Opaque Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" A# Note | Grounding Frequencies | #2313

I am the stone that holds memory in its body

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: A# | Cents: -12 | Frequency: 231 Hz | Tuning: Grounding Frequencies | Octave: 3 | Bowl #: 2313

✨ Element: Opaque Quartz 💎 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye/Crown transition | Cycle of Fifths: Crown 💫

This opaque quartz crystal singing bowl sounds in A# at 231 Hz, resonating with the third eye and crown chakras while grounding through the pelvis, hips, and lower body. Opaque quartz offers stability, mental clarity, and the felt sense of being held during times of transition or overwhelm. When transcendent A# frequency meets quartz in its most grounding form, the experience is spiritual awareness that stays rooted in the body.

BEST FOR

• Sound healers anchoring clients after high-frequency work
• Meditation practitioners seeking embodied presence, not escape
• Executives and professionals needing calm before high-stakes meetings
• Parents creating settling bedtime rituals for anxious children
• Anyone navigating grief, transition, or seasons of uncertainty
• Athletes grounding before competition or visualization practice

ESSENCE

I am the stone that holds memory in its body. When the world feels too loud, too bright, too much—when you've been scattered across a thousand obligations—I am the substance that says: come home. This bowl carries the patience of millennia within its milky walls, sounding at the frequency where knowing meets the body. I don't ask you to transcend. I ask you to be here, fully, with me as your witness.

THE ELEMENT

Opaque quartz is quartz crystal in its most grounding form—the same silicon dioxide that forms clear quartz, but distinguished by microscopic inclusions of air, mineral dust, and ancient water droplets suspended within its crystalline structure. These inclusions scatter light rather than transmitting it, creating the characteristic milky, frosted appearance that gives opaque quartz its soft luminescence. This is not a flaw. It's what makes this variety uniquely suited for containment and stability.

Quartz has been worked by humans for over 100,000 years, appearing in Neolithic amulets, Egyptian temples, and the healing practices of cultures spanning every continent. Where clear quartz is traditionally called the "master healer" for its amplifying properties, opaque quartz carries a different gift: the ability to diffuse rather than intensify, to soften rather than expand. In Ayurvedic tradition, quartz aligns with sattva—purity and harmony. In contemporary practice, opaque quartz serves those who need safe ground during transformative work.

Divine Bowls forms each opaque quartz bowl through a proprietary molding process that creates a single, seamless vessel. The milky microstructure isn't applied—it emerges during formation, becoming part of the quartz itself. That structure is what vibrates when you play the bowl, producing a tone that practitioners describe as warmer and more enveloping than its clear counterpart. The bowl you hold is pure gemstone: 99.998% quartz crystal, nothing added, nothing missing.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A# at 231 Hz, resonating with the third eye and crown chakras in the Western diatonic system. The A# frequency carries the energetic quality of transcendent knowing and cosmic awareness—the note associated with expanded consciousness and intuitive insight. At 231 Hz, this vibration moves through your pelvis, hips, sitting bones, and lower spine, creating a foundational connection to earth even as it opens higher perception.

When opaque quartz meets A# frequency, something particular happens: the bowl grounds what might otherwise float away. This is spiritual work that stays in the body. People report feeling simultaneously expanded and contained—aware of something larger while remaining fully present in their physical form. The grounding quality of the bowl's tuning (sitting below concert pitch with a warmer, more organic resonance) deepens this effect. You may notice your breath slow, your shoulders drop, your awareness settle into the bowl's long, penetrating sustain.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 231 Hz, placing it in our Grounding range—its frequency sits below concert pitch, producing a warmer, more organic quality with a gentle settling energy.

Grounding bowls like this one are good for deep relaxation, meditation, and foundational work. Many people find frequencies in this range feel easier on the nervous system, with a quality that settles into the body rather than floating above it. The tone invites you down rather than pulling you up.

(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—once struck, the sound continues to unfold for an extended period, filling space and allowing deep immersion in the frequency. The deep, penetrating volume makes it ideal for large group sound baths, ceremonial gatherings, yoga studios, conference rooms, or any space where sound needs to reach and hold many people. This size allows opaque quartz's grounding stability to express with full, enveloping presence, while the third-octave resonance naturally targets the pelvis, hips, and lower body—creating a felt sense of foundation that listeners often describe as being "held by the sound."

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need to come back to yourself. After a scattered day. Before a difficult conversation. When anxiety has you spinning. The A# frequency opens awareness while the opaque quartz keeps you anchored—you can access insight without losing your footing. Strike the bowl once and let the sound do its work, or rim it slowly to build a sustained field of resonance. Notice where you feel the vibration in your body. Notice what settles.

Use it to open team meetings when focus matters. To transition a classroom from chaos to calm. To help a child wind down before sleep. To ground yourself before stepping on stage or into competition. To mark the end of a workday and the beginning of evening. There's no wrong way to work with this bowl—only your way, discovered through practice.

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 bowls arrive announcing themselves. This one arrives like bedrock—already there, already holding, waiting for you to notice what's been steady all along.

Opaque quartz doesn't ask where you've been or what credentials you carry. It doesn't need you to believe anything in particular. It just offers what stone has always offered: something solid when the ground feels uncertain. A place to put your weight down.