Opaque Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 12" F# Note | #881

I diffuse brilliance into something you can rest in

🎵 Size: 12" | Note: F# | Cents: +0 | Frequency: 370 Hz | Tuning: A=440 Concert Pitch | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: F#+31 | Bowl #: 881

✨ Element: Opaque Quartz 🪨 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Higher Heart 💫

This opaque quartz crystal singing bowl sounds in F# at 370 Hz, resonating with the higher heart chakra and the deep body zone—pelvis, hips, and foundational connection to earth. Opaque quartz, also called milky or snow quartz, supports nervous system regulation, emotional recovery, and gentle spiritual integration. When the higher heart's frequency of compassion meets quartz in its softest, most diffused form, the experience is one of being held—protection without walls, strength without sharpness.

BEST FOR

• Nervous system regulation and deep relaxation after intense experiences
• Caregivers and hospice workers needing restoration between giving
• Creating calm for overwhelmed children at homework or bedtime
• Therapists and counselors transitioning between emotionally demanding sessions
• Post-workout recovery and physical reset for athletes
• Anyone navigating grief, burnout, or major life transitions
• Evening wind-down rituals and releasing the day's accumulated tension

ESSENCE

I am the quiet one—the stone that holds light inside but doesn't flash or dazzle. I scatter it gently, turning brilliance into something you can rest in. When you've been scattered across a thousand obligations, when your nervous system hums like an overtightened wire, I am the substance that says: you can rest now. Not the rest of collapse, but the rest of integration—the pause between transformation and return.

THE ELEMENT

Opaque quartz is silicon dioxide in its gentlest expression—the same molecular structure as clear crystal quartz, but carrying microscopic inclusions of water and air that scatter light into soft, milky luminosity. Where clear quartz amplifies and directs, opaque quartz diffuses. It scores a seven on the Mohs hardness scale, yet when you encounter it, you don't feel its edge. You feel its coolness, its quiet strength, the way it seems to glow from within like snow under moonlight.

This mineral has been part of human history since prehistoric times, shaped into tools and talismans by early peoples who recognized both its durability and its gentler presence. The ancient Greeks called quartz krystallos—"ice"—believing it to be eternally frozen water. Across healing traditions worldwide, milky quartz has been carried for protection, emotional soothing, and integration of difficult experiences. It creates a soft boundary that filters harshness while allowing connection.

When opaque quartz is integrated into a singing bowl through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its unique microstructure becomes part of what vibrates. This isn't a coating—it's molecular integration during formation at over 3,000°F. The result is a tone that people consistently describe as "softer" or "more enveloping" than clear quartz, with a warmth that seems to wrap around rather than move through. Working with this element invites you to meet intensity at a pace your system can hold, to process without being consumed, to find strength in gentleness.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in F# at 370 Hz, resonating with the higher heart chakra in the Western diatonic system. The higher heart sits between the heart and throat—the bridge between feeling and expression, between receiving love and offering it. This frequency carries the energetic quality of manifestation and instant creation, vibrating through your pelvis, hips, and foundational body structures.

When opaque quartz's diffusing, protective quality meets the higher heart's frequency of compassion, something particular happens: the bowl creates conditions for emotional processing that feels safe. The F# vibration opens the bridge between heart and voice while the milky quartz ensures that opening happens gently, without overwhelm. People often report sensations of spaciousness, quieting of mental chatter, and a feeling of being held in a cocoon of sound.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 370 Hz. Using A=440 as reference—the universal standard for modern instruments—it plays F#+0. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is F#+31.)

This bowl is categorized as Concert Pitch because its frequency falls within ±10 cents of A=440. Like a piano tuned to concert pitch, this bowl will sound in tune when played alongside guitars, keyboards, recorded music, or any instrument using standard tuning. If you're a musician wanting your bowl to blend with other instruments, or if you simply want compatibility with the music you already love, this bowl integrates effortlessly.

(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 12 inches, this bowl produces third-octave tones with very long sustain—strike it once, and the sound continues for what feels like a full breath cycle, then another. The deep, penetrating volume fills large spaces naturally, making it ideal for group settings, living rooms, yoga studios, or anywhere sound needs to reach multiple people. Yet it works equally well for personal use, where that sustained resonance gives you time to settle into the experience rather than chasing the next strike.

This size allows opaque quartz's enveloping quality to express fully—the tone has room to diffuse and wrap around a space. The third-octave resonance naturally targets the deep body, grounding through pelvis and hips while the higher heart frequency opens the chest. For classrooms transitioning between activities, therapy rooms between clients, or bedrooms at the end of long days, this bowl's presence is felt as much as heard.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need the pause between—after the difficult conversation, after the long shift, after giving more than you had. You don't need training or technique. Simply find a comfortable position, strike the bowl once with intention, and let the sound do what it does. Notice where the vibration lands in your body. Notice your breath beginning to even out without effort.

For morning routine, a single strike before the household wakes creates a pocket of stillness to carry into the day. For teachers, one clear tone signals classroom transitions more effectively than words. For athletes, the sustained resonance supports visualization and recovery alike. For parents, this bowl at bedtime helps children settle when nothing else quite works. For caregivers, it offers the restoration you give to everyone else but rarely receive yourself. There's no wrong way to work with this bowl—only your way, discovered through listening.

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

The teacher who needs thirty seconds of quiet before the classroom fills. The caregiver coming home from a twelve-hour shift. The parent who gives all day and has nothing left by bedtime. The executive who forgot what their own breath sounds like. The athlete whose body is a high-performance machine that never gets to just... be.

This bowl doesn't ask you to do more. It asks you to stop.

Opaque quartz doesn't amplify or activate—it diffuses. It takes whatever intensity you're carrying and softens it into something your nervous system can actually process. The F# frequency opens the bridge between heart and voice while the milky luminosity of the quartz ensures that opening happens gently, without overwhelm. One strike, and the sound wraps around you like fog at dawn—cool, permeable, protective without walls.

Not every bowl is meant for everyone. But if you've read this far, if something in you recognized the word rest not as weakness but as the pause between transformation and return—this one might be waiting for you.