Apache Peridot Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" C# Note | A=432 Tuning | #1537

I hold the light steady while you remember how to breathe

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: C# | Cents: +0 | Frequency: 272 Hz | Tuning: A=432 Natural Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: C#+0 | Bowl #: 1537 ✨ Element: Apache Peridot 💎 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core ❤️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Root/Sacral transition | Cycle of Fifths: N/A 💫

Note: This bowl resonates as a true tone C# when referenced to A=432 Hz (C#+0 cents)—landing exactly on the note with zero deviation. This precise natural alignment is remarkable, as Divine Bowls are finished to their natural voice rather than forced into perfect pitches.

This Apache Peridot crystal singing bowl sounds in C# at 272 Hz, resonating with the Root/Sacral transition and the torso, chest cavity, and core. Apache Peridot supports emotional clarity, heart-centered release, and the patient work of letting go. When volcanic fire meets the awakening energy of C#, the result is illumination that travels through the body—showing what's ready to be released while providing the steady warmth to do the work.

BEST FOR

• Heart chakra work and emotional release meditation
• Those navigating grief, resentment, or relationship transitions
• Therapists and counselors clearing energy between sessions
• Morning ritual for setting intentions with honest clarity
• Athletes releasing mental blocks before competition
• Writers and creatives breaking through resistance
• Anyone ready to examine old patterns with compassionate honesty

ESSENCE

I am the green fire that rose from the deep places. When you've been carrying something too long—grief calcified into habit, resentment worn smooth by years of handling—I hold steady light until you can see it clearly enough to choose. I don't promise easy release. I promise the warmth to do the work, the patience of volcanic time, and the solar persistence that says: yes, you're ready.

THE ELEMENT

Peridot is gem-quality olivine, a magnesium iron silicate forged in Earth's upper mantle under tremendous heat and pressure. This particular peridot comes from Peridot Mesa on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona—volcanic basalt flows that cracked open to reveal yellow-green crystals carried from deep within the earth. The Apache families who mine these stones work ancestral lands, continuing a relationship with the earth that spans generations.

Ancient Egyptians called peridot the "gem of the sun," wearing it as protection against night terrors. Hawaiians recognized it as the tears of Pele, goddess of volcanic fire—transformation that destroys to renew. These aren't contradictory associations; they're two faces of the same truth. Peridot holds both solar warmth and volcanic intensity, both protection and transformation.

When peridot is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure becomes part of what vibrates—not a surface coating, but a true integration. The mineral's unique microstructure, formed under mantle conditions, creates resonance patterns you won't hear from any other instrument. People often describe this bowl's tone as having unusual warmth and directness, as if the sound itself is illuminating something.

In contemporary wellness practice, peridot supports heart chakra work—but not the soft, romantic version. This is the courageous heart, the one that stays open even when opening hurts. When you work with Apache Peridot, you're inviting the kind of clarity that only comes from heat and time: the patient excavation of what's been buried, the honest examination of what you find, the choice about what to keep and what to return to earth.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in C# at 272 Hz, carrying the energetic quality of transition, awakening, and emergence. In the Western diatonic system, C# resonates at the threshold between Root and Sacral chakras—a frequency of movement between foundation and flow, stability and change.

The 272 Hz vibration travels through your torso, chest cavity, and core—the physical seat of both breath and courage. When Apache Peridot's heart-illuminating properties meet this transitional frequency, the combination supports work that requires both grounding and release. You might notice the sound settling into your solar plexus first, then rising through the chest as if creating space for something new. This is a frequency for thresholds: ready to leave one state, preparing to enter another.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 272 Hz. Using A=432 as reference, it plays C#+0—a true tone C# with zero deviation. Using A=440 as reference, this same frequency is C#-35.

This bowl is categorized in the A=432 tuning because its frequency aligns with instruments tuned to A=432 Hz—often called "Verdi tuning" or "natural tuning." Many people find A=432 produces a warmer, more organic quality that feels easier on the nervous system. The fact that this bowl lands exactly on C# in the A=432 system is remarkable—Divine Bowls are finished to their natural voice rather than forced into perfect pitches, making this precise alignment a gift of the formation process itself. If you have instruments tuned to A=432, or simply prefer this earth-connected sound, this bowl will harmonize beautifully with them.

(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, generous sustain—sound that continues to develop and deepen well after the strike. The full, rich volume fills a room without overwhelming it, making this size ideal for group settings, yoga studios, therapy offices, or living rooms where you want the sound to reach everyone present. It's equally powerful for solo work when you want to be enveloped rather than simply touched by the frequency.

This size allows Apache Peridot's illuminating quality to express with authority—there's no hiding from this sound, no half-measures. The fourth-octave resonance naturally targets the lower body and core, grounding the heart work in physical sensation. Whether you're leading a team through a centering exercise before a difficult meeting, helping a classroom transition between activities, or sitting alone with something you've been avoiding, this bowl provides the steady presence to support the work.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you're ready to look at something honestly. Not when you want comfort or escape, but when you want clarity—when you're prepared to examine what you've been carrying and decide what stays. Play it at the beginning of your day when you want to set intentions with clear eyes, or at the end when you need to release what accumulated. Use it before difficult conversations, after therapy sessions, during the quiet hour when the house is finally still.

To begin, simply strike the bowl and breathe. Let the sound find the places in your chest that feel tight or guarded. You don't need to do anything with what you notice—peridot's gift is illumination, not instruction. The seeing is enough. Some people place a hand on their heart while the bowl sings; others prefer to let the sound work without direction. There's no wrong approach. If you're working with others—students before a test, a team before a presentation, a child who's struggling to name a feeling—the bowl creates conditions for honesty without forcing confession. It simply holds steady light.

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 people arrive at a bowl knowing exactly what they need. Others just know they're tired of carrying something—and they're ready to set it down in better light.

Apache Peridot doesn't soften what's there. It illuminates. The green fire that rose from Earth's mantle, now singing at the threshold between foundation and flow. This is a bowl for the ones who want clarity more than comfort—who are ready to look at what they've been holding and decide, with honest hands, what stays.

It's here. Steady as volcanic time. Warm as August light through leaves.