The Crystal Bowl Field Guide
THE SOUND HEALER'S SERIES · A PRACTITIONER'S COMPANION
Everything you need to choose, play, and build with crystal singing bowls.
From your first purchase to a set that feels completely yours.
A 27-page field guide from Ancient Future Sound Academy.
Instant download. Yours forever.
Maybe you bought your first bowl months ago and it sits on a shelf, played only when no one else is home.
Maybe you're still contemplating the purchase, thirty browser tabs deep, waiting to feel sure.
Maybe you've been to enough sound baths to know something real happens in that room, and now you want to understand it from the other side.
Here's what I know after years of doing this work: the bowls will tell you what you need to know, if you know how to listen. Most beginner content skips that part. It hands you a chart, tells you which note goes with which chakra, and calls it a foundation.
This guide is so, so, so much more.
What’s inside
A field guide, in the truest sense.
The Crystal Bowl Field Guide includes 27 designed pages that explain:
✴ Where crystal bowls actually came from (a semiconductor lab, of all places)
✴ Why quartz does what it does in the body
✴ How to choose the perfect bowl for you
✴ How to build a set that's balanced and nestable
✴ How to play, which mallet does what
✴ How to care for instruments, both physically and energetically
Who it’s for
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You've always been moved by sound and music, and you're ready to work with it instead of only receiving it
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You own a bowl (or three) and want to actually understand your instruments
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You're bowl-curious and want to buy right the first time
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You facilitate yoga, breathwork, meditation, or bodywork and feel sound calling you deeper
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You’re curious to learn more about technique
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You want to make sure you shepherd these instruments with integrity
The most expensive bowl is the wrong one.
Let’s do some math
A quality crystal bowl runs a few hundred dollars. A set runs into the thousands. The people who end up reselling bowls on Facebook Marketplace almost always made the same mistake: they bought by note, by chart, or by pretty, before they understood what they were listening for.
I don’t want that for you! Buy once and buy right.
Frequently Asked Questions
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No. If anything, this guide is most valuable before you buy. It will save you from the most common (and most expensive) beginner mistakes.
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The endocrine set, the set-building framework, the mallet guide, and the care and clearing practices are things most practitioners were never formally taught. If you learned by feel, this fills in the foundation underneath what you already know.
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A beautifully designed 27-page PDF, delivered instantly. Read it on any device or print it. The links inside are live, including a discount code for my favorite bowl cases.
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It's a guide. When you're ready for live training, certification, and mentorship, that's what Ancient Future Sound Academy is for. This is where to start.
Meet Your Guide
Meet Your Guide
Allison Bagg is a sound healer, breathwork facilitator, intuitive guide and artist based in Los Angeles. She weaves together a plethora of modalities to help clients ground into their bodies, establish strong boundaries, and open portals to the magic and abundance within. Certified and trained under a master lineage in gong, crystal alchemy singing bowls, planetary chimes and tuning forks, along with breathwork and Yoga Nidra, Allison aims to bring together both hemispheres of the brain in a beautiful marriage of spirit and science. Through these offerings, Allison feels called to educate and share intrinsic tools that have helped her along the path, and usher in a new generation of trauma-informed facilitators to serve their respective communities at a time when humanity needs spaceholders deeply rooted in integrity and reverence.
