Create the Environment that Creates You
I was explaining to someone what I do and this line came to me: Create the Environment that Creates You. We understand that “You are what you eat”. Feng Shui is based on the understanding that you also are your environment. Our food creates us from the inside out. Our environment creates us from the outside in. After you stay in an environment for a period of time you adopt its qualities for better and for worse. When I work with clients I assess where they are in their personal and professional lives right now. Their environment tells...
read moreFeng Shui, Urban Planning and Architecture in Singapore and Hong Kong
I recently returned from a trip to Singapore and Hong Kong, two countries where feng shui is used everywhere at every scale. Singapore has used feng shui for many of its urban planning decisions for decades, using water, buildings, roads and civic structures to allow it to receive and hold the best energy it can, and to make the most of it’s energy over changing times. In the process it has transformed itself from a tiny, dry land into one of the most successful countries in the world despite its’ small size of 700 square kilometers. This...
read more2013 癸巳 Year of the Snake
According to the Chinese calendar, the energy for the New Year comes in tomorrow, February 4, 2013! I’ve been busy advising clients how to prepare their properties and themselves to best maximize the positive potential of this coming year, and minimize any tendency for challenges. 2013 is the year of the Yin Water Snake. Those of you with homes, businesses and building projects facing or backing to the East, Southeast and Northwest directions in particular, as well as those facing or backing on the Southwest and parts of the...
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Today is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one! – adapted from Brad Paisley Part of the training of a traditional feng shui consultant is the honing of one’s character over many years. My master taught us that our thoughts are like a movie projector on our foreheads projecting ahead of us the path we will walk. In other words: “What you think about you bring about“ and… “What you focus on expands“ – authours unknown Lets create the best year the world has ever known by...
read moreArticle: Capture Winter’s Rapture
Traditionally feng shui practitioners have always been trained in the full range of chinese arts including face and body reading, and traditional chinese medicine. Here is a link to an article of mine appearing this month in Vitality Magazine: Capturing Winters Rapture I wrote the original article, originally titled Opening Up to Winter, over 20 years ago when I had the pleasure of co-running East West a traditional asian medicine based health and wellness centre in downtown Toronto. It was a treat to read my thoughts from so long ago...
read moreCommon Misconceptions About Feng Shui
Misconception 1: Feng Shui is Interior Design. Truth: In Feng Shui the exterior of a property is much more important than the interior. The positions of roads, landscape features such as water and mountains, how the land slopes or does not slope around the building(s), and the effects of neighbouring buildings determine the quality and quantity of the energy that gets to the property. Feng Shui is about energy and there is much more energy to evaluate and harness outside than inside. Misconception 2: Feng Shui involves placing crystals,...
read moreWhat is Feng Shui?
Feng Shui is the study of how environments affect people, companies and communities. The words themselves mean wind and water, two forces that shape our environment and give evidence to the fact that in true feng shui the exterior of a property (land, slopes, streets, mountains, water) is actually more important than the interior. Although a Chinese Art, the Japanese expression “Man and his environment are not two” is a beautiful explanation of how much we are influenced by our surroundings. 依正不二 Most...
read moreHello World
Welcome to my new web site and blog. I look forward to sharing lesser known feng shui concepts, tips and stories, update you about my courses, and introduce you to some of my favorite things, ideas and people. I graduated as an architect in 1985. While in Architecture school I was introduced to Chinese Medicine and found my two great passions were very far apart until I was introduced to feng shui in 1988. I immediately knew it was for me, have had the privilege of receiving knowledge from 6 Chinese Masters, and have had the pleasure of...
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