Kornerupine Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 12" C Note (-40) | A=432 Tuning | #1458

The first full breath you've taken in weeks

🎵 Size: 12" | Note: C | Cents: -40 | Frequency: 258 Hz | Tuning: Grounding Frequencies | Octave: 3 | Bowl #: 1458 ✨ Element: Kornerupine 💎 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root | Cycle of Fifths: Sacral 💫

🔮 Special Frequency: In tune with A=432 — aligns with instruments tuned to A=432 Hz (Verdi tuning)

This Kornerupine crystal singing bowl sounds in C at 258 Hz, resonating with the root chakra and the pelvis, hips, and lower spine. Kornerupine supports emotional circulation and heart-centered grounding, helping what's been stuck begin to move again. When this rare metamorphic mineral meets a deep foundational frequency, the experience is transformation that anchors through the body—change made stable.

BEST FOR

• Heart-centered meditation seeking emotional release without forcing catharsis
• Sound healers working with clients navigating exhaustion or burnout
• Caregivers and therapists needing to restore their own emotional reserves
• Morning grounding rituals before demanding workdays or difficult conversations
• Anyone in transition—career shifts, relationship changes, grief passages
• Creative professionals reconnecting with authentic voice after periods of performance

ESSENCE

I am the stone that forms in the quiet crush of mountains becoming themselves. When the gap between who you are and who you've been showing the world has worn a groove in your chest, I settle in like the first full breath you've taken in weeks—the one that reaches all the way down. This bowl holds metamorphic patience crystallized within quartz walls, sounding at the deepest note of foundational connection: an invitation to let your heart break open instead of just breaking.

THE ELEMENT

Kornerupine is a rare borosilicate mineral formed under intense metamorphic pressure, where magnesium, iron, aluminum, and boron fuse into prismatic crystals over geological time. It emerges primarily from Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Kenya, and Tanzania—places where the earth's crust has folded and transformed, creating conditions for this unusual stone to take shape. With a hardness of 6.5-7 and striking pleochroism that shifts between green, blue-green, and brown depending on the viewing angle, kornerupine embodies complexity held in structure.

Traditional healers in South Asian and East African communities have long valued green borosilicate stones for harmonizing body energies and supporting the life force in finding its natural channels. In contemporary wellness, kornerupine is associated with the heart chakra—not the Valentine version, but the center where love and grief share the same address. People reach for it when emotional circulation has stagnated, when they've been managing everyone else's feelings so long they've forgotten the texture of their own.

Divine Bowls' proprietary process integrates kornerupine at the molecular level during formation, creating a unique microstructure within the quartz itself. That structure is what vibrates when the bowl sings—carrying the mineral's metamorphic patience into sound. The result is an instrument that supports honest transformation: not overnight change, but the slow, pressure-tested becoming that actually lasts.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C at 258 Hz, resonating with the root chakra in the Western diatonic system. The C frequency carries the energetic quality of grounding and foundational connection, vibrating through your pelvis, hips, sitting bones, and lower spine—the places where your body meets the earth, where stability lives.

This bowl's 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; if you have instruments tuned to this standard, this bowl will harmonize beautifully with them. When kornerupine's heart-opening patience meets this deep foundational tone, something unexpected emerges: emotional release that doesn't scatter but settles, heart work that stays rooted in the body. You may notice your breath deepening before you consciously decide to relax, your shoulders dropping as the sound moves through your lower body and rises. The bowl creates conditions for what's been stuck to start moving—not dramatically, but like spring thaw, like circulation returning to cold hands.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 258 Hz, placing it in our Grounding range—its frequency sits below concert pitch, producing a warmer, more organic quality with a gentle settling energy.

Grounding bowls like this one are good for deep relaxation, meditation, and foundational work. Many people find frequencies in this range feel easier on the nervous system, with a quality that settles into the body rather than floating above it. The tone invites you down rather than pulling you up.

This bowl is also in tune with A=432—its frequency aligns with instruments tuned to A=432 Hz, often called "Verdi tuning" or "natural tuning." If you have instruments tuned to A=432, this bowl will harmonize beautifully with them.

(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—a single strike continues singing while you breathe, settle, and let the sound do its work. The deep, penetrating volume fills large spaces without effort, making it ideal for group sound baths, yoga studios, ceremonial gatherings, and retreat centers. It also anchors a living room or therapy practice with presence that smaller bowls can't match. This size allows kornerupine's metamorphic patience to express with full-bodied richness, while the low-octave resonance naturally targets the pelvis, hips, and foundational body—the places where we hold what we haven't yet processed.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you've been running on empty. When you've been the strong one for too long, or when a transition has left you unmoored and you need something to help you land. Play it before difficult conversations, at the end of demanding workdays, or in the morning when you need to arrive in your body before the day pulls you elsewhere.

Start simply: place the bowl on its O-ring, take one full breath, and let the mallet circle the rim until the tone builds. You don't need technique—just presence. Notice where the sound lands in your body. Your hips, your sitting bones, your lower back. Let your exhale lengthen without forcing it. Teachers use this bowl to settle classrooms after recess. Therapists play it between sessions to clear the room and restore themselves. Athletes use it for recovery, parents for bedtime rituals, team leaders to open meetings with three seconds of shared stillness. There's no wrong way to work with it. The bowl creates conditions; you do the rest.

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

Some bowls arrive announcing themselves. This one settles in—like the first full breath you've taken in weeks, the one that reaches all the way down.

Kornerupine formed under the quiet crush of mountains becoming themselves. It knows something about transformation that doesn't rush, about complexity that holds its shape. Infused into quartz and sounding at 258 Hz, this bowl carries that patience into your space—wherever that space is, whatever you're navigating there.

It doesn't ask for credentials or spiritual vocabulary. It doesn't need you to be ready. It's simply here: a 12-inch instrument with very long sustain, deep enough to fill a room or anchor a single person sitting with their own questions.