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Budaya Jivana Yasa
Hands playing a bronze saron gamelan instrument with a wooden mallet

Cultural Education

Learn the language, the art, and the wisdom

Structured courses and private guidance with teachers who live the tradition — for beginners discovering Javanese culture and for the diaspora reconnecting with it.

Javanese Language

From everyday Indonesian into the registers of Javanese — for travellers, and for the diaspora returning to their mother tongue.

  • Beginner to conversational
  • Krama & ngoko registers
  • For diaspora & newcomers

Performing Arts

Classical dance and gamelan with teachers who carry the lineage. Bodies and ears learn what books cannot teach.

  • Classical Javanese dance
  • Gamelan instruments & ensemble
  • Private or small group

Javanese Philosophy

The worldview inside the art — etiquette, symbolism, and the quiet ethics that shape a Javanese life.

  • Philosophy & worldview
  • Symbolism in art & ritual
  • Discussion-led

Class formats

Learn your way

Whether you're in Yogyakarta or across an ocean, there's a way in.

In person

In Yogyakarta — in studios, pavilions, and homes, close to the source.

Online

Live classes for the diaspora and learners abroad, wherever you are.

Private

One-to-one guidance, paced entirely to you.

Small group

Learn alongside a handful of others for energy and exchange.

Hands playing a bronze saron gamelan instrument with a wooden mallet

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