Apache Peridot Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" C# Note | A=432 Tuning | #1536

I am the warmth that loosens what you've been holding

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: C# | Cents: -8 | Frequency: 542 Hz | Tuning: A=432 Natural Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: C#-8 | Bowl #: 1536 ✨ Element: Apache Peridot 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 💚 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root/Sacral transition | Cycle of Fifths: N/A (sharp notes not mapped in this system) 💫

This Apache Peridot crystal singing bowl sounds in C# at 542 Hz, resonating with the Root/Sacral transition zone and the torso, chest cavity, and core. Apache Peridot supports emotional clearing, heart-centered courage, and the release of old patterns that no longer serve. When volcanic fire meets the awakening quality of this transitional frequency, the experience is gentle detox that moves through the body—loosening what has calcified without forcing what isn't ready.

BEST FOR

• Emotional release and heart-opening meditation
• Those navigating life transitions, grief, or relationship changes
• Athletes and performers releasing pre-competition tension
• Therapists and counselors clearing energy between clients
• Students letting go of test anxiety and self-doubt
• Morning ritual for setting boundaries and self-trust
• Anyone carrying resentment, jealousy, or emotional heaviness

ESSENCE

I am the green fire that climbed from the deep places. When you've been holding something too long—resentment lodged in your chest, shame coiled in your belly, old stories that weigh more than they should—I arrive as the warmth that loosens without burning. I don't force open what needs to stay closed. I walk beside you while you learn what it means to be both protected and open, one breath at a time.

THE ELEMENT

Apache Peridot is gem-quality olivine, a magnesium-iron silicate that forms deep in Earth's upper mantle under pressures and temperatures most materials cannot survive. Carried to the surface through volcanic eruptions, this stone emerges from the same forces that shape mountains and islands. The Apache people of Arizona's San Carlos Reservation have gathered peridot from their ancestral lands for generations, where crystals weather out of black basalt flows, glinting yellow-green-gold against red desert earth. Hawaiians know similar stones as Pele's tears—named for the goddess of fire and volcanoes, honoring the transformative power that births new land from destruction.

The color you see isn't a surface quality—it comes from iron within the crystal's structure, making peridot one of few gemstones whose color is intrinsic rather than caused by trace impurities. When Apache Peridot is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure integrates at the deepest level during formation. The element's unique microstructure becomes part of what vibrates, producing resonance patterns you won't hear from any other instrument.

Across cultures and centuries, peridot has been called the "gem of the sun"—valued by Egyptian priests for protection, set into medieval church treasures to ward off fear, and used in contemporary practice for emotional clearing and heart healing. People reach for peridot during transitions: when old patterns feel heavy in the chest, when boundaries need strengthening, when confidence has been dimmed by criticism or comparison. Working with this element creates conditions for release—not harsh or punishing, but steady, like summer sun warming stone.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C# at 542 Hz, resonating at the transition between Root and Sacral chakras in the Western diatonic system. This transitional frequency carries the energetic quality of emergence and awakening—the moment between stability and flow, grounding and creative movement. The vibration naturally targets the torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, and solar plexus—precisely where emotional weight tends to accumulate.

When Apache Peridot's clearing warmth meets this transitional frequency, something particular happens: the sound moves through the places where you've been holding on. People often describe feeling their breath deepen spontaneously, as if the chest has more room. The C# frequency doesn't push toward release—it creates space where release becomes possible.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 542 Hz. Using A=432 as reference, it plays C#-8 cents. (Using A=440 as reference, this same frequency is C#-40 cents.)

This bowl is categorized in the A=432 tuning because its frequency aligns with instruments tuned to A=432 Hz—often called "Verdi tuning" or "natural tuning." Many people find A=432 produces a warmer, more organic quality that feels easier on the nervous system. If you have instruments tuned to A=432, or simply prefer this earth-connected sound, this bowl will harmonize beautifully with them. The technical specifications include an A=432 Equivalent field showing how this bowl is labeled in that reference system—helpful for musicians integrating bowls with other instruments.

(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 9 inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with long sustain—meaning each strike or rim circle continues singing, giving you time to breathe, settle, and receive without rushing to play again. The full, rich volume fills a room without overwhelming it, making this size ideal for yoga studios, therapy offices, living rooms, or any space where sound needs to reach multiple people. Teachers use bowls this size to signal classroom transitions; executives play them to open team meetings; parents find the sustained tone helpful for settling children at bedtime.

This size allows Apache Peridot's clearing warmth to express fully—the longer sustain gives the element's detoxifying quality time to work through the body. The fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the lower body and core, grounding the experience even as it invites release.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you notice heaviness in your chest or belly—the physical sensation of carrying something that's ready to go. This might be before a difficult conversation, after receiving hard news, during a life transition, or simply at the end of a week when accumulated stress has settled into your body. You don't need to name what you're releasing. The bowl doesn't ask for explanations.

Begin by placing the bowl on a stable surface or holding it in your palm. Strike once and breathe. Notice where the sound lands in your body—many people feel it in the heart space or solar plexus first. As the tone sustains, imagine warmth moving through those areas, loosening without forcing. You might circle the rim to extend the sound, or simply sit with the silence after the tone fades. There's no wrong way to do this. Athletes use this bowl before competition to release the tension of expectation. Writers play it to clear creative blocks. Caregivers reach for it after long days of giving. The bowl meets you wherever you are.

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

This bowl carries volcanic fire that learned patience. Apache Peridot formed under pressures that would unmake most things, then rode molten rock to the surface and waited—in black basalt, in red Arizona dust—to be found. It doesn't rush. It doesn't push. It just stays warm.

What it offers: steady heat for whatever has calcified. The resentment lodged somewhere in your chest. The old story that weighs more than it should. The tension you've been carrying so long you forgot it was optional. This bowl creates conditions for release—not the dramatic kind, but the kind that happens when something finally feels safe enough to let go.

You might be a sound healer building your collection. You might be a teacher who needs three minutes of quiet before the kids arrive. You might be someone who just likes the color yellow or green and the way sustained tones make a room feel different. The bowl doesn't ask for credentials.

It's here. You're here. That's enough to start.