Intimate Uplift Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 8" D Note | C=528 Tuning | #348

I am the soft insistence that tenderness is strength

🎵 Size: 8" | Note: D | Cents: +30 | Frequency: 598 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: D#-37 | Bowl #: 348

✨ Elements: Intimate Uplift (rose quartz, carnelian, ylang ylang, yarrow) 💗 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core ❤️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Sacral | Cycle of Fifths: Heart 💫

This Intimate Uplift crystal singing bowl sounds in D at 598 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra and the core of the body—chest, heart, lungs, and solar plexus. Rose quartz, carnelian, ylang ylang, and yarrow combine to support emotional opening, creative vitality, and the courage to stay tender. When heart-centered minerals meet activating botanicals at this flowing frequency, the result is an instrument for those ready to feel more fully alive.

BEST FOR

• Emotional release and heart-opening meditation
• Therapists and counselors transitioning between clients
• Caregivers needing their own moment of restoration
• Those navigating grief, relationship transitions, or self-forgiveness
• Writers and artists seeking creative flow and inspiration
• Parents creating calm connection at bedtime or homework time
• Anyone rebuilding trust—in themselves, in others, in intimacy

ESSENCE

I am the soft insistence of pink light through stone, warmed by carnelian's ember and sweetened by ylang ylang's bloom. When you've been guarding your heart so long you've forgotten what openness feels like, I am the frequency that says: tenderness is not weakness. This bowl holds the patience of rose quartz, the vitality of carnelian, and the sensual courage of flowers that open at dusk—an invitation to feel without bracing.

THE ELEMENT

Rose quartz forms slowly in the dark belly of cooling rock, trace titanium and manganese creating its distinctive blush over millennia. First carved into talismans in Mesopotamia around 7000 BCE, this stone has accompanied human hearts through Egyptian beauty rituals, Roman emotional harmony practices, and Victorian love tokens. Traditions across cultures associate rose quartz with the heart center—not the idealized heart of greeting cards, but the actual organ of emotional life: scarred, resilient, still willing to risk tenderness.

Carnelian brings warmth to this blend—a chalcedony quartz colored orange-red by iron oxides, long valued for courage and creative vitality. Where rose quartz softens, carnelian activates. Ylang ylang, steam-distilled from Cananga odorata flowers, contributes its sweet, floral essence traditionally used for sensual opening and nervous system ease. Yarrow, an herb with roots in 12,000-year-old healing traditions, offers protective grounding—the boundary-keeper that allows vulnerability without collapse.

When these elements are infused during Divine Bowls' proprietary molding process, they integrate at the molecular level—not as surface coatings, but as part of the quartz's structure itself. The resulting microstructure is what vibrates when the bowl sings, producing resonance patterns unique to this specific combination. Rose quartz's gentle persistence, carnelian's warm activation, ylang ylang's sensual sweetness, and yarrow's protective presence become a unified voice.

Working with this element blend invites you into the territory where grief and gratitude live as neighbors. You might notice warmth spreading across your chest, or tears that come without story attached. The combination supports the slow work of self-forgiveness, the courage to set boundaries without hardening, the practice of staying open when every instinct says to close.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in D at 598 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra in the Western diatonic system. The D frequency carries the energetic quality of creativity, flow, and emotional expression—vibrating through your torso, chest cavity, and core. In the Cycle of Fifths system, this frequency also connects to heart energy, creating a bridge between creative vitality and emotional openness.

When Intimate Uplift's heart-centered minerals meet this flowing frequency, the synergy supports both feeling and expression. People often describe this bowl's tone as "breathing" or "alive"—a quality that invites emotional movement rather than stagnation. The frequency doesn't demand catharsis; it creates conditions where what needs to move can move, at its own pace.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 598 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays D+30 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is D#-37 cents.

This bowl is categorized in the C=528 tuning because its frequency aligns with instruments tuned so that middle C equals 528 Hz—known as the "Love Frequency" in Solfeggio tradition. This brighter tuning is associated with heart-opening qualities and joyful expansion. The slightly elevated pitch creates an uplifting, clarifying resonance that many find energizing—particularly fitting for a blend designed to support intimate connection and emotional courage.

(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 resonance to fill a room while remaining intimate enough for personal practice. The full, projecting volume makes it ideal for small to medium groups: a therapy office, a yoga class, a living room where family gathers, or a bedroom where someone needs three minutes of beauty before sleep.

This size allows Intimate Uplift's heart-centered qualities to express with warmth and presence without overwhelming. The fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the core and chest—the physical territory of the heart, lungs, and solar plexus. Whether you're a massage therapist transitioning between clients, a parent creating calm before bedtime stories, or someone sitting alone with a cup of tea and a need to feel something, this size meets you where you are.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when your heart feels defended or depleted—after difficult conversations, during grief's long middle, when self-criticism has become habitual, or when intimacy feels too risky. You don't need training or special knowledge. Simply find a quiet moment, strike or rim the bowl, and notice what happens in your chest.

Try placing your hand over your heart while the bowl sings. Notice if your breathing changes. Some people feel warmth spreading; others notice tears arriving without explanation. There's no wrong response. You might play this bowl before a vulnerable conversation you've been avoiding, or after one that didn't go as hoped. Use it to mark the transition between work and home, to settle children who are wound up, or to create a moment of beauty before hosting friends. Athletes use bowls like this for visualization and emotional reset; writers use them to soften the inner critic before creative work; caregivers use them to remember they have hearts too.

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 holds the patience of rose quartz, the warmth of carnelian, and the quiet courage of flowers that open at dusk. It doesn't ask what you do for a living or whether you've ever held a singing bowl before. It offers what it offers: a frequency for the chest, the breath, the place where tenderness lives alongside everything else.

Some people will play it before difficult conversations. Others will play it after. Some will use it to calm a room full of restless children, or to find three minutes of stillness before the day begins, or simply because they like the way it sounds.