Himalayan Energy Journal

What Is Tibetan Silver? The Metal That Ages Wit...

Tibetan silver is not silver. Not in the way a jeweler means it. It contains no pure silver at all. If you take a piece to a lab, the report...

What Is Tibetan Silver? The Metal That Ages Wit...

Tibetan silver is not silver. Not in the way a jeweler means it. It contains no pure silver at all. If you take a piece to a lab, the report...

The Artisans Behind the Beads: Who Makes Your J...

A yak bone does not look like a bead when it comes out of the animal. It is rough. Irregular. Still carrying traces of the life it supported at four...

The Artisans Behind the Beads: Who Makes Your J...

A yak bone does not look like a bead when it comes out of the animal. It is rough. Irregular. Still carrying traces of the life it supported at four...

How to Stack and Layer Your Bracelets

You have more than one bracelet. You like all of them. You do not want to choose. So you wear them together. Now you are wondering: is that okay? Does...

How to Stack and Layer Your Bracelets

You have more than one bracelet. You like all of them. You do not want to choose. So you wear them together. Now you are wondering: is that okay? Does...

Amethyst: The Crown Stone of Clarity

Amethyst is quartz that spent millions of years next to iron. That is the whole secret. The iron bled into the crystal lattice as it formed, and the result is...

Amethyst: The Crown Stone of Clarity

Amethyst is quartz that spent millions of years next to iron. That is the whole secret. The iron bled into the crystal lattice as it formed, and the result is...

Black Obsidian: The Stone That Cuts Through

Obsidian is not a crystal. It is glass. Volcanic glass — the kind that forms when lava hits water and cools so fast the atoms cannot line up into a...

Black Obsidian: The Stone That Cuts Through

Obsidian is not a crystal. It is glass. Volcanic glass — the kind that forms when lava hits water and cools so fast the atoms cannot line up into a...

Turquoise in Tibet: Two Thousand Years of Sky S...

Turquoise has been coming out of the ground in the Himalayas for over two thousand years. The mines are old. Some of them are the same mines that supplied the...

Turquoise in Tibet: Two Thousand Years of Sky S...

Turquoise has been coming out of the ground in the Himalayas for over two thousand years. The mines are old. Some of them are the same mines that supplied the...