About

Hi, I'm Nikita (Nick), founder of VAYU sounds.

We source singing bowls, gongs, and bells directly in Nepal, and manufacture flat sound plates and custom gongs in our own workshop in Odesa, Ukraine. The focus is sound and overall quality — we sell working instruments to sound healing professionals, yoga studios, retreat centers, and esoteric retailers worldwide. Whether you're buying one bowl for yourself, a note set for your practice, or a wholesale batch for your business — every instrument that leaves our hands gets the same attention.

Selecting a bowl means running it through 5–6 specific criteria that most wholesale suppliers simply don't apply: geometry, ease of play, harmonic richness, sustain, the absence of thin unwanted overtones, the absence of beats and dissonance. Every bowl passes through these before it has any chance of entering our stock. My background as an amateur multi-instrumentalist helps — it shapes how I listen and how I distinguish consonance from interference.

Hand-forged only. No toys, no souvenirs. In some batches, only 20–25% of what a manufacturer shows us actually ships. The rejection rate is staggering — and it's the main reason we can hold our ground against the volume of Alibaba suppliers. We guarantee the quality of everything we sell. Prices include international shipping via air cargo or courier services such as Skynet, DPD, or UPS, depending on destination. Full delivery and payment details here.

Beyond the business side — I've been traveling to India, Nepal, and Southeast Asia with my family since 2009, partly for sourcing, partly because that part of the world keeps pulling us back. I live in an eco-village in Ukraine. Slow, considered, built to last — that's the general operating principle, in work and everything else.