Opaque Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" D Note | C=528 Tuning | #2312

For when clarity has left you too raw

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: D | Cents: +22 | Frequency: 297 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: D#-49 | Bowl #: 2312 ✨ Element: Opaque Quartz 🪨 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 🌬️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Sacral | Cycle of Fifths: Heart 💫

This opaque quartz crystal singing bowl sounds in D at 297 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra and the torso, chest cavity, and core. Opaque quartz—also called milky quartz—supports gentle grounding and emotional softening without overwhelming intensity. When the creative, flowing energy of the D frequency meets quartz in its most nurturing form, the result is sound that settles rather than stimulates, creating conditions for deep relaxation and embodied presence.

BEST FOR

• Nervous system regulation and stress relief
• Executives and leaders centering before high-stakes decisions
• Sound healers supporting clients through overwhelm or burnout
• Parents creating calm for anxious children at bedtime
• Teachers transitioning classrooms between activities
• Athletes seeking recovery and post-competition reset
• Anyone navigating grief, transition, or emotional processing

ESSENCE

I am the softened edge of ancient clarity, the veil that diffuses rather than dazzles. Where my crystalline cousins cut through with laser precision, I arrive like morning fog—present, protective, wrapping you in opacity that paradoxically reveals. When you've been scattered across a thousand obligations, when your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire, I am the substance that says: come home to your body. This bowl holds pure milky quartz, sounding at a frequency that moves through your core like water seeping into soil—patient, pervasive, grounding.

THE ELEMENT

Opaque quartz is pure silicon dioxide in its most gentle expression. Where clear quartz transmits light directly, milky quartz holds microscopic fluid-filled cavities and mineral inclusions throughout its structure—nature's way of creating softness from stone. This diffusion of light gives the mineral its characteristic luminous, cloud-like appearance, resembling smooth river stone rather than glass.

Found worldwide in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary formations, milky quartz has served humanity since prehistoric times. Ancient Egyptians incorporated it into protective amulets around 1500 BCE, while Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder described quartz as eternally frozen ice from Alpine glaciers—a poetic understanding that persisted for centuries. Indigenous peoples of the Americas have long revered quartz as a stone of clarity and spirit communication, using it in vision quests with gratitude to the earth. Tibetan Buddhists employ it in prayer wheels and malas for purifying energies during meditation.

When opaque quartz is formed into a Divine Bowls singing bowl, its unique microstructure becomes part of what vibrates. During the proprietary infusion process at over 3,000°F, the mineral's light-scattering properties integrate at the molecular level—not as a surface treatment, but as an essential part of the instrument itself. This is why people often describe this bowl's tone as softer, more enveloping than clear quartz alone. The opacity that defines the mineral also defines its sound: diffused, nurturing, protective without being armored.

When you work with opaque quartz, you're invited into a different relationship with clarity—one that doesn't demand you process everything at once. This element creates conditions for your nervous system to soften its grip, for your breath to drop from chest to belly, for inherited tensions to begin their slow thaw.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in D at 297 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra in the Western diatonic system. The D frequency carries an energetic quality of creativity, flow, and emotional expression, vibrating through your torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, and core. In the Cycle of Fifths system, this same frequency connects to the heart center—a bridge between emotional processing and heart-centered presence.

When opaque quartz's gentle, diffusing nature meets the flowing quality of D, something particular emerges: sound that supports emotional work without forcing catharsis. The frequency moves through your midsection like a slow tide, creating space for feelings to surface at their own pace. People often report a sense of being held rather than pushed—the bowl creating conditions for release without demanding it.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 297 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays D+22 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is D#-49 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 many find gently energizing—a quality that complements opaque quartz's grounding nature beautifully, offering lift without losing anchor.

(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 fourth-octave tones with very long sustain—meaning each strike or rim tone continues for an extended period, allowing sound to build and settle in layers. The deep, penetrating volume fills large spaces comfortably, making it ideal for group settings, ceremonial use, or rooms where sound needs to reach everyone present.

This size works beautifully in yoga studios and meditation halls, but equally well in living rooms where families gather, conference rooms where teams need collective reset, or therapy offices where the sound can envelop both practitioner and client. The 10-inch diameter allows opaque quartz's nurturing quality to express fully—the softness has room to breathe. Meanwhile, the fourth-octave D resonance naturally targets the torso and core, creating a foundational, body-centered experience that grounds even as it opens.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when intensity has accumulated—after a demanding week, before a difficult conversation, when your children are wound up and bedtime feels impossible, when your team needs to transition from scattered energy to focused presence. This is the bowl for moments when you need softening, not sharpening.

To begin, simply strike the bowl once with the mallet and listen. Let the sound wash through the room without trying to do anything with it. Notice where you feel the vibration in your body—many people sense it in their chest, belly, or lower back. You might place one hand on your abdomen as you listen, feeling your breath naturally deepen. There's no wrong way to receive this sound. Teachers use it to signal transitions; executives play it before entering negotiations; parents let it fill the room while children settle into sleep. The bowl doesn't require your expertise—only your presence.

For deeper work, try playing the bowl while seated comfortably, allowing the sustained tone to continue as you breathe slowly into your belly. Notice what softens. Notice what releases its grip. You might pair this bowl with grounding stones like smoky quartz or black tourmaline, or simply let it stand alone as your invitation to return to your body.

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 99.998% pure quartz—no welds, no weak points—built to last lifetimes of use.

INVITATION

You still reading says something. Not about destiny or calling—just about attention. You stayed through the specifications and the history, through frequency and formation. Something in this particular combination of softness and sound held your interest.

This is a bowl for the moments when intensity has accumulated and you need something that settles rather than stimulates. The 5am kitchen before anyone else wakes. The conference room after everyone's left. The bedroom where a child is finally, finally unwinding. Opaque quartz doesn't demand anything of you—not expertise, not spiritual vocabulary, not even a clear intention. It just offers its diffused, nurturing tone and lets you decide what to do with the quiet.

Every Divine Bowls singing bowl ships with a pure quartz mallet and silicone O-ring. If this one's yours, it's here.