How to Play a Singing Bowl
How to Play a Singing Bowl – the “Around-The-Rim” Technique Hold the singing bowl on the flat palm of your nondominant hand. For smaller bowls, five inches and under, hold on your fingertips. Grasp the mallet about mid-length, with all the fingertips pointing...Mallets for Singing Bowls (and How to Use Them)
Every singing bowl sound sample recorded on our website has been played with the following variety of mallets. Singing bowls can sound completely different whether they are struck with wool, leather, or wood; and you can isolate completely different tones depending...
Choosing a Singing Bowl Gift
There’s something enchanting about the resonance of a singing bowl— tones that still the mind and transcend ordinary sound. Tibetan singing bowls, steeped in tradition and known for their healing properties, make a captivating and soulful gift. Here’s your...
Art of the Etched Singing Bowl
When etched bowls started flooding the market a few years ago, I passed them up because neither the quality of art, nor the bowls it adorned, were up to our Master-quality standards. Considering the extra cost that the etching work commanded, how could we justify the...Creating a Crown Chakra Singing Bowl Set
Creating a Crown Chakra Singing Bowl Set Years ago, a clinical psychologist commissioned me to assemble a seven-piece set of antique, Highwall singing bowls, tuned on the rim tones to the Diatonic scale. At the time, Western pop culture dictated that the Diatonic...
Therapeutic Healing Using Singing Bowls – A Guest Blog by Kristina Karst
Kristina Karst, CRMT is a yoga teacher and Reiki practitioner from Corpus Christi, TX. She uses singing bowls in conjunction with other sound instruments such as crystal bowls and gongs to complement a yoga practice, reiki or medical care depending on the client. ...
Singing Bowls and the Chakras – A Guest Blog by Frank Perry
Our guest-blogger Frank Perry is a recording artist, composer, astrologer, mystic, Singing Bowl expert since the early 70’s and author of the compendium “Himalayan Sound Revelations”. Now in its second printing of the second edition, his book is...33 Bowls – An Interview Update
Back in 2012, I interviewed the recording artist who would come to be known as 33 Bowls after his 2012 recording of the same name. He had just recorded his initial collection of 33 bowls he got from Bodhisattva in the 2009-2011 time frame, and went on to do two of the...Recording Gongs with Son Vo
Gongs Recording with Son Vo Gongs are considered by audio engineers to be one of the most difficult instruments to accurately record due to their inherent multitimbral, transient tones. You can’t approach recording them like you would...Seven Metals Contemporary Singing Bowls
When I was in Kathmandu this past September, I was delighted when one of our oldest suppliers of singing bowls invited me to visit his factory in Patan, one of the three historic kingdoms of Kathmandu with an ancient tradition of metal work. He produces singing bowls...A Brief But Fantastic Buying Trip to Nepal
It had been 15 years since I’d been to Nepal. As a result our buy-out of my former partner, our supply chain had broken down on so many fronts: malas, tingshaw, Ghanta & Dorje, gongs: we had run out of most of these items in the past year. And although I managed...
ANTIQUE SINGING BOWL AUTHENTICITY
At Bodhisattva, we list the approximate age of our singing bowls based on our evaluation of authentic wear on the metal, and date them “circa” their century of manufacture. “Circa” means “about”. Absent a specific date inscribed on the piece, this term art historians...
Stories from the ruins in Nepal
At 11:56 am Saturday, April 25th 2015, the Kathmandu valley and surrounding areas were devastated by a 7.8 earthquake. The death toll mounts daily, so by the time you read this, today’s count of 7300 lives lost will be heartbreakingly out of date. The...Singing Bowls at the Valdez Providence Hospital Long-term Care Facility
Singing Bowls at the Valdez Providence Hospital Although she seems like a longtime customer, in fact I have only had the pleasure of knowing Nancy since June of ’12, when she made her first purchase of a few Master-quality bowls in quarter-tone tuning. She was...Using Singing Bowls in Acupuncture Practice
Singing Bowls in Acupuncture Practice Our long time customer Ken Glowacki is a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine in Portland, Oregon. He has been building his set of high quality, antique Tibetan bowls with us since 2008. He was a bit of an enigma, and we...Spring at Bodhisattva
Spring has come to Bodhisattva. Our patio is a walking tour of intoxicating scents. Upon entering our gate, one is flanked on one side by a flowering Meyer Lemon tree and on the other, an out of control Pink Jasmine vine; across the patio, an exuberant,...Tibetan Anthem; Tibetan Bowls
Recently, while reading about the immolations that have been spreading through Tibet, I came across a video on YouTube of the Tibetan National Anthem. Even though I have been in the Dharma community since coming to Southern California in 1994, I had never knowingly...The Bodhisattva Recording Project
Bodhisattva Recording Project Part of Bodhisattva’s mission is to archive the sound files of the thousands of antique singing bowls that have passed through our business in the past 16 years. One of the ways we seek to preserve this legacy is to develop and maintain...
1,000 Years of Tibetan Bowls – the Longplayer Project
Initiated in 1999 by Jem Finer, this project is a composition of Tibetan singing bowls designed to play until 2999. Click on the link below to listen. Longplayer’s first live performance, The Roundhouse, 2009. [Atherton-Chiellino] [ENLARGE] What is Longplayer?...
Antique Tibetan Singing Bowls do not merely sing. They communicate in a variety of ways, from their capacity as biofeedback instruments, to the informational subtext of their frequencies which we hear and feel in our bodies and energy fields as vibration. This blog will be based on my own experiences as well as those of customers and friends who have integrated the bowls into their healing and spiritual practices, and are guided by them as tools of discovery. I welcome all to share their experiences.