Foundations & Singing Bowls
Level 1 introduces the foundations of sound healing and working with singing bowls. It stands on its own, so it can be taken as a short introduction before you decide how far to go.
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3 LevelsSound has been used to calm the mind and body for thousands of years, and few places feel as suited to learning it as Rishikesh. The Sound Healing Course in Rishikesh at Rishikesh Yog Kendra teaches you the practice of sound therapy, from the singing bowls and their vibrations through to full sound baths, in a setting built around stillness and traditional practice.
This is a hands-on training rather than a lecture course. You learn to work with Tibetan singing bowls, to use sound to relax the body and mind, to balance the chakras, and to guide others through a calming sound experience. Whether you want to become a sound healer, add sound to your existing yoga or wellness work, or simply deepen your own practice, the course gives you the techniques and the confidence to use them.
The full course runs over six days and five nights, and it is also offered in shorter levels, so you can join for a single foundation day or complete the whole programme. It is open to complete beginners, and no musical background is needed. Groups are kept small, so you learn personally from an experienced teacher.
Sound healing sits naturally alongside yoga and meditation, and studying it in Rishikesh places the practice within a living tradition rather than a weekend workshop. You learn not only the techniques but the care and safety that responsible sound therapy requires.
If you are looking for a Sound Healing Course in India that is practical, grounded and genuinely useful, taught somewhere the practice belongs, this is built to give you exactly that.
The Sound Healing Course at Rishikesh Yog Kendra is a residential sound therapy training in Rishikesh, India. Over six days and five nights, or in shorter levels, you learn to work with Tibetan singing bowls, conduct sound baths, balance the chakras, and guide relaxing sound healing sessions. It is open to beginners, needs no musical experience, and leads to a course completion certificate.
Sound healing, sometimes called sound therapy, uses the vibrations of instruments such as Tibetan singing bowls to encourage deep relaxation and a sense of calm. It is widely practised alongside meditation and yoga, and it has become one of the most sought-after wellness practices internationally. This course teaches you how it works and, just as importantly, how to practise and share it responsibly.
The training is practical from the first day. You learn to select, hold and play the singing bowls, to work with their sound and vibration, and to build these into a full sound bath. Alongside the bowls you study the chakras and how sound is used to balance them, techniques for cleansing and settling a space, and the safety and etiquette that a responsible session requires.
The full course runs over six days and five nights, and it is also offered in shorter levels, so you can begin with a foundation day and build up, or complete the whole programme at once. It is open to complete beginners, and no musical training is needed. Groups stay small, so you receive close, personal guidance.
Across the course you cover:
The residential fee covers your stay and food, with private or shared rooms and fresh satvik meals. By the end you have a practical, confident grasp of sound healing: enough to run your own sessions, to add sound to your yoga or wellness work, or to continue your own practice with real understanding.
The Sound Healing Course is designed for complete beginners as well as yoga teachers, meditation guides, massage and wellness practitioners, and anyone drawn to sound as a tool for relaxation and wellbeing. No musical or yoga experience is required. It suits people who want to become a sound healer, add sound therapy to their existing work, or deepen their own practice.
A short, focused course still asks for your time and attention, so it is worth knowing whether it fits before you book. The good news is that sound healing is unusually accessible, and students arrive from very different backgrounds.
This course is likely a good fit if you recognise yourself in any of these:
You are new to sound healing and want to learn it properly from the start. The course begins with the fundamentals, and no musical ability is needed.
You want to add sound baths and singing bowls to your classes, taught in a way that fits naturally with the practices you already teach.
You are a massage therapist, reiki practitioner, coach or wellness professional who wants to bring sound therapy into your work.
You feel drawn to sound as a path, whether to build toward offering sessions or simply to explore it for yourself.
The course is taught in a small group, so you get individual attention and plenty of hands-on time with the bowls. Because sound healing is gentle and needs no prior skill, mixed-background groups work well together.
If you want to learn sound healing in a serious, hands-on way, in the setting where such practices belong, this course is very likely a strong fit.
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Rishikesh Yog Kendra teaches sound healing as a hands-on, practical course in Rishikesh, in small groups, with an experienced teacher and personal guidance. The training covers real technique, chakra work and safe session facilitation, it is flexible across levels, and it is taught within a traditional yoga school rather than as an isolated workshop.
Sound healing courses are offered widely now, so it is fair to ask what makes ours worth choosing.
Most of your time is spent with the singing bowls, not listening to theory. You leave able to play and facilitate, not just describe.
Learning sound healing in Rishikesh, within a traditional yoga and meditation setting, gives the training a depth that a weekend course elsewhere cannot.
Groups are kept small, so your teacher can correct your technique directly and give you the individual time this practice needs.
You can join for a single foundation day or complete the full six-day course, which makes it easy to fit around your time and goals.
You learn who sound healing is and is not suitable for, and how to facilitate a session safely, which is what separates a responsible practitioner from an enthusiast.
The residential option includes clean rooms and fresh satvik meals, so you can focus fully on the practice.
Choosing a course is about trust, especially in a field as gentle and personal as sound healing. We would rather earn it through careful, practical teaching than through any claim.
You learn the foundations of Tibetan sound healing, how to choose and play singing bowls, how to balance the chakras with sound, how to plan and conduct a sound bath, how to cleanse and settle a space, and how to facilitate a session safely for others. The course also introduces mantra and mudra, and gives you plenty of practical, hands-on experience.
The course is built to be practical, so understanding and technique are developed together. The areas below form the core of what you learn.
You begin with the instrument at the heart of the practice. You learn the different types of singing bowls, how to choose them, how to hold them, and the technique for both rubbing and striking them to produce clear, steady sound. This hands-on skill is the foundation of everything that follows.
You study the chakras and how sound is used to work with them, including a practical approach to chakra balancing. This gives your sessions structure and intention, so sound is used with purpose rather than at random.
A sound bath is one of the most popular ways to share sound healing, and you learn to plan and lead one from start to finish: how to sequence the sounds, hold the space, and guide participants into deep relaxation.
You learn how sound can be used to cleanse and settle a room before a session, along with the ideas of aura awareness and protection that traditionally accompany this work, so that both you and your participants feel at ease.
Responsible practice is a theme throughout. You learn the safety rules for conducting a session, who sound healing is and is not suitable for, and the etiquette of facilitating for others, so you can practise with genuine care.
Finally, you are introduced to mantra and mudra as they support sound work, and to self-healing practice, so the course strengthens your own inner practice as well as your ability to guide others.
The Sound Healing Course is offered in three levels that build on one another, or as a complete six-day, five-night programme. You can begin with the Level 1 foundation and progress, or take the full course at once.
Level 1 introduces the foundations of sound healing and working with singing bowls. It stands on its own, so it can be taken as a short introduction before you decide how far to go.
Level 2 builds your technique and deepens your practice. It assumes Level 1, and carries the work from the instrument in your hands into the practice behind it.
Level 3 develops your ability to facilitate and work with sound in more depth — learning to hold a space and guide other people through it with confidence.
The full course combines all three levels into one complete, residential training over six days and five nights — five of them teaching days.
Every level goes both ways — start at Level 1 and build up, or step straight into the full six-day training:
The first level is a single day, and it stands on its own. You start with the instrument itself — what a singing bowl is, how to choose one, and how to hold and play it — before any of the work that depends on that.
Two days. Level 2 moves from the instrument to the energy body, which is where most of the depth in this work sits. It assumes Level 1, because you cannot clear a chakra with a bowl you cannot yet hold steadily.
Two days, and the level where you learn to run a session for a room rather than a person. The sound bath is the format most students go on to actually offer, so it is taught properly rather than demonstrated.
Taught from Level 1 onwards and returned to throughout. On the old syllabus this sat as two lines at the bottom of Level 1; it belongs here, because it is what separates a practitioner from someone who owns a bowl.
Four instruments are used through the training, and you learn to play each rather than watch someone else play it.
A residential day on the full course — first sound at dawn, last stillness at night.
* The schedule above is the residential day on the full course. Level days and the tuition-only option follow the teaching sessions rather than the full residential rhythm.
Do you receive a certificate for the Sound Healing Course?
Yes. On successful completion, you receive a course completion certificate from Rishikesh Yog Kendra confirming your training in sound healing.
On finishing the course and meeting its requirements, you receive a certificate from Rishikesh Yog Kendra recognising that you have completed training in sound healing and are prepared to facilitate sessions responsibly.
This is a specialised course, so the certificate is a Rishikesh Yog Kendra course completion certificate rather than a Yoga Alliance teaching registration. For many practitioners this is exactly what they need: a recognised record of hands-on training that supports offering sessions, adding sound to existing wellness work, or teaching within their own community.
Take the full course, or one level at a time. Each level builds on the one before it, and every price is offered two ways — tuition on its own, or tuition with your room and three sattvic meals a day included.
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This course is offered two ways, so it is worth being exact. Every price includes the teaching, the instruments and your certificate. The residential option adds your room and three sattvic meals a day; the tuition-only option does not, and is meant for students already staying in Rishikesh.
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Good to know before you book
Rishikesh Yog Kendra has been teaching here for around ten years, and the same care that goes into our yoga courses goes into this one. Our instructors take time to explain the reasoning behind each practice, correct you personally, and answer the questions that come up once a bowl is actually in your hands — so you leave able to hold a session rather than only to describe one. Meet the team below.
Founder · Hatha, Aerial & Ashtanga
Founder of Rishikesh Yog Kendra, Vimlesh Ji has spent more than a decade teaching Hatha, Aerial and Ashtanga yoga in the Himalayan tradition.
If you take the residential option, your room and your food are covered for the length of the course. You choose an individual room or a twin shared one, and every room has an attached washroom, complimentary high-speed Wi-Fi, comfortable furnishings and enough space to sit and practise in.
Three sattvic vegetarian meals a day are prepared fresh, with fruit and herbal tea through the day. Our management keeps the rooms clean and the campus quiet, and the surroundings carry the calm that makes this kind of work easier to absorb.
If you are already staying in Rishikesh, the tuition-only option lets you come for the sessions alone. You are still welcome to eat with us; just let us know when you book.
Our campus sits in the quiet foothills of the Himalayas — open practice halls, a rooftop terrace to sit out on, and the hills in full view from sunrise to dusk. Close enough to the Ganga for a morning walk, far enough for the silence a practice needs.
Clean, spacious rooms with an attached washroom and enough floor space to meditate or practise on your own. Housekeeping takes care of the rest, and you choose between a private or a shared room.
Three fresh vegetarian meals a day, along with seasonal fruits and herbal tea. Everything is cooked in the school kitchen and included in your course fee — no separate charges for food or stay.
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The bowls and materials you need are provided during the course, so you can begin straight away. If you already own a set and would like to work with it, you are welcome to bring it. Guidance on choosing and buying your own bowls is part of the training.
The bowls and materials you need are provided during the course, so you can begin straight away. All the instruments used in the training — singing bowls, tingsha bells, gong and bells — are ours. If you already own a set and would like to work with it, you are welcome to bring it. Guidance on choosing and buying your own bowls is part of the training.
You can do either. The course is arranged in progressive levels, so you can start with the Level 1 foundation and build up over time, or complete the full six-day programme at once. This flexibility lets you fit the training around your schedule and goals.
You will be able to work with singing bowls, conduct a sound bath, and facilitate a relaxing sound healing session safely. Graduates use the training to offer their own sessions, to add sound therapy to yoga, meditation or wellness work, or to continue a deeper personal practice.
It is a specialised course leading to a Rishikesh Yog Kendra course completion certificate rather than a Yoga Alliance teaching registration. [CONFIRM whether Yoga Alliance YACEP credit is offered, so this answer can be finalised.] In either case, you receive a certificate confirming your training on completion.
The full course runs for six days and five nights and can be taken residentially, with accommodation and meals included, or without accommodation if you are staying nearby. Shorter levels are also available. The residential option keeps you close to the practice and the peaceful setting of Rishikesh.
Sound healing is gentle and widely enjoyed, but as with any practice there are situations where care is needed. A part of this course is learning who sound healing is and is not suitable for, and how to facilitate safely, so that as a practitioner you can guide others responsibly.
From Delhi to your mat in Tapovan — by air, rail, road or bus, here is every way students make their way to us.
Jolly Grant Airport, about 25 km from Rishikesh, has daily flights from Delhi. We can arrange a cab from the airport to the school for an additional fee.
Daily trains connect Delhi to Haridwar railway station. Once you arrive at Haridwar, we can organise a pickup for you at a reasonable charge.
We can also arrange a cab to bring you the whole way from Delhi to the school in Rishikesh, for a reasonable fee.
Buses run from Delhi to Rishikesh bus stand through the day. On arrival we can arrange a cab for the short hop to the school.
Certificates awarded in the hall
Graduation day on the terrace
The group, course complete
Certificates in hand, hills behind