Zen with Ben, LLC

08/28/2025

Carbon fiber is so 2020. We're doing bamboo these days. 😉

Product Design Update! Our popular singing bowl mallets, General Inviter & Articulate Inviter, are now on bamboo handles for a more natural feel and look.

07/17/2025

I’ve been dreaming of this session upgrade for a few years. I’m now able to expand all my Vibrational Sound Therapy sessions with tuned gongs to complement and balance the singing bowls and dril-bu (Tibetan bell).

While both instruments have a balance of masculine and feminine energies, the gongs tend to have more masculine, and the singing bowls, more feminine. I’m tickled to offer a balance of both with this new set-up. It’s going to make for an incredible sound therapy experience, unlike anything I’ve seen elsewhere.

Thank you to for their quick and enthusiastic assistance sourcing these instruments.

Now booking VST sessions in Boulder for August and September. More info available through the link in bio.

07/12/2025

⭐️ I’m pleased to present my second album, “Emergency BENzos.” Each track is designed to help bring a state of calm during stress, overwhelm, and “activation.” Find some time in a quiet space where you can rest undisturbed. Put on some 🎧. Bring your focus to your breath. Drop your shoulders away from your ears. Relax your belly. Let go…⭐️

With gratitude for for their support. I exclusively used the wands and inviters of my Signature Series for this album.
Additional thanks to for her creative assistance with the cover art.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3z3UZQeMOb78q2BvI4LqkX?si=Quu86EdTRSWTv0BJaYZOlg

06/02/2025

Happy Pride Month! This year made a limited number of Rainbow Pride and Trans Pride singing bowl wands and kick drum beaters. All proceeds will go to Emergency Trans Youth Fund and . Get yours on our website dragonflypercussion.com. 🌈 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

05/09/2025

Have you ever seen a singing bowl give off its own heat before?? Neither had we! This was back in 2020. My Dad noticed a significant amount of heat coming off a singing bowl. So, being the science-driven individuals we are, he and I set out to try to discern the source. I have witnessed some surprising "activity" around these instruments. This is just another story, but with [anecdotal] data!

https://youtu.be/xa-x7kyDYIA?si=vBxy2Xlyg2dhyK5

Dr. Dad and I try to figure out why my Himalayan singing bowls might be expressing heat on their own. One bowl keeps jumping between 72-degrees and 80-degree...

04/20/2025

Thank you for everyone’s kind words and supportive feedback of “Resting Bowl Face.”

My new album, “Fetal Rock” will be ready for release on May 3rd! One track features a relaxation sequence based on my family’s Lakota medicine wheel. I’m excited to share it with everyone. Be well!

📷 Brittney Chowning

02/17/2025

I started writing on Substack! Feel free to follow and subscribe if you're a fan of sound therapy, percussion, puppies, photography, philosophy, quantum mechanics, and energy medicine. These are probably the arenas I'll be exploring. Today's post is on singing bowl "glimmers." Cheers!

https://open.substack.com/pub/zenwithben/p/3-singing-bowl-glimmers?r=59902d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

01/11/2025

Full conversation now streaming:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3jvhxyRchkHbzPGQn4ZZG7?si=Zbn914-LTMSWQjF0BItuVQ

01/09/2025

Have you ever wondered how professional percussionists choose their mallets for a concert? Join me on a nerdy BTS look at my process for selecting mallets.

🚨 Spoiler alert: I use the same process for my GONG and sound bath meditations!

My general philosophy is to have one primary, gorgeous instrument as a canvas. The mallets I choose create then "sonic colors" we hear.

What do you think? Did I get a "silver-y" color?

01/01/2025

I primarily experienced this year through the lens of the largest shift in my personal health.

I knew I wasn’t “well” or felt like “myself." I went into 2024 with a Dx of anhedonia (essentially the inability to feel pleasure states) and persistent chronic depressive disorder, which then revealed itself to be Bipolar Disorder. It's been a journey, and I'm feeling better in this moment than I have in years.

At some point, I want to discuss how VITAL my meditation practice has been but today’s still not that day. I’m still “in it.” Suffice to say, I truly wouldn’t be alive if I wasn’t already deeply practiced in observing my internal dialogue, knowing that I can WATCH my thoughts without BEING my thoughts. I’m incredibly grateful I didn’t try to learn meditation in response to my illness.

If you’re struggling with depression, please reach out for help. Even if it’s the only action you can muster. Dig deep and reach out. Try to remember what you're feeling is a chemical imbalance and not a failure of character! National Su***de Hotline: Text or Call 988.

Despite these challenges, I certainly can’t argue with ZB's output this year:

•launch and upgrade of “Elemental Gong”
•published “Sound Bath Conversations” primer
•release of my first LP, “Resting Bowl Face”
•joining the inaugural faculty for the Ohm Store Sound School
•participated in a CU Boulder study
•facilitated my first end-of-life "transitus" ceremony

And, of course, my Signature Series from I’m blown away by the collective response from practitioners. I wish I had exact stats, and I cannot describe the sensation of seeing your designs enhancing an art on the other side of the globe.

THANK YOU, everyone, for your support of these projects. Your enthusiasm fueled me more than you’ll know. These ripples are traveling. As we continue to invest in our individual health and growth, we leave our communities nicer than we found them. I’m honored my fingerprints are finding their way into blossoming sound practices worldwide. Healthy practices are spreading. “Everyday in every way, WE are getting better and better.”

12/17/2024

Elemental Gong 2.0

Based on my popular Atma Buti® course—featuring 10 hours of comprehensive gong instruction across nearly 60 easy-to-follow lessons—for sound bath practitioners and enthusiasts of all levels.

If you feel lost or uncomfortable after a few minutes with your gong then this is the course for you! Not only the HOW but also the WHY behind the practices I employ daily.

I’ve distilled down my extensive percussion knowledge to the gong essentials necessary for crafting skillful sound sessions using the Five Elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Metal / Ether) as the inspiration for my sonic creations.

Course Benefits include:

•Unlimited lifetime access for $1,222.00
•Over 10 hours of pre-recorded content
•59 easy-to-follow lessons and exercises
•Private capstone lesson with course instructor
•Access to monthly community "office hours"
•Extensive resource library, including my curated Listening Lab

My thanks to Dragonfly Percussion for their generous support of this project.