Singing Bowl Nada Yoga
Nada Yoga means "union through sound." It is the ancient spiritual art and science of inner transformation through sound and tone. Meditation on sound is one universal path to Self Realization, accessible to anyone, and appropriate for people of any religion or spiritual aspiration. Each singing bowl will be delivered with a wooden stick. Description The weight of a singing bowl is an indication; mostly it is a little bit different from what has been ordered. But the weight of the delivered bowl(s) will be charged. Beaten Singing Bowls: Beaten or hand hammered singing bowls are completely made by a hand hammering process. In beaten singing bowls, every single singing bowl is carefully hand beaten, which requires several processes to finish up and being shaped into a perfect hand hammered bowl. In the making process, first the various composition of metals as raw materials (Copper, Tin, Zinc, Iron, Lead, Gold and Silver) will be melted in a furnace, depending on manufacturing needs such as for a bronze singing bowl, or for a seven metals singing bowl. The hot melted metals are taken from the furnace and poured into a mould, to prepare a metal base for the various sizes and weights. Then, the round metals are taken out and cut into the specific metal plates in needed size and thickness. After that, the stacks of plates are brought for the hand beating or hammering process, after precise measurement and categorizing for weight and size of the bowls. Regarding the hand hammering process of the making of singing bowls, four to five round metal plates are piled up one upon another and then heated to red hot burn. The red hot burned metal plates are hammered by a group of expert artisans, as long as the heat remains in the metal, and then again are processed to red heating, for a continued beating for the shaping of the singing bowl. This heating and beating process with the bundled and piled up metal parts continues until a desired shape and size forms from the metal. (That is why the hammered or beaten singing bowls will get proportionately different in size and shape with each individual bowl). In this hammering process of the singing bowls, the metal plate needs to be hammered and beaten during the time it is red hot, when the metal remains soft and flexible; as the metal gets colder, it will loose its softness and flexibility which in turn will make the metal brittle, so it will break the bowl while being hammered and shaped. The reason behind this working process is that metal with a high content of bronze, or with seven metal mixture, is very sensitive to heat and gets harder when it looses its hot temperature, so it will have cracks and breaks when worked upon. So, in this shaping stage of hammered singing bowls, the shaping is done only while the metal is very hot. After completion of the shaping process of the desired bowls, the particular work begins. At this stage, each bowl is brought into an uniform shape and size, and this also should only be done using the same heating process and then hammering the precise shape. After finalizing the shape and size, a finer hammering process makes for the final tuning and shaping of the bowls. The individual singing bowls are then chiselled and sometimes coloured, by turning the rough surface of the bowls for the fine finishing process, and checking the inside and outside surface, according to finishing needs.