Caribbean Yoga Conference 2013

Looking forward to the the CYC this year in Montego Bay and reconnecting with the wellness community. Working on malas for the VIP presenters. Main Event January 31st to February 3rd.

Happy Holidays & All the Best for 2012

Eat Pray Love Jewelry Collection

Traveling 1/2 way around the world I found myself upon my return home whole.  I was in the former colony known as Ceylon.  It was there in that magical place of elephants and temples that I would fall in love with a place and  people.  And see gems of the earth in all the colours  you could imagine.  There was the orange robes of the Buddhist monks, the smell of incense, lemongrass and sandalwood.  Wonderful fresh meals, high tea, time, time enjoyed with new friends, swimming in the Indian Ocean feeling her power and knowing it was a direct connection back home to  the Caribbean Sea.  I am finding that peace again here in the West Indies through yoga and meditation.  And I am happy that universal consciousness is here.  While here I went in search for some cool secret island finds.  The EatPrayLove Jewelry Collection uses red coral wood, dark mahogany wood stain beads, job's tears, bronze pendants and charms, semi-precious stones and handmade tassels in the colours of travel.  It is my interpretation of that spiritual journey here.

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.

Caribbean Fashion Week: Spinning & Weaving

Mother archetypes helped to inspire this silver pendant.  Stories of earth mothers and wise women who weave the world and create life, inspired the drawing painting above which then translated into jewelry, metal.  I call this pendant Spider Woman: she weaves and creates her world shaping her own destiny.
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My Story and Myth inspired jewelry pieces will be at Caribbean Fashion Week.  In a country where they are in the Guinness World Book of Records for the most churches per SQ. mile, how are they going to react to the empowered goddess archetype and the story and myth behind it.  Quite well - I HOPE- Jamaica is a matriarchal society.   Regardless people of the diaspora have always hidden deeper meaning behind things...