Vibrational Cleanse Herkimer Diamond Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 8" F Note | A=432 Tuning | #136

I grew in darkness for 500 million years to help you see clearly now

🎵 Size: 8" | Note: F | Cents: +8 | Frequency: 344 Hz | Tuning: A=432 Natural Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: F+8 | Bowl #: 136 ✨ Elements: Vibrational Cleanse, Herkimer Diamond 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 💚 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Heart | Cycle of Fifths: Root 💫

This Vibrational Cleanse crystal singing bowl with Herkimer Diamond sounds in F at 344 Hz, resonating with the heart chakra and the chest, lungs, and core. Herkimer Diamond supports mental clarity, energetic purification, and intuitive amplification. When heart frequency meets this 500-million-year-old crystal known for its water-clear precision, the result is a cleansing that moves through compassion—clearing not by force, but by making space for what's true.

BEST FOR

• Mental clarity and energetic cleansing during meditation
• Sound healers facilitating deep release and purification work
• Writers and creatives breaking through fog and creative blocks
• Students preparing for exams who need sharp, clear focus
• Therapists and counselors clearing energy between sessions
• Anyone navigating life transitions who need to see clearly
• Morning ritual for starting the day with intention and presence

ESSENCE

I am the crystal that grew in darkness and emerged as light. For 500 million years, I waited in limestone pockets, forming not through pressure but in cool, silent chambers where clarity itself took shape. When you've been scattered across too many obligations, when your mind hums with static and your heart feels clouded, I don't push—I clarify. I create space so precise that what no longer serves you recognizes itself and loosens. I'm not here to heal you. I'm here to help you hear yourself.

THE ELEMENT

Herkimer Diamonds are double-terminated quartz crystals formed in the ancient limestone and dolomite deposits of Herkimer County, New York—geological formations dating back 500 million years to the Cambrian seas. Unlike most quartz that forms under intense heat and pressure, these crystals grew slowly in cool, gas-filled cavities, emerging with exceptional water-clarity and their distinctive six-sided form with points at both ends. This dual termination isn't accidental—it's how these crystals learned to receive and transmit simultaneously.

The Haudenosaunee peoples of upstate New York, traditional stewards of these lands, have long revered clear quartz varieties for vision quests and purification ceremonies. When miners first discovered Herkimer Diamonds in the 1700s, they mistook them for actual diamonds due to their brilliance. They're not diamonds—they're something older: pure silicon dioxide arranged with such molecular precision that light doesn't just reflect from their surfaces but moves through them, bending and amplifying.

This bowl's Vibrational Cleanse blend combines Herkimer Diamond with Chevron Amethyst, Super 7, Casa Blanca Lily oil, Mount Shasta spring water, and Rain Forest Drops—water collected from the leaf tips of Elephant Ears plants, where tropical moisture is naturally refiltrated through living tissue. When these elements are infused during Divine Bowls' proprietary formation process, they integrate at the molecular level, creating a unique microstructure within the quartz itself. That structure is what vibrates when the bowl sings—producing resonance patterns you won't hear from any other instrument. Together, these elements create a cleansing that works through multiple channels: the Herkimer's precision clarity, the amethyst's emotional release, the lily's gentle opening, and the pure waters grounding high vibration into something your body can metabolize.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in F at 344 Hz, resonating with the heart chakra in the Western diatonic system. The F frequency carries the energetic quality of compassion, balance, and emotional integration, vibrating through your chest cavity, lungs, and core. When Herkimer Diamond's clarifying precision meets the heart's frequency, something interesting happens: the cleansing doesn't bypass feeling—it moves through it. People often describe this combination as "seeing clearly without becoming cold," a purification that opens rather than strips away.

The heart chakra governs not just romantic love but our capacity for connection, self-compassion, and the courage to be honest with ourselves. This frequency creates conditions where mental fog lifts and emotional truth becomes easier to face—not because the bowl forces clarity, but because it creates such coherent vibration that scattered energy naturally reorganizes.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 344 Hz. Using A=432 as reference, it plays F+8 cents. (Using A=440 as reference, this same frequency is F-25 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.

(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—enough time to breathe into the sound without it fading too quickly. The full, projecting volume makes it ideal for small to medium groups, whether that's a yoga class, a family living room, a therapy office, or a team meeting room. This size travels well between spaces while still filling a room with presence.

The 8-inch diameter allows Herkimer Diamond's high-frequency clarity to express with warmth rather than sharpness, while the fourth-octave F resonance naturally targets the core and chest—the physical home of the heart chakra. It's substantial enough to anchor a morning ritual or close a workday, portable enough to move from bedroom to office to treatment room.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when mental fog has settled in, when you're navigating a transition and need to see your next step clearly, or when you've absorbed too much from others and need to return to your own signal. It's equally valuable before creative work that requires fresh thinking, after difficult conversations that left residue, or at the start of any day when you want to begin from clarity rather than accumulation.

To begin, simply play the bowl and breathe. You don't need special techniques or prior experience. Let the sound fill your space—your bedroom, your office, your classroom, your treatment room. Notice what shifts. Some people feel a coolness first, then a subtle hum at the crown or third eye, as if a radio dial finally locked onto signal. Others notice their shoulders drop, their jaw unclench, their thoughts quiet. There's no wrong way to receive this. The bowl creates conditions; you do the work of letting go.

For deeper practice, place your hand on your heart while the bowl sounds. Notice what you're carrying that isn't yours. Notice what clarity feels like in your body—not as an idea, but as a physical sensation. Teachers might play this bowl during classroom transitions when students need to refocus. Athletes might use it during visualization before competition. Caregivers might steal three minutes with it between giving to others. The bowl doesn't ask for credentials. It asks only for your attention.

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

Still here?

That's worth noticing. Not everyone stays through the geology and the frequency charts and the talk of Cambrian seas. But you did—whether you're a sound healer building your collection, a teacher looking for something to settle a restless classroom, or someone who just liked the phrase "water-clear precision" and wanted to see where it led.

This bowl doesn't ask about your credentials. It doesn't care if you've never played a singing bowl or if you've played a thousand. It offers the same thing either way: a frequency that clarifies. Space where scattered thinking can reorganize itself. A tone that fills a room—your bedroom, your office, your treatment room, your kitchen at 5am—and asks nothing except your attention.

Herkimer Diamond spent 500 million years learning to let light pass through without holding on. This bowl carries that patience. It's available when you are.