Tuning in to which Tibetan singing bowl to buy involves some self-discovery, a bit of education, and a journey into the wide range of choices available. The best way to choose an antique singing bowl, really, is to fall in love with the sound. That feeling is a measure of your affinity with the vibrations…
Author: Ryan
Ryan Sarnataro has been playing, collecting and selling old singing bowls since the 1980s. Over those decades he has gained a tremendous amount of experience from seeing and ringing hundreds of thousands of individual bowls in Nepal, India and Tibet.
Son of a professional musician with perfect pitch, Ryan from a young age developed extraordinary sensitivity to sound. This has been applied to hearing deeply into singing bowl soundscapes to detect the subtle harmonies that define the highest quality bowls. Ryan’s interest in these subtle harmonies motivated him to find and develop unique precision mallets and ringers to bring the most out of singing bowls.
Ryan has founded and grown a number of businesses in natural products, the healing arts and green energy. He blends the rigor of best business practices with the playful intuitive nature of singing bowls -which in his life transitioned from a compelling hobby to a business with thousands of customers in dozens of countries.
How to Use a Singing Bowl
A singing bowl is one of the few possessions you will acquire that has the potential to last a lifetime working just as well as the first day you got it. What is a Singing Bowl Used For? To make you feel better As an aid in meditation, yoga or a spiritual practice As an aid…
Singing bowls in one-off hand-made pouches
Displayed on end-cap in Santa Cruz, CA, in the original Staff of Life Natural Food Store. Besides these select few, which happened one holiday season at the express request of the store buyer, every now and again through the years a singing bowl has gone to its new home/owner in one of these special hand-made…
Another bird and bowl story
Corrina takes a very special big Lingham bowl out and sits with it on the river levee at dawn – just her, her bicycle and the singing bowl. Two black crows are flying overhead and they come down and land on the bike path not more than ten feet away. She keeps ringing the singing…
Doing business in Kathmandu
I’m in the internet shop in a side alley, one of the good ones with instant backup power for when the electricity goes down. All of a sudden lots of noise and yelling on the main street. Then some loud bangs and people run past the door. The shop guys jump up, go outside and…
Singing bowl experience set-up
We arrive at the yoga studio in the late afternoon darkness. It is so quiet and orderly in there, the floor gleams – a tabula rasa for my layout. I need 100 square feet for the singing bowls. First I lay down yoga mats two deep, soft but not too squishy. On top of the…
Singing bowls at the end of life
I have a friend very near the end of his days – so near he’s past the doctors and into hospice care. This friend has a lifetime of involvement with Tibetan Buddhism and is spending his remaining time focused on his practice, sort of shining up his mind to best be able to engage with…
Somehow they figured it out
without ever hearing about germ theory In Nepal I was told that people liked to use copper and brass utensils for their healthful qualities. What these exact qualities consisted of was not made explicit but faith in the concept was strong. People believed that food stored in brass was rendered more potent somehow. Well, it…
A Nepali singing bowl practitioner in the US
I went to see a presentation by a practitioner of Tibetan sound healing. He was a Nepali man, very sincere, who was practicing what he called a dying art in his native country. In the course of his discussion he spoke of many instances where people had experienced healing through hearing the tones of his…
Deep Resonance
A very interesting study by Cornell University entomologists involved in developing non-chemical methods of mosquito control caught my ear this week. In a paper published in the February issue of Science magazine it was reported that sonic resonance is the key to inducing female mosquitoes to mate. The way it works is this. Male mosquitoes…
