When I introduce myself to an audience, I tell them that I am a certified Feng Shui and Building Biology consultant. I get a lot of blank looks. Just like the one you have on your face now… Most of you know a bit about Feng Shui (especially if you've been reading my blogs), […]
Geomancy/Earth Energies
Using Dowsing Rods to Detect Your Energy
I use dowsing rods all the time, to help clients determine where there are areas of geopathic stress. But dowsing rods have many more uses! Of course, dowsing was first originated to help find underground water sources for wells. While I’ve never used them for that (I may one day!) I have used them to […]
Creating a Feng Shui Garden: Fire Element
Adding Fire to your garden is the final way of creating a Feng Shui space. You can use flowers or objects with red or bright orange colors, pointy shapes, such as zig zag patterns, star or triangular shapes. But my favorite way of incorporating Fire is with fire pits, fireplaces, and pagodas (which, in there […]
What is Biophilic Design?
So What is Biophilic Design? Biophilic design expresses our love of life (biophilia) in our homes and work spaces for greater well-being. It’s never been more relevant, nor more desirable, than now. We feel good in nature and many architects and designers started taking note that growing stress and mental illness in modern society may […]
Creating a Feng Shui Garden: Earth Element
Incorporating the 5 natural elements into a garden space is natural – especially the Earth element. Earth is represented by soil, rocks, and stone; materials of terra cotta and pottery. Earth colors are the colors of of yellow, and the colors of soil from sandy beiges to orangey clays and muddy browns. Other ways […]
That Wabi-Sabi Feeling…
You know "wabi-sabi", right? Well, put it this way, the stuff that you created in elementary school could be considered wabi-sabi. "Imperfect, impermanent and incomplete" is what wikipedia says about wabi-sabi. In kindergarten for Mother's Day I made my mom a "paper holder" out of two paper plates with glued on pasta shells that […]