Iolite Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" A Note | #1580

I don't force vision. I reveal what was always there.

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: A | Cents: -45 | Frequency: 214 Hz | Tuning: Grounding Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: A-16 | Bowl #: 1580 ✨ Element: Iolite 💎 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 🦶 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Third Eye | Cycle of Fifths: Throat 💫

This iolite crystal singing bowl sounds in A at 214 Hz, resonating with the third eye chakra and the deep body zone—pelvis, hips, and foundational connection to earth. Iolite supports intuitive clarity and inner navigation, traditionally valued as a stone of vision that helps distinguish truth from illusion. When third eye frequency meets this ancient wayfinding mineral in a grounding octave, the experience is insight that settles into the body rather than floating away.

BEST FOR

• Intuition development and inner clarity work
• Students preparing for exams or navigating difficult decisions
• Those in recovery seeking their true north
• Sound healers supporting clients through confusion or transition
• Morning ritual for anyone needing direction in uncertain times
• Athletes and performers visualizing outcomes before competition
• Writers and creatives breaking through mental fog

ESSENCE

I am the stone that shifts between worlds. Hold me to the light and watch: violet deepens to indigo, then fades to clarity—all within the same breath. I don't force vision. I reveal what's already there, obscured by conditions that made seeing impossible. When you've been lost in others' expectations, when too many maps have confused your sense of direction, I help you locate the compass that was never broken—only overlooked.

THE ELEMENT

Iolite is a variety of cordierite, a magnesium iron aluminum silicate that forms under immense pressure in metamorphic rock. Its most remarkable property is pleochroism—the ability to display different colors depending on the angle of view, shifting from deep violet-blue to pale gold to near transparency. This isn't surface effect; it's structural, woven into the crystal's orthorhombic lattice. Primary deposits occur in India, Madagascar, Brazil, and Sri Lanka, where regional metamorphism transforms ordinary stone into something that bends light in three directions at once.

Viking navigators discovered this quality over a thousand years ago, using thin slices of iolite to locate the sun through fog and storm. They called it the "Viking's Compass"—a tool for finding direction when external landmarks disappeared. This practical application speaks to iolite's deeper signature: it doesn't create clarity, it reveals what conditions have obscured.

When iolite is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure becomes part of what vibrates—not a coating, but an integration at over 3,000°F. The mineral's unique microstructure is woven into every frequency the bowl produces, which is why people often describe this bowl's tone as having unusual depth and dimensionality. Traditions associate iolite with the third eye chakra, supporting intuition, discernment, and the ability to see through illusion. It's also known as a "sobriety stone," valued by those in recovery for its support of clear-seeing and commitment to truth. When you work with iolite, you're invited to adjust your angle—to find the perspective where what matters becomes visible again.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in A at 214 Hz, resonating with the third eye chakra in the Western diatonic system. The A frequency carries the energetic quality of intuition, wisdom, and vision, vibrating through your deep body—pelvis, hips, lower spine, and foundational connection to earth. This creates an interesting paradox: a note associated with higher perception grounding itself in the body's base.

When iolite's wayfinding properties meet this third eye frequency, the combination supports insight that doesn't float away. Many people report that working with this bowl helps them access intuitive knowing while staying anchored—vision that can be acted upon rather than merely glimpsed. The deep octave ensures that whatever clarity arises has weight, substance, a place to land.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 214 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays A-45 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is A-16 cents.

This bowl is categorized as Grounding Tuning because its frequency falls below the A=432 range, producing an even deeper, more anchoring quality. These frequencies have an inward-drawing character—sounds that settle rather than stimulate. For a bowl supporting intuitive clarity, this grounding quality proves essential: it keeps insight embodied rather than abstract, practical rather than merely mystical. Good for deep inner work, calming active minds, or anyone who needs their vision to connect with their feet.

(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 or rim-singing continues resonating for extended periods, allowing sound to build and settle in layers. The deep, penetrating volume fills large spaces naturally, making it ideal for group settings, ceremonial use, or rooms where sound needs to reach everyone present. This size also works beautifully for personal practice where you want immersive, room-filling resonance—a home meditation space, a therapist's office between clients, or a classroom transition ritual.

The substantial size allows iolite's multidimensional quality to express fully. You'll hear the pleochroic nature in the harmonics—subtle shifts in the overtones depending on how you play, where you stand, how you listen. The third octave resonance naturally targets the deep body and foundational zones, grounding the third eye frequency into physical experience.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you need to find direction—when decisions feel murky, when you're sorting through conflicting advice, when you've lost sight of your own knowing beneath layers of others' opinions. It serves equally well at the start of a planning session, before a difficult conversation, during study breaks when focus has scattered, or in the quiet hour before the house wakes when you're trying to hear your own thoughts.

Begin simply. Strike the bowl or circle the rim, then close your eyes. Notice where the sound seems to gather in your body—often the space between the eyebrows, sometimes the belly, sometimes both simultaneously. Let the long sustain do its work. You don't need to force insight or demand answers. Iolite's teaching is that clarity comes from adjusting the angle, not from straining harder. Breathe. Listen. Notice what becomes visible when you stop looking so intensely.

For those working with others—whether clients, students, teams, or family—this bowl excels at creating conditions for honest conversation. The grounding frequency settles nervous systems while the iolite energy supports truth-telling. Try playing it at the opening of a meeting where difficult topics need addressing, or before a tutoring session where a student feels overwhelmed by choices.

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 navigating toward what matters.

INVITATION

You've read about navigation and clarity, about Vikings finding the sun through storm clouds, about insight that doesn't float away. Maybe you're thinking: I don't need a compass. I need five minutes where my head stops spinning.

Good. This bowl doesn't care if you call it third eye work or Tuesday morning sanity. It just knows how to create the conditions where what matters becomes visible again—whether that's the right decision before a difficult meeting, focus before an exam, or the quiet your nervous system has been asking for all week.

Iolite doesn't perform. It reveals. And at 214 Hz in a grounding octave, this particular bowl does something unusual: it brings vision down into your body instead of pulling you up into abstraction. Insight you can actually use. Clarity that stays past the last resonance.

Not every bowl finds every person. But if you're still here, adjusting the angle, trying to see what you already sense—that's the signature move. That's how this one works.