Video transcript:
Greetings everyone, and welcome once again to my Crystal Tones™ Crystal Singing Bowl Salon. This is a quick tutorial about the care and feeding of your bowl.
Not that we feed them, but there is a way that we energetically can clear and work with them so that they are not holding a lot of junky energy.
One of the main things is just be gentle with the pressure.
There are two types of wands: the sonic and the suede. I work with both.
The sonic wand is the quick activation wand – so if I’m playing the bowl with the sonic wand, I use a steady movement around the bowl with the same pressure. As soon as I feel the bowl and the wand connect, there’s the sound – that’s the activation!
Then you can press a little bit for a little more volume, and then release – you don’t need to overplay and get it to a place where it’s doing this: getting pitchy and getting and kind of squeaky. It’s not happy! This is its way of saying how unhappy it is.
Another piece of advice – and this is my opinion, because I feel and work with these bowls as sentient beings – I don’t want to leave anything in their mouth because it’s like leaving a fork in our mouths after we eat. You can’t talk, you can’t vocalize, you can do nothing. So don’t leave this inside your bowl. Also, there’s a possibility of breakage. I always just lay it by the side. These bowls are not a container, it’s not a pencil holder, it’s not a wand holder.
If you are working with the suede wand, I love these for the very gentle warm sound. When I touch right in the middle of the suede wand itself, just a very light touch, it activates all those overtones that are rich in so many harmonic nutrients.
The other piece that I want to quickly cover is these suckers – the sonic wands – can get sticky and dirty (I don’t know if you can see it). There’s a way to take care of [the sonic wand] that I didn’t know about it for a while… until I did. So I want to share this with you – I just take one of the Lysol wipes, and I just rub on the wand. Rub pretty hard and it will start to clear the smudges the fingerprints that are stored here. Now you can see that that’s clean, and there’s the dirty side.
So those are ways to take care of of the wands that you’re using, and little tips about how to how to play so that uh everything is copacetic. Have a beautiful day, happy humming, happy toning, and enjoy your beautiful Crystal Bowl! See you later!
