Tibetan Singing Bowls

The singing bowl is traditionally used as a special offering bowl in a Buddhist altar containing barley, flower or rice, water, and butter with a wick placed in the center to create a butter lamp.

Due to their amazing sonorous properties Tibetan singing bowls have become not just musical instruments, but rather a practical tool of letting go in the practice of meditation.

Here is how it works: Place the singing bowl in the open palm of one hand (Be sure to let go of the rings) and hold the wooden stick vertically like a pen in the other. Tap the bowl with a stick (you will feel the vibration) and then run a stick around the outside rim with steady pressure and speed. A series of calming tones will begin to emerge. If not, try it again until you notice that the steady tone comes only when you relax, trying too hard simply sends the singing bowl to the floor! So enjoy the process, remember you're an adult who is simply playing with a cup and a stick.
 

Tibetan singing bowls are made of alloy of bell metals in Northern India by Tibetan refuges. Includes wooden stick.