Gemstone jewellery has been worn by both men and women throughout the centuries, to heal, protect, assist and adorn our journey through life. In ancient times, stones were chosen for their particular qualities and worn as amulets offering power, wisdom and beauty.

Yumi chooses from the following range of beautiful precious and semi-precious stones when she creates her jewellery designs. Here you can find an indication of the metaphysical properties and qualities of each stone.

Agate (blue lace)

Aids in communication, clarity and confidence.  Water element. Enhances loyalty and trustworthiness. On an emotional level, blue lace agate is calming and centering.

Amazonite

Stone of truth. Water element. Enhances communication and harmony. Assists in the manifestation of dreams and desires.

Amber

Represents light, warmth, solar energies, clarification and healing. Amber can also aid in the manifestation of prosperity.

Amethyst

Symbolizes divine will, stimulates psychic abilities. Balances intellectual, emotional and physical bodies. Brings stability, peace, and divine love. Conducts energy and protects against psychic attack. Aids in intergration and insight. Facilitates healing, protection, purification, and the release of addictions.

Yumi has designed a whole range of jewellery using Amethyst. View her Amethyst range here.

Ametrine

Aids mental and spiritual clarity and decisiveness.

Apatite (blue)

Aids psychic activation and access to knowledge. Uplifting and soothing, apatite can be used as a dream stone.

Aqua aura quartz

Calming and relaxing. Aqua aura quartz aids in connection with spriritual realms, enhances communication and provides psychic protection.

Aquamarine

Cooling and soothing, aquamarine enhances clear communication. It is also a stone of empowerment.

Blue topaz

Fire element. Enhancement of mind and communication.

Carnelian

Enhances courage and vitality. Held to strengthen one's sexuality. A stone of confidence and action

Charoite

Revealing of one's path of service. Aids in the purging of inner negativity. Protects and heals the wearer.

Chrysocolla

Enhances communication and expression of the sacred. Symbolizes the goddess energies, especially gentleness and power.

Chrysoprase

Enhances spiritual growth and compassion. Encourages a strong connection with nature. Inspires forgiveness and altruism.

Citrine

Valuble to enhance manifestation and wealth. Cleanses and balances yin and yang energies. Helps stabilize emotions. Stimulates mental focus and endurance. Helps one overcome fear and inspires optimism. Enhances personal will and creativity.

Clear Quartz

Symbolizes clarity. Stone of power and purification and healing, cleans, conducts and purifies energy. Can convert and redirect energy, this aids in transformation, helps clarity in thinking aids in maintaining balance, aids in protection. used in Ancient times as a receptical for knowledge.

Danburite

Enhances angelic communication, channeling and interdimensional travel. Provides peace and freedom from stress.

Emerald

Enhances love, healing and abundance.

Fluorite

Helps balance and stabilizes body mind and spirit. Signifies discipline. Helps bring chaos into order. Aids in receptivity to divine will. Mental clarity. Brings understanding and insight into the dynamics of relationship. Facilitating cleansing and purification. Improves decision-making and clears the energy fields.

Garnet

Symbolizes prosperity and abundance. Excellent stone for health - aids in transmuting negative or blocked energy. Enhances vitality, strengthens, purifies and balances both physically and etherically. Aids creative expression - inspires compassion. Also has been known as a stone of commitment. Revered as a sacred stone by numerous tribal cultures.

Hemamorphite

Storm element.  Assists light activation, aura balancing, emotional healing and communicaton. Enhances empathy, joy, channeling and mediumship.

Herkimer quartz diamond

Storm element.  Enhances dreams and visions. Aids in the purification and spiritualization of physical life.

Iolite

Wind element.  Enhances inner vision, shamanic journeying, healing of old wounds and soul retrieval.

Jade

Water element.  Enhances health and abundance.  A stone for healing the heart.

Jasper

Earth element.   Assists earth healing, connection with nature and joy in life.

Labradorite

Wind element. Enhances intuition and psychic perception, as well as magic and protection. Labradorite brings clarity of thought and wisdom allowing us to bring forth our strengths. It is good for enhancing night vision and can assist in developing the ability to see auras. Labradorite promotes strength of will and a feeling of inner worth about your own abilities. It is also an excellent gemstone for those seeking to lose weight as it balances and stimulates metabolism.

Lapiz Lazuli

Wind element. Enhances psychic abilities and inner vision. Expands awareness, aids creative expression and truthful communication. Has been used as a protective stone, from physical danger and psychic attack. Aids in ones path towards self knowledge, wisdom and royal virtues. Also used in past life explorations.

Yumi has used Lapiz Lazuli in all the pieces of her Lapiz collection

Larimar

Water and fire element.  Used for calming, cooling and soothing the emotional body.  Also enhances communication, feminine power, and connection with the goddess energy.  A stone which connects one to the energies of the sea and sky.

Malachite

Fire element.  Assists one in enlightened leadership, creativity and confidence. Provides protection and can heal a broken heart.

Moldavite

Storm element.  Assists transformation and rapid spiritual evolution.  Provides cleansing and protection, Causes an increased incidence of synchronicities.

Moonstone

Wind element.  Enhances self discovery, intuition and insight and aids dreams. Helps one connect with the great mystery.

Ocean Jasper

Earth element.  Enhances enjoyment of life. Releases negativity and stress.  Encourages positive self expression.  Aids physical and emotional healing.

Onyx

Earth element.  Enhances inner strenghth, focused attention and willpower. Aids self mastery, self discipline and reason.

Opal

Earth and water element.   Enhances emotional healing and protection. Calms the mind.

Pearl

Symbolises purity - brings truth and sincerity to situations. enhances personal integrity. Signifies faith, innocence and receptivity. Aids one's potential for realization of great wisdom.

Yumi has used Pearl in her 'Creations in Pearl' collection

Peridot

Earth element. Assists in increasing prosperity, warmth and well being.

Prehnite

Quartz

Storm element.  Assists in amplification of one's intensions and magnification of ambient energies. Aids in clearing, cleansing, healing and memory enhancement.

Rainbow Moonstone

Emanates vitality, life force and joy. Balances emotions - brings peace and harmony, strength, purification and transformation of negativity. Enhances intuition and understanding, stone of feminine mystery. Promotes optimism - can assist one in connecting with the inner light of the heart. Helps one adapt to change gracefully. Used for psychic protection and protection while travelling. A talisman of good fortune.

Yumi has used Rainbow Moonstone in Wings of Spirit

Rhodacrosite

Fire and water elements.  For emotional healing, recovery of lost memories and forgotten gifts. Aids self love and compassion.

Rose Quartz

Water element. Symbolises the heart, encourages unconditional and abundant love. Balances heals and rejuvenates emotions. Brings peacefulness, calm to relationships. Encourages compassion and harmony. Said to stimulate the true life force..... love and its healing power.

Yumi has designed a whole range of jewellery using Rose Quartz. View her Rose Quartz range here.

Rutilitated Quartz

Silver

Earth element.   Enhances one's connection to lunar energy, the archetypal femminine, mystery introversion and the unconcious. Sterling silver is used in almost all of Yumi's pieces.

Smokey Quartz

Earth element. Aids in transformation of negative energies and blockages into positive. Cleanses old habits and thought systems - purifying force. Used as a grounding stone. Aids in practicality, organization, manifestation of ones dreams and inspirations. Absorbs negativity both within one self and from outer sources. Helps balance yin yang energies. Aids in protection as an energy barrier around the user.

Sugalite

Wind element.  For dreams, spiritual protection and purification, becoming a beacon of  light.

Tourmaline (pink)

Water element.  For love and emotional healing.

Turquoise

Storm element. Enhances communication skills. Bestower of goodness and love. Brings peace of mind, wisdom, integration and understanding healer of the spirit - wholeness. Has been used as a protective stone, physically, psychically and environmentally. In ancient times used for protection against accidents.

Yumi has designed a whole range of jewellery using Turquoise. View the Turquoise range here.