Lepidolite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 12" F Note | #487

The exhale you've been holding back for months

🎵 Size: 12" | Note: F | Cents: +9 | Frequency: 351 Hz | Tuning: A=440 Concert Pitch | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: F+40 | Bowl #: 487 ✨ Element: Lepidolite 💎 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Heart | Cycle of Fifths: Root 💫

This lepidolite crystal singing bowl sounds in F at 351 Hz, resonating with the heart chakra and the pelvis, hips, and lower body. Lepidolite supports emotional regulation, nervous system calming, and graceful navigation of life transitions. When heart-opening frequency meets the mineral known for its lithium-rich soothing properties, the result is deep calm that settles through the entire body—grounding enough to anchor, gentle enough to release.

BEST FOR

• Anxiety relief and nervous system down-regulation
• Therapists and counselors transitioning between clients
• Students seeking calm focus before exams or presentations
• Those navigating grief, burnout, or major life transitions
• Parents creating peaceful bedtime routines for anxious children
• Athletes recovering and resetting after intense performance
• Anyone who's been strong for too long and needs permission to rest

ESSENCE

I am the exhale you've been holding back for months. When your thoughts spiral faster than your breath can follow, when your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire, I arrive not in drama but in layers—lilac and quiet, a shimmer that catches the light only when you slow down enough to notice. This bowl holds the mineral that knows what it means to flex rather than shatter, offering you a pocket of calm in which your own resilience can remember itself.

THE ELEMENT

Lepidolite is a lithium-rich mica mineral that forms in thin, elastic sheets with a distinctive pearly luster. Its colors range from soft lilac and lavender to pink and violet—hues that seem to hold twilight within them. The mineral crystallizes deep in granite pegmatites, born from the same slow pressure and heat that creates tourmaline and quartz, often found alongside these companion stones in deposits across Brazil, Madagascar, and the United States.

What makes lepidolite remarkable is its lithium content—the same element used in conventional medicine for mood stabilization. While the lithium in solid crystal form isn't bioavailable the way a pharmaceutical would be, this mineral has been embraced by wellness traditions as a stone of emotional soothing and transition support. People reach for it during life's harder passages: the breakup, the move, the career shift, the grief that won't announce its departure date.

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, creating resonance patterns unique to this instrument. People often describe lepidolite bowls as having a "softer" or "more enveloping" quality, as if the sound itself has learned to flex rather than push.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in F at 351 Hz, resonating with the heart chakra in the Western diatonic system. The F frequency carries the energetic quality of compassion and emotional balance, vibrating through your pelvis, hips, and lower body—creating an unusual and powerful combination of heart-opening energy grounded through your foundation.

When lepidolite's calming properties meet this heart-centered frequency, something interesting happens: the emotional release associated with heart work becomes anchored in the body rather than floating free. People report feeling both softened and stable, as if they can finally feel their feelings without being swept away by them. The third-octave depth means these vibrations penetrate slowly and thoroughly, giving your nervous system time to receive rather than react.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 351 Hz. Using A=440 as reference—the universal standard for modern instruments—it plays F+9 cents. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is F+40 cents.)

This bowl is categorized as Concert Pitch because its frequency falls within ±10 cents of A=440. Like a piano tuned to concert pitch, this bowl will sound in tune when played alongside guitars, keyboards, orchestras, or any instrument using standard tuning. If you play with other musicians, use recorded music in your sessions, or want your bowl to blend seamlessly with other instruments, this compatibility makes integration effortless.

(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 third-octave tones with very long sustain—meaning a single strike continues singing for an extended period, allowing you to simply receive rather than constantly play. The deep, penetrating volume fills large spaces naturally, making it ideal for group settings, ceremonial use, or any room where you want sound to wrap around rather than point at.

This size allows lepidolite's gentle, layered quality to express with full depth and presence. The lower octave resonance naturally targets the pelvis, hips, and foundational body—grounding the heart's emotional work through your physical base. Whether you're leading a yoga class, creating calm in a therapy waiting room, settling a classroom after recess, or simply wanting your living room to feel like a sanctuary, this bowl has the presence to transform the space.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you notice the telltale signs of an overtaxed nervous system: racing thoughts, shallow breathing, the inability to settle even when you're exhausted. You don't need to be in crisis—sometimes the best time to play is before the overwhelm peaks, as a preventive pause in your day.

Begin simply. Place the bowl on its O-ring, take three slow breaths, and let the mallet circle the rim until sound emerges. You might position yourself so the vibrations wash over your hips and lower body, grounding the calming effect through your foundation. Notice what softens first—perhaps your jaw, your shoulders, the grip in your hands. This bowl responds beautifully to slow, patient playing; let the sustain do the work rather than rushing to the next strike.

Consider using this bowl to mark transitions: between work and home, between giving care and receiving it, between the day's demands and evening's rest. Teachers find it effective for settling classrooms after high-energy activities. Therapists use it to clear the room between clients. Parents discover it helps anxious children find their way to sleep. Athletes appreciate it for recovery—the nervous system reset that allows the body to actually heal. And for anyone navigating grief or major life change, this bowl offers something simple but profound: permission to pause without fixing anything.

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

You've been strong for too long, haven't you? The kind of strong where your jaw stays clenched even in sleep, where your thoughts race faster than your breath can follow, where rest feels like something other people get to do. This lepidolite bowl doesn't ask you to be stronger—it offers you the opposite. A frequency that knows how to flex rather than shatter. A tone that wraps around your hips and lower body while opening your heart, grounding the emotional work through your foundation. The lithium-rich mineral meeting F at 351 Hz creates something people describe as "soft landing energy"—the exhale you've been holding back for months. Whether you're a therapist transitioning between clients, a teacher settling an overstimulated classroom, a parent navigating bedtime battles, an athlete learning that recovery is training too, or simply someone who needs permission to pause without fixing anything—this bowl doesn't care about your credentials. It cares that you're here, that you read this far, that some part of you recognized what it offers. Not every bowl finds every person. But if you felt something shift when you read "permission to rest," that's your nervous system telling you what it needs.