Sound Healing with Singing Bowls and Voice – an Interview with Marie Bergman
Marie Bergman, a musician and singer from Stockholm, Sweden, visited Bodhisattva on a quest to find a bowl. With great ease, she selected a 10 7/8″ with a slightly sharp G fundamental on the second octave – a perfect choice for a singer. As she bonded...Using a Singing Bowl in Psychiatric Practice
As part of our Guest Series, I’m delighted to share my conversation with Rona C, a psychiatrist from Feasterville, PA and a recent customer of Bodhisattva. She was kind enough to discuss how she uses a Tibetan singing bowl in her work. Tell us about your...How to Hand Wah-Wah Your Singing Bowl
If you lived through the 60’s, the term “Wah-Wah” conjures memories of Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Child, or the theme from the 70’s movie Shaft, but probably not an image of a Tibetan Singing Bowl. While all singing bowls naturally produce...Notes from the Rubin Museum
Whenever I’m in New York City, I make a pilgrimage to the Rubin Museum. Housed in the old Barney’s Building on Sixth Avenue and 17th Street, I love to sit in its Cafe, eat vegetarian MoMo’s and think to myself “this used to be the hosiery...
Singing Bowl Physics and Metallurgy: a Chat with Dr. Jeffrey Thompson
Last Summer, I posted a video on Facebook aired by the BBC entitled “On How Tibetan Singing Bowls Are Making Waves in Physics”. The following guest blog includes ensuing comments by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, D.C., B.F.A C.N.S.T./ Diplomate. Dr. Thompson is a foremost...
The Tao of Acceptance – Reflections of Dao Zhen in the Earthquake’s Aftermath
One of my goals of the Secret Lives of Singing Bowls is to show the many ways in which singing bowls are integrated into cultures all over the planet in the form of healing modalities, music, and meditation tools. There is no better resource for this focus than...
Singing Bowl Mallets (and How to Use them)
Every singing bowl sound sample recorded on our web site 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...
The Tuning of Tibetan Singing Bowls
I am often asked the question: “How do I know what frequency my singing bowl is”? Well, actually a Tibetan Singing bowl produces several frequencies. Most bowls (but not all of them) are tuned to a flatted fifth, also known as a Tritone. So, the...
Life in Winter
Summer of 2010 was the coldest summer on record in Los Angeles, and I think this winter is the coldest I can remember in the 17 years that I’ve lived here. That summer, cold as it was, was a non-starter. Rain had ordered Begonia bulbs in the Spring, but by the...Heart Chakra Healing Meditation
Heart Chakra Healing Meditation with Singing Bowl A happy Valentines Day may not be about receiving flowers or Valentines messages, a romantic evening on the town, or even having a date! It’s so easy to be distracted into quantifying the measure of love in our...
Singing Bowls for Lee: In Memoriam
Lee Lozowick Founder, Partner, Vigraha, LLC In Memoriam A year ago today, February 2, 2010, Lee and I sat on the oriental carpet of Bodhisattva’s showroom at the Tucson Gem show, as we had in many a recent year past, selecting singing bowls. His bevy of various...
Singing Bowls and Pain Management
We just heard back from Ryan N., therapist at a Pain Management Clinic in Highland, California. Ryan and his partner, Rae visited us in September to purchase a bowl for therapeutic use in the Clinic’s wellness room. This is what he shared with us: “I...
Singing Bowls Debut at Oncology Conference
SIO Conference, New York City, November 2010 Bodhisattva Trading Co., Inc., exhibited with the Society for Integrative Oncology at their 7th International Conference at the New York Academy of Medicine, November 11 through 13th. Titled “Integrative Oncology: Informing...
Dalai Lama Teachings, Bloomington 2010
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s Teachings on The Heart Sutra Bloomington, Indiana, May 11 – 13, 2010 The Tibetan-Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center (TMBCC) hosted His Holiness’s teachings in the lovely, storied campus of Bloomington, Indiana. Bodhisattva Trading...
Singing Bowls and the Breath
Singing Bowls and the Breath Our breath is the ultimate act of generosity life gives us. Without it, no other of life’s abundant gifts are possible. Our breath is a chorus, accompanying us as the ambient sound track of our lives, from the moment of birth until...
Discovering the Male Tone of a Singing Bowl
Discovering the Male Tone of a Singing Bowl It was Fall of 2000, and the 2nd International Conference on Buddhism, fittingly, was off to a quiet start. Rain and I had driven from Los Angeles through the Southwest and the Rockies, and had arrived late at night our...The Secret Lives of Singing Bowls
The Monastery door, massive, and ornately carved, spoke of its life as a Sheesham tree in a medieval forest, as it granted egress from the courtyard into the field of grey stones, beyond. It spoke softly of its Dharma as a protector, far above the forests of its...
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.