We are excited and grateful to provide these gorgeous handmade kuripes from a Shipibo artisan family from Pucalpa, Peru. These pieces are gorgeous, strong and durable applicators that will last for many years. This is a custom design, available in limited quantity.
These are double nostril kuripes made from rosewood for heart opening with handwoven beadwork. Double nostril kuripes are wonderful because you can apply both nostrils at the same time, providing for a balanced and strong hapé prayer. They are high caliber quality & intricate woodwork that provide for a clean and powerful application. Each one has a gorgeous crystal point at the end, either amethyst or clear quartz.
Please note: You can request the crystal you would like in the notes section of your order and we will do our best to accommodate you.
Hapé is a powerful plant medicine used to focus the mind, release negative energies, and connect you with the Creator through deep, restorative prayer. Our applicators take on all the energy that we let go of in each hapé prayer, and so over time, they do start to carry this weight.
That is why it's important to cleanse your applicator regularly. You can do so with sage or copal, or by using one of our healing lotions and applying a special prayer for cleaning.
Even so, there comes a time when our applicator has completed its service. It often synchronizes with the completion of a period of tremendous spiritual growth, a chapter closing, or the intention to begin to call forth a new prayer into your life. Of course, applicators also wear with use, and so eventually, there comes a point when your applicator is no longer serving its purpose as well as you would like.
When this occurs, it is important to give your kuripe or tepi back to the Earth in prayer as a spiritual offering. You can plant the applicator, along with offerings of sage, tobacco, or cedar, giving thanks for all the prayers it witnessed and supported during its time with you. It can also be given as a form of spiritual payment, asking the Earth Mother to help you let go of something that has been holding you back, or planting it with the intention of calling forth a new way of being into your life.
