one held in the tradition for a particular purpose. In a group ceremony your name is what is said aloud. Your intention shapes which mantras are chosen and the tone they are spoken in, and, as the tradition holds, the fire carries it from there.

Also written Yajna (yah·g·nuh), the practice is one of the oldest spiritual traditions on earth. Vedic (vay·dic) Brahmins make offerings while reciting Sanskrit mantras: sound formulas held and refined for four thousand years, each one dedicated in the tradition to a specific area of life. Each recitation is chosen for the intention it serves. Your name is spoken in the Sankalpa (sun·kal·puh): the formal declaration made at the opening of the ceremony, which dedicates everything that follows to you, by name.

The ceremony has been performed in Vrindavan (vrin·duh·vun), on the banks of the Yamuna River, for thousands of years. We make it possible to have your name included in a genuine Vedic fire ceremony, performed by the same Brahmins, the same fires, the same unbroken tradition, from anywhere in the world.

Within 24 hours of your ceremony, you receive a private video recording. The sacred fire, Agni (ug·nee), is visible throughout. Your name is spoken on camera, clearly, in the Sankalpa.

15
Ceremonies performed
each month
24h
Private video link
delivered to you
108
Sacred number in
Vedic tradition
∞
Intentions accepted,
no limit
How It Works

Three steps to your ceremony

Step 01
Subscribe and submit
At checkout you give the name to be read (yours, or anyone you love), its phonetic spelling if that helps the Brahmin, and your intention if you wish to share it: health, protection, abundance, any sincere purpose. The intention guides which mantras are chosen; only the name is read aloud. Monthly subscribers are included in every ceremony automatically.
Step 02
Your ceremony is performed
On the ceremony date, Vrindavan's Brahmins build the sacred fire. Your name is spoken clearly in the Sankalpa: on camera, in Sanskrit, with full intention. The Sankalpa is what makes the ceremony yours. It formally dedicates everything that follows to you, by name, for the purpose you named. All names in your tier are individually read before the fire.
Step 03
Receive your recording
Within 24 hours a private video link goes to the email address entered at booking. Two Brahmins, one full day of work, at least 45 minutes of it filmed. The fire is visible throughout and your name is audible in the Sankalpa. The recording is yours to keep, and people play theirs again for years.
Why people come

What is actually wrong?

People commission Yagyas for every kind of intention. There is no wrong reason. The Brahmins receive your name and your purpose, and, as the tradition holds, the fire carries it.

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Someone you love is ill and there is nothing left for you to do.
You have already made the calls and asked the questions. What is left is that you think about them. The fire is lit for them, by you.
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Someone you love is going somewhere you cannot follow.
A child starting school, a journey, a season you can see coming and cannot walk through for them. Their name goes into the fire before it starts.
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The money runs out before the month does, and you have stopped telling anyone.
A business that is struggling, a debt that keeps growing, a number you check too often. A prayer for the support of a household and its work is one of the oldest reasons a fire is lit in this tradition.
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You have been turning the same decision over for months.
You have asked everyone you trust and their answers cancel each other out. You are not short of information. You cannot hear yourself over the noise.
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Something is starting and you want it started properly.
A birth, a marriage, a move, a launch. Vedic ceremony has always marked the turns, and a name brought into the fire at the beginning is a way of consecrating what follows.
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You did not get to say it, and the thing you meant to say is still in you.
For those who have passed. Peace in their passage, and continued blessing, held in the prayers of the Brahmins. Submitting the name of someone who has died is one of the most deeply felt uses of this practice.
The Real Question

Will this actually work?

That depends on what you mean by work. Here is the honest answer, in three parts: what we promise, what the tradition holds, and what is yours.

What we promise is a ceremony, and every part of that promise is checkable. A real fire, built and tended by Brahmins in Vrindavan whose whole formation is this practice. A minimum of forty five minutes. Your name, spoken aloud in the Sankalpa, on camera. A private recording in your hands within a day. When the video arrives, you verify every one of those claims yourself. Very few things sold anywhere come with that kind of proof.

What the tradition holds is older than any modern country and plainer than any sales page: that mantra is sound offered with precision, that the fire carries what is placed in it, and that a rite performed for a named person, with a clear purpose, carries benefit to that person. The ceremony has been performed on that understanding, without interruption, for thousands of years, and the Brahmins perform it today exactly as it has been handed to them. We follow the tradition; we do not improve on it and we do not water it down. Thomas Ashley-Farrand spent his life carrying this practice to Western readers in Healing Mantras; the Yagya is the tradition's own full form of what he describes.

What is yours is the part nobody honest will promise for you. People bring their heaviest things to these fires: a loss, an illness in the family, a fight that will not settle. What the ceremony gives every one of them, on the day, is a fact to stand on: on this date, in Vrindavan, before a real fire, my name was spoken and this purpose was held. What grows from that belongs to you and to the fire. We make no claims about outcomes, and we would be careful of anyone in this tradition who does.

The most precise element is the Sankalpa. After the first purifications and invocations, and before the offerings reach the fire, the Brahmin makes a formal declaration: the date, the place, the purpose, and the names of every person the ceremony is performed for. Your name, stated aloud, in Sanskrit, before the fire. Your intention is not read out as words in a group ceremony: it guides which mantras the Brahmins choose, and it is offered into the fire with the offerings. You are also invited to speak your own Sankalpa, in your own words: any time on the day of the ceremony is right, and before it is fine too. We send you simple instructions for it. And in a private ceremony dedicated to one person, the Brahmin recites your intention itself aloud. This is what a name in the fire means. Without one, a ceremony is performed for the world in general. With yours in it, everything that follows is dedicated to you, specifically, out loud, on the record.

And this is why the tradition performs ceremonies in rhythm rather than one at a time. Fifteen fires a month, your name held in each one, month after month: a standing practice, kept for you, in the way the tradition keeps these rites.

A membership is a practice you keep, for as long as you choose to keep it. That is why we would rather you came back for a year than came only once.

The Schedule

This month's fires

Fifteen ceremonies are performed each month in Vrindavan, each one dedicated to a different deity. Below is the schedule as the temple has published it. You do not choose a ceremony: your name goes into the next fire whose names have not yet closed, and members are included in every one.

Choose Your Place

Three ways to be included

Every ceremony uses the same finest materials, the same sacred fire, and the same Brahmins. Without exception. The only difference between tiers is the depth of focused attention your name receives in the Sankalpa. Fewer names means the Brahmin holds each one with more individual presence. The numbers are not arbitrary: they carry their own significance in Vedic tradition.

The Sattva 27 is open today. The 108 and the 432 open once the 27 is established; leave your email on either card and you will be first to know.

Subscribers pay $25 per ceremony instead of $37.50, and are in every fire automatically. The next fire is on the calendar above. Names close 48 hours before each ceremony. See this month's schedule.

Most Personal
The Sattva
27
$375/mo
or $37.50 per single ceremony
  • 27 names maximum, the number of Nakshatras, the lunar mansions of Vedic astrology
  • Deepest individual focus: your name held with the Brahmin's most undivided attention
  • Each name individually invoked in the Sankalpa
  • Finest materials used throughout, consistent across all tiers
  • Private video within 24 hours
  • All 15 monthly ceremonies included
Begin with one ceremony
Membership is by invitation, after your first ceremony
Coming Soon
The Sattva
108
$225/mo
opens once the 27 is established
  • 108 names maximum, a number of profound significance across all Vedic tradition
  • Your name held within a group whose size itself carries spiritual meaning
  • Every name read individually before the fire
  • Finest materials used throughout, consistent across all tiers
  • Private video within 24 hours
  • All 15 monthly ceremonies included
You are on the list. We will write the day it opens.
Coming Soon
The Sattva
432
$110/mo
opens once the 27 is established
  • 432 names, the number of the sacred frequency and of 108 fourfold
  • The widest circle we hold, and the one that turns nobody away
  • Your name read in every ceremony
  • Finest materials used throughout, consistent across all tiers
  • Private video within 24 hours
  • All 15 monthly ceremonies included
You are on the list. We will write the day it opens.
Not sure which tier is right for you? Book a free 30-minute consultation →
One-Time Ceremony
This is where everyone begins

Purchase one ceremony in the Sattva 27: one name, one fire, one recording. Single ceremonies carry a 50% premium over the subscriber rate ($37.50 against the subscriber's $25), so most people who return a second time subscribe.

The Sattva 27 · One Ceremony
$37.50
Buy Single Ceremony
Before You Decide

Read the tradition first, if you like

Nothing in our library is gated. No account, no email, nothing asked. It is the knowledge the ceremonies rest on, written at length and sourced where a source exists. Take your time; the fire is not going anywhere.

7The days of the weekMonday is the Moon's day in English and in Sanskrit. Same week, same planets, both ends of the world. 27The mansions of the MoonAll twenty-seven nakshatras, and why Vedic astrology reads the Moon rather than the Sun. 108The number of the malaWhy every rosary in the tradition has 108 beads, and one more that is never counted. 432The measure of an ageThe age we live in is 432,000 years long. Also, honestly, what to make of the 432 hertz claim.
The Tradition, the whole library →
The Source

Performed in Vrindavan, where Vedic ceremony has been unbroken for millennia

Vrindavan is one of Hinduism's most sacred cities, located on the banks of the Yamuna River in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is a living center of Vedic practice, home to thousands of temples and a community of Brahmins who have performed these fire ceremonies across generations.

Every ceremony is performed by the same dedicated Brahmins, filmed with consistent quality, and delivered to you within 24 hours. The tradition is real. The fire is real. Your name is spoken.

Real fire, real ceremony Not a digital or symbolic ceremony. A physical Agni, the sacred fire, built and maintained throughout the full performance.
Your name spoken on camera The Sankalpa is recorded. You hear your own name said aloud by the Brahmin, before the fire.
Private video within 24 hours Private link sent to the email address entered at booking. Two Brahmins, one full day, at least 45 minutes filmed. Yours to keep.
15 ceremonies per month Subscribers are included in every ceremony automatically. No re-submission required each month.
On Ceremony Day

How to receive your ceremony

The Brahmins perform the ceremony entirely. There is nothing you need to do. The tradition also offers a few simple practices for the day, for anyone who would like to take part from where they are. None of them are required.

Eat lightly
On ceremony days, favor light, clean food: fruit, milk, simple grains. The tradition holds that what you eat affects how clearly you can receive, and that a settled body is more open than a heavy one.
Avoid intoxicants
Skip alcohol and other intoxicants on the day of your ceremony. The tradition values a clear mind, and the day of your ceremony is a good day to keep one.
Speak your own Sankalpa
Any time on the day of the ceremony is right, and before it is fine too: state your intention aloud, in your own words and your own language, simply and clearly. This is your own Sankalpa, and it is yours to make: the Brahmin reads your name before the fire, and your spoken words are your own declaration of the same purpose. Simple instructions arrive with your confirmation.
Rest and receive
When your recording arrives, find a quiet moment to watch it. Sit still. Let the ceremony land. You do not need to understand every word. Your name was spoken, your intention was held in the fire. Let yourself receive that.
Questions

What people ask

A Yagya is an ancient Vedic fire ceremony in which a Brahmin builds a sacred fire and speaks your name directly into it. The Brahmin makes offerings while reciting Sanskrit mantras, with your name spoken aloud in the Sankalpa at the opening of every ceremony. In a group ceremony your intention is not recited as words: it shapes which mantras are chosen and the tone they are spoken in, and, as the tradition holds, the fire carries it from there. In a private ceremony dedicated to one person, the intention is spoken aloud as well. The practice has been performed in Vrindavan, India, for thousands of years and is available to anyone, of any background, who holds a sincere intention.
The Sankalpa is the formal Sanskrit declaration of intention spoken at the opening of a Vedic ceremony. The Brahmin states the date, the place, the purpose, and the names of all those for whom the ceremony is being performed. It is the moment your name enters the ceremony: on camera, said aloud, before the sacred fire.
Vrindavan is one of Hinduism's most sacred cities, located on the banks of the Yamuna River in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is a living center of Vedic practice, home to thousands of temples and a community of Brahmins who have performed fire ceremonies across generations. Every ceremony we offer is performed there by the same dedicated Brahmins.
You are welcome, whatever your faith, or if you hold none. Anyone, from anywhere in the world, may place a name in the fire, for themselves or for someone they love. A name is enough to begin, and your beliefs stay your own.
The ceremony is performed in Sanskrit, the ancient language of Vedic tradition. Your name is spoken clearly and audibly in the Sankalpa, which you can hear in your private recording. Your name is the part to listen for, and no Sanskrit is needed to hear it.
Yes. You can submit any name: a family member, a friend, someone who is ill, someone you wish to bless. Simply provide their name and your intention for them when you sign up. Many people subscribe specifically to have a loved one included in every monthly ceremony.
Every tier uses the same finest materials, the same sacred fire, and the same Brahmins. There is no difference in the quality of the ceremony itself. The only difference is the depth of focused attention your name receives. With 27 names (the number of Nakshatras, the lunar mansions of Vedic astrology), the Brahmin holds each name with the deepest individual presence. With 108 names (a number of profound significance throughout Vedic tradition), your name is carried within a group whose size itself carries meaning. The Sattva 432 holds 432 names, the sacred frequency and 108 fourfold, and is the widest circle we hold. In every group, your name is spoken aloud in the Sankalpa and you receive the private recording.
The Sattva 27 is $375 per month and includes all 15 monthly ceremonies. A single ceremony in the 27 is $37.50. The Sattva 108 (opening soon) is $225 per month. The Sattva 432 (opening soon) is $110 per month. Monthly subscribers receive a lower per-ceremony rate than single purchases.
Monthly subscribers are included in every ceremony from their start date forward, automatically. If you join after a ceremony has already been performed that month, you are included from the next one. Occasionally something goes wrong on a ceremony day. When a name is not read as booked, we aim to write to you before you notice and offer a way to make it right, and where there is more than one way, you choose.
Yes. You can cancel at any time. Your name will be included in any ceremonies already scheduled before your cancellation date. There are no long-term contracts or cancellation fees.
The Sattva 27 is open today. The 108 and the 432 open once the 27 is established, so that every circle receives the same unhurried attention from its first ceremony. Leave your email on either card and you will be written to on the day it opens, before anyone else. No payment is taken and nothing is reserved; it is simply first knowledge.
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Your name belongs in the fire

One checkout, two minutes, and your name is in the next fire. Your recording arrives within 24 hours of your first ceremony.

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