Opaque Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" B Note | C=528 Tuning | #776

I am fog held inside crystal, teaching you to settle

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: B | Cents: +37 | Frequency: 252 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: B+54 ✨ Element: Opaque Quartz 🪨 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Crown | Cycle of Fifths: Crown 💫

This opaque quartz crystal singing bowl sounds in B at 252 Hz, resonating with the crown chakra and the deep body—pelvis, hips, and foundational connection to earth. Opaque quartz supports grounded spiritual connection and nervous system regulation. When crown frequency meets quartz's most stabilizing form, the experience is transcendence that remembers it has a body—spiritual opening anchored through bone and breath.

BEST FOR

• Crown chakra meditation and grounded spiritual practice
• Sound healers supporting clients through anxiety or overwhelm
• Teachers creating calm transitions in classroom settings
• Morning ritual and intention-setting before a busy day
• Students seeking focus and settling before exams
• Massage therapists integrating sound into bodywork sessions
• Parents helping children wind down for homework or sleep
• Teams beginning meetings with collective grounding and presence

ESSENCE

I am the stone that holds fog inside crystal. Where clear quartz catches light and throws rainbows, I keep mine—diffused, softened, turned inward like breath on a winter morning. 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 opacity as a gift, sounding at the crown while teaching your feet to remember the floor.

THE ELEMENT

Opaque quartz—primarily milky quartz—consists of silicon dioxide with microscopic fluid inclusions and tiny gas bubbles that scatter light to create its characteristic clouded appearance. Unlike its transparent cousins, this variety holds light within rather than projecting it outward, a physical property that translates into its energetic signature of gentle, diffused presence.

Formed in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks worldwide, with notable deposits across the Americas, Brazil, and Madagascar, opaque quartz has served humanity for over forty thousand years. Paleolithic peoples shaped it into tools for its superior hardness. Ancient Egyptians placed it in tombs as symbols of purity. Greeks named it krystallos—"ice"—believing it to be water frozen so completely it could never thaw.

When opaque quartz is infused into a singing bowl through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure becomes part of what vibrates—not a surface coating, but a true integration. 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 milky inclusions that scatter light also create subtle variations in how sound moves through the crystal, producing warmth and texture in the resonance.

Working with opaque quartz invites you to slow down without shutting down. It speaks to the root even while sounding at the crown, creating a bridge between spiritual expansion and physical embodiment. This is the stone for moments when practice feels too airy, when you need your awareness to remember it's housed in bone and blood.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in B at 252 Hz, resonating with the crown chakra in the Western diatonic system. The B frequency carries the energetic quality of spirituality, connection, and unity—the highest note in the chakra scale, associated with consciousness expanding beyond individual identity.

Yet this third-octave tone vibrates through your deep body: pelvis, hips, sitting bones, lower spine. The frequency you hear as "crown" you feel as "foundation." When opaque quartz's grounding presence meets this paradox, something remarkable happens—spiritual opening that doesn't float away. You can reach toward expanded awareness while your nervous system stays regulated, your breath stays deep, your body stays present. People often report feeling simultaneously lifted and held.

THE TUNING

This bowl is tuned to C=528, known as the love frequency, with bright, heart-opening harmonics that carry an expansive, clarifying quality. The +37 cent tuning creates resonance slightly above concert pitch, producing tones that feel fresh and enlivening to the nervous system. This tuning is favored by those working with heart-centered practices, emotional release, or anyone seeking sound that opens rather than sedates. Paired with opaque quartz's grounding nature, the love tuning prevents brightness from becoming unmoored—expansion with roots.

THE SIZE

At 10 inches, this bowl produces third-octave tones with very long sustain—strike it once and the sound continues, building and evolving for extended periods. The deep, penetrating volume fills large spaces naturally, making it ideal for group settings, ceremonial use, yoga studios, or open-plan living areas. Yet it serves equally well in intimate contexts where you want sound that envelops rather than simply accompanies.

This size allows opaque quartz's settling quality to express with full presence, while the low octave resonance naturally targets the foundational body—the places where we hold tension, brace against the world, or forget we're allowed to take up space. Teachers find this size effective for whole-classroom transitions. Facilitators use it to gather scattered attention at meeting openings. At home, it becomes a room-changing instrument, shifting the atmosphere with a single strike.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need to come back to yourself—after a scattered day, before a demanding conversation, when anxiety has you breathing shallow and thinking fast. You don't need special training or a dedicated practice space. Simply find a moment, strike the bowl, and let the sound do what it does.

Place the bowl on its O-ring on any stable surface. Play the outer rim with the mallet and let your attention follow the sound as it expands and slowly fades. Notice where you feel it in your body—often the low belly, the hips, the base of the spine. Let your breath deepen naturally. You might place one hand on your chest and one on your belly, feeling the vibration bridge between them. In classrooms, a single strike can signal transition time. In meetings, it can mark the shift from scattered arrival to collective presence. At bedtime, it can help children (and adults) release the day's accumulation.

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 any surface. Every bowl is formed in a single seamless vessel from 99.995% pure quartz—no welds, no weak points—built to last lifetimes of daily use.

INVITATION

You've read this far because something in the opacity spoke to you—the idea of a bowl that doesn't dazzle but settles, that sounds at the crown while teaching your feet to remember the floor. Maybe you're tired of practices that feel too airy, or you work with people (students, clients, colleagues, children) who need grounding more than they need transcendence. Maybe you just want something beautiful that helps you come home to your body at the end of scattered days.

This bowl doesn't ask what you do for a living or whether you know the chakra system. It asks: Do you need weight that doesn't burden? Do you want spiritual opening that remembers it has bones? If those questions land in your chest like recognition, you've found your bowl. Not every instrument finds every person—but when opaque quartz calls, it's usually because you've been floating too long and something in you is ready to land.