Mountain Sound Healing Tour in Nepal

Welcome to Nepal! Our Explore Nepal Trek Staff or representative greets you at the airport. Transfer by private vehicle 30 mins to your hotel in the heart of Thamel in Kathmandu. Enjoy bottomless cups of tea and coffee, and complimentary bottle of water in your room (refillable with filtered water at the restaurant). Explore your surroundings and settle in for a good night’s sleep after your travels.

Welcome breakfast and meet fellow retreaters. Set intentions for your sacred journey, then enjoy ambling through bustling Thamel marketplace together to meet our first sound practitioners.

Facilitating daily for 10 years our Nepalese singing bowl masters will guide us through the first of our daily experiential chakra balance processes using singing bowls and voice (our original sound healing instruments), to restore and recalibrate mind, body & spirit. Completing the meditation dissolve any last traces of stress in a group soundbath.

Following this experience you may like to continue to rest back at the hotel, get a massage (Seeing Hands blind therapists with years of experience are under $15 & 3 minutes away), journal, or enjoy a free day to explore the spiritual aspects, temples & cuisine of this ancient birthplace of Buddha, also known as the Heart Chakra of the world. Chat to locals and make some friends.

You’ll be invited back to our singing bowls friends’ studio for our relaxing evening vibrational sound meditation-healings. We’ll finish the evening with dinner at an open air restaurant where you’ll be woo’ed by traditional instruments – lilting stringed sarangi, toe-tapping madal drums, lively bansuri flute & evocative vocals sharing time honoured folk music to fill your heart with joy.

Breakfast & debrief, then 30 minute taxi ride – visit an authentic singing bowl factory where artisans skillfully hand hammer singing bowls at the furnace.

Spend the whole day with the owner/manufacturer/training expert who collaborated to create the very first Hess therapy bowls over 35 years ago, that are now famous around the world. Browse his factory outlet (bowls, gongs, bells, etc make great gifts).

Another 20 minute cab ride to enjoy a delicious meal with our kind host at his local restaurant, then he will share his knowledge with us in an afternoon singing bowl training session. In the evening recline on comfy mattresses for a cosmic gong/soundbath in his incredible studio. Have a great night’s sleep!

After breakfast & sharing, we’ll visit our sound healing friends again in Thamel for a centring chakra balance and recalibrating soundbath to start the day right.

Then immerse in reverence and peace, listening to sounds of flapping prayer flags & clanging bells, calling up the deities at ancient temples. Stand quietly and feel the profound energy of generations of prayers, intentions and devotion that continue to resonate through this sacred ground. Connect with the enduring spirit of a place where faith and blessings have converged for centuries. We’ll share a nourishing lunch & the flavours of Nepal, before continuing our journey.

A sacred day concludes with vibrational sound healing and contentment of a soul aglow.

Breakfast & sharing will precede another fresh new wonderful day of learning & sound healing with local Newari historian, researcher, collector & teacher – one of Nepal’s most recognised figures in the field of Himalayan sound healing.

 Enveloped in his aura of peace & wise kindness, and surrounded by hundreds of bowls & perhaps the biggest gongs you’ve seen, you’ll immerse in a delightful day & eve of sound healing with an extraordinary mesmerising gongbath to remember. Many high quality instruments are available for sale here – gongs, bowls, bells & handpans. You might even take home a lasting keepsake with a beautiful personal engraving.

With the day’s swirling frequencies, healing vibrations, & resonant experiences still gently echoing within, you’ll drift into a restful night’s sleep.

After breakfast, we’ll join our sound healing friends for our last chakra balance and take in the blessings of powerful intentioned singing bowls for our final day in Kathmandu.

Enjoy a free day to visit historic sites & souvenir shops, Durbar Squares, Bhaktapur, Pashupatinath/Swoyambhu/Boudhanath temples, art museums or indulge in massage.

An optional final vibrational sound healing with our practitioner friends offers a beautiful opportunity to pause and integrate the experiences of the week before our closing sharing circle and farewell dinner, weaving together the insights, healing, connections and blessings gathered along the way.

A friendly farewell from the Kathmandu hotel after breakfast and then transfer to the airport for an exciting 1 hour flight over looming  Annapurna mountain Ranges to Pokhara.

 Your transfer awaits and 13 kilometres later you’ll be up amongst the clouds at your eco-friendly picturesque accommodation amongst wild forest and infinity. Feel at home greeted by wonderful staff’s genuine warmth and settle into the comfort of your cottage as unique surroundings embrace you. Brew a cup of tea or refresh with bottled water and absorb your incredible views.

Soak up snowy peak reflections in the infinity pool amongst wildflowers and birds. Go rooftop for 360 degree mountainscapes, with Shiva in the distance.

Meander through tastes of your welcome meal, rest, and be with nature.

Rise before dawn to greet the sun as dark snowy mountaintops turn golden and glowing. You might glimpse hot air balloons & paragliders floating by keeping circling birds of prey company. Watch the world awaken gently in this dramatic landscape.

After breakfast take stone steps past tiny temples, to the mountain road and wind around to the Shanti Stupa, one of eighty world peace pagodas, for silent time with yourself and Spirit. Then hike the remainder of the hillock an hour down to the water’s edge where rowboats await to drift you gently across the glass-like lake reflecting snowy mountains all around.

At Pokhara Lakeside explore the quiet attractive town or settle on a bench with a refreshment looking back up towards our retreat from the other side.

Marvel at a new sublime sunrise. After breakfast the day here is yours to fill in whatever way you feel. No obligations whatsoever. Silent self time is encouraged. Write, sleep, hike, draw, meditate, swim, dream, integrate, percolate, marinate in quiet airiness.

Alternatively pre-book a Annapurna Base Camp Helicopter Tour, hot air ballooning, paragliding, zip lining or a day hike to Australia Camp/Dhampus.

As the sun sets on our sound pilgrimage we’ll share food and connection, celebrating the moments and gifts we’ll take home with us.

Inhale to remember a final arresting dawnlight over the Annapurna, lake and sleeping township.

Dine with the butterflies, then farewell our mountain friends and transfer to Pokhara international Airport for the short return flight to Kathmandu.