Singing bowls are more than beautiful instruments—they are vibrational tools that harmonize, energize, and soothe the body, mind, and spirit. When used with awareness and presence, they become sacred allies in restoring balance on both physical and subtle levels.
Here’s a step-by-step guide for working with a singing bowl in healing and energy work.
🌍 1. Grounding: The Foundation of Every Session
Before beginning any treatment, it's essential to ground the client and create a centered, receptive space.
Technique:
- Place a grounding bowl between the client's feet while they are seated or lying down.
- Strike the bowl twice, allowing the sound to rise and settle like a bell of presence.
- This anchors the energy body and prepares the field for healing.
✴️ Grounding first ensures that all sound work is integrated safely and deeply.
🌬️ 2. Treating the Subtle Bodies (Electromagnetic Field)
Your first layer of work will be on the energy field—also known as the aura, biofield, or subtle body. This includes the physical, emotional, and mental energetic layers.
Purpose:
- Cleanse stagnant energies
- Restore flow and coherence
- Prepare the system for deeper work
How to Perform:
- Hold the singing bowl in one hand (start on the right side of the client).
- Gently scan the field from feet to chin, down the arms, and back to the feet.
- Use striking or gentle rubbing techniques to activate the sound.
- Move to the left side and repeat the scanning.
🔁 Repeat the process again with the emotional and mental layers—each time tuning into the quality of the field and using intuition to linger where needed.
🌈 3. Chakra Treatment: Subtle Bodies (Off the Body)
Once the aura is cleared, work with the chakra system through the rubbing technique (activating the rim of the bowl with a wooden or leather stick).
Steps:
- Hold the bowl slightly above each chakra center (start at the Root).
- Gently rub the rim to create a sustained, vibrating tone.
- Spend time at each chakra, tuning in to the rotational movement and vibrational feel.
- Move upward through Sacral, Solar Plexus, Heart, Throat, Third Eye, and Crown.
- Always return downward to the Root chakra before ending—this seals and grounds the session.
✴️ This practice helps recalibrate the chakra flow, bringing each center back into rhythm.
🧘 4. Chakra Treatment: Physical Body (On the Body)
When you’ve aligned the subtle field, you may now work directly on the physical body.
Important:
- Always ask for permission before placing a bowl on someone's body.
- Ensure the person is relaxed and comfortable.
Placement:
- Use bowls that correspond to chakra areas, placing them gently on the torso, abdomen, or limbs—near related organs and glands.
Techniques:
✴️ Striking with Soft Mallet
- Use a soft ball-ended stick to activate and energize the area.
- Great for stimulating sluggish or blocked zones.
✴️ Rubbing the Rim
- Rub the bowl to create a soothing, steady tone.
- This tranquilizes and calms overactive or agitated areas.
✴️ Hand Support Method
- Place your open palm facing upward on the client's body and place the bowl on your hand.
- This provides energetic buffering and allows better vibration transmission.
Stay alert for chakra bridging signals—where energy links between one center and another. You may feel this in your hands, or sense it intuitively.
🔚 Closing the Session
- End the session by returning to the grounding bowl.
- Strike it gently once more to anchor the energy.
- Offer a moment of silence, stillness, and integration.
- Invite the client to breathe deeply and slowly return to awareness.
🌟 Final Reflection: Healing Through Vibration
Working with singing bowls is not about performance—it's about presence. When sound meets intention, and vibration meets awareness, healing naturally unfolds.
You don’t direct the energy. You create the space.
And in that space, the sound knows exactly what to do.