Amber Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" C Note | C=528 Tuning | #1131

Fossilized patience, singing at the frequency of your foundation

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: C | Cents: +5 | Frequency: 263 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: C+41 | Bowl #: 1131 ✨ Element: Amber 🍯 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core ☀️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root | Cycle of Fifths: Sacral 💫

This amber crystal singing bowl sounds in C at 263 Hz, resonating with the root chakra and the torso, chest cavity, and core. Amber supports slow integration, emotional digestion, and grounded confidence that comes from trusting your own timing. When fossilized patience meets the foundational frequency of C, the result is an instrument that warms from the inside out—inviting you to soften without losing strength.

BEST FOR

• Nervous system regulation and stress release
• Executives and leaders centering before important decisions
• Those navigating grief, transition, or emotional processing
• Sound healers supporting clients through burnout recovery
• Parents creating calm for anxious children at bedtime
• Athletes in recovery phases needing restoration without rushing
• Tea ceremony enthusiasts and those who appreciate slow ritual

ESSENCE

I am what time makes when it decides to hold something precious. When you've been rushing through your days, when your belly tightens with words unspoken or experiences undigested, I am the warmth that says: you don't have to force this. Let it soften. Let it integrate at its own pace. This bowl carries millions of years of patient transformation, now singing at the frequency of your foundation—an invitation to trust that strength and flexibility were never opposites.

THE ELEMENT

Amber is fossilized tree resin, not a mineral—organic matter transformed over twenty to fifty million years through slow polymerization. Unlike crystals born of pressure and geological force, amber formed through patient accumulation: tree blood that wept golden, then hardened into memory. It carries the signature of ancient coniferous forests, sometimes preserving insects mid-flight, plant matter, or air bubbles from atmospheres long gone. This is preservation made tangible, time you can hold in your palm.

What makes amber remarkable is its warmth. It feels alive against skin—not the cool authority of quartz or obsidian, but something that seems to meet your body temperature halfway. Soft enough to carve, buoyant enough to float in saltwater, it releases a faint pine-and-earth scent when rubbed. Baltic peoples called it "gintaras" and strung it for protection rituals. Tibetan Buddhists incorporated it into prayer malas for grounding meditation. Ayurvedic traditions used resin-like substances for balancing digestive fire and promoting vitality.

When amber is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its organic structure integrates at the molecular level during formation—not as a surface coating, but as part of what vibrates. The resulting microstructure creates resonance patterns unique to this bowl, producing what many describe as a warmer, more enveloping tone. People reach for amber when they're exhausted by their own urgency, when the solar plexus feels tight with unexpressed truth or unprocessed experience. It supports the long middle of change—after the breakthrough, during integration, when you need something that won't rush you but won't let you stagnate either.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C at 263 Hz, resonating with the root chakra in the Western diatonic system. The C frequency carries an energetic quality of grounding and foundation, vibrating through your torso, chest cavity, and core. As a fourth-octave tone, it speaks to the body's center—where confidence lives alongside digestive fire, where your sense of self tangles with your ability to process what life feeds you.

When amber's slow-warming patience meets this foundational frequency, something particular happens. The root chakra governs security, stability, and the felt sense of being held by the earth. Amber's gift of organic timing meets C's grounding resonance to create an instrument that doesn't push or pierce—it settles. People often notice a loosening in the belly, a release of tension they didn't know they were holding. The combination supports those moments when you need to speak your truth but your throat closes, when you need to digest difficult emotions but your gut clenches.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 263 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays C+5 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is C+41 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. For those with instruments tuned to C=528, this bowl will harmonize beautifully. The technical specifications include an A=432 equivalent field showing how this bowl's note translates between reference systems—helpful for musicians integrating bowls into their existing setup.

(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 sustain—meaning each strike or rim circle continues singing, filling space with sound that doesn't rush to fade. The full, rich volume makes it ideal for group settings, living rooms, yoga studios, or anywhere sound needs to reach multiple people. It's equally at home opening a team meeting, settling a classroom after recess, or filling a treatment room between clients.

This size allows amber's warming quality to express with generous resonance, while the fourth-octave frequency naturally targets the body's core—torso, chest, solar plexus. Large enough to command attention, portable enough to move between rooms or bring to a retreat. The sustained tone gives listeners time to settle into the sound, supporting that unhurried quality amber embodies.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you're tired of rushing. When the world has demanded you be harder, sharper, more crystalline than you actually are. Play it at the start of your morning before the house wakes, or at the end of a workday when you need to transition from doing to being. Strike the rim and let the tone fill your space while you breathe into your belly—not forcing deep breaths, just noticing what's there. Place your hand on your solar plexus if you like. Notice what softens.

This bowl serves beautifully for classroom transitions when children need to settle, for team meetings that begin with intention rather than agenda, for the pause a caregiver takes before visiting a loved one. Use it during homework time to create focus without pressure, or post-workout when your body needs restoration without rushing. If you work with tea ceremony or slow ritual, let the bowl's tone mark the beginning—a signal that ordinary time is pausing. There's no wrong way to work with this instrument. The bowl creates conditions; you do the work.

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 carries what time makes when it decides to hold something precious—millions of years of patient transformation, now singing at the frequency of your foundation. Amber doesn't push or pierce. It warms. It meets you wherever you are: the 5am kitchen before anyone else wakes, the classroom after recess chaos, the pause between client sessions, the moment you finally sit down after a day that asked too much.

Some instruments demand you rise to meet them. This one softens to meet you.

It ships from our Ohio workshop, formed in a single seamless vessel from 99.995% pure quartz—no welds, no weak points. Built to last lifetimes of unhurried mornings, difficult transitions, and all the moments in between when you remember that strength and flexibility were never opposites.