Dioptase Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 10" D Note | C=528 Tuning | #1720

The emerald that grew in the desert, waiting for your heart

🎵 Size: 10" | Note: D | Cents: +35 | Frequency: 300 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 3 | A=432 Equivalent: D#-31 | Bowl #: 1720

✨ Element: Dioptase 💎 | Body Resonance: Pelvis, hips, legs, sitting bones, lower spine, foundational connection to earth 💚 | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Sacral | Cycle of Fifths: Heart 💫

This Dioptase crystal singing bowl sounds in D at 300 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra and the pelvis, hips, and lower body. Dioptase is a rare copper-based mineral known for supporting emotional release, heart-centered healing, and the transformation of old grief into compassion. When this heart-opening element meets the creative, flowing energy of the sacral frequency, the result is an instrument that helps metabolize what the heart has been carrying while grounding that release through the body's emotional center.

BEST FOR

• Emotional release and heart-opening meditation
• Therapists and counselors transitioning between clients
• Those navigating grief, heartbreak, or relationship transitions
• Caregivers needing restoration after giving to others
• Athletes processing emotional weight that affects performance
• Creating sacred space for difficult family conversations
• Writers and artists working through creative blocks rooted in old wounds

ESSENCE

I am the emerald that grew in the desert—rare, vivid, and forged in the slow alchemy of transformation. When you've been carrying grief you thought you'd already processed, when your heart has grown small and defended, I am the presence that asks: what if you could let this be finished? This bowl holds my copper-green essence crystallized within quartz walls, sounding at the frequency of creative flow and emotional truth—an invitation to stop armoring and start opening.

THE ELEMENT

Dioptase is a rare copper cyclosilicate mineral, its vivid emerald-to-blue-green color so intense that early collectors mistook it for emerald itself. It forms as a secondary mineral in the oxidized zones of copper deposits, crystallizing slowly as copper-rich fluids meet silica in arid environments—a process of weathering and transformation written into every facet. Major deposits occur in Namibia, Kazakhstan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the American Southwest, places where desert conditions allow this slow alchemy to unfold.

The mineral was formally identified in 1797 by French mineralogist René Just Haüy, who named it from Greek roots meaning "to see through"—a reference to its transparency and the visibility of its internal structure. Too soft and fragile for jewelry, dioptase has remained primarily a collector's stone and a tool for those doing deep emotional work. In contemporary wellness traditions, it's regarded as a specialized heart-chakra stone, supporting processes like healing from betrayal, transforming scarcity consciousness, and reconciling family or ancestral wounds.

When dioptase 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 at the molecular level during formation. The mineral's heart-opening signature is woven into every frequency the bowl produces. People often describe this bowl's tone as having an unusual emotional weight—a sound that seems to reach directly into defended places and ask them to soften.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in D at 300 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra in the Western diatonic system. The D frequency carries an energetic quality of creativity, emotional flow, and the processing of feeling—vibrating through your pelvis, hips, and lower spine where the body holds its deepest emotional patterns. In the Cycle of Fifths system, this same frequency connects to heart energy, creating an interesting bridge between emotional centers.

When dioptase's heart-healing properties meet the sacral frequency's creative, flowing nature, something specific happens: the work of emotional release finds a pathway through the body rather than staying trapped in the mind. Grief that has been intellectualized can finally move. People often notice this bowl produces a gentle pressure at the sternum even though the frequency targets the lower body—as if the heart and the creative center are being invited into conversation.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 300 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays D+35 cents. Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is D#-31 cents.

This bowl is categorized in the C=528 tuning because its frequency aligns with instruments tuned so that middle C equals 528 Hz—known as the "Love Frequency" in Solfeggio tradition. This brighter tuning carries heart-opening qualities and a sense of joyful expansion, which complements dioptase's emotional healing properties beautifully. The slightly elevated pitch creates an uplifting, clarifying resonance that supports the transformation of heavy emotions into lighter states.

(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 third-octave tones with very long sustain—meaning each strike or rim-sung note continues resonating for an extended period, allowing deep immersion in the sound. The deep, penetrating volume fills large spaces effectively, making it ideal for group settings, ceremonial work, or rooms where sound needs to reach everyone present. This size also works beautifully in therapy offices, yoga studios, or living rooms where you want the frequency to envelop the space completely.

The larger diameter allows dioptase's patient, desert-forged quality to express fully—there's no rushing this bowl. Its voice unfolds slowly, matching the unhurried process of genuine emotional transformation. The third-octave resonance naturally targets the lower body and foundational structures, grounding the heart-opening work in physical sensation.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you're ready to work with something your heart has been carrying—not to bypass it, but to finally let it move. This might be grief that verbal processing hasn't shifted, resentment wrapped around old wounds, or the scarcity patterns you learned to call protection. You don't need to know exactly what you're releasing. The bowl will meet you where you are.

Begin simply: sit comfortably and place the bowl in front of you or, if you're lying down, position it near your hips or lower belly. Strike the bowl once and let the sound wash through you, noticing where it lands in your body. You might feel warmth spreading from your center, a softening in your chest, or emotions rising without a clear story attached. Let them. This bowl creates conditions for the kind of release that leaves you lighter—not through forcing anything, but through patient witness. Teachers might use it during classroom transitions when students seem emotionally heavy. Therapists might sound it between sessions to clear the room and themselves. Athletes might work with it during recovery when emotional weight is affecting performance. A parent might play it after a difficult conversation with a teenager, letting the sound help metabolize what was stirred.

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 use.

INVITATION

You've been carrying something heavy in your chest—grief that won't quite finish, resentment wrapped tight around an old wound, the exhaustion of keeping your heart small and defended. You've talked about it, journaled through it, maybe even thought you'd processed it. But it's still there, isn't it? A weight that shows up in your body when you least expect it.

This bowl doesn't bypass that weight. It meets you there—in the place where your heart learned to armor itself—and creates conditions for what needs to move to finally move. The emerald-green presence of dioptase infused into quartz, sounding at the frequency where creativity and emotional truth intersect. Not a magic fix. A patient witness. The kind of sound that reaches into defended places and asks them, gently, to soften.

Maybe you're a therapist who needs to clear the room between clients. A parent metabolizing a hard conversation with your teenager. An athlete carrying emotional weight that's affecting your performance. A teacher watching your students hold tension they can't name. Someone sitting alone at 5am, finally ready to let an old story be finished. This bowl doesn't care about your credentials—it cares about your readiness.

If you've read this far, you already know. The question isn't whether this bowl could serve you. The question is whether you're ready to let it.