Healing & Health

A small bottle of obsidian, made to hold the scent you wear. Obsidian is volcanic glass, worn for grounding and protection for as long as people have carried stone. Here it is hollowed into a vial on a 65cm gold chain, with a secure...

Obsidian, cut into clean geometric facets. Volcanic glass formed when molten rock meets cold air, obsidian has been worn for grounding and protection for as long as people have carried stone. This version trades the carved figures for a simple faceted form, the kind...

Obsidian, cut to a point, grounding in its simplest form. Volcanic glass formed when molten rock meets cold air, obsidian has been kept for grounding and protection for as long as people have carried stone. Shaped into a prism, it makes a quiet, deliberate...

A keyring built from four small guardians of Tibetan and feng shui tradition. Each charm carries its own meaning. The six-character mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum, is the mantra of compassion. The bell is rung to clear and settle a space. The vajra stands...

A brass Hu Lu, blessed before it reaches you. The Hu Lu takes its shape from the calabash gourd, once dried and used to carry medicine and sacred objects. Its double-gourd form is read as the meeting of heaven and earth, and Taoist practice...

A cool stone, drawn slowly across the skin at the end of the day. Crystal rollers have long been part of a slower beauty routine, used in gentle upward strokes to help a serum sink in and to give a few quiet minutes back...

The dragon turtle, carrying a Hu Lu for health. The dragon turtle joins two natures in one creature: the dragon's drive and the tortoise's patience and steady back. In feng shui it is kept to draw steady wealth and to bring supportive people into...

The Hu Lu, carved in obsidian and etched with the Heart Sutra. The Hu Lu takes its shape from the calabash gourd, long used in Chinese practice to draw off unsettled energy and hold it away from a room. Cut here from black obsidian,...

A raw smoky quartz point, bound with wire to an open band.Smoky quartz is the darker cousin of clear quartz, coloured by natural radiation in the ground. It has long been kept for grounding and for letting go of what is finished, the stone...

Amitabha standing on a lotus, one hand lowered to receive. Amitabha is the Buddha of the Western Pure Land, the one whose name is chanted in daily practice and called on at the end of a life. The lowered right hand is the gesture...

A hulu gourd in smooth cinnabar, hung beneath a small peace buckle. Cinnabar is the fire-red stone of the Chinese tradition, long worn to guard vitality and keep good fortune close. Its colour alone was considered protective, the red that meets whatever the day...

Incense wound into a coil, so one lighting lasts about two hours. A coil burns from the outside in and needs no tending, which is why it is the form kept for a long sitting, an afternoon of work, or a room being aired...

A whole dried gourd on its own vine, tied at the waist in red. The hulu (葫芦) is the oldest container in Chinese life, a bottle before there were bottles, and in feng shui it keeps that job: a narrow mouth and a wide...

Two small cymbals, struck edge to edge for one clear note. Tingsha are the practice bells of Tibet, cast heavy for their size so the note rings on long after the strike. In a meditation they mark the beginning and the end. In the...

A squat ceramic burner in mottled green, a dragon rising from the lid. Lift the lid and the bowl takes a coil or a stick. Set it back and the smoke has only the pierced clouds and the dragon's open mouth to leave by,...

An incense burner on three tall legs, shaped after a bronze ding. The ding is the oldest ceremonial vessel in China, a three-legged cauldron cast in bronze three thousand years ago for offerings, and the number of ding a household was allowed once told...

A small white monk kneels beneath a curling green lotus leaf. The lotus grows out of mud and opens clean above the water, which is why Buddhist tradition uses it for the mind that stays clear whatever it rose from. The Chinese name, 莲悟,...

A tall tripod ding in dark clay, a qilin sitting on the lid. The qilin is the beast that appears when a good ruler is in power, and walks without bending the grass under it. Kept on an altar or in a hall it...

A pine bough leaning off a white stone, two birds on the branch. The leaning pine is the oldest picture in Chinese landscape painting, a tree that bends to the wind on a cliff face and keeps growing anyway, which is why the pine...

A ceramic Buddha's hand holding a lotus lantern inside a ring of light. A backflow burner runs in reverse. The cone sits in the lotus and its smoke, heavier than air, pours down through the petals and pools on the base like water. The...