The Handmade Tibetan Singing Bowl Set spans the widest size range in this collection, from a compact 8.5cm bowl up to a substantial 17.5cm, hand-hammered from a copper alloy in Nepal and sold with a wooden mallet, so there's real room to size a bowl to a personal practice at one end or a shared, group setting at the other.
We want to be direct about the history behind this kind of bowl rather than let the marketing language carry it alone: metal bowls do have real roots as ritual vessels within Himalayan Buddhist and Bon practice, but using one specifically for "sound therapy" and chakra balancing, the way this set is commonly marketed, is more a modern wellness-culture development than a documented ancient meditation technique. Striking it doesn't diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, and it doesn't balance a chakra - what it does reliably is ring out a genuinely resonant tone.
The supplier names copper alloy as the base material but doesn't specify the exact composition beyond that, so we're passing that ambiguity along rather than guessing at a precise blend we can't confirm, though copper being named at all puts this listing ahead of several sibling bowls that only say "metal alloy."
At the large end of this set's size range, a 17.5cm bowl is genuinely suited to group settings, yoga studios, or teaching contexts where a deeper, longer-sustaining tone carries further than a smaller handheld bowl would.
For a wider range of sizes and finishes, browse our full singing bowls collection, and for other ritual tools, our Ritual Kits & Spell Supplies.
Rest the bowl on a flat surface, tap the rim gently with the mallet, or circle the mallet around the outer rim for a longer, sustained tone, letting it ring out fully before striking again.