Umang Yoga & Sound Healing Centre is a sound healing and yoga school on Virbhadra Marg in Rishikesh, India, founded by Gaurav Mishra. Its name comes from the Hindi word “umang”, meaning joy and enthusiasm. Umang offers 1, 3, 5 and 7-day Sound Healing Teacher Training and eight yoga and sound healing retreats, taught personally in small batches.
We did not name our school after a technique. We named it after a feeling.
In Hindi, umang describes the joy and enthusiasm that rise from within – the lightness you feel when something heavy finally lets go. It is not excitement from the outside, but a quiet, natural uplift of the spirit.
Again and again, that is how students describe the moment after a deep sound bath: calmer, lighter and strangely full of energy at the same time. Tibetan singing bowls and yogic practice clear the noise, and what is left underneath is umang.
So the name is also our promise. Every course, retreat and session at Umang Yoga & Sound Healing Centre is designed to help you rediscover that inner joy – and to give you the tools to return to it on your own.
Rishikesh is full of schools. Many of them are large, busy and fast. Umang Yoga & Sound Healing Centre was created to be the opposite – a quiet, personal space where ancient sound healing is taught slowly, carefully and with respect for where it comes from.
Founder Gaurav Mishra spent over a decade immersed in Himalayan ashrams, studying Tibetan singing bowl therapy and traditional yogic sadhana under traditional masters. Umang is where he shares that training – on Virbhadra Marg, close to the sacred Ganga and away from the noisy bazaar crowds.
Today Umang offers Sound Healing Teacher Training from 1 to 7 days and eight yoga and sound healing retreats. The classes have grown, but the heart has not changed: small batches, authentic instruments, and every session guided personally.
To preserve and share authentic Tibetan singing bowl therapy and traditional yogic sadhana in Rishikesh – taught personally, in small batches, with real hands-on practice – so every student leaves calmer, more capable and able to carry the practice home.
A world where ancient sound and yogic wisdom are practised with authenticity and care – where anyone can use sound to find stillness, and well-trained practitioners carry that healing into their own homes, studios and communities.
Master Healer & Guide
Having spent over a decade immersed in Himalayan ashrams studying under traditional masters, I witnessed firsthand the profound healing that happens when pure vibrational frequency touches the human nervous system. At Umang, every retreat and TTC is guided in intimate, small batches so you receive genuine personal mentorship, emotional release, and spiritual clarity.
“Yoga is skill and mindfulness in action.” It is the spirit in which every bowl is struck and every class is taught at Umang.
Some things we will never compromise on – and some things we deliberately leave out.
Sound healing rooted in Tibetan, Vedic and Nada Yoga practice.
Every class is taught and every retreat guided by Gaurav Mishra.
Hand-hammered multi-metal bowls and cosmic gongs.
Small groups only, so no one gets lost at the back of the room.
Time to practise until techniques feel natural.
No cheap replica bowls and no watered-down teaching.
Sound healing rooted in Tibetan, Vedic and Nada Yoga practice.
Every class is taught personally by Gaurav Mishra, with 10+ years of training in Himalayan ashrams.
Intimate classes with personal, hands-on correction.
Multi-metal singing bowls and cosmic gongs.
Cellular marma therapy and Agni fire meditation with sound.
Most of your time is spent playing, not just listening.
Virbhadra Marg, Rishikesh, near the sacred Ganga.
Teaching in both languages; welcoming to all nationalities.
Umang Yoga & Sound Healing Centre is a peaceful sound healing and yoga centre on Virbhadra Marg in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand – near AIIMS Rishikesh and close to the sacred River Ganga.
Learn, heal and rediscover the joy within – in small batches, with authentic instruments, by the sacred Ganga in Rishikesh.
