Standing bell

When Lexi Bell returns home for the holiday, she faces a beloved family tradition.

She'd rather avoid the fiercely competitive Bell Bowl, an annual Christmas flag football showdown between her father and and her uncle that has fueled decades of sibling rivalry.

But when an injury sidelines her brother-in-law, it looks like Lexi's family's losing streak will remain unbroken.

To give them a fighting chance, she strikes a deal with Eddie, a former local football star turned teacher.

I just was fascinated from the very beginning.

But then when I found Singing Bowls, it happened after working with music and writing music and singing and producing vocals and also singing.

I also worked as one of the producers at Spirit West Studios, which was a place that we did orchestral sessions, and I used to contract orchestra players for different clients, too.

It was always fascinating how the minute there was that downbeat, everything would shift in

And it's literally saying, hey, remember, you know, this is what we're doing here.

So it's like this beautiful mirror to help.

And what I realized is when I put the crystal singing bowls and played certain notes that opened up the pineal, I thought, oh my goodness, if I patch the pineal, Our bodies are crystalline in nature, and sound, crystalline sound has the ability to start vibrating our bones, our blood, our fascia, and the piezoelectric crystals in the center of our brain, and I couldn't wait to see.

What would happen when I added those patches that there's some that actually literally activate the pineal and feed the pineal? And I wanted to try that.

Maybe I'm too impatient.

But when I have had singing bowls placed on me or around me, That's, it's almost like its vibration is forcing a shift within me.

I've seen you make Singing Bulls sing.

I think we were out in Tucson at a show together and I think you just randomly picked one up.

Yeah, that was.

So you know how to make her sing, don't you?

Yeah, so one of the things I love to do with singing bowls is, you know, most of our magical traditions have some sort of energy center alignment practice, you know? Yeah.

Hindu practitioners will call them chakras.

Um, so people will show up usually with their comfiest yoga mat, maybe some pillows or eye masks and blankets, whatever it is that makes them feel really comfortable and cozy and able to settle in and get really comfortable in their bodies and ready to just let go and sink into the sounds.

And the practitioner usually has some array of things like crystal singing bowls, maybe some Himalayan bronze s- uh, singing bowls, a gong, drums, different percuss- percussion instruments.

And really the job of the sound practitioner is to create this beautiful, relaxing ambient soundscape and take people through a progression that will lead them through, um, triggering the relaxation response, hopefully letting them release some held tension or cyclical thinking and then really helping them to feel refreshed and restored at the end of the sound bath.

So imagine if you're in the room and not in the class, and you're watching this, or you walk by and you see this happening maybe in a, in a public space, it looks kinda funny.

I, I mean, he allows for people [laughs] to lay down, but in, in that specific one we had to remain seated.

And I didn't know what to think.

I know I've heard a, a few singing bowls at the end of a yoga class, and I knew I was more or less familiar, but I've never heard a gong before.

And what happened to me is ... and something that I, I've heard it n- called as astro travel [laughs] where like you, you know, you, you think that you're traveling through space, and I was just, I don't know, just going between planets and in and out, and it was, it was wild.

This is a fairly straightforward but important one.

What happened to the singing bowl that we used to do? This is actually a conversation about accessibility and making this place accessible and safe and home for everybody.

And there were a lot of people who would write in that say, I love the Singing Bowl.

And there were a lot of people that would let us know that it was really challenging for them.

And for people with hearing aids, often that singing bowl, the overtones, could really be painful.

And so there were people who stopped coming to in-person worship because they couldn't handle that one minute of really painful sound in their ears.

And while I find the singing bowl beautiful, I understand that it's not for everybody.

And so we made the decision to stop using it so that everybody felt welcome here.