Stone mala with tassel

Mala originally is a hinduistic and buddhist tool for prayer and meditation. It is used to count mantras during meditation. A mantra is a collection of words, often from Sanskrit, which is repeated several – traditionally 108 – times. While repeating, you focus on the meaning and vibration of the words, possibly combined with the accompanying visualisation. By training in a meditation practice like this, your thoughts come to rest and your body relaxes. Nowadays, a mala is also worn as a fashion accessory. Malas have 108 beads because this number has great scientific significance in the Hindu and buddhist traditions. The circumference of the sun times 108 is the distance between the sun and the Earth and the same is true for the moon and Earth. Also, there are 108 nadis or energy channels in the body. There are 54 sanskrit letters- both masculine and feminine, totaling 108. There are 108 Puranas and 108 Upanishads. The list goes on and on!! So that same sacred number is used in malas.

Green jade is a powerful stone that corresponds to the heart chakra. It fosters peace, inner stability, friendship, good luck and fortune.
This jade comes from the Xinyi region in China.
​It naturally comes in all shades of green. Serpentine helps to set boundaries and thus create enough space for one’s own self. During this period of internal vision, the light-green stone can perform well, especially in meditations.