Yoga, Tea & Mala Beads

Eat.Bead.Love – A Mala Bead Workshop

Enjoy a gentle yoga practice followed by a workshop where you will make your very own mala prayer beads.

Caribbean Yoga Conference

Story and Myth will be providing the jewelry for the VIP presenters at the conference!  They will receive island inspired malas (prayer beads) made from locally sourced secret island finds like the job's tears seed bead named after Job in the bible.
 VIP Presenters: Sharon Feanny (of shakti in Jamaica),  Stacey Shanks, Gaia Buddhai (Jamaican woman who founded Synergy Yoga on South Beach), Moses Jas Jeet (founder I LOVE YOGA clothing), Seane Corn (who is Oprah's yoga teacher!), Toni Bergins, Katheryn Budig, Andrea Boyd, Jeffrey Cohen, Scott Feinberg, Amanda G., Subhadra Bowman, Paige Elenson, Jason Nemer, Coby Kozlowski, Leslie Salmon Jones, Noah Levine, Amy Lombardo, Nadine McNeil, Sadie Nardini, Simon Park, Jenny Sauer-Klein and  MC Yogi.

Shop Story and Myth at the Shakti Shop

Story and Myth Malas are now at the Shakti Shop: 5 Bedford Park Avenue, Kingston 6, Jamaica.  These consist of 108 Blessing Beads hand strung with love from mother natures perfect bead known as Job's Tears.  The Blessing Bead is tear shaped and feels like porcelain when you tap it against your teeth.  The Blessing Beads are ethically sourced from the island and the OneHeart pendant is cast in bronze.

Shakti-Yoga in the Garden

story and myth

 

Shakti means sacred force or empowerment, it is the primordial cosmic energy  and represents the dynamic forces that are thought to move through the entire universe.  Shakti is the concept, or personification, of the divine feminine creative power. 

Shakti is also the agent of all change.  On the right

the conjoined forms of Lakshmi,  Parvati in the middle and Saraswati on the left. They are considered shakti's of their consorts Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma.
	Shiva (for Durga), Vishnu (For Lakshmi), Brahma (for Saraswati)

It was really wonderful to see so many people from all walks of life coming out to practice yoga in the garden-really wonderful to find that spirit here in Jamaica.  Since moving back I wanted to find something local, some secret island find from which to create and it is in the jobs tears seed bead also known as Mary's Tears.  So I made a 108 bead mala which is used for praying similar to a rosary, but instead of a cross I have a Shakti inspired pendant I refer to as the One Heart Pendant.  Of course the meaning is deeper so I will leave for another post.  Sharon Feanny of Shakti Mind Body Fitness Yoga wore the One Heart Mala as she led 350 plus people in yoga -she could have worn imported beads but she chose this beautiful locally sourced creation.