Learn Sound Healing in Kathmandu / Pokhara

The Himalayan home of singing-bowl craft and Nada Yoga, where you learn bowls and gongs at the source from the makers and Tibetan-rooted sound healers.

★ Best place to go
Birthplace of the discipline

Kathmandu / Pokhara, Nepal

●●●●○ Thriving living community · Season: Oct-Nov, Mar-Apr · Beginner -> Certified Sound Healer

The Himalayan home of singing-bowl craft and Nada Yoga, where you learn bowls and gongs at the source from the makers and Tibetan-rooted sound healers.

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Honest level: Beginner -> Certified Sound Healer — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

★ Best course for this craft

10 Days / 50 Hours Advanced (Professional) Singing Bowl & Gong Sound Therapy Training

Pragya Yoga School — Kathmandu (Budhanilkantha), Nepal

A ten-day professional sound-healing training in Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu, grounded in classical Himalayan and Tibetan practice. Each day runs from a morning theory/healing session through practical bowl and gong technique, self-practice, and an outdoor 'tuning with nature' session; students learn chakra balancing, vibroacoustic and massage techniques, kundalini work and self-healing. Meals are included and the course leads to a school certification.

10 days (50 hours) Full-time daily schedule; shared or private room with meals; small group Pragya Yoga School Sound Healing certificate

A residential, full-day immersion in Himalayan singing-bowl healing in Nepal where the practice is rooted, in a small group, with daily hands-on practice and certification.

from $1,000Visit Pragya Yoga School ↗

~$1,000 shared room / ~$1,200 private A/C (meals included)

Other ways in

Shorter or cheaper options — a lighter immersion, so they fit the EducatedTraveler philosophy less, but a real first step.

Why this school — real and cited, not my opinion dressed up

Why Pragya Yoga School

It is a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga School in Budhanilkantha/Thamel offering certified 200/300/500-hour teacher training plus dedicated sound-healing and singing-bowl therapy courses, led by founder and certified yoga therapist Yogesh Pokhrel.

Where it is taught — hand-verified

Schools in Kathmandu / Pokhara

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

What you walk away with

The credential

Practitioner / Sound Therapist Diploma (College of Sound Healing) or Sound Healing & Therapy Certificate (Globe Institute) · Certifying body: No single global body; recognized diplomas via College of Sound Healing (UK), Globe Institute (state-approved, USA); Nada Yoga tradition

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

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Prices are a verified starting point — no checkout, no hard sell. We introduce; you decide.

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Why you can trust this map

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

Before you trust any school — mine or anyone else's — ask these five things
  1. Who actually teaches it? Can you find them by name, with a track record you can check yourself?
  2. Is the craft alive in that place, or is the school the only thing there? A real scene has more than one good option.
  3. What exactly do you walk away with — a recognised qualification, or a certificate they printed themselves? Ask which.
  4. Can you speak to someone who did the course? A real person, not a testimonial on their own page.
  5. What happens on a bad day — weather, an injury, a teacher who doesn't show? A serious place has an honest answer.

If a place dodges these, that's your answer. It costs you nothing to ask, and it tells you everything.

This is the short version. The full method is here — the six questions, in order, for any craft anywhere.