Waist Beads

Waist Beads

Waist beads are a traditional African accessory that is comprised of small glass beads on a string or wire worn around the waist or hips. In Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, and other West African countries, waist beads are a symbol of femininity, fertility, sensuality, and spiritual well-being.

 


Color

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Color Meanings

Chakra 

Relationship

Red

Ignites courage, passion, and brings strength  to your relationships, your life ad your work, and increases your metabolism and respiratory rate

Root

Pink

Nurtures romance, admiration, femininity, and joy; Counters anxiety and self hatred. Neutralizes disorder

Heart

Orange

Increases energy, vitality, and creativity, renews youthfulness, brings hope, and increases oxygen supply to your  brain.

Sacral

Yellow

Births joy, optimism, and fertility into your life, stimulates the nervous system, activates memory, and is anti- depressant

Solar Plexus

Green

Embraces change, improves adaptability, fruitfulness, and harmony; Brings prosperity, and stimulates healing resulting in greater self-love

Heart

Turquoise

Promotes love, healing, intuition, clarity, and tranquility; Encourages communication and self-expression of one’s deepest truths. 

Root

Blue

Brings peace, order, and harmony to your circle, slows the heart rate producing a calming effect, offering renewal, self-control, and enabling one to speak their truth

Throat

Indigo

Brings spiritual shielding, inner vision, and divine perception. Stimulates right brain or creative activity and encourages trust in your intuition

Third Eye

Purple

Brings awareness of self and the world, the universe, and Oneness with God, and aligns with nobleness, wisdom, and transformation

Crown

Brown

Stimulates grounding, comfort, endurance, and organic harmony, encourages balance, improves relaxation of your body, mind, and spirit

Root

Black

Honors your attributes and values your presence; Invigorates on’e power, sexuality, assertiveness, and spiritual maturity

Root

Grey

Encourages time for reflection, rest, retreat, and redirection, and cleanses your mind to prove emotional balance

Ethereal

Silver

Promotes dignity, stability, serenity and purity; Supports mental, emotional, and physical releasing and cleansing

Ethereal

White

Promotes peace, humility, youthfulness, innocence, and truth. Brings purity, simplicity, healing, and good luck to your world

Root

Gold

Promotes wisdom, knowledge, wealth, courage, vitality, and wellness; Strengthens the ability to manifest your goals, and conquer challenges with finesse

Ethereal

  

Weight awareness

Waist beads are commonly used to gauge changes in weight. Rather than stepping on a scale, people can use waist beads to stay aware of any weight gain or loss in the abdomen. Waist beads don't stretch. If you were to gain weight, the beads will sit higher on the waist or feel tight. Non Traditional stretchy waist beads will be coming out soon. 

 

Tutorial

My waist beads are one size fits most. To tie them on, you simply place them around your waist, decide where you want them to sit, remove the excess beads and tie 3-4 knots. Once you are sure the beads are secure, cut off the excess string and beads. Be sure not to tie them too tight or else they will break!

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