Cosmic Energy Centre (Ashram)

Cosmic Energy Centre (Ashram)

Cosmic Energy Centre (Ashram)
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5:00 AM - 9:00 PM
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5:00 AM - 9:00 PM
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5:00 AM - 9:00 PM
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5:00 AM - 9:00 PM
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5:00 AM - 9:00 PM
About
Varanasi Cosmic Energy Center is the home of Cosmic Healing and Holistic Yoga in the heart of the ancient city of Varanasi, right on the banks of the holy river Ganges in North India. Established by Umesh GuruJi, a holistic doctor and life-long student of the Self, our aim is to awaken each students true spiritual nature and guide them on their journey towards the Self. As part of this work we run courses at our ashram in Varanasi and on tours abroad. We also create online content for the seekers, the curious and students - past, present and future.
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  • Naomi T
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    I was walking in one of Varanasi's ghats as I suddenly saw this places sign- and decided to walk in and see what's in there... What a great decision to go and visit !! I was struggling with some dilemmas in my life and guruji was able to provide a lot of very helpful and deep guidance. I came back to talk to him a few times while I stayed in Varanasi, and also started practicing a few things he told me to do and I was able to notice a big change inside me and also have a better and clear view of how to solve my dilemma... If you are seeking for any kind of guidance, spiritual or mental help this is definitely the place for you. Highly recommended to pay a visit !!
    Visited November 2024
    Traveled solo
    Written November 18, 2024
  • moon2002
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    I studied energy healing with Umesh Guruji for two weeks in Varanasi (although my course was only one week, I kept showing up at the Ashram for another week). He taught basic techniques but placed more emphasis on self-development and practice. Under his supervision, I worked on his patients and his Indian students, including young men and women, as well as middle-aged couples. The practice, combined with positive feedback and constant encouragement from Umesh, instilled both humility and confidence in me. I then understood how 'energy is my best teacher,' as he put it. I felt safe, peaceful, and inspired during those two weeks. His wisdom and practical advice will stay with me forever. To give you an example of the kind of person or guru Umesh is: every afternoon, he creates a setup on the Shivala Ghat, inviting anyone to a guided meditation through headphones, including students, acquaintances, children, and passersby. A group of people sitting in silence is surprisingly not a common scene on the bustling ghats in this holy city. I witnessed one curious young Indian man try and transform. That’s one of Umesh’s ways of reminding people to 'look inside'.
    Visited February 2024
    Traveled solo
    Written April 2, 2024
  • Beatriz D
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    If you come to Varanasi you have to go through this center. I feel like a mandatory stop. Umesh shares with much love what he does, has very balanced and beautiful energy. It conveys knowledge and a very high vibration from giving and love. It is a beautiful being that raises the level of consciousness and a Guide for all those who want to travel a path to oneself. Very but highly recommended. We're going full.
    Visited July 2024
    Traveled with friends
    Written July 22, 2024
  • Diego Casa
    Todos Santos, Mexico2 contributions
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    What a great experience! Umesh is a Guru in all the extension of the word. His wise guidance helped me realize and practice healing techniques that I have come to understand are part of my nature. He is very pragmatical, simple, and dedicated to his community. If you come to Varanasi you should definitely take a course (or at least have a conversation) with Umesh.
    Visited July 2024
    Traveled solo
    Written August 2, 2024
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Sep 2023 • Family
Thank you, thank you, thank you to Umesh for his teaching of great wisdom and kindness. He is of rare generosity and ethics, and transmits his knowledge guided by the path of the Heart, according to what is right for each person.
Thank you for making this week in Varanasi unforgettable, my sister and I are leaving nourished and full of gratitude for Life.
I recommend anyone to spend a few days with Umesh, if you are looking for a teacher who truly serves a more conscious and loving world.
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Written September 6, 2023
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Dana
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Mar 2023 • Solo
As I walked down the Ganges during the beginning of my two week stay in Varanasi, I saw the sign at Shivala Ghat for cosmic energy, reiki, yoga and Ayurvedic healing. I walked up the steps and happily found Umesh Babaji. He invited me to join a meditation the next day. I joined the meditation with a few others and really enjoyed the experience. Playful yet effective. I decided to commit to a week long course, complete with practical & intuitive energy healing tactics, techniques and theories. He calmly shares his knowledge for students who want to learn. I loved my time with him and this course helped synthesize all my various practices (yoga, reiki, etc) into something I can use and offer and maybe one day share & teach. Babaji patiently answered all my questions, while laughing and coaxing the monkeys out of the ashram’s windows with fresh tomatoes.
Written March 12, 2023
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Daniel Krishna ji
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Apr 2022 • Solo
Guru Umeshji is an experienced healer and teacher with a lot of love to share. He has a strong intuition and he can see where your healing lies. He holds a powerful, stable space for self healing and therapy, and he provides respectful guidance when needed. He is a strong character with a deep respect for self.
I felt much more stable and strong after my time with him. Even having practiced meditation and yoga for some time with different teachers, Umeshji shared a new perspective that resonates very deeply with the environment of Varanasi and the powerful energy of the surrounding temples and ghats. It is a wonderful, challenging and transformative experience to be and work in Umeshji’s presence.
Thank you so much for your support and teaching Guruji, God bless you and I hope to work with you again in the future.

Om Namah Shivaya
Sri Krishna
(Daniel)
Written May 2, 2022
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Pravinsing Seehakoo
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Mar 2020 • Solo
I have had a beautiful and most inspiring spiritual journey with Guruji Umesh. It’s for the true seekers of spirituality. I’ve had the chance to meet Guruji(spiritual master) and I’m very much blessed. I have followed the 7 days course where I’ve learned how to balance my chakras and also learn meditation and healing. Guruji is a genuine person, always ready to land a helping hand to anybody. One can’t expect to learn everything in one day. It takes time and patience to reach one’s goal. I’m very happy that I have knocked at the right door, because there are other gurus out there who are swindlers, ripping off and misguiding people. I recommend Guruji Umesh with all my heart to all those are seeking the ultimate truth of life. Guruji, you have all my support, love and blessings even though I’m your student. Than you very much for everything that you have taught me.

Pravinsing Seehakoo from Mauritius 🇲🇺
Written March 7, 2020
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Thanks dear....Love
Written March 8, 2020
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Jorma v
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Feb 2020 • Couples
Umesh is a unique man with a big heart and a beautiful mission to help whenever and wherever he can. His knowledge is So big and So diverse, it's beautiful to have conversations about any topic. IF you are in Varanasi and you are Looking for a spiritual teacher who is honest, real, skillfull, funny and humble, I would recommend him for sure. Thank you 🙏
Written February 12, 2020
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Thanks dear....Love
Written February 13, 2020
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Treeya Dutta
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Nov 2020 • Solo
Umesh Guru ji is a warm hearted person and his deep analyzation make him Guru ji. His yoga meditation knowledge help me to find out myself. Expectations kill us always but expect teacher like Umesh Guru ji will chang your world.
I am Treeya from kolkata.. ( city of joy) but I dealing with street.. Guru ji help me by his thought process. Must visit al list once
Written March 8, 2021
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Karla
Dresden, Germany2 contributions
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Feb 2020 • Solo
I stayed in Varanasi for 9 days, having daily training with Umesh. A friend recommended to go. He is an incredible, professionell and precise teacher with very special energy! I experienced states of being through meditation at the cosmic healing center way more clearly and controlled after trying other, personally for me, unsuccessful forms of meditation. So don‘t expect the usual westernised, useless chi-chi with Umesh, rather accept what he is offering. When I got severely sick, Umesh was there for me to help. He always tries to point one in the right direction. I never forget my practice and stay in Varanasi and at the center. Can highly recommend!
Written February 29, 2020
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seb v
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Feb 2020 • Solo
Very recomended

I spent 12 days with Guriji. His big heart is incredible.
I feel much more reliesed than before. My vision of my own world completly changed. I had to accept and see truthly life in face of me, thank's for pushing me :)

The job consists in alternance of meditation, dancing meditation and pranic healin...

Enjoy
Written February 7, 2020
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Thanks dear....Love
Written February 13, 2020
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danwisethebrave
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Oct 2017 • Solo
What was meant to be a few weeks stay learning from this man, I cut abruptly short to 1 week. As, by that point, I had a number of red flags fire up in regard to him and his teachings.  
(I should point out that he had no other pupils at this time and I was on my own with him in the ashram)
Here I will outline a few of them:

 - During in the first week, he stated a number of times that I needed ‘man love’ and I should be accepting of his.  This, he said, could be quicker if I accepted an oil massage from him.  The two times he pushed for it, and I said no, he asked me to leave.  After the second time, I flew out of there.

- After questioning about needing ‘his man love’ and expressing my discomfort at receiving an oil massage, he later that evening told me that I ‘sucked all the energy out of him’ and as a result I ‘made him sick’ and so I am ‘a selfish girl’ - this is just one of the times he used blaming, shaming, guilt-tripping and other forms of emotional manipulation to try and get me to do what he wanted.

- He spoke about how ‘you should never speak ill of another person, it is bad karma.’  However, when we went to meet a woman who tried to tell him about an ex-student who was bad-mouthing him and his teachings (I can see why), he was quite cold and rude to her, but also spoke ill of her all the way back to the ashram.  Hypocritical?

- He told me that a couple, who are ex-students, have found fortune in Italy, but they have not donated a vast amount of money to him to build his own ashram.  As a result he said ‘karma will find them in about 6/8 years.  It is the cycle, I know these things.’  Really? Karma is based on whether people donate money to YOU? I think both religion and science might have some of their own questions there about life revolving around you.

- He said many times that he doesn’t like religion and that they are wrong and ‘a stupid’.  However, he tells you what you should wear (what colours etc.), tells you how to live your life, takes astrological charts as facts and, when you question karma, answers ‘but this is truth, don’t deny truth it is a stupid.’ DO NOT be fooled: that is a religion.  If it is a religion that you believe in then great, good for you.  However, this is NOT spirituality, and it is deceiving and ignorant to describe it as such.  He is a religious man who desires followers, he is not a spiritual leader.

There are many other aspects of my experience which contributed to my concern, however I have described the main ones.  Two people I know recommended this man and had positive experiences.  However, mine was the opposite and, to be honest, fairly traumatic.  I am a young, female adult who was on her own in India and the only student with him - hopefully you can see why his behaviour made me, at the very least, uncomfortable.
I have no doubt in my mind that he is not who he portrays he is.
Please exercise extreme caution.
Written January 5, 2018
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Lenča Z
2 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2018 • Solo
Even though I was a bit sceptical at the beginning, already the first practice and meeting Umesh in person convinced me completely.

Next three weeks with Umesh were amazing - getting to know myself, feeling the energy, spiritually evolving and solving problems I have buried into myself years ago.

At the end I can say that it was one of the most transformational practices of my life. Feeling pure happiness, love and endless possibilities. Umesh is warm, positive, giving and trustable, the best spiritual teacher one can have.

I would recommend this experience to everyone that know they haven't yet reach their full potential in life.

Umesh, thank you for everything!!!
Written July 21, 2018
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Thank you my dear. I am happy to read your experience. My help and love always with you. Best of luck.
Written December 5, 2018
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