Dragon's Blood Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 6.5" A Note | A=432 Tuning | #2157

Vision that keeps its feet on the ground

🎵 Size: 6.5" | Note: A | Cents: -12 | Frequency: 429 Hz | Tuning: A=432 Natural Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: A-12 | Bowl #: 2157

✨ Element: Dragon's Blood 🔥 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye | Cycle of Fifths: Throat 💫

This Dragon's Blood crystal singing bowl sounds in A at 429 Hz, resonating with the Third Eye chakra and vibrating through the torso, chest cavity, and core. Dragon's Blood supports grounding, boundary-setting, and embodied presence. When the intuitive frequency of the Third Eye meets this ancient protective resin, the experience is vision that stays rooted in the body—clarity that doesn't float away.

BEST FOR

• Grounding meditation and embodied presence practices
• Athletes centering before competition or recovering after
• Executives preparing for high-stakes presentations or negotiations
• Sound healers supporting clients through boundary work and protection
• Students seeking focus and physical grounding during intense study
• Anyone navigating transition who needs to feel their feet on the ground
• Creating energetic boundaries in shared spaces or after difficult interactions

ESSENCE

I am the blood that doesn't bleed from veins but from trees—a crimson weep from ancient bark when the world wounds what it needs. When you've been scattered across obligations, living three inches above your own skin, I am the substance that says: come home to your body. This bowl holds dragon's blood resin crystallized within quartz walls, sounding at the frequency of intuition and inner vision—an invitation to see clearly while standing firmly on the earth.

THE ELEMENT

Dragon's blood is a bright red phenolic resin derived from the exudate of ancient trees—primarily Dracaena cinnabari from Socotra, Dracaena draco from the Canary Islands, and Daemonorops species from Indonesian forests. When these trees are wounded, they weep a viscous crimson sap that hardens into brittle, garnet-red chunks with a subtle earthy scent. The resin contains complex flavonoids like dracorubin, compounds that give it remarkable stability and the deep red color that has made it prized for millennia.

This resin entered human use around 2000 BCE along Mediterranean trade routes. Romans documented its use for wound healing. Medieval Europeans incorporated it into alchemical varnishes and ceremonial incenses. Indigenous peoples of Socotra have long revered the dragon tree for protection rituals, applying its resin to wounds and in communal offerings to honor land spirits. Across Tibetan, Ayurvedic, and Western herbal traditions, dragon's blood serves as a substance for purification, grounding, and creating sacred boundary.

When dragon's blood is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure becomes part of what vibrates—not a surface coating, but a true integration. The resin's protective signature is woven into every frequency the bowl produces. People often describe this bowl's tone as having more weight, more presence, more of that quality that makes you feel your feet on the floor. The element doesn't soften or soothe in the conventional sense. It grounds. It clarifies. It creates the conditions where you can gather yourself.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A at 429 Hz, resonating with the Third Eye chakra in the Western diatonic system. The A frequency carries the energetic quality of intuition, wisdom, and inner vision, vibrating through your torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, and core. This is the frequency of seeing clearly—not with the eyes, but with the deeper knowing that lives beneath thought.

When dragon's blood's grounding protection meets this intuitive frequency, something interesting happens. Vision without grounding can become unmoored—ideas that float away, insights that never land in action. This combination anchors the Third Eye's clarity in the body's wisdom. You see what needs to be seen, and you have the rootedness to act on it. The Cycle of Fifths system also associates this frequency with the Throat chakra, suggesting a connection between clear vision and clear expression—knowing what's true and having the ground to speak it.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 429 Hz. Using A=432 as reference, it plays A-12 cents. (Using A=440 as reference, this same frequency is A-44 cents.)

This bowl is categorized in the A=432 tuning because its frequency aligns with instruments tuned to A=432 Hz—often called "Verdi tuning" or "natural tuning." Many people find A=432 produces a warmer, more organic quality that feels easier on the nervous system. If you have instruments tuned to A=432, or simply prefer this earth-connected sound, this bowl will harmonize beautifully with them. The slightly lower pitch contributes to the grounded quality that makes this bowl particularly suited to dragon's blood's protective nature. (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 6.5 inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with short to medium sustain—sounds that speak clearly and then settle, rather than ringing indefinitely. This creates natural punctuation, moments of sound followed by silence that invite integration. The intimate to balanced volume makes it ideal for personal practice, bedside rituals, small group work, therapy offices, or any space where you want presence without overwhelm.

This size allows dragon's blood's grounding intensity to express with focused clarity rather than diffusing across a large room. The fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the upper-mid body—chest, heart, lungs, solar plexus—creating a felt sense of centering in your core. Portable enough to move between rooms or take to the office, substantial enough to feel like a real instrument in your hands.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need to feel your feet. When you've been living in your head, scattered across screens and obligations, when your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire. Before difficult conversations where you need clear boundaries. After interactions that left you feeling invaded or depleted. At the start of a workday when you need to claim your space. Before competition or performance when grounding will serve you better than hype.

To begin, simply strike the bowl once and notice where the sound lands in your body. You don't need technique or training—just attention. Place one hand on your lower belly as the tone fades. Feel the weight of your body against whatever surface supports you. If thoughts arise about doing it "right," let them pass. The bowl creates conditions; you do the work of arriving. Some people play this bowl while standing, feeling their feet press into the floor as the sound moves through them. Others use it to mark the boundary between work and home, between giving and receiving, between one part of the day and another.

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

Some mornings you need softness. This isn't that morning.

Dragon's blood doesn't comfort—it clarifies. It's the resin that hardens in air, the substance that says you are allowed to take up space. This bowl carries that energy in every tone: grounded, direct, unapologetically present. Whether you're preparing for a difficult conversation, claiming the first quiet hour before the house wakes, or simply remembering that you have a body worth inhabiting—this is what's here. The bowl exists. You found it. What happens next is yours to decide.