About feng shui
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Clarify your Intentions
Feng Shui is the Ancient Art and Science of Creating balanced, healthy environments that support the Well-being of the occupants by reducing or eliminating harmful or diminishing effects of the architectural structure of the building, land it is sited on
or other sources of negative Chi(energy). Bagua School Feng Shui uses the energetic feng Shui Bagua map to locate the 9 Essential Life areas of the building or room so that enhancements and improvements will be aligned with your intention and purpose.
"Where Intention goes energy Flows"
Do you want your environments to be:
1. Healthy, Balanced, and Beautiful?
2. Functional, Well Organized and Productive?
Patti Newton suggests;
"With a Feng Shui approach you can create an inspiring combination of what will meet your intentions for the space and the architectural considerations of the building !"
In Feng Shui practice there is a very important basic rule: Address 'diminishing' Chi before you 'enhance'. It is imperative that we look at what forms our diminishing chi takes: In the physical realm it could be excessive clutter taking up room in our environments, on mental levels it could take the form of worry, indecision, and procrastination. On the emotional level it could be overwhelm, depression, and fear. If we don't address what is 'diminishing' first, we would find it challenging to truly make lasting enhancements or positive changes in our lives. Often we are encouraged to focus on the improvements and positive goals we want to make or achieve, rather than focusing on what is diminishing our vital life force and why.
Creating Healthy, Inspired Environments
Each Feng Shui consultation is unique and custom designed for each client
to address your individual goals and concerns for:
Residential Homes
Business Space
Office
Studio
Public Facility
Classroom
DO YOU:
- Love Spaces and the Creative possibilities of Color, design and placement of Objects?
- Want to discover ways to enhance the Feng Shui 9 Essential Life Areas of your life:
Work, Relationship, Family, Wealth, Health,
Support, Knowledge and Self Image?
- Need to develop a more positive outlook?
- Want to embrace or create change?
5 Elements and Chi
The 5 Elements and Feng Shui Practice
The 5 Elements and Feng Shui Practice
The 5 Elements and Feng Shui Practice
The expression of the Five Elements is key to a balanced and healthy home/ work environment. In Feng Shui practice the elements are represented by a color, shape, material or object. When the elements are out of Balance, too much of one and too little of another it may have impact on the well being of the occupants. If we use nature as our inspiration we will design our interior spaces with more harmony and a stronger flow of 'Chi'. This enhancement will offer great benefits to our overall positive outlook and vitality!
The Flow of Energy (Chi)
The 5 Elements and Feng Shui Practice
The 5 Elements and Feng Shui Practice
It is vital to have a good Flow of Life Force Energy
in your home, work space and yard.
Increasing the Flow of Positive Chi will up-lift your sense of well-being!
Feng Shui offers many simple yet powerful methods
to improve this energy flow!
We begin by addressing diminishing Chi (energy)
before we enhance!
The Feng Shui Bagua Map
Bagua School Feng Shui utilizes the 'Feng Shui Bagua Energetic Map'
The 'map' is a energetic blueprint that when laid over your home or office tells you what each section of your floor plan represents. By placing furniture and objects in their optimal positions, that area of your life will be enhanced.
If you are having trouble in a particular area of your life, see where it falls in your home according to the Bagua and clean up that part of your home. Then according to Feng Shui, that area of your life will then change and improve!
This image is an original Bagua Map by Patti Newton with her photographs of flowers from her garden.
They represent the colors associated with each life area.
Career - Black
Partnership - Pink
Family - Green
Wealth - Purple
Health - Yellow
Helpful People - Grey
Children/Creativity - White
Knowledge - Blue
Fame & Reputation - Red
These colors, if placed in the associated 9 Life areas of your home or workspace will allow you to align with the vibrational resonance of that area and therefore increase and uplift the 'Chi' or 'Life force energy!
This is of great benefit to the occupants!
Yin & Yang and 5 Element Practice
5 Element Study
Bringing nature into our homes is a key component of the teachings of Feng Shui. The goal is to have the expression of all of the five element balanced in every room of of our living space and to create an overall harmonious theme that unifies the home and at the same time expresses the personal style of the occupants. The elements have representative Colors, Shapes, and Materials For example:
Water -Turquoise, Black, purple, Wavy, Spiral, Mirrors, glass
Wood - Plants, trees, flowers, green, pillars, wood floors and furniture, books
Fire - Red, Bright orange, yellow Triangles, Bold Patterns
Earth - Brown, stone, brick, ceramic tile, Heavy objects
Metal - Silver, shiny gold, white, Grey, pastels, hard, reflective, Roun
The Symbolic presence and balance of both Yin and Yang features expressed in color, furnishings, and décor will also add harmony and a dynamic quality to your environments!
Feng Shui Services
On-site and in person evaluations at my new office space in West Brattleboro VT
Qualifications/ Background
Patti Newton Is a High Honors graduate from the class of 2005 a 2 year Associate Certification Program of Internationally recognized Feng Shui Consultant, teacher and renowned author, Carole Hyder’s ‘Wind & Water’ School of Feng Shui.
She is a Professional member of the ‘International Feng Shui Guild’. and is licensed with the Minnesota State Board of Higher Education as a Feng Shui Consultant.
Patti taught Feng Shui classes from 2005 - 2009 at a variety of locations in the community of Brattleboro and was the director/instructor of the 'Silver Moon School of Feng Shui' from 2009 - 2019. The school provided Practitioner Certification for graduating students. It consisted of 4 Levels and was registered with the State of Vermont as an educational facility, allowing eligible students to apply and receive V.S.A.C Non Degree grant awards. Graduating Students were invited to participate in the 'Feng Shui Community Service Project' which provided group Feng Shui consultations for organizations that served the greater community.
examples are:
Morningside Shelter Brattleboro Vermont
The Retreat Farm Administration building - Brattleboro Vermont
Brattleboro Union High School Career Center Business Classroom
Brattleboro Area Middle School
Patti's scope of practice includes,
- New building architectural Planning
- Yards, Lots and gardens
- Geopathic Stress in buildings and lots/ land Dowsing
- Renovations on historic buildings
- Residential Homes
- New and existing businesses
- Educational facilities
- Traditional Feng Shui Adjustments on complex architectural construction
- Selling Real Estate with Feng Shui methods and approaches
- Professional presentations
- Floor Plan and Architectural Blueprint analysis
- Interior Design
- 5 Element Balancing
- Bedroom selection for household members
- Office and small business design and arrangement
- Chinese Astrology Charts
- Chinese New Year compatibility Analysis
Outside the Southern Vermont area Patti has worked with clients in -
- Colorado Springs CO
- Woodstock VT
- Lebanon NH
- Keene NH
- North Hampton MA
- Westmoreland NH
- Marin County CA
- Danby VT
- Rockville Center, LI NY
- England UK
- Bennington VT
- Forest Hills NY
Making a difference
Starfish Poem
An old man had a habit of early morning walks on the beach. One day, after a storm, he saw a human figure in the distance moving like a dancer. As he came closer he saw that it was a young woman and she was not dancing but was reaching down to the sand, picking up a starfish and very gently throwing them into the ocean.
“Young lady,” he asked, “Why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?”
“The sun is up, and the tide is going out, and if I do not throw them in they will die.”
“But young lady, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it? You cannot possibly make a difference.”
The young woman listened politely, paused and then bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea, past the breaking waves, saying, “It made a difference for that one.”
Author: Unknown...
'Feng Shui practice allows each one of us to contribute to making an energetic difference in the worlds we each inhabit no matter how big or how small that expression is!" -Patti Newton