Hessonite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" C# Note (+20) | Uplift Frequencies | #1178

The slow ember that teaches courage to taste like cinnamon

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: C# | Cents: +20 | Frequency: 281 Hz | Tuning: Uplift Frequencies | Octave: 4 | Bowl #: 1178 ✨ Element: Hessonite 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 🔥 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root/Sacral transition | Cycle of Fifths: N/A 💫

This hessonite garnet crystal singing bowl sounds in C# at 281 Hz, resonating with the sacral and solar plexus chakras and vibrating through the torso, chest cavity, and core. Hessonite supports creative vitality, emotional embodiment, and the courage to act from instinct rather than fear. When this transitional C# frequency meets hessonite's steady, warming energy, the result is activation that stays rooted in the body—awakening without overwhelm.

BEST FOR

• Releasing creative blocks and reconnecting with authentic desire
• Sound healers working with clients navigating burnout or emotional numbness
• Athletes and performers seeking grounded confidence before competition
• Parents creating calming evening rituals that settle restless energy
• Yoga instructors guiding students into hip-opening or sacral-focused sequences
• Anyone rebuilding trust in their body after illness, grief, or transition

ESSENCE

I am the slow ember, the honey-gold warmth that spreads through your belly when you finally stop holding your breath. When life has scattered you across too many obligations, when your creative fire has dimmed to ash, I settle into the places where desire and doubt share space—and I warm them until they soften. This bowl doesn't blast through your resistance. It teaches you that transformation can taste like cinnamon and feel like coming home.

THE ELEMENT

Hessonite garnet forms deep within the earth as calcium, aluminum, and silicate press together under immense heat and pressure, emerging as a translucent golden-amber stone with a distinctive oily luster. Part of the grossular garnet family, it ranks 6.5-7.5 on the Mohs hardness scale—durable enough to withstand centuries of handling. The finest specimens come from Sri Lanka and India, where gem gravels have yielded these cinnamon-colored stones for millennia. Unlike flashier garnets, hessonite doesn't demand attention. It catches afternoon light and suddenly pulses with inner fire.

For over three thousand years, Vedic practitioners have known hessonite as Gomed—the stone that steadies what spins out of control. In Ayurvedic tradition, it balances the shadow planet Rahu's chaotic influence, grounding scattered mental energy into focused clarity. Ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians wore garnets for protection; medieval European alchemists ground them into elixirs for vitality and blood purification. The stone carries associations with Demeter's earthly abundance and the transformative fire of inner courage.

In contemporary wellness, hessonite supports those who have forgotten how to want things—people who've numbed out through people-pleasing, burnout, or grief. Divine Bowls' proprietary process integrates hessonite at the molecular level during formation, creating a unique microstructure within the quartz that vibrates with the stone's warming, embodying energy. You may notice a loosening in your hips, a settling in your belly, a willingness to take up space you'd been apologizing for.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C# at 281 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra in the Western diatonic system while touching the solar plexus above it. The C# frequency carries transitional energy—the sharp note that moves between foundational grounding and creative flow, between what was and what's emerging. This vibration travels through your torso, chest cavity, and core, the regions where we hold both breath and fear.

When hessonite's patient, embodying warmth meets this awakening frequency, something specific happens: activation that doesn't abandon the body. People report feeling more present in their lower belly, more willing to move, more connected to instinct. The bowl's Uplift quality—sitting above concert pitch with a brighter, more energizing tone—amplifies hessonite's invitation to creative courage. This isn't transcendence that floats away. It's aliveness that roots down.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 281 Hz, placing it in our Uplift range—its frequency sits above concert pitch, producing a brighter, more energizing quality.

Uplift bowls have an awakening character—sounds that enliven rather than sedate. These frequencies are valued for clearing stagnation, stimulating movement, enhancing mental clarity, and bringing fresh energy to spaces or states that have become stuck. The brighter quality doesn't mean harsh or sharp; it means present, alert, alive.

(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 nine inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with long, generous sustain—meaning each strike or rim circle continues singing well after you've stopped, filling space without effort. The full, rich volume projects easily across larger rooms, making it ideal for group sound baths, yoga classes, team meetings, or family gatherings in open living spaces. This size also works beautifully for personal practice when you want immersive sound rather than subtle background tone. The larger vessel allows hessonite's warming, embodying energy to express with depth and presence, while the fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the torso and core—exactly where this stone does its steadying work.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you've been living in your head too long. When creative projects feel stuck. When your body has become something you manage rather than inhabit. Play it before you need to show up with courage—a difficult conversation, a presentation, a performance. Use it to close your workday and signal the transition home. Let it settle restless children at bedtime or focus scattered energy before homework.

Start simply: place the bowl on its O-ring, hold the mallet loosely, and circle the rim with steady pressure until sound builds. Notice where you feel the vibration—your belly, your chest, your hands. There's no wrong way to listen. Some people move with the sound; others sit still. Some play for three minutes; others for thirty. The bowl responds to your attention. Over time, you'll develop your own relationship with it—your own routine, your own timing, your own way of knowing when you've had enough.

INVITATION

Some mornings, you need the slow burn—not the jolt, but the warmth that spreads through your belly and reminds you that courage doesn't have to feel like adrenaline. This bowl carries hessonite's patient fire: the ember that doesn't demand you leap, just that you stop holding your breath long enough to feel what you actually want.

It's here for the creative project that's been waiting, the conversation you've been rehearsing, the body you've been managing instead of inhabiting. Nine inches of quartz singing at 281 Hz, resonating through your core and chest—the places where desire and doubt share a room.

No credentials required. No spiritual vocabulary necessary. Just you, and whatever you're ready to warm back to life.