Trace Minerals Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" A Note | A=432 Tuning | #2558

I don't float—I anchor vision into bone.

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: A | Cents: -16 | Frequency: 218 Hz | Tuning: A=432 Natural Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: A+16 | Bowl #: 2558 ✨ Element: Trace Minerals 🪨 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye | Cycle of Fifths: Throat 💫

This Trace Minerals crystal singing bowl sounds in A at 218 Hz, resonating with the Third Eye chakra and the deep body—pelvis, hips, lower spine, and foundational connection to earth. Trace minerals support mental clarity, grounded presence, and the kind of steady focus that comes from having something solid beneath you. When the frequency of intuition and inner vision meets earth's most ancient elemental signatures, the result is insight that doesn't float away—wisdom anchored in the body.

BEST FOR

• Mental clarity and focused concentration
• Executives centering before high-stakes decisions
• Students preparing for exams or deep study sessions
• Sound healers supporting clients through scattered, overwhelmed states
• Teachers creating focused transitions in classroom settings
• Athletes grounding before competition or visualization practice
• Anyone rebuilding after periods of mental fog or overstimulation

ESSENCE

I am the foundation beneath your feet when everything else trembles. When you've scattered yourself across too many tabs, too many obligations, too many voices demanding your attention, I am what says: come back to what's essential. I don't rush in. I settle. And I hold space—steady, precise, ancient—until you remember that clarity was yours all along.

THE ELEMENT

Trace minerals are the subtle signatures embedded within quartz crystal—minute presences of iron, aluminum, lithium, titanium, and other elements that have traveled through the earth's crust over geological time. These aren't dominant forces; they're whispers in the lattice, impurities that aren't flaws but rather the earth's memory crystallized into form. Where pure quartz amplifies whatever you bring, trace minerals add depth—a grounding quality that stabilizes without heaviness.

Quartz itself forms in the trigonal crystal system, six-sided prisms emerging from pressures and temperatures beyond human experience. It ranks 7 on the Mohs hardness scale. It doesn't yield easily. The trace elements within create subtle variations in how light moves through the crystal and how energy expresses—each combination unrepeatable, each bowl carrying its own elemental fingerprint.

When trace minerals are infused into a Divine Bowls singing bowl, they integrate at the molecular level during formation—not applied afterward, but woven into the quartz structure itself. That resulting microstructure is what vibrates when the bowl sings, producing resonance patterns unique to this particular combination of earth elements. People who work with trace mineral bowls often describe the tone as having more "weight" or "presence" than clear quartz alone—a sound that settles into the room rather than floating through it.

Traditionally, quartz with mineral inclusions has been used across cultures for grounding scattered energy and supporting clear thinking. The Lakota called clear quartz wotawe—spirit stone—and used it in vision quests to amplify prayers. Australian Aboriginal custodians embedded it in songlines. These traditions understood what modern users discover: when you need something that won't bend while you do the hard work of becoming, you reach for stone.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A at 218 Hz, resonating with the Third Eye chakra in the Western diatonic system. The A frequency carries the energetic quality of intuition, wisdom, and inner vision—the capacity to see clearly beyond surface appearances. This vibration moves through the deep body: pelvis, hips, lower spine, sitting bones. The foundational zones.

There's something particular about Third Eye frequency expressed through a 10-inch bowl. The note associated with insight and vision arrives not as ethereal abstraction but as something you feel in your bones, in your seat, in your connection to the ground. When trace minerals' grounding signature meets this frequency of clarity, the experience is vision that stays rooted—knowing that doesn't disconnect you from your body but anchors more deeply into it.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 218 Hz. Using A=432 as reference, it plays A+16. Using A=440 as reference, this same frequency is A-16.

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 resonating for an extended period, filling space without requiring constant attention. The deep, penetrating volume makes it ideal for large group settings, ceremonial use, or any space where sound needs to reach and hold a room: yoga studios, conference rooms, classrooms, hotel lobbies, or living rooms where family gathers.

This size allows trace minerals' grounding quality to express with full authority. The lower octave naturally targets the deep body—pelvis, hips, foundation—while the sustained resonance creates an environment where scattered attention can gradually settle. For those who facilitate groups, lead teams, or teach, this bowl establishes presence without demanding it.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when your mind has been running faster than your body can follow. Before the meeting where you need to think clearly. After the day that pulled you in twelve directions. When your child can't settle into homework. When you're preparing for something that requires your full presence—an exam, a presentation, a difficult conversation, a creative project that's been stuck.

Begin simply: strike the bowl once and let the sound fill the space. You don't need technique or training. Just listen. Notice where the vibration lands in your body—many people feel it in their hips, their seat, their lower back. Let your breath slow to match the sustain. If thoughts arise, let them. The bowl isn't asking you to empty your mind; it's offering something steady to return to when you notice you've drifted.

For classroom or meeting use, a single strike at the beginning creates a collective pause—a moment where everyone arrives together before the work begins. For personal practice, try three minutes before deep work or study: strike, breathe, let the sound establish the ground you'll think from. For evening wind-down, the long sustain naturally signals the nervous system that it's time to settle.

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? Good.

This bowl won't tell you what you need. It won't promise clarity or claim to know why you came. It's 218 Hz of trace minerals and ancient quartz, formed in one seamless vessel, and it does exactly one thing well: it stays steady while everything else doesn't.

Some people use it before the meeting that matters. Some strike it once when the house finally goes quiet. A teacher in Ohio plays it during transitions; a sommelier in Portland swears it changes how wine opens. We don't ask why. The bowl doesn't either.

It's here. It ships from our workshop with a quartz mallet and silicone ring, ready to work. If it's yours, you probably already know.