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 |
Lady’s Touch Jewelry 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!