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We are still open online

To our dear customers fair and wide, we hope you are all doing well during this unprecedented time in the world. Although we are in lock down out here on Salt Spring Island, as most are, we continue to make malas in our home studio. We have many new beads should you wish to place an order and will be updating our site with lots of photos soon. Thinking of everyone and sending out prayers to the world!

Much love, Gaurang and Catherine

Malas.ca is LIVE

Have a look at MALAS.CA and tell us what you think by emailing destinationom(at)yahoo.ca 

We are hoping to make this an easier site for people to get started with malas and won't be doing custom work on malas.ca but making a standard mala and wrist mala. We continue to work DestinationOM but wanted to add a different venue for simplicity.

Malas.ca coming soon!

Currently working on the back end of the new website (MALAS.CA) and still need to add all the malas and wrist malas but we'll be open there soon. It is a simple site using shopping cart functionality and more of a user-friendly mobile experience as well as quick check out. It will provide an opportunity for people to get started using a mala or wrist mala with few variations. We won't be doing custom work at MALAS.CA so will continue to work on DestinationOM for all custom work as well as getting to updating the entire site this summer with all new malas and wrist malas.

If you'd like to be notified when MALAS.CA goes live then click on the link and signup using your email there. We've currently locked the site until it is complete.

Trying to stop spam posts

We've done our best to try to stop these spam posts on our updates page and hope this stops all random posts that end up on our twitter page as well. We are working on a new website that will run seperate from DestinationOM (DestinationOM's site will not change) which will have simple malas and wrist malas that are not customizable to get people started in meditation; it will include a shopping cart system to make the process simple.

We'll let everyone know when the new site is up and running. It wil be within a months time.

Hope you are all doing well and we apologize for the spam posts, fingers crossed we have solved this issue :)

New Nepali Bodhi malas

We've added two new types of Nepali Bodhi to the new page. We don't have many but either type can be custom made while supplies last.

New Rosewood

Gaurang returned this year with a new rosewood with deep red and more exposed grains. You can see our new updated Medium Rosewood page for details.

NEW BEADS ADDED!

Sorry for the spam posts but we can't seem to stop it. Hopefully by now you all know that we don't use website links as any post titles.

NEW BEADS ADDED:

• We harvested Arbutus (Madrona) berries to be used as wrist malas. See our Arbutust wrist mala page for details.
• 6mm LAVA wrist malas
• 6mm YAK BONE wrist malas

 

Tibetan Counters on site

We made a page for the Tibetan counters with detail of sizes and prices. 

Back from travels

Getting to all the new stock we brought back and having to get everything up online during the summer. A sneak peak; here are new counters for malas. One has a dorje and other vajra. Multi colours are $15/set, small with leather $20 and large with leather $25.

Having fun in the snow.

Had fun in a rare snow storm. What to do with more then a foot of snow? Make a Buddha meditating :)

Blessings,
Gaurang @ DestinationOM.com

Palm Nut page COMPLETELY updated

Getting there with the updates and just finished the Palm Nut "Bodhi Root" page.

Chinese Lotus Page COMPLETELY updated

Completely updated Chinese Lotus mala page with our new camera :) We are going through each page over January and completely updating the whole site with a different quality image. ENJOY!

MAJOR UPDATES to the site

What a busy year! So busy that we weren't able to get as many updates done to the site that we wanted. We're are currently working on the updates with a new camera :) 

We have lots of new beads and most have been posted to the wrist mala page but we'll also be updating all the images and adding a few new beads yet to be posted.

Sorry as it looks like there has been a spam type posting happening to our twitter account so sorry for that. We'll delete those now :)

Added Rare Bodhgaya Bodhi

While supplies last! We have shown these beads on our Bodhgaya Bodhi wrist mala page and do have enough to make a few malas but are not showing these on the site. If interested please email us at destinationom (at) yahoo.ca

Spring is around the corner and the end of the rainy season will be a welcomed sight. Hope you are all well. OM, Gaurang.

Thank you for supporting "Seeds for Prayer"

Thank you for supporting our personal program called "Seeds for Prayer"

We just recently sent a substantial sum of money collected from donations made to the "Seeds for Prayer" program and our local monk friend has distributed it to monks in need. 

Many monks that have fled Tibet (and continue to) end up losing all their paperwork as they travel by foot and various transportation (many have everything stolen or documents taken from them by border police and sent walking across Nepal with nothing in their attempt to get to Bodhgaya). Once in Bodhgaya they are meant with various challenges as without paperwork they cannot enter their "home monastery" as over the years there have been impersonators that have caused problems within the monasteries. 

Without paperwork these monks that have travelled for 1000's of kilometres for many months are left to fend for themselves in the streets of Bodhgaya and are in hopes of gaining support but won't ask for it; they'll do their prayers in the temple and wait for money to come :) So with "Seeds for Prayer" we quietly pass the money on to one monk who knows the situation and struggles of particular monks that are REALLY ACTUALLY STRUGGLING and not faking it to get money ;) as even in the land of the Buddha there are scammers ;) 

These honest monks thank you for your support.

Beautiful February day on Saltspring Island

The rain cleared off for a lovely Sunday afternoon on the rock on Feb. 21st.  

Blessings,
Gaurang and Catherine
DestinationOM

64 Band playlist for long roadtrips!

CBC put this 64 Band playlist for the long drives across Canada. GREAT!

Cypress 8mm in stock!

New 8mm cypress are now in stock. 8mm custom malas and wrist malas.

1008 bead mala off to Poland

Our latest 1008 bead mala is off to Poland today. For those doing a Ngondro practice this can be a helpful addition and eliminate the need to keep track of 1000 recitations over 10 malas. 

If a practitioner is to do one of these malas a day the 100,000 repetitions of each of the practices could be done in 3.5 months.

May the prayers recited over DestinationOM malas go to help the betterment of the world. OM. 

Heat wave

It is hot and dry out here on the west coast. Our cacti on the studio deck love it but we sure could use some rain! Time to go for a swim!

Blessings,
Gaurang and Catherine
DestinationOM

New wrist malas added

Hello All,

We've just added new 6mm rudraksha to our wrist mala page, as well there are new skull wrist malas (brown, burgundy and hematite) 

Swimming in the ocean

Gaurang went swimming in the chilly ocean waters off Salt Spring on Sundy, May 24th . We are only a half hour walk through the forest trails to this beautiful oceanfront beach.   

Poppies are here

Our studio poppies have graced us (and Quan Yin) with their presence. Early morning in May and we are off to Victoria to stock some stores.  

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Ziggy Marley in concert with our mala

A customer of ours asked us to custom make a mala for Ziggy a year ago and he continues to wear it well :) Shown here playing at a benefit concert in LA April 26, 2015

We made a sandalwood mala with turquoise guru bead and rasta colours for the tassel.

New Cacti plant for the front of our studio

Cacti plant with Catherine busy away in the studio.

Full skull malas now on site

We've had a few requests for full length skull malas and wanted to offer them on our site.

See our new SKULL MALA page for all colours offered.

Intentional Focus

We chose to move away from the Facebook platform and return to solely using this updates page which automatically links to Twitter, we feel that this is the best way to focus our efforts to stay in touch. On this page we will post site updates as well as random posts of life here on the island. 

We feel that this connection through the site is most important as Facebook was too broad, here on our site we feel closer to everyone. It is a family business and to provide the service that is that we also keep our communications close and focused.

The entire social media realm is not something we want to be too involved in. This business has been going for 10 years and continues based on referrals, repeat customers and people finding us through Google searching. Once people find us we have been blessed to continue with you and all of them for years - that is a blessings and we are grateful for that.  The one on one commitment is most important to us. It is easy to get the message out to 1000s of people but to truly connect takes time and that time is what we are most interested in and wanting to cultivate with all of you.  This is why you will begin to see more posts here as we return to this simple, central means of communicating.  Feel free to comment on any posts as we have now opened that option on this page or email us directly.

Thank you.

Hiking with friends

Catherine returned from vending to hike out with friends yesterday.

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All new cushions online

The meditation cushion page is all up to date now that we found a new material to fill the cushions with, spelt hull.

Each cushion is now half the weight they were before since the switch to the new hulls. We are sure everyone will love the change.

Enjoy!

 

New filling for cushions!

We found new filling to replace the hemp hulls!

Spelt Hulls are the new filling and much lighter, we have also added our website to the handle as per request from customers.

We'll be posting all the details this week - by April 7 we should have all the new cushions online and ready to send out.

Facebook Account Deleted

We have deleted our Facebook (FB) account so that we can focus on our website and manage all posting here. We had thought that the FB platform would allow us to better connect with customers and communicate in a broader sense but over the years we have seen that what you all want is the one on one connection; as we too also want. So feel free to comment on posts here or email us directly at destinationom (at) yahoo.ca and we look forward to serving you all for decades to come!

Thank you!

Thank you to everyone that came by Heritage Hall in Vancouver over the weekend to say hi, it is always so great to see our customers face to face! 

setup at Heritage Hall Vancouver

Saltspring In The City opens at 4p here at Heritage Hall (15th and Main). We'll be here through Sunday if you can make it. There are 40 of us over from the island to share our wares with the city folk :)
For more info see www.saltspringinthecity.com

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off to vancouver

Beautiful morning, feeling blessed as we head off for a vending event in Vancouver.

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All new wood malas added

We've added new wood malas to our of offerings (Birch, Pine, Cypress, Jujube and Cedar). Recently we changed the links list to the right of the website to help clarify into SEED, WOOD, BONE and MORE malas.

The mala depicted here is Birch and can be found on our Birch Custom Mala page.

Vending in Vancouver, BC this weekend! March 27-29, 2015

We will be set up at Heritage Hall (15th & Main) this weekend in Vancouver, BC for Saltspring in the City. If you or someone you know would like to visit and see 35 artisans from Saltspring this would be the weekend.

Maybe see you there.

All NEW wood wrist malas JUST ADDED!

All new wrist malas added! Scroll down to bottom of wrist mala page to see all new additions.

We just received 5 new bead types to add to our selection. Complete with descriptions! 

Pine, Birch, Ebony, Cypress and Jujube!

 

New Pheasant Wood Malas

We just got the Pheasant Wood Malas up on the site; these will be the only ones we'll have (but can adjust them for custom orders) since we have a plethora of new wood beads on the way.

If you like this type of mala you may want to consider getting one sooner than later.

 

Blessings. 

Ebony Mala Page added

Just added the new Ebony Mala page.

New Wrist Malas Online

We've added Pheasant Wood and Ebony wrist malas to our wrist mala page. By the middle of February 2015 we'll have a full line of unique wood beads! 

10th ANNIVERSARY!

It's been TEN YEARS since the beginning of this mala making adventure! And we have updated our header to reflect that.

We are also mailing out a thank you letter with some inspirational sayings as well to all our customers. If you haven't received an email than you were missed on the mailouts.

Please email destinationom (at) yahoo.ca and send us your address. We'll be mailing them all out this month.

THANK YOU FOR A GREAT DECADE!

Playing with a different camera angle

With a total tech upgrade here in the studio we are playing with new camera angles using our new camera. 

You can see the comparison by scrolling down our new posts along with older ones here on the updated Chinese Lotus Custom Malas

HAVE YOU PURCHASED FROM US BEFORE?

Email us your address at destinationom (at) yahoo.ca and we will send you a thank you letter and inspirational message as a 10th anniversary gift! We'll be sending the letter out in January and February. You may still receive an email as we work through the list! Many of the old ones are bouncing back so we don't want to miss you if possible!! OM...

Updated LAVA MALA page

Click Custom Lava Mala link to see the new additions.

We are currently updating the entire site with a new camera and playing with various camera angles to give you the best look.

NEW Cedar malas added to the site

Two pages have been created on the site to show the 8mm and 10mm malas. Click below for links:

Cedar Custom Mala 8mm

Cedar Custom Mala 10mm

NEW! Pheasant Wood

NEW! Pheasant Wood beads! 8mm. 6" around wrist mala. $15 each for wrist mala and starting at $50 for a full mala.

email DestinationOM  to order.

NEW! EBONY!

NEW! Ebony beads! 8mm. 6" around wrist mala. $20 each for wrist mala and starting at $60 for a full mala.

email DestinationOM to order.

Ebony is meant to increase concentration. As well as help remove anger and hatred. 

NOT closing for the winter - open throughout.

Just to clarify.

We will not be closing for the winter.

Gaurang has returned early from Europe. Catherine will be away in Asia from Dec 1 - Feb 7. During this time Gaurang will be filling all the orders and communicating with everyone, business as usual ;) 

New Cedar beads now offered!

We've just added new CEDAR beads to our list of mala beads we offer!

People have been asking us for years to offer something from the local region and now we are able to. Although milled in South Korea this wood comes from the West coast of North America.

$15 each, in two sizes along with one wrist mala completely in Chinese script translated as "Where you place your will, there you will achieve."

One last market

We will be at the market this Saturday, October 25th for one last time before the season ends here on beautiful Saltspring Island. If you're on island, come by and say hello.

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