Webinar: Essential Feng Shui To Go

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Jun 8, 2014 in Art, Ch'i, Five Elements, Q & A, Space Clearing, Terah, Your Life | 5 comments

Essential Feng Shui® can help you prepare for your adventures on the road! Join Terah and learn how to assemble your own unique Travel Kit to transform less-than-excellent vacation spots into places you can call your own. Terah will also talk about how to choose the best hotel rooms, cabins, houses, and other vacation locations. Learn how you can pick the winners, fix the losers, and enjoy every moment of your wild and precious adventures!

Q&A – Spiral Staircases

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Apr 8, 2014 in Ch'i, Five Elements, Garden & Landscape, Q & A, Your Home | Comments Off on Q&A – Spiral Staircases

Q: I have a spiral staircase and I don’t know what to do with it. I find that I’m avoiding going upstairs, afraid I’m going to fall through! Help!

A:  The downward moving “waterfall effect” of stairs is greatly amplified when those stairs are also spiraling down just as water does in a drain. Spiral staircases affect our sense of stability and safety, especially when there are no risers installed and the banister is open as well. The ch’i rushes down these stairs too forcefully, and there is a sense of danger in using them—are we going to fall through those openings in step and banister on the way up, or are we going to lose our footing on the way down?

Essential Feng Shui applies our balancing tools of The Five Elements  to remedy the situation.

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2014 – The Year of the Yang Wood Horse

Posted by Karen Abler Carrasco on Jan 11, 2014 in Animals, Chinese Astrology, Feng Shui New Year, Five Elements, Your Life | 110 comments

By Karen Abler-Carrasco
WSFS Consultant, Mentor and Teacher

PLEASE NOTE: Read about 2015 – the Year of the Yin Wood Sheep here.

There might not be a bigger shift of energies in the entire 60 year wheel of Chinese astrology than this one coming up–the shift from two Water years of deep introspection to the fast-paced spurt of extroverted forward propulsion that the Wood Horse brings.  Hold on to your hats, folks, and realize that you won’t be able to, nor will you want to, slow your horses in the New Year ahead!

This will be a promethean year, the Beginning of all beginnings, arriving around January 31st to February 4th, 2014.  Full of uplift, optimism and compelling inspiration, we will be guided into purposeful action of the most elegantly simple and powerfully fruitful kind.  After two years of feeling every revelation of corruption in the dark as if it was scouring our subconscious insides and wringing us dry of watery emotion, we are READY for this change!  Light, hope and clarity of vision gallop in. Emerge from your cocoons, everybody, here we goooooo!

Ideas for Creative Holiday Gifts

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Dec 2, 2013 in Art, Career & Business, Ch'i, Clutter, Eliminating Clutter, Feng Shui Definition, Five Elements, Inner Feng Shui, Nature & Eco-Tips, Your Home | 2 comments

by Kac Young PhD, ND, DCH

We recycle, we buy fresh, we shop locally, but what else might we do to unburden our planet from the excess of holiday gift-giving? This year we have the opportunity to get really creative! If you use the guidelines in my Five E’s to shape your shopping list this year, you’ll help to curtail the buildup of trash. When you think about unnecessary waste remember that more than 8,000 tons of wrapping paper are used each Holiday season – the equivalent of approximately 50,000 trees. Americans throw out 38,000 miles of ribbon each year.[1]  But, we can conserve our resources by purchasing wisely and thoughtfully.

The Five E’s

When you think about buying gifts for family and loved ones, keep in mind that less is very often more. Here are five categories to keep in mind:

Melinda Smith – WSFS Alumni, Author and Illuminary

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Nov 21, 2013 in Bagua, Five Elements, Garden & Landscape, Nature & Eco-Tips, Your Home | Comments Off on Melinda Smith – WSFS Alumni, Author and Illuminary

Melinda Smith, WSFS Graduate, Author and Illuminary, was featured in the Charlotte Home and Garden Magazine, Spring 2013 issue. Congratulations, Melinda!

She started Balance & Harmony 360², Inc. in 2003 with a mission to empower and educate individuals who are ready to transform their environments and lives based on focus, intention, and balance; changing the way people dream, plan, and do! Melinda has been helping organizations and individuals grow into excellence for over 18 years. She is one of the first in the nation to be a Certified Professional Organizer, and she is also a graduate of the Western School of Feng Shui™.

Spring IN!

Posted by Liv Kellgren on Mar 22, 2013 in Five Elements, Garden & Landscape, Inner Feng Shui, Nature & Eco-Tips, Your Life | Comments Off on Spring IN!

O Spring, we emerge
from our Winter nests hungry
for your vibrant growth

Mother Nature is awakening all around us, as Winter’s cold stillness transforms into a flurry of innumerable births. Springtime, the season of the Wood element, is tremendously revitalizing, the ultimate green drink for the spirit. That ‘spring in our step’ is real as we respond to a world of new life unfurling around us.