Galena Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" A# Note | C=528 Tuning | #1685

Come home to a body that remembers how to land

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: A# | Cents: +25 | Frequency: 236 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: B-47 | Bowl #: 1685 ✨ Element: Galena 🪨 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye/Crown transition 💫

This galena crystal singing bowl sounds in A# at 236 Hz, resonating at the threshold between third eye and crown chakras while grounding through the pelvis, hips, and lower spine. Galena supports nervous system regulation, boundary restoration, and the kind of grounding that comes from weight rather than effort. When transcendent frequency meets earth's densest common mineral, the experience is presence that anchors through the body—cosmic awareness with roots.

BEST FOR

• Grounding meditation and nervous system regulation
• Executives centering before high-stakes decisions or presentations
• Athletes preparing for competition or recovering afterward
• Sound healers supporting clients through burnout or overstimulation
• Students seeking focus for exams and sustained concentration
• Creating calm for anxious children at homework or bedtime
• Anyone who lives "in their head" and needs to return to their body

ESSENCE

I am the weight you've been missing. Not burden—ballast. When you've been scattered across a thousand obligations, when your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire, I am the substance that says: come home to your body. This bowl holds galena's density crystallized within quartz walls, sounding at the edge of transcendence—an invitation to ground your crown, to find that knowing doesn't require leaving the earth behind.

THE ELEMENT

Galena is lead sulfide, one of the heaviest minerals you'll encounter—a cubic crystal structure that cleaves clean and true, metallic gray catching light like winter clouds over stone. Formed in the earth's deep hydrothermal veins where heat and pressure forge what lasts, galena emerges from regions spanning Missouri's Lead Belt to Germany's ancient mining districts, carrying five thousand years of human relationship with the earth's dense gifts.

Ancient Egyptians ground galena into kohl for eye cosmetics around 2000 BC. Romans mined it extensively for lead and silver extraction. Indigenous peoples of North America's Midwest engaged galena from Mississippi Valley deposits for practical tools and trade, recognizing its density as an earth-anchoring force. Medieval alchemists prized it for grounding rituals, often pairing it with quartz to amplify vibrational stability. These threads of tradition point toward the same recognition: galena helps what's scattered find its way back down.

When galena is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure becomes part of what vibrates—not a coating, but an integration at over 3,000°F. The mineral's grounding signature weaves into every frequency the bowl produces, which is why people often describe this bowl's tone as "heavier" or "more anchored" than clear quartz alone. The resulting microstructure creates resonance patterns unique to this infusion—sounds you won't hear from any other instrument.

Working with galena supports physical vitality by reinforcing boundaries—not walls, but clear edges where you end and the world begins. Emotionally, it holds space for what's heavy without trying to lighten it prematurely. Mentally, it quiets the spin. When you work with this bowl, you're invited to trust what's solid, to feel your weight as presence rather than burden.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A# at 236 Hz, resonating at the transition between third eye and crown chakras in the Western diatonic system. This frequency carries the energetic quality of transcendent knowing and cosmic awareness, yet vibrates through your pelvis, hips, legs, and lower spine—the foundational zones where your body meets the ground.

The apparent paradox is the teaching: galena's grounding density meets a frequency associated with higher consciousness, creating an experience of embodied transcendence. Rather than floating upward into spiritual abstraction, you're invited to bring awareness down through the body. People often notice a settling sensation during the first moments of playing—as if the sound gives permission for the nervous system to release its vigilance.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 236 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays A#+25 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is B-47 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 carries an uplifting, clarifying quality that many find energizing. The slightly elevated pitch creates resonance associated with heart-opening and joyful expansion, balancing galena's grounding weight with luminous clarity.

(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 third octave tones with very long sustain—each strike continues resonating well after the mallet leaves the rim, filling space with sound that seems to breathe. The deep, penetrating volume makes it ideal for large group settings, ceremonial spaces, and rooms where sound needs to reach everyone present. It's equally powerful for personal use when you want immersive, room-filling resonance rather than intimate, close-range tones.

This size allows galena's substantial presence to express with full weight—the low hum moves through your bones before your ears fully register it. The third octave resonance naturally targets the foundational body zones: pelvis, hips, legs, the sitting bones that connect you to whatever surface holds you. Whether placed in a yoga studio, a conference room before an important meeting, a classroom during transition time, or beside your bed for evening wind-down, this bowl's projection creates an environment of grounded calm.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you've been floating too long—overstimulated, electromagnetically frazzled, scattered across too many tabs and tasks. It serves the executive who needs to land before a presentation, the student whose mind races before an exam, the parent who's been giving all day and needs three minutes of their own. Position the bowl on its O-ring at a comfortable distance, or place it directly on your lower body if you're lying down. Strike the rim and let the sound find you. There's no technique to master; the frequency does its work whether or not you understand it.

Notice where the vibration registers first—often in the feet, the legs, the base of the spine. That's galena's home territory. You might feel a settling sensation, like silt finding the riverbed after flood. Some people describe it as permission to stop holding everything together for a moment. Use it to open team meetings with grounded intention, to help anxious children transition to homework or bedtime, to mark the end of a workout or the beginning of creative focus. The bowl doesn't demand you relax—it creates conditions where your system remembers how.

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

I am galena. I don't do light.

I do the kind of presence that makes your shoulders drop half an inch without you deciding to. The kind that reminds your nervous system it's allowed to stop scanning for threats. When you've been scattered across seventeen browser tabs and four time zones and someone else's emergency, I'm the frequency that says: the ground is still here.

This bowl sounds at 236 Hz—A# hovering between third eye and crown, yet vibrating through your pelvis, hips, the sitting bones that connect you to whatever's holding you up. Transcendent knowing with roots. The 10-inch size means the resonance doesn't ask permission—it fills the room, whether that's a yoga studio, a conference room before the hard conversation, or your kitchen at 5am when you're the only one awake.