Lepidolite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 12" F# Note | C=528 Tuning | #1940

The exhale you've been holding for years

🎵 Size: 12" | Note: F# | Cents: +30 | Frequency: 376 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: G-40 | Bowl #: 1940

✨ Element: Lepidolite 💎💜 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Higher Heart 💫

This Lepidolite crystal singing bowl sounds in F# at 376 Hz, resonating with the Higher Heart chakra and the pelvis, hips, and lower spine. Lepidolite supports nervous system regulation, emotional transition, and the release of mental loops that keep the mind spinning. When this lithium-rich mineral meets the grounding frequencies of a 12-inch bowl, the result is a profound invitation to settle—not by numbing, but by creating the conditions where calm becomes possible.

BEST FOR

• Anxiety relief and nervous system regulation
• Sound healers supporting clients through burnout or grief
• Students seeking focus and calm before exams
• Executives centering before high-stakes decisions
• Parents helping anxious children settle at bedtime
• Anyone navigating major life transitions or identity shifts
• Therapists and counselors resetting between sessions

ESSENCE

I am the quiet exhale at the end of a long day, the softness that catches you when the world has asked too much. When your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire, when the mental loops won't stop spinning, I am the substance that says: you can rest now. This bowl holds lepidolite crystallized within quartz walls—a stone that knows how to slow things down without shutting them off.

THE ELEMENT

Lepidolite is a lithium-rich mica that forms in the deep, slow kitchens of granite pegmatites, cooling into thin translucent sheets with a characteristic glittering, scaly surface. Its name comes from the Greek lepidos, meaning "scale"—a nod to the pearly, flaky texture that catches light like pages in an old journal. The color ranges from pale lavender to deep purple-pink, the shades of twilight and healing bruises. Major deposits are found in Brazil, Madagascar, and the United States, particularly California and New Mexico.

What makes lepidolite remarkable is its molecular composition. This mineral contains the same element—lithium—that modern medicine uses in mood-stabilizing treatments. While the crystal itself is not a medical intervention, this connection helps explain why people have gravitated toward lepidolite for emotional support since the late 20th century. When lepidolite is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure becomes part of what vibrates—not a surface coating, but a true integration. The mineral's calming signature is woven into every frequency the bowl produces.

In contemporary wellness practice, lepidolite is widely used during periods of high stress, anxiety, insomnia, and emotional transition. People reach for it when the nervous system is overworked and the mind won't stop looping. It supports the heart in processing grief and old relational wounds while helping the mind release rumination and self-judgment. Working with lepidolite invites you to soften your grip—to stop white-knuckling your way through transitions and trust that emotional release does not equal emotional collapse.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in F# at 376 Hz, resonating with the Higher Heart chakra in the Western diatonic system. The Higher Heart sits between the heart and throat, governing compassion, forgiveness, and the bridge between feeling and expression. This frequency carries the energetic quality of manifestation and instant creation, vibrating through your pelvis, hips, and lower spine—the foundational connection to earth.

When lepidolite's nervous-system-soothing properties meet this frequency, something interesting happens. The Higher Heart's invitation to compassion combines with the mineral's permission to rest, creating a field where self-kindness becomes possible. People often report a sense of downshifting from mental overdrive into spacious calm, a loosening in the chest or jaw, a feeling that the loop they've been stuck in has finally found an exit.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 376 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays F#+30 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is G-40 cents.

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 beautifully with lepidolite's grounding emotional support—transcendence that anchors rather than floats away.

(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 12 inches, this bowl produces Octave 3 tones with very long sustain—meaning each strike or rim-play continues resonating for an extended period, 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, but also for anyone wanting sound that fills a living room or carries through an open office during a collective pause.

This size allows lepidolite's soft, enveloping quality to express with full presence, while the low octave naturally targets the pelvis, hips, and foundational body zones. The combination creates sound you feel as much as hear—vibration that moves through the sitting bones and lower spine, grounding the body while the mineral's energy soothes the mind.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when your thoughts are circling, when sleep feels far away, when you've been holding too much for too long. It serves the 3 a.m. waker with racing thoughts, the caregiver who gives all day and forgets to receive, the student whose mind won't quiet before an exam, the executive who needs to find stillness before a difficult conversation.

To begin, simply place the bowl on its O-ring and strike it once. Let the sound fill the space without trying to do anything with it. Notice where your breath naturally deepens. You might place a hand on your chest or belly—not to fix anything, but to witness. If you're working with children at bedtime, let them watch the bowl's rim as you play; the visual focus combined with sound often settles active minds faster than words. In a meeting context, a single strike before beginning creates a collective pause that shifts the room's energy. For deeper personal work, try playing the bowl while seated on the floor, letting the low frequencies move through your hips and sitting bones.

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

The 3 a.m. thought loop. The jaw you didn't realize was clenched. The nervous system that forgot how to downshift. If any of those feel familiar—if you've been carrying too much for too long and your body's starting to keep score—this bowl speaks that language.

Lepidolite knows the specific exhaustion of holding it together while quietly falling apart. This isn't a bowl that demands you transcend or perform your own healing. It's the one that says: you can rest now. The lithium-rich mineral meets a grounding F# frequency, creating sound that doesn't just fill a room—it gives your nervous system permission to finally exhale.

Whether you're a parent soothing anxious bedtimes, an executive finding stillness before a hard conversation, a caregiver who forgot to receive, or someone navigating grief with a to-do list that won't stop—this bowl creates the conditions where calm becomes possible. Not by numbing. By holding.

If you've read this far, your body already knows. The bowl's here when you're ready.