Dioptase Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl | 9" D Note | C=528 Tuning | #1172

The green that blooms when you're ready to soften

🎵 Size: 9" | Note: D | Cents: +20 | Frequency: 594 Hz | Tuning: C=528 Love Tuning | Octave: 4 | A=432 Equivalent: D#-49 | Bowl #: 1172

✨ Element: Dioptase 💎💚 | Body Resonance: Torso, chest cavity, heart, lungs, solar plexus, diaphragm, mid-spine, core ❤️ | Chakra Connections Western Diatonic: Sacral | Cycle of Fifths: Heart 💫

This dioptase crystal singing bowl sounds in D at 594 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra and the torso, chest cavity, and heart region. Dioptase is a copper-rich mineral traditionally associated with emotional release, heart-centered healing, and the courage to forgive. When this vivid emerald-green essence meets the creative, flowing quality of the D frequency, the result is an instrument that supports both emotional processing and the gentle dissolution of what no longer serves.

BEST FOR

• Emotional release and heart-opening meditation
• Therapists and counselors transitioning between clients
• Caregivers needing restoration after giving to others
• Those navigating grief, forgiveness, or relationship transitions
• Teachers creating emotionally safe classroom environments
• Athletes processing performance pressure or competition stress
• Anyone ready to soften patterns of self-criticism

ESSENCE

I am the green that shouldn't exist—emerald brilliance born from copper and desert heat, crystallized patience arriving exactly when you're ready. When you've been strong too long, when compassion has flowed outward while your own wounds quietly hardened, I am the invitation to turn that tenderness toward yourself. I don't force open what you're not ready to feel. I simply stand as evidence that even in the harshest seasons, something luminous can emerge from what was broken down.

THE ELEMENT

Dioptase is a copper cyclosilicate mineral, its vivid emerald-green color arising from approximately 40% copper content within its crystalline structure. First formally named in 1797 by French mineralogist René Just Haüy—from Greek roots meaning "to see through"—this mineral forms in the oxidized zones of copper deposits across Kazakhstan, Namibia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the American Southwest. Its six-sided prismatic crystals emerge from conditions of intense heat and pressure, earning it the name "emerald of the desert" for its ability to bloom with startling beauty in the most barren landscapes.

Traditional cultures in copper-rich regions have long honored vibrant green minerals as conduits for heart-centered healing and ancestral wisdom. In contemporary wellness practice, dioptase is placed on the chest during meditation to support the release of grief, resentment, and emotional patterns that have calcified over time. People describe working with it as experiencing "a green light washing away old pains"—not dramatic catharsis, but gentle dissolution.

When dioptase is infused into quartz crystal through Divine Bowls' proprietary process, its molecular structure integrates at the point of formation—not as a surface coating, but as part of what vibrates. The mineral's heart-opening signature becomes woven into every frequency the bowl produces. This is why people often describe this bowl's tone as carrying an unusual tenderness, a quality of permission that invites emotional honesty without forcing anything before its time.

THE FREQUENCY

This bowl sounds in D at 594 Hz, resonating with the sacral chakra in the Western diatonic system. The D frequency carries the energetic quality of creativity, emotional flow, and the capacity to feel fully without being overwhelmed. This vibration moves through your torso, chest cavity, and core—the physical architecture where we hold both breath and feeling.

When dioptase's heart-opening properties meet this creative, flowing frequency, something particular happens: the bowl creates conditions for emotions to move rather than stagnate. The sacral center governs our relationship with feeling itself—our willingness to experience joy, grief, desire, and loss without numbing or bypassing. Paired with dioptase's gentle insistence on emotional honesty, this frequency supports the kind of release that doesn't require drama, just presence.

THE TUNING

This bowl resonates at 594 Hz. Using A=440 as reference, it plays D+20 cents. (Using A=432 as reference, this same frequency is D#-49 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 is associated with heart-opening qualities and joyful expansion. The slightly elevated pitch creates an uplifting, clarifying resonance that many find gently energizing rather than sedating—a quality that complements dioptase's invitation to release with hope rather than heaviness.

(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 unfold and develop after the initial strike. The full, rich volume fills group spaces comfortably while remaining intimate enough for personal use. This size makes it equally suited for sound healing sessions, yoga studio closings, therapy office transitions, classroom emotional check-ins, or quiet evenings at home when you need space to process.

The 9-inch diameter allows dioptase's tender, patient quality to express with warmth and presence rather than intensity. The lower-body grounding characteristics of this size help anchor emotional work in the physical body, supporting release that moves through rather than spinning in the mind.

WORKING WITH THIS BOWL

Reach for this bowl when you notice the particular exhaustion of having been strong too long—when you've held space for others while your own feelings quietly fossilized. It serves equally well at the end of a caregiving day, before a difficult conversation, after receiving hard news, or simply when you sense something in your chest that wants to move but hasn't found permission.

Begin simply: place the bowl on a stable surface or hold it in your palm. Strike once and breathe. Notice where the sound lands in your body—many people feel it in the chest or solar plexus first. You might place your free hand over your heart as the tone sustains. There's no technique to master here. The bowl creates conditions; you do the work of allowing. Some people find it helpful to ask a quiet question as the sound fades: What am I still holding that no longer serves me? Others simply breathe and notice. Both approaches are valid.

This bowl pairs naturally with journaling, with quiet tears, with the kind of forgiveness work that happens in small increments over time. Use it before therapy sessions, after difficult phone calls, during classroom moments when emotions run high, or as part of a team's transition ritual when the work has been heavy. Athletes find it useful for processing the emotional weight of competition—the disappointment, the pressure, the identity questions that arise around performance.

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 bowls arrive with fanfare. This one arrives with a question it won't ask aloud—just the space for you to hear your own answer.

Dioptase doesn't rush. It formed in desert heat, in oxidized copper zones where nothing should bloom but somehow does. That patience is woven into every frequency this bowl produces: the long sustain of a 9-inch vessel, the creative flow of D at 594 Hz, the particular tenderness of an element that knows what it means to emerge from breakdown.

This is a bowl for the morning after a hard conversation. For the caregiver who forgot to care for themselves. For the teacher whose classroom held too much feeling today. For anyone who's been strong long enough to wonder what softening might feel like.

Its formed in a single seamless vessel, 99.998% pure quartz, built to outlast whatever you're carrying. The bowl is here. You know if it's yours.