A complete seven-bowl self-healing
Everything in this course comes together here. Seven bowls, seven chakras, crown to root, about thirty minutes.
This is a full Vedic self-healing as Sunita's notebook describes it, adapted for someone working on themselves rather than on a client. Course Three takes the same structure and turns it outward.
By the end of this lesson you will have completed a full seven-bowl session, and you will know how to run it with one bowl if you do not yet own seven.
Setting up
Arrange the bowls in an arc in front of you, in order, with the crown bowl closest to your right hand and the root bowl furthest away. You will be working from crown down, so the first bowl you need should be the easiest to reach.
Sit upright, feet flat or cross-legged. Everything within arm's reach without leaning.
A practical point about mudras. You cannot hold a two-handed mudra and strike a bowl at the same time. In a seven-bowl session, either set the mudra during the silence after each strike, or use Gyana mudra throughout and save the individual mudras for single-chakra work. Both are done in practice. Do not tie yourself in knots over it.
The session
| Chakra | Bowl | Mantra | Spoken once |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crown | B | silence | — |
| Third Eye | A | Aum | I see |
| Throat | G | Hum | I am willing to be conscious. I speak wisdom, and I speak for real. |
| Heart | F | Yum | I am willing to love everything about myself. |
| Solar Plexus | E | Rum | I am strong, powerful and confident. |
| Sacral | D | Vam | I feel creative, confident and secure. |
| Root | C | Lam | I am connected with the energy of Mother Earth. My body, mind and spirit are grounded, centred and purified. |
Step by step
Opening — about two minutes
- Light incense and let it settle.
- Say your intention, once.
- Sound the tingsha two or three times, softly, turning slowly on the spot.
- Sit. Three slow breaths, eyes closed.
Each chakra — about three minutes
- Pick up the bowl for that chakra.
- Speak its line once, quietly, if it has one.
- Strike, and let the tone run completely out.
- Chant its mantra once, on the outbreath, underneath the bowl rather than over it.
- Strike again. Two or three strikes for each chakra, with a full silence between.
- Rest your attention on that part of your body, and hold its colour in mind.
- Set the bowl down before you pick up the next one. Do not rush the handover.
At the root — about four minutes
- Strike the C bowl, then rim it slowly for a full minute. This is where the energy leaves through the legs, and the sustained tone holds that open.
- Then stop, and sit in complete silence for two or three minutes. No bowl, no mantra, no visualising.
Closing
- Sound the tingsha once.
- Wake in the order the tradition gives — before 5pm, right hand first, then left. After 5pm, left hand first, then right.
- Then the feet, then open your eyes. Sit for half a minute before standing.
- Write one line.
If you only have one bowl
Run exactly the same session, playing your single bowl at each of the seven positions in turn. The structure, the mantras, the affirmations and the silences are all unchanged, and it is a real session rather than a rehearsal.
An A or B universal bowl is the most appropriate for this, since both can be played for any chakra — but any bowl will carry the session.
When you are ready to build toward seven, a graded chakra set is what this lesson assumes. Buying them one at a time also works, and if you are doing that, the order most practitioners find useful is the crown and third eye bowls first — they are the universal two — then the root, then the middle four.
What a seven-bowl session feels like
Different from a one-bowl session, and not always in the way people expect.
The change of pitch between bowls is the thing students notice first. Moving from B to A to G, each one lower than the last, produces a physical sense of descending that a single bowl cannot give you. By the time you reach the C bowl at the root, the drop is unmistakable.
The handovers matter more than they sound. The few seconds spent setting one bowl down and picking up the next are part of the session, not gaps in it. Rushing them is the commonest way to make a thirty-minute session feel like a chore.
Common mistakes
- Going too fast. Thirty minutes for seven chakras. If you finish in fifteen, you did not let the tones run out.
- Working upward. This is a healing session, so it descends. Root to crown is therapy — Lesson 1.6.
- Chanting at the crown. The crown is silent. Let it be.
- Skipping the closing silence. Two to three minutes at the root, after the bowl stops. This is where the session lands.
- Fumbling the bowls. Set them out in order before you begin, within reach.
- Reciting the affirmations as a list. One line, once, at its own chakra, in your ordinary voice.
- Doing it daily at first. Twice a week is plenty to begin with. A thirty-minute practice you keep beats a daily one you abandon.
How do you know you got it right?
You completed all seven without looking at this page, and the whole thing took at least twenty-five minutes.
Afterwards you should feel the same heaviness and settledness that Lesson 1.6 described from a downward session, but more strongly — this is the same movement with seven times the material.
You have finished Course Two
You can now describe any of the seven chakras in full, choose the right bowl, mantra and mudra for each, work out which chakra needs attention using the petals, chant with a bowl rather than over it, and run a complete seven-bowl healing.
That is a genuine practitioner's foundation, applied to yourself.
Ready for your certificate? Ten questions, four options each, from across all eleven lessons.
After that, Course Three turns all of this outward. It covers client intake and contraindications, the full Vedic session, the Tibetan system with its entirely different note map, sound massage, warm water therapy, five-element cleansing, and the eighteen-day treatment programme.
Something to sit with
You have just spent half an hour moving down through your own body, one centre at a time, saying six sentences and then stopping.
Which of the six was hardest to say out loud — and does that match the chakra you identified in Lesson 2.9?