Kornerupine Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" C Note (-2) | Concert Pitch | #2293

The ground beneath you while everything else dissolves

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: C | Cents: -2 | Frequency: 261 Hz | Tuning: Concert Pitch | Octave: 4 | Bowl #: 2293 ✨ Element: Kornerupine 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 🌿 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root | Cycle of Fifths: Sacral 💫

This Kornerupine crystal singing bowl sounds in C at 261 Hz, resonating with the root chakra and the deep core of the body—torso, chest cavity, and mid-spine. Kornerupine supports transformation during major life transitions and the integration of emotional courage with spiritual clarity. When this rare threshold stone meets the foundational C frequency, the experience is grounded becoming: change that moves through the body rather than around it.

BEST FOR

• Life transitions requiring both emotional honesty and spiritual grounding
• Therapists and counselors supporting clients through identity shifts
• Personal meditation practice during divorce, career change, or grief
• Retreat centers facilitating deep transformation work
• Athletes and performers navigating major career transitions
• Anyone standing in the uncomfortable space between who they were and who they're becoming

ESSENCE

I am the stone of thresholds—the one who stands with you when everything familiar dissolves and the new has not yet taken form. When you're caught between the life that no longer fits and the one you can't yet see, I don't rush you toward resolution. I create conditions where the old can finally loosen its grip. This bowl holds patient alchemy: the slow, necessary pressure that turns what you were into what you're becoming.

THE ELEMENT

Kornerupine is a rare borate silicate mineral containing magnesium, aluminum, boron, and silicon—elements that form only under very specific conditions of pressure and heat deep within the Earth. Found in limited deposits in Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Tanzania, this stone's scarcity has positioned it as a focused tool for serious inner work rather than casual wellness practice. Its green varieties carry a distinctive translucent quality, the color of forest light filtered through ancient canopy.

In contemporary crystal healing traditions, kornerupine is associated with both heart and crown chakra activation—an unusual dual resonance that supports the integration of feeling and knowing. Practitioners reach for this stone during major life transitions: divorce, career reconstruction, deep grief work, identity shifts that require more than surface-level comfort. It's valued not for promising easy healing, but for creating conditions where authentic transformation can occur.

Divine Bowls' proprietary process integrates kornerupine at the molecular level during formation, creating a microstructure within the quartz that carries the stone's vibrational signature. When you work with this bowl, you're not receiving a coating or surface treatment—you're engaging with an element that has become part of the instrument itself. The result is sound that supports sitting with what's true, even when truth is uncomfortable.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C at 261 Hz, resonating with the root chakra in the Western diatonic system. The C frequency carries the energetic quality of grounding and foundation, vibrating through your torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, and core. At 10 inches, this bowl produces deep, penetrating sound with very long sustain—the kind of tone that settles into the body and stays.

When kornerupine's threshold energy meets this foundational frequency, something specific happens: transformation anchors. The root chakra governs security, stability, and the felt sense of having ground beneath your feet—exactly what tends to dissolve during major life change. This bowl doesn't bypass that dissolution. Instead, it offers a vibrational foundation to stand on while everything else shifts. People notice a quality of supported uncertainty: the discomfort of change remains, but so does the sense that you can hold it.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 261 Hz, placing it at Concert Pitch—its frequency falls within ±10 cents of A=440, the universal tuning standard for modern instruments.

Like a piano tuned to concert pitch, this bowl will sound in tune when played alongside guitars, keyboards, orchestras, or any instrument using standard tuning. If you play with other musicians, use recorded music in your sessions, or want your bowl to blend seamlessly with other sound sources, this compatibility makes integration effortless.

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 fourth-octave tones with very long sustain—sound that continues to unfold and deepen long after you've stopped playing, filling a room with waves that build on themselves. The deep, penetrating volume makes it ideal for large group settings, ceremonial work, retreat centers, and spacious rooms where sound needs to reach everyone present. It also serves beautifully in personal practice when you want immersive, full-body resonance—the kind that settles into your bones. This size allows kornerupine's threshold energy to express with substantial presence, while the fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the torso, chest cavity, and core—the places where we hold what we're afraid to release.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you're standing in the uncomfortable middle of something—between the job you left and the one you haven't found, between the relationship that ended and the life you're rebuilding, between who you were and who you're becoming. You don't need to know what you're doing. Place the bowl on its O-ring, hold the mallet loosely, and let it circle the rim until sound emerges. Then stop. Listen. Notice where the vibration lands in your body. Notice what loosens.

This bowl works beautifully for therapists and counselors opening sessions focused on major life transitions. Teachers use it to mark the space between one activity and the next. Athletes reach for it during career shifts or injury recovery—times when identity feels uncertain. Parents find it helpful during family transitions: moves, losses, new siblings, the quiet upheavals children feel but can't name. Before a difficult conversation, after receiving hard news, at the end of a long week—these are moments this bowl understands. You don't need to do anything special. The sound does the holding.

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 transformations announce themselves. This one doesn't.

Kornerupine works in thresholds—the space between the life that no longer fits and the one you can't yet see. It doesn't promise comfort. It doesn't rush resolution. It creates conditions where what needs to loosen can finally let go.