Here is a wonderful article by Lumena Atherton, sound healer and musician, called “Debunking the Chakra Theory.”
This is not debunking chakras, but the theories that assign one note to one chakra. She writes:
“Ultimately I have found that for the purposes of Himalayan Singing Bowls the answer does not have a direct relationship to one particular note and although I use particular bowls on certain parts of the body I do not believe that pitch is the main factor I use to choose which bowl to place where.”
She uses a frequency analysis chart of a Himalayan Singing Bowl to show the multiple notes from it and writes:
“As you can see, there is more to this than one note per chakra. So let’s be done with that myth. The Note is not like a crystal singing bowl and as you can see even one singing bowl can be used for Note (C), Note (G#), Note (E) and Note (B). Three or four bowls like this can create complex and moving harmonic resonances and more than exceed the tonally simple concept of one note per chakra. These tools represent thousands of years of meditation and experimentation from one of the most spiritually focused cultures in history.”
“As in many parts of the society we live in there is a lot of half truth and disinformation. So saying a bowl will resonate only one chakra is pretty simplistic and only a half truth.”
I am reminded when the Hungarian shaman Joska Soos, living in Antwerp, Belgium, looked for and found my personal “note.” It was not one note. It was seven notes together.
The piece by Lumena Atherton, a real expert on Himalayan Singing Bowls and new light body teacher, is very interesting. As is her site in general. Check it out.
