Opaque Quartz Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" C Note | C=528 Tuning | #708

I am the stone that teaches you to stay

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: C | Cents: +29 | Frequency: 267 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: C#+33 | Bowl #: 708 ✨ Element: Opaque Quartz 🪨 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root | Cycle of Fifths: Sacral 💫

This opaque quartz crystal singing bowl sounds in C at 267 Hz, resonating with the root chakra and the foundational zones of the pelvis, hips, and lower spine. Opaque quartz—the milky form of pure crystal—supports grounding, nervous system regulation, and the kind of steady presence that scattered modern life so often demands. When this deep third-octave frequency meets quartz in its most patient form, the result is sound that settles into bone rather than floating toward abstraction.

BEST FOR

• Grounding meditation and nervous system regulation
• Executives centering before high-stakes decisions or presentations
• Students seeking focus for exams, deep study, or test preparation
• Teachers creating calm during classroom transitions
• Athletes preparing for competition or recovering post-game
• Parents helping anxious children settle at homework or bedtime
• Anyone navigating overwhelm who needs to return to their body

ESSENCE

I am the stone that holds memory in its clouded depths—ancient, patient, unshakable. 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 does not promise transcendence. It offers something more essential: the capacity to remain rooted while difficulty moves through.

THE ELEMENT

Opaque quartz is silicon dioxide in its most grounded expression—the same molecular structure as clear crystal, but formed with microscopic inclusions of air, mineral dust, and primordial water that scatter light into soft, milky luminosity. Where transparent quartz reveals everything, opaque quartz asks you to trust what you cannot see through. Its surface feels like smooth river stone, substantial and cool against the palm, with a Mohs hardness of 7 that promises durability across lifetimes of use.

This is not quartz with something added—it IS the gemstone, formed following nature's own patterns. Some quartz wants clarity; some wants that clouded softness. Divine Bowls developed the opaque formation process over decades, originally for industrial applications where thermal properties mattered at the molecular level. The microscopic air inclusions that create opacity aren't imperfections—they're integral to the structure, and that structure is what vibrates when the bowl sings.

For fourteen thousand years, humans have reached for quartz when they needed tools that endured. Paleolithic peoples shaped it into blades. Ancient Egyptians carved it into amulets. Indigenous traditions across the Americas have used it in medicine bundles and vision quests. What draws people to opaque quartz specifically is its grounding quality—the way it absorbs scattered energy and returns something slower, steadier, more rooted in geological time. When you work with this bowl, you're not seeking peak experiences or dramatic breakthroughs. You're building capacity for presence, session after session, breath after breath.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C at 267 Hz, resonating with the root chakra in the Western diatonic system. The C frequency carries the energetic quality of foundation and stability, vibrating through your pelvis, hips, sitting bones, and the base of your spine—the structural architecture that connects you to the earth beneath you.

Third-octave tones speak to the deep body. Where higher octaves might lift energy upward, this frequency draws awareness down into your legs, your seat, your connection to gravity itself. When opaque quartz's patient, grounding nature meets this foundational note, the synergy is unmistakable: sound that doesn't ask you to transcend your humanness, but to inhabit it more fully. People often describe this combination as "settling"—a felt sense of weight returning to places that had been holding tension without knowing it.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 267 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays C+29 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is C#-33 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 balances beautifully with opaque quartz's grounding nature—brightness that anchors rather than floats.

(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—meaning a single strike continues resonating for an extended period, allowing sound to do its work without constant playing. The deep, penetrating volume fills large spaces easily, making it ideal for group settings, ceremonial use, yoga studios, or conference rooms where sound needs to reach everyone present.

This size also works beautifully in intimate settings where you want immersive, room-filling resonance: a living room morning ritual, a therapy office between clients, a classroom transition, or a bedroom wind-down. The substantial presence of a 10-inch bowl makes opaque quartz's grounding qualities impossible to ignore—this is sound you feel in your bones, not just hear with your ears. The third-octave depth naturally targets the lower body, reinforcing the root chakra connection and foundational stability this bowl offers.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you notice you've been living in your head—when thoughts cycle without landing, when your body feels like something you're dragging around rather than inhabiting. It serves the executive who needs three minutes of stillness before walking into a negotiation. The parent whose nervous system is frayed after a day of competing demands. The student whose mind won't stop racing before an exam. The athlete who needs to drop from analysis into instinct before competition.

To begin, simply place the bowl on a stable surface or hold it in your palm. Strike it once with the mallet and let the sound wash through you. Notice where you feel the vibration—often the belly, the hips, the backs of the legs. You don't need to meditate formally or achieve any particular state. Just listen. Let your breath slow to match the sustain. When the sound fades, strike again, or sit in the silence between tones. This bowl teaches you to tolerate that silence, to find it bearable rather than empty. Use it to open team meetings with collective grounding, to transition classrooms between subjects, to mark the end of a workday, or to help children settle before sleep.

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

Still here.

That's worth noticing. You've read about geological time and nervous system regulation, about root chakras and third-octave frequencies, about fourteen thousand years of human hands reaching for this stone. And something kept you reading.

This bowl won't ask what brought you here—whether it's a classroom that needs calming, a boardroom that needs grounding, a bedroom that needs peace, or simply a life that's been moving faster than your body can follow. It offers the same thing to everyone: sound that settles into bone. A frequency that says you can stop holding yourself together so tightly. Three minutes of something slower than everything else.

It's available. That's all.