A handmade ceramic mala. Born from the belief that beauty and purpose need not be separate. Worn as jewellery. Held as a practice. Felt as something more.
A tactile ritual object designed to be held, worn, scented, and taken home.
Stone malas are heavy. These aren’t. They settle against the skin the way a weighted blanket settles across the body — warm, present, almost becoming part of you.
Asteria is intentionally multi-sensory, designed to engage touch, scent, weight, texture, and visual calm. One unglazed aromatherapy bead may hold an essential oil or fragrance of your choosing.
“Sensory experience influences how we regulate, settle, and return to presence.”
12 colourways
Click any colourway to see the beads.
8 standard available year-round.
Seasonal & limited by inquiry.
A warm porcelain white. The lightest colourway in the collection — luminous and minimal on the skin.
Visible knotting shows thread between each bead. Not visible is a cleaner, more modern finish.
One unglazed bead holds an essential oil of your choosing. Releases slowly with the warmth of your skin.
How to wear it
Light enough to forget you’re wearing it. Present enough to feel. Put it on in the morning and let it become part of how you move through the day.
During meditation, breathwork, or a quiet moment — let the bead sequence ground your attention. Each bead, one breath. The traditional count of 108.
Add a few drops of essential oil to the unglazed aromatherapy bead. It absorbs into the clay and releases slowly with the warmth of your skin.
Come back to yourself. Touch it when you need to. A quiet, grounding presence that travels with you wherever you go.
Hand-rolled Barbadian clay.
Each bead individually formed and finished by hand. The natural pigmentation of Barbadian clay subtly influences each glaze — creating tonal variation unique to every piece, impossible to replicate mechanically.
Rather than uniformity, each piece is defined by variation — small shifts in surface and tone that reflect both hand and material.
Each mala assembled by hand as a continuous strand — individually knotted for durability and traditional craft.
A Barbados-based ceramic and jewellery designer with over a decade of studio practice. Trained at Central Saint Martins, her work is grounded in material-led making shaped through long-term engagement with clay, form, and wearable objects.
Her work is carried at Sandy Lane and Cobblers Cove, Barbados, and has been acquired by private collectors internationally.
Acquired by Carole Bamford of Daylesford.
Made entirely for you
Every asteria mala may be worn as part of the core collection or customised through a small number of bespoke commissions available each season. Ships within three weeks of confirmation.
Commission a PieceColour selected through Sonya’s astrological framework and energetic palette system.
A deeper alignment — colour selected through the full lens of your interior life and personal environment.
A vintage or symbolic object sourced for the wearer, informed by Sonya’s astrological framework.
A meaningful piece woven into the final mala design as a wearable keepsake.
Curated placement for spas, wellness properties, and private member clubs. Consignment and wholesale available. Seasonal colourway exclusivity within your region.