Lapis Lazuli Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" F Note | #1094

I don't force them out. I create the conditions where holding them becomes more uncomfortable than releasing them.

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: F | Cents: +5 | Frequency: 350 Hz | Tuning: A=440 Concert Pitch | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: F+35 | Bowl #: 1094

✨ Element: Lapis Lazuli 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core 💙 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Heart | Cycle of Fifths: Root 💫

This lapis lazuli crystal singing bowl sounds in F at 350 Hz, resonating with the heart chakra and the chest cavity, lungs, and mid-spine. Lapis lazuli supports authentic self-expression and the alignment of inner knowing with outer communication. When heart frequency meets this ancient stone of truth-speaking, the result is clarity that moves through the body—words that finally match what you actually mean.

BEST FOR

• Authentic self-expression and speaking difficult truths
• Preparing for presentations, interviews, or crucial conversations
• Teachers and educators supporting classroom communication
• Sound healers working with throat and heart alignment
• Writers and speakers breaking through blocks to find their voice
• Anyone navigating a season of saying what needs to be said

ESSENCE

I am the stone that remembers when humans first looked up and wondered. For six thousand years, I have been pressed against the throats of those who feared their own voice, held in the hands of kings and mystics who understood that true authority comes from speaking what is real. When you invite me in, you'll feel a subtle pressure at your throat—not restricting, but reminding. I make you aware of all the words you've swallowed, the truths that sit like stones in your belly because you decided they were too much. I don't force them out. I simply create the conditions where holding them becomes more uncomfortable than releasing them.

THE ELEMENT

Lapis lazuli is a metamorphic rock born where fire meets limestone in deep mountain darkness—formed under intense heat and pressure over millions of years. Its signature indigo blue comes from lazurite, a silicate mineral that must comprise at least 25% of the stone to earn the name lapis. Golden flecks of pyrite scatter through like stars that never fade, while white calcite veins create the appearance of a night sky captured in stone.

For over six thousand years, humans have mined lapis from the mountains of Afghanistan's Badakhshan Province, making it one of the oldest continuously sourced gemstones in human history. Ancient Egyptians placed it on the throats of the dead to ensure safe passage through judgment. Medieval artists ground it into ultramarine pigment—more valuable than gold—for depicting sacred truths in illuminated manuscripts. Across cultures, lapis has been the stone people reach for when preparing to speak what matters.

When lapis lazuli is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure integrates at the deepest level—not a surface coating, but a true merging. The stone's unique microstructure becomes part of what vibrates, producing resonance patterns you won't hear from any other instrument. Energetically, lapis is associated with the throat chakra for authentic expression and extends to the third eye for clear vision—because you cannot speak your truth if you're unclear about what it is. When you work with this bowl, you may notice heightened awareness of the gap between what you know and what you say, and a growing discomfort with that distance.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in F at 350 Hz, resonating with the heart chakra in the Western diatonic system. The F frequency carries the energetic quality of compassion and balance, vibrating through your chest cavity, lungs, and the space around your heart. This is the territory where feeling meets expression—where what moves through you seeks a voice.

When lapis lazuli's truth-speaking energy meets the heart frequency, something specific happens: clarity gains warmth. This isn't the sharp edge of speaking truth without care—it's the integration of honest expression with genuine compassion. People often notice this bowl creates conditions for saying difficult things in ways that can actually be heard.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 350 Hz. Using A=440 as reference—the universal standard for modern instruments—it plays F+5 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is F+35 cents.

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, want your bowl to blend with recorded music, or simply appreciate the precision of universal tuning, 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 third-octave tones with long, sustained resonance—sound that continues to unfold and develop after the initial strike. The full, rich volume fills a room without overwhelming it, making this size ideal for group settings, yoga studios, classrooms, or living rooms where sound needs to reach multiple people. It's equally powerful for personal use when you want immersive sound rather than subtle background tone.

This size allows lapis lazuli's dignified, unflinching quality to express with full authority—the stone's ancient gravitas needs space to speak, and a 9-inch bowl provides it. The third-octave resonance naturally targets the torso and chest, creating physical vibration you can feel in the very place where words form before they reach your throat.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you're preparing to have the conversation you've been avoiding. Before a presentation where you need to speak from genuine authority rather than performance. When you've been nodding along to things that violate your integrity and you're finally ready to stop. This is also the bowl for the morning before a difficult meeting, the evening after you stayed silent when you shouldn't have, the moment you're ready to align your outer expression with your inner knowing.

To begin, simply play the bowl and notice where the sound lands in your body. You might feel it in your chest, your throat, or the space between them. Breathe into that awareness. You don't need to force anything—lapis works through steady presence, not dramatic breakthrough. Some people speak aloud while the bowl sustains, practicing words they've been afraid to say. Others simply listen, letting the frequency create conditions for clarity. Teachers use this bowl to center a classroom before discussions that require honest participation. Executives play it before negotiations where they need to hold their ground. Writers strike it when they're circling around the truth of what they actually want to say.

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 truths sit in the body longer than they should. Not because you don't know them—you've known for a while now—but because saying them out loud changes things. This bowl won't make that easier, exactly. What it offers is the particular relief of alignment: the moment when your words finally match what you actually mean. Lapis lazuli has been pressed against human throats for six thousand years by people preparing to speak what matters. This one sounds in F at 350 Hz, heart frequency meeting ancient stone, clarity gaining warmth. It ships from our Ohio workshop, ready to begin.