WHAT IS ISOKAN?
Updated: May 13, 2022
i · so · kan \ ìṣọkan\n. origin Yoruba Nigerian Language
Definition of unity
1 a : the quality or state of not being multiple : ONENESS
b (1) : a definite amount taken as one or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation (2) : IDENTITY ELEMENT
2 a : a condition of harmony : ACCORD
b : continuity without deviation or change (as in purpose or action)
3 a : the quality or state of being made one : UNIFICATION
4 a : the fact or state of being one in number. "belief in the oneness of God"
The Definition of Unity the art of the mind, body & spiritual healing.
Connecting back to oneness. I - SO - KAN & U - SO - KAN TOo!
The purpose of this platform is to help others on their journey, to share my story and to give hope to someone who has lost their way. As I have lost hope so many times and its always someone or something that brings me back to inspiration!!! In return, I wish to spread that same light of hope. Everything I do is with intention, the intention to heal, guide, and increase self awareness. With many yoga is a new concept so class structure is based for beginners, Giving an overall understanding on how to move with the breath making every step we take one big intentional one! Loving self in every process of life transforming the relationship we have with nature, with our friends and family and most import our selves. When we heal these wounds we heal past family trauma. I look forward to inspiring the next, that will inspire the next and so on and so on.
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Why hand crafted body beads?
Waist beads are a traditional African accessory that consist of small glass beads on a string or wire worn around the waist or hips. They come in different colors and shapes and may also include decorative stones, crystals, or charms.
Many women around the world use waist beads in intimate settings to enhance their sensuality, also to be closely associated with fertility. Some women wear specific beads during sex when they’re trying to conceive. This practice of waist beads began in Africa centuries ago. In West Africa, beads have several names such as Jel-Jelli, Jigeda, Giri-Giri, Dialey, or Yomba. Body beads have been known to be worn for rites of passage, healing, and even for enticing your significant other. The beads also serve as a way to determine weight loss and body shaping, wearing strings of waist beads forces the wearer to be aware of their size. If you gain two pounds, the beads will be the first to tell you. The string or wire would not allow for stretching like clothes do, so they would roll up the waist until they found a place to sit comfortably or simply break. The higher up the beads laid on the body equal weight gain and lower they laid on the body meant weight loss, this was a simple method of monitoring weight without the scales. In ancient Egypt waist beads were called “girdles”, In Ghana and other parts of West Africa, women wear waist beads with bells on them and dipped them in sweet smelling oils to sexually stimulate their partner. So much rich history behind the origin of the body beads something that was once an sacred intimate practiced between lovers is now trendy.
Just a little history that I have uncovered in my studies, and as I was diving in deeper the universe place a lady in my life, she was making waist beads and suggest that I come over and she would teach me how to string them. That is how thing work!!! My purpose part of my passion is to give this back to the divine women hood so we can heal collectively bringing something back to us that was once sacred, something that we should hold dear to us not to be shared with every person as an fashion statement.
To each her own.