Halite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 8" D Note | #300

I dissolve what you've been holding too long

🎵 Size: 8" | Note: D | Cents: +45 | Frequency: 301 Hz | Tuning: Uplift Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: D#-25 | Bowl #: 300 ✨ Element: Halite 🧂 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 🌊 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Sacral | Cycle of Fifths: Heart 💫

This halite crystal singing bowl sounds in D at 301 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra and the core of the body—torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, and mid-spine. Halite, the mineral form of salt, supports emotional release, energetic clearing, and grounded clarity. When ancient oceanic wisdom meets the creative flow of the sacral frequency, the experience is dissolution without force—a gentle loosening of what's been held too long.

BEST FOR

• Emotional release and energetic clearing work
• Executives centering before difficult conversations or decisions
• Sound healers supporting clients through stagnation or grief
• Students seeking mental clarity during exam preparation
• Creating calm for overwhelmed children at homework or bedtime
• Anyone navigating life transitions who needs to let go and move forward

ESSENCE

I am what remains when the ocean surrenders to sky. When you've been holding your breath against something you can't name, when old stories have crystallized in your chest and you've forgotten they're not permanent, I am the frequency that says: some things are meant to dissolve. This bowl carries ancient salt within quartz walls, sounding at the note of creative flow—an invitation to release what's been preserved past its purpose.

THE ELEMENT

Halite is pure sodium chloride—the mineral form of salt—crystallized into perfect cubic geometry over millions of years as ancient seas evaporated grain by grain. This simple ionic compound, soft enough to mark with a fingernail, forms in evaporite deposits worldwide: beneath the Mediterranean, in Saskatchewan's 400-million-year-old beds, across the American Southwest's salt flats. What remains after the water leaves is essence—chaos that learned to hold structure, ocean memory compressed into transparent cubes.

Human relationship with halite stretches back to 6000 BCE, when people first extracted salt from evaporated seawater for food preservation. Ancient Egyptians used it in mummification; Romans built extensive saltworks and valued it as currency. Indigenous peoples of the Great Salt Lake region revered halite deposits as sacred earth gifts, using evaporated lake salts in sweat lodges for purification. Across cultures, salt represents the meeting point of preservation and release—holding what matters while letting go of what's finished.

When halite is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure integrates at the formation stage—not as a surface coating, but as part of what vibrates. The mineral's unique microstructure becomes woven into the quartz itself, producing resonance patterns distinct from any other instrument. This is why people often describe halite bowls as having a "dissolving" quality to their tone—sound that seems to loosen rather than press, to clear rather than add.

Working with halite invites gentle release. This mineral doesn't force or break; it softens and clarifies. Traditions associate it with purification, grounding, and the clearing of stagnant energy. When you work with this bowl, you're working with the memory of ancient oceans—a frequency that recognizes where you've been holding and offers permission to let go.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in D at 301 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra in the Western diatonic system. The D frequency carries the energetic quality of creativity, flow, and emotional movement—vibrating through your core, torso, and the soft tissues of your midsection where emotion often lodges. In the Cycle of Fifths system, this frequency also connects to the heart center, creating a bridge between emotional processing and heart-centered release.

When halite's dissolving nature meets the sacral frequency's flowing quality, something particular happens. The sacral chakra governs how we process emotion, how we move through change, how we release what no longer serves. Salt's ancient wisdom—its knowledge of preservation and surrender—amplifies this creative, fluid energy. People often notice a loosening sensation in the belly or chest, a feeling of something unsticking that they didn't realize was stuck.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 301 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays D+45 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is D#-25 cents.

This bowl is categorized as Uplift Tuning because its frequency falls above the C=528 range, producing a brighter, more energizing quality. These frequencies have an awakening character—sounds that enliven rather than sedate. The slightly elevated pitch creates clarifying resonance that many find helpful for clearing stagnation, stimulating gentle movement, and bringing fresh energy to states that have become stuck. For halite specifically, this uplift quality supports its dissolving nature—bright enough to illuminate what needs releasing, clear enough to show the way forward.

(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 8 inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with medium-long sustain—sound that lingers and develops, giving you time to settle into the frequency without rushing. The full, projecting volume fills small to medium spaces comfortably: a living room, a classroom, a therapy office, a conference room before a team meeting. This size allows halite's gentle dissolving quality to express with warmth and presence, while the mid-range resonance naturally targets the core of the body—torso, chest, solar plexus, the places where we hold what we haven't processed.

This is a versatile size for anyone who wants a bowl that travels between contexts: substantial enough to anchor a yoga class or sound session, portable enough to move from room to room at home, present enough to shift the energy of a space without overwhelming it.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you notice you've been holding your breath. When something feels stuck—an emotion, a decision, a conversation you've been avoiding, a project that won't move forward. Halite doesn't require intensity or catharsis; it works through gentle, persistent invitation. Simply playing the bowl and breathing with its tone can begin to soften what's crystallized.

Position the bowl on a stable surface or hold it in your palm. Strike or rim the bowl and let the sound fill your space. Notice where in your body you feel the vibration—often the belly, chest, or throat. You might place one hand on your abdomen as you listen, giving attention to the core where this frequency resonates. There's no wrong way to work with this bowl. A teacher might play it during classroom transitions to help students release the energy of one subject before beginning another. An executive might sound it before a difficult meeting to clear mental clutter. A parent might use it at bedtime to help an anxious child settle. A caregiver might play it for themselves after a long day of giving, creating space to release what they've absorbed.

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

Here's what I know: I don't require anything of you. No spiritual vocabulary, no previous experience, no particular reason for being here. I'm 301 Hz of gentle loosening—available for the sound healer and the software engineer, the teacher stealing five minutes before the bell and the executive who needs one clear breath before walking into the room.

Some things are meant to dissolve.