Feng Shui recommends how to arrange or interact with our surroundings.

When our environment supports us we are best placed to enjoy wellbeing and maximise opportunities. This is expressed in positive relationships and prosperity, health, happiness in a comfortable home or a productive and creative workplace.

The practice of Feng Shui targets your personal or business aims, and defines enhancements to tap into beneficial environment energy to promote them. It also provides cures to protect against the harmful.

Consultation assesses environmental aspects which include geographic location, landscape features and vegetation, local weather patterns; building structure, materials, style; building orientation, building layout, location within a building, orientation within a building; decoration and furniture materials, colour, style and placement.

The Chinese term of Feng Shui is pronounced foong shway.
Literal translation is 'wind water', and has various symbolic explanations:

wind and water both signal movement - flow indicates energy quality

a site with fresh clear water and gentle wind is nurturing, a site with stagnant water (or without water) and strong wind is inhospitable

to get water, to be protected from the wind (where wind disperses Qi)

that vital Qi from mountains and also borne on the wind accumulates at water

the energy of wind rising to top of mountain, water rising to its crest

Qi (pronounced chee) is life force energy and Feng Shui determines energy quality and flow within space and its positive or negative interaction with people.

Base concepts have arisen from Taoist philosophies concerned with understanding nature and how best to integrate human endeavours. In particular, harmony and balance are seen as fundamental to creating a nurturing environment. Such philosophy is combined with common-sense and over 4000 years of practical experience. Although oriental in origin Feng Shui can be applied anywhere. Ultimately it is an expression of wanting and achieving not just successful survival but flourishing. Feng Shui is not a religion, and is accepting of all religions.

The advantage of applying Feng Shui to modern projects is harnessing centuries of development in a culture with strong emphasis on success.

Implementation to your particular needs provides:

business benefits including

improved productivity, performance, profitability

increased job satisfaction

attraction of customers

improved workplace relations

promotion of a positive and effective image

tailoring of business type or function to your personal strengths and needs

lifestyle benefits including

improved health, physical mental spiritual wellbeing

attraction of positive relationships

opportunity for personal development

maximising career and income potential

Reading an environment is both a science and an art of observation and interpretation. Rational principles and strategy are combined with aesthetics and a sense of balance. Methods include formulaic calculations, experiential 'rules', and intuitions of Qi quality and beauty.

Modern allied aspects include geopathic energies, electromagnetic field proximity, visual and noise pollution, care in choice of materials.

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