•  Singing Bowls to relax

Singing Bowls are easily used to release tension and other physical inconveniences. Relaxing increases self-healing-power and empowerishes the immune system of the body. Many symptoms due to stress situations may disappear.

Singing bowls produce a wide sound spectrum resonating through all the cells of the body finally harmonizing them.
Best results for application on reflexology zones, joints, shoulders, and back.

The Institut für Klang-Massage-Therapie organizes periodic Free Evening Workshops concerning Singing Bowls and Sound Massage (Peter Hess-Klangmassage) - all dates and registration at www.klangmassage-therapie.at.

•  Sound Games with children

Almost no other instrument or toy offer such a variety of possibilities for advancement of juvenal perception like Singing Bowls. A playful approach is most important to let the kids discover different sounds and their effects.

Once the children have learned a sensitive handling of the singing bowls everything goes well.
Sounds care for a harmonical temper and mood. Some tips:

•  let the child stand in the Singing Bowl
•  pour water into the Singing Bowl and watch the waves
•  play sound games, concerts, etc. together

All 'games' fit perfectly for adults and are as impressive. Favoured ones:

•  Sound- and fantasy voyages
•  Sound meditation
•  Sound bath

Experiences with Singing Bowls and sound as well as their smooth effects may be easily collected this way - although many times the effects are widely underestimated.
Literature, Audio CDs, VHS and DVD Videos from and with Peter Hess are available at our Singing Bowls Shop.

Treatment of diseases and physical disorders must be done by professionals only and ought to be coordinated with your practizing healthcare professional.

Peter Hess developed his method of sound massage from various sound experiences in Nepal and Tibet. Research, experiences, and experiments on the effects of traditional music on psyche and body are the fundamentals of sound massage. Peter Hess has made an effort to adapt this knowledge to the needs of people living in the 'western' countries.

Sound massage with tibetan Singing Bowls is a sound therapy, using Singing Bowls on the clothes of the body or in the aura hitting them softly with a felt mallett, producing a deep relaxing.

Peter Hess has revived traditional production of high quality Singing Bowls and he developed a method easy to learn and multi-functional applicable. Singing Bowls with Peter Hess products^® seal of approval may be found at Singing Bowls Shop.

Please visit the website of Österreichischen Instituts für Klang-Massage-Therapie www.klangmassage-therapie.at in case you are interested to visit our Free Evening Workshops in Vienna or attend an education in Peter Hess-Sound Massage.

Care of Singing Bowls

There are different possibilities to clean the bowls and it depends how you like them and what you prefer.
Some people like very bright and shiny bowls, other like them if they are more faded so that they look old.
Please mind it's just the eye - both types can have the same sound.
For myself I don't care so much how a bowl looks like, for me its more important how they sound. So I never clean them except removing the dust after a while. Other people may think and feel different and thats ok as well. People working in cosmetic studios or wellness hotels may find it necessary to use more shiny bowls

Advises:
Physically clean them as every housewife or houseman would do - dry or wet.
In Nepal the bowls are cleaned with a mixture from rice straw ash and water. Afterwords the bowls are covered with mustard oil to preserve corrosion. This is no practical way for western countries though.
A natural kind of cleaning in our countries is rubbing the bowl with a mixture of cheap vinegar (150-200 ml) and salt (4-5 teaspoons). Let the mixture react for 3-5 minutes (its a galvanic process) and then clean the bowl very well using pure water to remove salt and acid. Clean the bowl dry and rub it with beeswax or olive oil for protection. Take care there are no oil or wax residues are left on the bowl to avoid stains on clothes etc.

Special brass cleaning cream or powder for silver or other metal tableware may be used also - the bowls will be brighter but there is more risk to scratch. A student told us to use carpolish - amazing - but why not ;-)

Energetically the bowls don't have to be cleaned like people usually are recharging or cleaning stones (water, sunlight etc.). Bowls are self-cleaning by the sound they produce, they are able to transform etheric energy.
Singing bowls don't lose the frequency or tone as long you treat them well, only treating them hard like throw them to the ground, scratch them with sandpaper or remove metal with other tools may cause the sound to change or the bowls may brake.