Stibnite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" C Note | C=528 Tuning | #1702

I am the willow in the storm, rooted yet yielding

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: C | Cents: +30 | Frequency: 267 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: C#-34 | Bowl #: 1702 ✨ Element: Stibnite 🪨 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root | Cycle of Fifths: Sacral 💫

This stibnite crystal singing bowl sounds in C at 267 Hz, resonating with the root chakra and the pelvis, hips, and lower spine. Stibnite supports grounding during times of change and gentle release of what no longer serves. When this ancient mineral of flexibility meets the foundational C frequency, the result is stability that bends without breaking—an anchor that allows movement rather than demanding rigidity.

BEST FOR

• Root chakra grounding and emotional release work
• Anyone navigating major life transitions or uncertainty
• Athletes seeking pre-competition centering and post-game recovery
• Sound healers supporting clients through trauma or burnout
• Students needing focus and calm before exams or presentations
• Creating stability for anxious children at homework or bedtime
• First responders and caregivers decompressing after difficult shifts

ESSENCE

I am the mineral that bends without breaking, the silver-gray blade that knows the weight of earth and the lightness of transformation. When life churns faster than your nervous system can process, when old fears loop like a skipping record, I am the substance that says: you can be rooted and still move. This bowl holds stibnite crystallized within quartz walls, sounding at the frequency of foundation—an invitation to feel your feet on earth again.

THE ELEMENT

Stibnite is antimony sulfide, a mineral born in hydrothermal veins where heat and pressure marry sulfur to metal. Its elongated crystals form in radiating sprays of metallic silver-gray, soft enough to flex slightly under gentle pressure yet gleaming like polished steel. Major deposits are found in China's Hunan province, Peru, Bolivia, and the United States—places where earth's depths yield this remarkable mineral of duality.

For five thousand years, humans have ground stibnite into kohl to line their eyes—not for vanity alone, but for sight. Ancient Egyptians applied it in rituals for protection against the evil eye. Andean shamans have long viewed antimony minerals as earth guardians, using them in ceremonies to connect with Pachamama. Alchemists of the 15th century worked with it as a symbol of inner transformation. Throughout these traditions, stibnite has represented the threshold between surface beauty and hidden depths, between what we show and what we carry.

When stibnite is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure becomes part of what vibrates—not a coating, but an integration. The mineral's grounding signature is woven into every frequency the bowl produces. When you work with this bowl, you're working with five millennia of human wisdom about protection, clarity, and the kind of strength that yields without shattering.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C at 267 Hz, resonating with the root chakra in the Western diatonic system. The C frequency carries the energetic quality of grounding and foundation, vibrating through your pelvis, hips, legs, and lower spine—the parts of your body that connect you to earth.

When stibnite's flexible strength meets this foundational frequency, something specific happens: the bowl creates conditions for releasing what's held in your base without destabilizing your structure. People often describe this combination as feeling "rooted yet fluid"—anchored enough to let go safely. The low, steady resonance naturally targets the body zones where we store fear, survival stress, and ancestral patterns.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 267 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays C+30. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is C#-34.

This bowl is categorized in the C=528 tuning because its frequency aligns with instruments tuned so that middle C equals 528 Hz—known as the "Love Frequency" in Solfeggio tradition. This brighter tuning is associated with heart-opening qualities and joyful expansion. The slightly elevated pitch creates an uplifting, clarifying resonance that balances stibnite's deeply grounding nature with a quality of gentle opening.

(For fine adjustment, adding water to the bowl lowers the pitch slightly—a technique some use to dial in precise intervals when playing with other instruments.)

THE SIZE

At 10 inches, this bowl produces third-octave tones with very long sustain—meaning each strike continues resonating for extended periods, allowing sound to settle deeply into the body and space. The deep, penetrating volume makes it ideal for large group settings, ceremonial work, yoga studios, and treatment rooms, while remaining powerful enough to fill a living room or anchor a team meeting.

This size allows stibnite's grounding qualities to express with full weight and presence. The low octave naturally targets the foundational body zones—pelvis, hips, sitting bones—where root chakra energy resides. Whether you're leading a sound bath for fifty people or creating a grounding ritual in your home office before a high-stakes presentation, this bowl's voice carries.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when life feels unmoored—when change churns faster than you can process, when scattered energy needs gathering back into your body. It serves the executive before a difficult conversation, the parent after a chaotic morning, the student facing exam anxiety, the athlete visualizing before competition. Play it when you need to feel your feet on earth again.

Begin simply: sit comfortably, strike the bowl once, and let the sound wash through you. Notice where the vibration lands in your body—often the hips, lower back, or legs. You might place one hand on your lower belly as you listen, breathing naturally. There's no wrong way to work with this bowl. Some people play it at the start of meetings to ground scattered attention. Others use it during classroom transitions to help students settle. Athletes find it useful for pre-competition centering or post-game recovery. Caregivers reach for it in the pause between giving. Let the long sustain do its work—you don't need to fill the silence.

Each Divine Bowls singing bowl includes a pure quartz mallet wrapped in premium silicone for optimal resonance, plus a silicone O-ring for stable playing on hard surfaces. Every bowl is formed in a single seamless vessel from 99.995% pure quartz—no welds, no weak points—built to last lifetimes of use.

INVITATION

Stibnite doesn't chase. It doesn't need to. For five thousand years, this mineral has simply offered what it knows: how to bend without breaking, how to stay rooted while everything shifts. The bowl holds that same patience—available, unhurried, content to wait while you decide whether this particular medicine belongs in your life.

Maybe you're a sound healer building a collection. Maybe you're a parent who needs three minutes of grounding before the morning chaos. Maybe you're an athlete who wants something to anchor visualization work, or a teacher looking for a way to settle thirty scattered minds. Stibnite doesn't ask for credentials. It asks only this: Are you willing to feel your feet on earth again?