Singing Bowls And Kids: Making Time At Home Mindful

Wondering how you’ll keep the kids occupied this summer? Currently, struggling with schooling and entertaining them at home? Singing bowls easily fit into lesson plans, routines, and rules of the house. If you want to make time at home more mindful – but not more boring- check out some ways our kids are using singing bowls.

A Music Lesson

Teaching kids about the arts at home doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Unlike other musical instruments, singing bowls are relatively inexpensive and easy to play. Listen to some singing bowl tracks online and have your little ones try to recreate the sounds along with the recording.

For kids who do have experience with musical education, have them identify what note their singing bowl plays. Have them experiment with different playing techniques to alter the sound, or play other instruments like gongs, bells, and chimes to accompany the singing bowl.

A Reward

Little ones love praise and acknowledgment for good behavior. And in the long term, it reinforces that good behavior. If you’re homeschooling right now, try using a singing bowl as a reward. When your child gets an answer right or behaves, invite them to strike the singing bowl. It’ simple, but incredibly fun for small kids who love an opportunity to make a little noise.

Over time, they’ll build positive associations with the sound. Later in life, they’ll have no problem turning to a singing bowl to boost their mood and destress.

Games

Tibetan Singing bowls can even be incorporated into mindful listening games. Play your singing bowl around the rim, and have the kids listen carefully for the second that the sound fades away completely. At the moment the sound disappears, they either sit down or if sitting, raise their hand. This type of engagement is good for keeping kids in the present moment.

Relaxation and Quiet Time

Naptime is a struggle. If your children insist they’re not tired and fight taking a rest, try this. Instead of saying its naptime, do a few yoga postures. Downward dog, butterfly, and child’s pose are all good beginner postures they can do. Finish with savasana, where the child will lie down on their mat with their eyes closed. Begin playing the singing bowl as you encourage them to relax, not “nap”.

Chances are, they’ll drift off to sleep- whether they meant to or not.

Singing bowls are good for bedtime too, as a simple ritual that signals things are winding down at home. At Silent Mind, we keep different singing bowls for all purposes- one for mindful listening games and music lessons, one for routines and rewards, and one for naps and bedtime.

Are you currently homeschooling, and what are your biggest challenges? Do your kids practice mindfulness or play the singing bowl? When did they first start using a singing bowl? Let us know in the comments, and share your own ideas for other parents!

Amazing Singing Bowl Meditations to Try This Week

Do you listen to guided meditation tracks or singing bowl sound baths at home? At Silent Mind, singing bowls are more than meditation tools. Their song is the soundtrack to all daily activities.

It’s great to sit or lie down with the intention to meditate. Routine and discipline are essential to deepening practice. But singing bowls stand out for their ability to be enjoyed at any time. They always add their soothing, meditative quality to everything we do.

There’s nothing like a soft crystal singing bowl sound bath to quell anxiety and fear. This session is just over an hour long.

As the creators at Healing Vibrations say, “With so much pain and fear happening on a global scale right now, we feel it is more important than ever to create something that can help our hearts cope. So with this quarantine time, we wrote our own sound bath with love and heart stimulation as our intention and guide…We hope you can enjoy these waves as the rings stimulate our cells and allow our body to fully absorb the sounds that merge with our being.”

The artisans at Silent Mind create shiny new singing bowls using many traditional, even ancient, techniques. But we still know how to appreciate the otherworldly vibration of an antique bowl. In fact, many collectors who shop with us keep some truly special antique pieces in their collections as well.

Despite the age of the bowls, this two-hour track feels timeless. The creators, temple sounds, say, “All bowls are Antique Chakra notes and will impact through the subconscious mind to heal and rejuvenate as well as relax the body, mind, and soul.”

The sound of rain is calming for many of us, whether we need sleep or just a peaceful, slow-paced day. Nu Meditation Music’s rain and Tibetan singing bowl track clocks in at over nine hours, so you can enjoy a full day or night of gentle moving water and classic Tibetan bowls.

Their channel helpfully states, “Using Tibetan Singing Bowls for healing is based on the idea that all illness or disease is characterized by a hindrance to the flow of energy in the body. When energy flow is hindered, the organ or tissue in question stops vibrating at a healthy frequency, and thus it results in some kind of weakness or illness. The sound frequencies created by Tibetan Singing Bowls restore and optimize the flow of energy in the parts of the body where this is required.”

Yogalates With Silent Mind Singing Bowls

Is your usual mode of movement feeling a little stale? Are you just going through the motions with your daily yoga practice? Mix it up a bit with a fast, efficient yogalates routine.

Yogalates is a combination of yoga and Pilates. Like yoga, Pilates tends to be low-impact, with a focus on core strength and correct posture.

That said, the strength-building component is more intense than many yoga flows. This is why yoga practitioners love Pilates, too; it is a fast-track to a stronger core, which helps them access more challenging yoga asanas.

Plus, it can help you tone up a little faster than many styles of yoga if that’s one of your goals. The main benefit of adding yoga to Pilates is that yoga helps us improve flexibility better than perhaps any other exercise. Flexibility preserves mobility and makes other types of activity and movement safer for our joints and muscles.

Whether or not you’re new to Pilates, yoga, or both, know this- they require patience and mindfulness. Yoga and Pilates ask us to settle into position, engage certain areas of the body and stay trained on our breath. So if you’re looking for active mindfulness practice, look no further.

Our friend Desiree at Dansique Fitness recently shared the perfect yogalates routine. Best of all, it clocks in at just under 30 minutes!

This beautiful yogalates flow starts just right with a Silent Mind singing bowl. The sound of a singing bowl has long been used to mark the beginning and end of any practice that’s sacred to the user.

From there, we begin warming up with some gentle, easy yoga postures. They lead into even more lengthening and gently strengthening postures until the real core work begins. While it isn’t too intense for cautious beginners, this was a good time to revisit and improve upon our side plank!

The final third of the flow is particularly invigorating, as it centers on a popular yoga inversion- plow pose. As we stimulate blood flow to the heart and head, we enjoy moderately paced, highly controlled leg-toning Pilates movements.

Finally, our workout is capped off by a brief seated stretch and a nice, relaxing savasana.

If you want the satisfying, relaxed-yet-accomplished feeling we had after this routine, try it today. You can also check out more videos from Dansique Fitness, which offers plenty of ballet barre-based fitness and HIIT (high-intensity interval training) sessions to complement your flexibility-fostering yoga practice.

The hardest part of any wellness routine is starting. Last week, we went over some ways that we can keep ourselves on track with at-home movement. It’s worth revisiting some of those suggestions as you give yogalates a try this week.

How often do you exercise, or engage in mindful movement? Have you ever tried yogalates? How do incorporate your Tibetan singing bowl into your yoga or exercise routine? We’d love to hear your thoughts below!

Tibetan Singing Bowls: An Introduction

The origins of singing Tibetan bowls are as mysterious as the otherworldly harmonies the bowls produce when we play them. There are more questions than answers: Where did they first come from? What are they made of? How have Tibetans and other cultures used them through the centuries? Why are they known as Tibetan singing bowls?

What we do know is this:

• Tibetan singing bowls are not Buddhist in origin, but more likely date back to the pre-Buddhist Tibetan Bon Culture. Although there is no hard evidence to indicate the origins or use of the bowls, it is commonly thought that they were traditionally used both in rituals and, more mundanely, as food bowls.
• Singing bowls are actually a type of bell known as a “standing bell.” The bowls are played either by rubbing a mallet around the rim (as one might play a crystal glass with your finger), or striking the side of the bowl with the mallet. The two playing methods produce quite distinctive sounds.
• Though they are often referred to as Tibetan Singing Bowls, they are more accurately called Himalayan Bowls, as they are present throughout the Himalayan regions of Tibet, Nepal, India. They can also be found in various manifestations in Japan, Korea, China, and Mongolia.
• Today, singing bowls are used to aid meditation, religious practice, relaxation, and healthcare.
• When used in sound healing, singing bowls are sometimes referred to as healing bowls or chakra bowls. In sound healing, or “sound massage,” the bowls are played around and sometimes placed on the body of the receiver of the treatment. The practitioner uses the resonance of the bowls’ harmonic vibrations within the human body for balancing and relaxation. Some sound healers seek to activate or balance the body’s chakras, or energy centers.
• The “singing” sound is remarkable, a powerful, long-lasting harmonic hum that can be both invigorating and calming at the same time.
• The traditional methods of producing the bowls have been lost for at least 50 years, but the manufacturing methods used today can produce bowls with beautiful tones. Today, bowls are both hand-hammered and machine-made, or a combination of the two. The best modern bowls are considered to come from Nepal.
• Modern bowls are most likely to be made of a type of bronze called “bell metal,” composed of a mix of copper and tin.
• Antique bowls were also typically made of high-quality bronze, with combinations of various other metals, including gold, silver, and even highly-prized meteoric iron, which the Tibetans call “sky-metal” or thogcha. The presence of multiple kinds of ore is thought to be the source of the multiphonic overtones of some antique bowls, and along with the mellow tones created by age, accounts for the high value placed on antique singing bowls.
• It can be very challenging to tell the difference between a true antique singing bowl and a new bowl, as it is relatively easy to “age” the appearance of a new bowl so that it closely resembles an antique. High-quality new bowls are capable of beautiful tones, but only age can produce the richest, mellowest tones. Only a handful of experts in the world can authenticate the age and value of singing bowls, so you should use caution with sellers who offer “antique” or even “old” bowls without evidence of authentication.

And if you’re interested in experiencing Tibetan culture in Lhasa, you can learn how to travel to Tibet here.

Tibetan Singing Bowl

To make sound with a Tibetan singing bowl, solidly press the going with a little hammer in a round movement against the bowls outside edge or edge. At the point when you hear a brilliant, clear tone, you can hinder the movement and your all stress gone. Utilize your full arm to move, as opposed to simply pivoting your wrist, gives you amazing vibes.

The sound mending can you with clearing lively blockages and hence encourage recuperating on physical and mental health. A portion of the advantages of sound treatment includes lower feelings of anxiety and less emotional episodes.

Benefits, you get with Tibetan Singing Bowl’s sound

1. Relief from all stress issues
2. Get rid of depression problem
3. Decreases pressure and uneasiness essentially
4. Brings down annoyance and circulatory strain
5. Improves course and builds bloodstream
6. Profound unwinding and help with discomfort
7. Increments mental and passionate lucidity
8. Advances quietness, bliss, and prosperity

The sound from Tibetan Singing Bowls entrains the cerebrum to move into the Theta cerebrum wave frequencies that initiate profound reflective and tranquil states, lucidity of psyche, and instinct. The sound vibrations away from our sensory system, drawing in our unwinding reflex and hindering the pressure or torment reaction. The sound gives you positive vibes to make your mental as well as physical health well.

Why Buy Tibetan Singing Bowls From Silent Mind?

When you buy one of our bowls, not only are you choosing an authentic product that has been handcrafted just outside Kathmandu, you are also supporting the Nepalese economy, which is still in recovery after the devastating earthquake of 2015.

A cataclysmic earthquake struck the country in April of 2015. It registered 7.8 on the Richter Scale and took the lives of 9,000 people, while an additional 22,000 were injured.

Kathmandu’s economy suffered heavily, especially with the quake’s impact on tourism, their lifeblood. Nepalese locals are desperate for business and many have resorted to crafts.

Helping a Nation Rise from the Rubble

Donation is a wonderful thing, but buying local products- such as their beautiful Tibetan singing bowls– helps stimulate the economy and bring back people’s livelihoods and sense of purpose.

We are committed to seeing through the recovery of Nepal from this horrific ordeal, ensuring we fairly negotiate our pricing arrangement with our manufacturer, who we have developed a great friendship with.

To that end, we will continue to cultivate our business relationship for many years to come. We want to be part of the new community that rises from this rubble. Hopefully, we can bring our friends from the Western world into the fold, too.

We thank you greatly for being a part of that effort. We thought it was critical that you know how much more you are doing as you enjoy your singing bowls.

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