Galena Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" A# Note | A=432 Tuning | #1682

The weight that holds when everything else scatters

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: A# | Cents: -40 | Frequency: 228 Hz | Tuning: A=432 Natural Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: A#-7 | Bowl #: 1682 ✨ Element: Galena 🪨 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye/Crown transition | Cycle of Fifths: Not explicitly mapped (A# falls between Throat [A] and Third Eye [E]) 💫

This galena crystal singing bowl sounds in A# at 228 Hz, resonating at the transition between third eye and crown chakras while grounding through the pelvis, hips, and lower spine. Galena supports nervous system regulation, boundary-setting, and deep grounding that helps scattered minds return to the body. When this ancient lead ore meets the low, penetrating frequencies of a 10-inch bowl, the result is sound you feel in your bones—an anchor for anyone who's been living too long in their head.

BEST FOR

• Deep grounding and nervous system regulation
• Executives centering before high-stakes decisions or presentations
• Athletes seeking pre-competition focus or post-game recovery
• Sound healers supporting clients through anxiety or burnout
• Students needing concentration for exams and deep study sessions
• Creating calm for anxious children at homework or bedtime
• First responders decompressing after difficult shifts

ESSENCE

I am the weight that holds. Not the light that lifts—I am the density you feel in your bones when you finally stop running. When you've been scattered across a thousand obligations, when your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire, I am the substance that says: come home to your body. This bowl carries galena's ancient knowing crystallized within quartz walls, sounding at a frequency low enough to remind your animal self that you are safe enough to be here.

THE ELEMENT

Galena is lead sulfide—a mineral that has anchored human civilization for five thousand years. Its silvery cubic crystals form in the dark pressure of hydrothermal veins, emerging with a metallic luster that catches light like a promise. From ancient Sardinian mines to Missouri's Mississippi Valley deposits, humans have turned to galena when they needed substance: lead for Roman aqueducts, silver hidden in its veins, the sheer material required to build something lasting.

In energy work traditions, galena is associated with the root chakra and the element of earth. Its extraordinary density—heavier in the hand than almost any common mineral—makes it a natural ally for grounding practices. People reach for galena when digital life has them unmoored, when anxiety keeps them vibrating at frequencies that make their own skin feel foreign. It creates conditions for boundary-setting, for knowing where you end and the world begins.

When galena is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure integrates at the deepest level—not a coating, but a fundamental part of what vibrates. The mineral's grounding signature weaves into every frequency the bowl produces. This is why people often describe galena bowls as having a "heavier" or "more anchored" tone than clear quartz alone—the density isn't just visual, it's sonic.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A# at 228 Hz, carrying the energetic quality of transcendent knowing brought into embodied form. In the Western diatonic system, A# sits at the transition between third eye and crown—elevated consciousness meeting the practical need to stay present. The frequency vibrates through your pelvis, hips, and lower spine, targeting the body's foundational connection to earth.

When galena's grounding density meets this A# frequency, something interesting happens. The note carries spiritual insight, but the element refuses to let that insight float away. Instead, you get transcendence that anchors—awareness that stays connected to your bones, your breath, your weight on the chair. People often report feeling simultaneously clearer and more settled, as if they can finally think because they've stopped trying to escape their body.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 228 Hz. Using A=432 as reference, it plays A#-7 cents. (Using A=440 as reference, this same frequency is A#-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. (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 10 inches, this bowl produces octave 3 tones with very long sustain—meaning one strike continues singing while you breathe, settle, and let the sound do its work. The deep, penetrating volume fills large spaces without overwhelming, making it equally suited for group sound baths, team meeting openings, or the corner of a living room where you go to reset.

This size allows galena's grounding density to express with full authority. The low octave naturally targets your body's foundation—pelvis, hips, sitting bones—creating physical sensation you don't have to imagine or visualize. You simply feel it. For anyone working with anxiety, scattered attention, or the chronic tension of holding themselves together, this combination of size and element offers something the body recognizes immediately: permission to land.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you notice you've been living in your head—when your jaw is tight, your breath shallow, your attention scattered across too many tabs. You don't need a formal practice or special training. Simply strike the bowl and let the sound find you. Notice where the vibration lands in your body. Let your exhale be longer than your inhale. That's enough.

This bowl works beautifully for morning grounding before the day's demands begin, for the transition between work and home, for helping children settle before homework or sleep. Athletes use it for pre-competition centering and post-workout recovery. Executives play it before presentations when they need to be fully present rather than spinning in anticipation. Teachers strike it to signal transitions, creating a moment of collective pause. The frequency doesn't ask what you do for a living—it simply offers an anchor.

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

This isn't a bowl for everyone. Galena doesn't sparkle or promise transformation or help you manifest your best life. It offers something less glamorous and more useful: weight. The kind that reminds your nervous system it's allowed to stop bracing.

Some people need that. The executive whose jaw hasn't unclenched since Tuesday. The teacher holding space for thirty kids while running on four hours of sleep. The parent who's been "fine" for so long they've forgotten what settled actually feels like. The first responder who came home but hasn't really arrived yet.

This bowl ships with a pure quartz mallet and silicone O-ring—everything you need to start. Whether it finds its way to a sound healing studio, a corner of your living room, or the break room where you steal three minutes between meetings, that's yours to decide.

The bowl is here. It's not going anywhere. Neither, apparently, are you.