Alumni Secret Garden and Circle of Belonging (April 2016)
Alumni and Students = A Circle of Belonging
We are opening up all of our coaching calls to include alumni and students alike! We are all always learning, growing, and reaching into new territory, no matter how long we’ve been practicing Essential Feng Shui. The practical wisdom and deep camaraderie we share creates a true Circle of Belonging that strengthens our connection with each other, supports our EFS practices, and enriches our lives. Our conversations focus on whatever the callers would like to discuss, from basic Bagua questions to the nuances of marketing your services. Check out our coaching call calendar and join us anytime! Essential Feng Shui Practitioners: Hay House Wholesale
Client gifts just got easier! Did you know that as a EFS Practitioner, you can receive a 45% discount on all Hay House books and products? Your Certificate of Achievement as an EFSP is all you need to qualify for their wholesale discount. To set up your account with them, call 1-800-654-5126, ext. 149 Facebook Fun – Our Private WSFS Alumni Facebook page
We’re having fun in our own ‘Secret Garden’ on facebook! Our private page is full of photos, comments, and conversations that only we Shuiers can understand and love! To join us, please friend Terah Kathryn Collins and she’ll invite you in. If you are already friends with Terah and not yet in our private group, message her and she’ll send you an invitation asap!
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The Rebel and the Cleaning Lady
Spring, Up Close and Personal
A collection of herbs in colorful pots thrive in a sunny window
Spring, Up Close and Personal
O Spring, I emerge
from my Winter rest hungry
for your vibrant growth!
Dear Essential Feng Shui Family,
Mother Nature’s Spring Ch’i is awakening all around us as the cold stillness of Winter transforms into innumerable births. Springtime, the season of the Wood element, is tremendously revitalizing, the ultimate green drink for the spirit.That ‘spring in your step’ is real as you respond to the unfurling of so much new life.
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Whimsical fairies embellish this Spring garden (Candace Petrucci)
As Spring works her magic outdoors, it’s Good Feng Shui to invite her effervescence IN! Bring the choreography of the season into your home by making your own indoor living garden. Happily rooted in earth, an indoor garden offers you an everyday dose of the Wood element’s upward growth and bright enthusiasm. Water and sunlight activate the Water and Fire elements, while stones hold the Metal element in place. Other embellishments such as statues and figurines add layers of meaning and fun. With all five elements present, the true beauty of Spring in action is yours to behold, up close and personal!
A Spring garden of shade-loving plants
Your indoor garden may include fresh herbs like parsley, basil, oregano, and thyme, snipped to flavor and garnish your meals. Edible flowers, including pansies, nasturtium, and violets add living color and exotic tastes to your salads. Most herbs and edible flowering plants require daily sun, so if a sunny spot isn’t available, choose shade-loving flowers like orchids, kalanchoes, or peace lilies and pair them up with houseplants like ferns, ivy, and Chinese evergreens. Though not edible, these plants clean the air and revitalize you and your home.
Your Spring garden can also catalyze personal growth. Take some quiet time and ask:
“How have I grown in the past year?”
“How am I now blossoming?”
“What am I reaching for?”
“As I grow, how do I sustain balance in my life?”
“Who and what keep me deeply rooted and grounded each day?”
Your personal inquiry opens the portal to the ‘extraordinary ordinary,’ where the beauty of Nature provides a pathway of self-discovery. When you ‘spring in,’ you are priming yourself to blossom out! Study your answers and translate them into affirmations, such as, “I am calm, kind, and connected.” My business is blossoming with ease and grace.” Tuck your affirmations under or post them near your garden, calling in the Spirit of Springtime to smile upon the new flowering of your vitality and well-being.
May Your Blessings Abound!
Terah Kathryn Collins[/showhide]
Winter Newsletter 2016
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Winter 2016
Happy Yang Fire Monkey New Year! Into the jungle we go, a place Karen Abler Carrasco describes as the “passionate and generous realm of heart-centered fire.” This year’s expansive energies invite us to identify heartfelt passions that are too big to accomplish alone and collaborate with others to fulfill them. Once identified, synchronicity leads the Way, guiding us to the right people and the right places at the right time.
So let’s begin! Based on what fuels your happiness, choose a passion you’d like to bring to life, knowing that you may not yet know your collaborators.For instance, I’m an avid organic gardener and digging in the dirt with like-hearted people makes me especially happy. I identified this passion and synchronicity was listening. Soon after, I attended a farm-to-table event and met a local organic farmer who was about to put 4,000 strawberry plants into the ground. I volunteered to help him and met seven members of my dirt-tribe. Lovers of the land, we each tucked hundreds of baby strawberries into the earth and completed the project in one day. Now that’s my kind of Heaven!I know I am in synch by the deep satisfaction and joy I feel when I join forces with my new farm family, sow my happiness into the soil, have fun working hard, and help grow the food that provides Good Ch’i to my community.
What big passion is pulling you to take action? It may be related to health, politics, agriculture, environment, education, or creative expression. As your adventure unfolds, I invite you to share your photos and stories with me at help@westernschooloffengshui.com. And, in the spirit of the Yang Fire Monkey, I may just post them on the Western School of Feng Shui facebook page to delight and inspire others. Let’s step into this year’s warm expansive energies together and make great things happen!
May you feel blessed and supported every step of the Way,
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2016: Year of the Yang Fire Monkey
On February 8th, say farewell to the introspective Yin Wood Sheep year of 2015, and open up to the expansive Yang year of the amazing Fire Monkey! We have another “big shift” year ahead.
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EFS Inner Circle Membership
As an Essential Feng Shui® Inner Circle member, you’ll receive helpful tips, talks, and instructions every week that train your Feng Shui eyes to see new environmental possibilities and opportunities.
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The Feng Shui Shop
Visit our all-new Feng Shui Shop for Terah’s books, other books we love, crystals, mirrors, lighting, wind chimes and more! All the best Feng Shui resources in one convenient place for you.
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Feng Shui Q & A: Placing Mirrors Above Stoves/Ovens
Placing Mirrors Above Stoves/Ovens
One of our Feng-Shui friends asks:
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Feng Shui Q & A: Storing Purses
Storing Purses the Feng Shui Way
A Feng Shui Friend Asks
A. Storage is absolutely a Feng Shui issue, so thank you for asking about it. We’re going to take a look at yin and yang to determine the best place for these purses.
Yin energy is low, dark, deep, curvy, detailed, meandering, colder…
Yang energy is high, bright, at your finger tips, straight, plain, flat, hotter…
The storage bench sounds as if it provides more yin than yang, tucked away, out of sight, in a dark, cold container. Ideally, what goes in a storage container is congruent with its energy. Therefore, in yin storage goes winter decorations, sweaters, blankets, archived papers, memorabilia from one’s past, rarely used items; into yang storage (open shelves, brightly lit, clearly labeled, organized or displayed beautifully) place items often used or quickly needed.
So, there’s no right nor wrong way to do Feng Shui. We’re creating environments that are harmonious with our daily intentions and ideas, and help facilitate our life-long dreams and goals.
Thanks for the questions!!
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