Iolite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" C# Note | #1134

I am the stone that shows you what you already know

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: C# | Cents: +5 | Frequency: 556 Hz | Tuning: A=440 Concert Pitch | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: C#+37 | Bowl #: 1134 ✨ Element: Iolite 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 🌬️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root/Sacral transition 💫

This Iolite crystal singing bowl sounds in C# at 556 Hz, resonating with the Root/Sacral transition zone and the torso, chest cavity, and core. Iolite supports intuitive clarity, perspective shifts, and the courage to navigate uncertainty. When the Wayfinder's stone meets this awakening frequency, the experience is grounded vision—insight that moves through the body rather than floating above it.

BEST FOR

• Intuitive clarity and inner navigation during life transitions
• Executives and leaders making decisions amid uncertainty
• Students preparing for exams or navigating academic crossroads
• Sound healers supporting clients through career or spiritual shifts
• Anyone at a threshold—relationship, career, or identity transitions
• Writers and creatives seeking fresh perspective on stuck projects
• Morning ritual for those who need to find their bearings before the day begins

ESSENCE

I am the stone that shows you what you already know but cannot yet see. When you've turned the same question over until it's worn smooth and still found no answer, I offer this: change your angle. I don't push. I don't shout. I create the conditions for your own inner compass to recalibrate—for the sun to become visible again, even through clouds you thought were permanent.

THE ELEMENT

Iolite is the gem-quality form of cordierite, a magnesium iron aluminum silicate forged within metamorphic rocks under intense heat and pressure over geological timescales. Its distinctive violet-blue coloration comes from iron folded into the crystal structure—strength made luminous. The stone's most remarkable property is pleochroism: depending on the angle of light, iolite shifts from deep indigo to pale yellow to nearly colorless, revealing different truths with each turn.

This optical phenomenon earned iolite its legendary role as the "Viking Compass Stone." Norse seafarers allegedly used thin slices of iolite as polarizing filters to locate the sun's position through overcast North Atlantic skies—navigation by perspective when direct sight failed. Whether historically widespread or partially mythologized, this story has proven culturally persistent because it captures something true about the stone's essence: iolite helps you orient when the obvious landmarks disappear.

When iolite is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure integrates at the deepest level—not a surface coating, but a fundamental part of what vibrates. The mineral's unique microstructure becomes woven into every frequency the bowl produces, creating resonance patterns you won't hear from any other instrument. In contemporary practice, iolite is associated with the Third Eye chakra and traditionally used to support inner vision, mental clarity, and the kind of knowing that arrives before logic catches up. When you work with this bowl, you're working with a stone that has guided travelers for centuries—now supporting the journey inward.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C# at 556 Hz, resonating at the transition between Root and Sacral chakras in the Western diatonic system. The C# frequency carries the energetic quality of awakening and emergence—that liminal space where something new is coming into being but hasn't yet fully arrived. This vibration moves through your torso, chest cavity, and core, targeting the body's center of gravity and breath.

When iolite's perspective-shifting properties meet this transitional frequency, something particular happens: clarity that doesn't bypass the body. The Third Eye associations of iolite find grounding through the lower-chakra resonance of C#, creating insight that settles into your bones rather than spinning in your head. People often describe this combination as "seeing clearly while staying present"—vision anchored by embodiment.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 556 Hz. Using A=440 as reference—the universal standard for modern instruments—it plays C#+5. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is C#+37.)

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, 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 instruments, 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 9 inches, this bowl produces fourth-octave tones with long, sustained resonance—sound that continues to develop and deepen well after the strike. The full, rich volume fills larger spaces naturally, making it equally at home in group settings, yoga studios, and living rooms where sound needs to reach. This size allows iolite's contemplative qualities to unfold gradually, giving you time to settle into the perspective shift rather than rushing through it. The fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the torso and core, grounding higher insight into the body's center.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you're at a threshold. When the old maps no longer match the territory. When you've been weighing options until they all blur together and you need something other than more thinking. Play it before making a decision you've been circling—not to force an answer, but to create conditions where your own knowing can surface. Strike or rim the bowl, then notice what shifts when you stop insisting on a single right answer.

Position the bowl in front of you during seated meditation, or place it nearby while journaling through a stuck question. Teachers might play it during classroom transitions when students need to shift gears. Executives can use it before presentations or negotiations—three minutes of sustained tone to clear mental fog and find center. Athletes preparing for competition can let the frequency settle anticipation into focused readiness. Writers facing blank pages can let the sound create space for fresh perspective. Parents navigating their own crossroads might play it after the house quiets, using the sustained resonance as a container for honest self-reflection.

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 mornings, the question isn't what should I do—it's how do I see this clearly enough to know?

This bowl doesn't answer that question. It creates the conditions where your own answer can surface. Iolite has been helping people navigate since Vikings used it to find the sun through storm clouds. Now it's here, formed into quartz, ready to help you find whatever you're orienting toward—whether that's a decision, a direction, or just three minutes of clarity before the day begins.

It ships from our Ohio workshop whenever you're ready. No rush. The compass works whenever you pick it up.