Opaque Quartz Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" F# Note | Concert Pitch | #2314

I am the original ground beneath your feet

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: F# | Cents: -3 | Frequency: 185 Hz | Tuning: Concert Pitch | Octave: 3 | Bowl #: 2314 ✨ Element: Opaque Quartz 💎 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Higher Heart | Cycle of Fifths: Root 💫

This Opaque Quartz crystal singing bowl sounds in F# at 185 Hz, resonating with the higher heart chakra and the deep body—pelvis, hips, and foundational connection to earth. Opaque quartz supports grounding, mental clarity, and the simple act of arriving fully in your body. When the higher heart's frequency of compassion meets quartz in its most grounding form, the experience is presence that requires nothing of you except to be here.

BEST FOR

• Root chakra grounding for those feeling scattered or unanchored
• Sound healers seeking a foundational bowl for nervous system regulation
• Executives and professionals needing to land before high-stakes meetings
• Parents creating calm transitions for anxious or overstimulated children
• Athletes preparing for competition through embodied presence
• Anyone exhausted from constant self-improvement seeking permission to rest

ESSENCE

I am the original ground beneath your feet. When your mind spins stories faster than your body can hold them, when you've forgotten that being human is not a problem to solve, I am the low tone that says: you belong here. This bowl holds pure quartz in its milky, luminous form—not asking you to transcend anything, simply inviting you to land.

THE ELEMENT

Opaque quartz—known in nature as milky quartz—is silicon dioxide in its most grounding expression. Where clear quartz transmits light freely, opaque quartz contains countless microscopic inclusions that formed during crystallization: tiny air pockets distributed evenly throughout the structure, creating its characteristic soft, luminous appearance. This is quartz following nature's lead. Some crystal wants to be transparent; some wants this gentle cloudiness.

The stone ranks 7 on the Mohs hardness scale and has been treasured across cultures for millennia. Ancient Egyptians incorporated milky quartz into protective amulets. Indigenous cultures throughout the Americas and Australia used quartz in healing ceremonies, recognizing its capacity to amplify intention long before modern crystal healing emerged. In Ayurvedic tradition, quartz balances all three doshas, supporting mental clarity and emotional equilibrium.

What makes quartz remarkable in sound healing is its piezoelectric property—the scientifically documented ability to generate electrical charges when mechanically stressed. This measurable phenomenon validates what practitioners have long experienced: quartz doesn't just hold sound, it amplifies and transmits it. Divine Bowls' proprietary process forms this opaque quartz in a single seamless vessel, creating an instrument where the milky microstructure itself becomes part of what vibrates. The surface feels like smooth river stone rather than glass. The tone carries that same quality—soft, enveloping, grounded.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in F# at 185 Hz, resonating with the higher heart chakra in the Western diatonic system. The F# frequency carries the energetic quality of manifestation and instant creation—the bridge between feeling and form. At octave 3, this tone vibrates through your deep body: pelvis, hips, sitting bones, the foundational structures that connect you to earth.

When opaque quartz's grounding presence meets the higher heart frequency, something particular happens. The higher heart governs compassion—not just for others, but for yourself. This bowl creates conditions for self-acceptance that doesn't require improvement first. People often notice a settling in the lower body, a release of held tension they didn't know they were carrying. The low, penetrating tone with its very long sustain fills a room slowly, giving the nervous system time to recognize: nothing here requires your vigilance. You can rest.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 185 Hz, placing it at Concert Pitch—its frequency falls within ±10 cents of A=440, the universal tuning standard for modern instruments.

Like a piano tuned to concert pitch, this bowl will sound in tune when played alongside guitars, keyboards, orchestras, or any instrument using standard tuning. If you play with other musicians, use recorded music in your sessions, or want your bowl to blend seamlessly with other sound sources, this compatibility makes integration effortless.

(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 octave 3 tones with very long sustain—meaning each strike continues resonating for an extended period, filling space gradually and giving the nervous system time to settle. The deep, penetrating volume makes it ideal for group sound baths, yoga studios, therapy practices, or ceremonial spaces. But it works equally well anchoring a living room, grounding a conference room before important meetings, or creating a calming presence in a classroom during transitions. This size allows opaque quartz's grounding presence to express with full, enveloping depth, while the low octave resonance naturally targets the deep body—pelvis, hips, and foundational structures.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need to land. Before a presentation. After a difficult conversation. When your child can't settle. When you've been in your head all day and forgot you have a body. Strike it once and let the tone do the work—no technique required, no special training. Just sound meeting silence, meeting you.

Place the bowl on its O-ring, hold the mallet loosely, and strike the outer rim with a smooth motion. Then wait. Notice where the sound travels in your body. Notice what releases. You might use it to open a team meeting, signaling the shift from scattered arrival to focused presence. Teachers find a single tone transforms classroom energy during transitions. Athletes use it before competition—one clear sound to arrive fully before performing. Parents discover it works better than words for helping overstimulated children find calm. There's no wrong way to work with this bowl. The only requirement is showing up.

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 simply arrives—the way ground arrives beneath your feet when you finally stop running.

Opaque quartz doesn't ask about your credentials, your spiritual vocabulary, or whether you've done this before. It doesn't care if you're a sound healer with twenty years of experience or a first-grade teacher who just wants three minutes of quiet before the bell rings. It holds the same way for the executive stealing stillness before a board meeting and the parent who hasn't sat down all day.

This is what Earth element offers: permission to be heavy. To stop performing your wellness and simply rest in the fact of being here, being human, being held by something that has no opinion about whether you're doing it right.