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By IFSG Blog Team, on May 13th, 2013
 Interior Alignment® is a certification program, created by Denise Linn, that combines Instinctive Feng Shui™, Seven Star Blessing Space Clearing™ and Synchro-Alignment™. In this Feng Shui training program, led by licensed Master Educator & Teacher of Interior Alignment® Laurie Bornstein, you will learn a holistic, intuitive approach to Feng Shui, one that takes ancient techniques and adapts them for modern living.
Our methods and techniques skillfully blend the principles of Feng Shui, the art of space clearing, Native American elements, the power of ceremony and the environmental benefits of healthy homes, expanding your awareness and understanding of the dynamic energy around you while creating the opportunity for personal transformation.
Each Harmony Life®, Interior Alignment® training session combines a series of 18 weekly E-based courses, group discussion, teleseminars, webinars and one-on-one time with Laurie. Culminating with a 7-day on-site training retreat where we move from study to practice. This dynamic training program gives you the knowledge and tools you need to help others create environments that embrace comfort, beauty, balance and inspiration.
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By IFSG Blog Team, on May 6th, 2013
 BTB Feng Shui™ Masters introduces BTB Masters Online™
The BTB Feng Shui™ Masters Training Program is the longest running Feng Shui School in the US and was founded at the request of H.H. Grandmaster Thomas Lin Yun. He personally selected the instructors to create the first BTB certification program to continue his teachings.
Although BTB inherits a long lineage, dating 18,000 years to Tibetan Bon Shamanic traditions, it has always incorporated new scientific discoveries to further enhance our understanding of Feng Shui. In addition to its comprehensive teachings, our certification program is an apprenticeship and mentoring program that gives students extensive hands-on training. Students can attend in-person, in virtual classrooms and/or take sessions by video.
We are pleased to now introduce our affiliate, BTB Masters Online™, created to offer topical online courses designed for beginners and experts alike to deepen their understandings in areas, such as: Feng Shui for Parents, Designing Healing Spaces, and Real Estate Feng Shui.
In the comfort of your own home, at your own pace, learn Feng Shui with Master Instructors.
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By IFSG Blog Team, on May 2nd, 2013
In many parts of Asia, limes are believed to be wonderful for good luck because they draw out all negative chi from your aura. In Feng Shui, using limes for detoxification for you and your spaces is very easy and affordable. They can…
• Help eliminate odour and cleanse negative chi
• Cleanse your mind, body and energetic field of anxiety, depression and nervous tension
• Lift your chi
• Restore your chi after the anguish of losing a loved one or attending a funeral
• Support you while going through a particularly bad astrological month
With each of the following procedures, please visualize, feel and believe that you’ve succeeded in removing all the inauspicious chi and bad luck from your space, body and mind.
1. Wash three kaffir limes (available at Whole Foods and Asian groceries) and cut into 6 halves. Squeeze the juices into a basin for bathing. Pour a scoop of water from the top of your head down. Repeat two more times. Wash now with your regular bath soap. Then use the remaining lime water in the basin to wash away any negative chi. Dry yourself with a fresh, clean towel and get dressed in fresh, clean clothes. Try to stay out of the bathroom for three hours at which time, pick up the skins and throw them away.
2. Use a drop of the essential oil kaffir lime on a clean white cloth to wash your altar.
3. Use a couple of drops on a tissue and place in your car when you drive.
4. Use a few drops of kaffir in a basin of water and use as a final rinse in your shower.
5. Take a kaffir lime, wash it and cut in two halves. Squeeze the juice in water and drink. Now take the empty halves and rub over your entire body. Toss the peels.
6. If you’ve been a victim of lies, gossip or another kind of a negative attack, here’s a way to cleanse your aura. Take two juicy limes but don’t wash them. Hold one in each hand rolling them in your palms as you say to yourself “All of the bad intentions, vibrations and harmful thoughts, words and actions of {person’s name} are pouring into these limes.” Keep rolling them for about 10 minutes and then throw them into a river or other source of moving water. Toss one over your right shoulder, the other over your left. Don’t look back! Go back home and end with a sea salt bath.
7. Place about 9-12 drops kaffir lime oil in a pail of purified water and clean the whole house, especially the main door.
8. Take a footbath with freshly squeezed limes or kaffir limes in warm water. Soak for about 15 minutes to help remove obstacles and open up your luck.
9. These can also be part of cleansing and blessing ceremonies. Take kaffir lime leaves plus the juice of 9 limes and/or kaffir limes and squeeze into a pail of clean water. Clean all the chi entry points in your space, beginning at the Mouth of Chi them all other exterior doors and windows followed by the bedroom doors. Visualize washing away any inauspicious energies and welcome fresh, new vital beginnings. Pour the remaining water down every drain in your home washing away any ill chi then grind the peels in your garbage disposal.
by Gwynne Warner, member of the International Feng Shui Guild
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By IFSG Blog Team, on May 1st, 2013
 The Feng Shui Institute of America practices the Pyramid approach to Feng Shui – scientific validation in our curriculum and recommendations.
Our intensive training combines the concepts and tenets of traditional Feng Shui, Chinese philosophy and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and incorporates applications from the physical and social sciences of today. Along with the Feng Shui five-element personality assessment of a client, we teach new consultants how to use our unique Pyramid school diagnostic tools that include: architectural-typing to determine a client’s architectural preferences in a space; drill-downs to determine the breakdown in the client’s intentions; inter-personal coaching to ensure success for the clients; business launching and implementation of practice including website design and internet marketing. A scholarship program also exists.
Click here to learn more about the program.
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By IFSG Blog Team, on April 29th, 2013
 Everything you need to know about using leaded crystal balls as feng shui cures.
With its reader friendly writing style and beautiful full-colour photographs throughout, The Complete Guide to Feng Shui Crystals is a ‘Must Have!’ book for people who are new to feng shui and seasoned practitioners, too.
Canadian author and certified feng shui consultant, Terri Perrin, researched and wrote the book as part of her feng shui journey because a resource of this nature simply was not available.
“When I was taking my feng shui certification, all of my BTB teachers and mentors were recommending leaded multifaceted crystal balls as feng shui cures,” explains Perrin. “The writer/researcher in me to know more. The result is a basic introduction to feng shui principles plus everything you need to know to about the selection, care and use of crystals; including easy-to-use placement charts and diagrams.”
IFSG members, feng shui consultants and booksellers, contact the author for wholesale/volume discounts. Terri.perrin@faoifengshui.com or call 1-250-218-4952.
Click here to learn more and to order from Amazon.com or Amazon.ca
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By IFSG Blog Team, on April 27th, 2013
Before
This before photo shows work about to begin – before 2008.
After
From summer 2009 – When looking at landscape changes, be sure to consider the future and not just the now. There is a tendency to over-crowd plants in the beginning to provide that “finished” look immediately.
Let Nature take over as shown in the NOW photo below!
Photo Source: Zen Soul-You-Tions
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By IFSG Blog Team, on April 24th, 2013
On one of our walks last week, my friend Julie and I were discussing big picture outcomes in many facets of our lives. It’s good to have someone who doesn’t confine you to parameters but let’s you soar into near oblivion with ideas, what-ifs, why-nots, so-whats. She provides the net so I can do some daring trapeze leaps without getting hurt. I trust I do the same for her.
Along the way as we were reaching up pretty high with our dreams, she paraphrased a quote that Steve Jobs said at the Stanford Commencement address. I went home, looked it up, and found it to be at the basis of effective and powerful Feng Shui.
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path.”
Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
Feng Shui is not only about helping people thrive where they are and be fulfilled in their present situation, but it’s also, and perhaps more importantly, about helping people set up their space so that it pulls them into the future—into the life they’ve always wanted. The hard part here is to be able to access the dream about their ultimate life experience, not just concentrate on the next step, out of context with the big picture.
Here are some ways to help you dream bigger so you can change your home into the life you’ve always wanted. . . . .
1. Don’t plan on thinking about your ideal life. You have to create it. In other words, you need to dance it out, or paint it, or make a vision board. From these activities you’ll capture the feelings that will let you know where your heart wants you to go.
2. Don’t ask how you’re ever going to arrive at your dream life or start to second-guess the process (“This will never happen.” “What is wrong with me?” Truthfully, how it’s going to unfold isn’t any of your business. Your job is to create it.
3. Don’t use friends or family as a sounding board unless, like my friend Julie, they provide you the net to do all the spins and twirls you’re inclined to try, won’t rain on your parade, burst your bubble, or laugh in disbelief.
~You won’t forget the details of your dream;
~You can tweak it from there;
~You must make sure it’s what you want.
4. Don’t let the dream stay in your heart—-write it down!! Anchor it into a physical reality. The importance of this is:
5. Don’t forget to implement the dream in your Feng Shui adjustments. As you infuse the physical adjustments you make in your space with your ultimate dream, you will see how your home or your office will gently but steadily move you forward. Some steps will be huge, others will be almost negligible. Either way, you’re connecting the dots to the expansive and fulfilling life you are meant to experience.
I doubt Steve Jobs knew about Feng Shui (but who knows?), however, he did know about dreaming big. He started with the end in mind and worked backwards—-so did Edison—so did Ford. Working backwards is different than going backwards. Get your dream out there—make it even bigger—and then work backwards as you move forward.
by Carole Hyder, member of the International Feng Shui Guild
Article Source: Connecting the Dots
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By IFSG Blog Team, on April 23rd, 2013
 The International Feng Shui Guild is happy to present our newest Amazon Store – Feng Shui Favorites! We have scoured the Amazon shelves for great Feng Shui enhancements and gifts, products that our experts love to help you in growing your Feng Shui experience. From fountains and wind chimes to statuary and wall art, we have a growing collection of special items and features that you will enjoy.
The Feng Shui Favorites store grew out of love for our existing IFSG Feng Shui Bookstore, books and products by our member authors. Search all of Amazon or use our handy categories to find the just right item for you or a friend.
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By IFSG Blog Team, on April 16th, 2013
 Bridging the gap between traditional Feng Shui and contemporary Feng Shui, Feng Shui Plaza has become a leader in the industry in both Feng Shui educational products and consultations. Feng Shui Plaza’s consultations and audio books and programs open up new pathways for understanding the Energy Blueprint of homes and business.
As owner of Feng Shui Plaza, Suzee Miller – author, educator, consultant, real estate broker, and professional speaker – has been active in Business, Feng Shui and Real Estate close to three decades. According to Suzee: “restructuring the subtle energy fields present in buildings, furniture, and even people, can create sacred spaces that are vibrantly healthy and alive. As we enter the new millennium, I am constantly reminded that both the home and workplace must balance and harmonize time, space, people, and the environment as ONE Integral Entity… if we wish to magnetize Health, Wealth and Good Fortune in the 21st Century.”
Her heartfelt wish and goal is help heal the Earth and the Environment ONE BALANCED PERSON and ONE BALANCE PROPERTY at a time.
Click here to find out more about Suzee’s highly rated 2013 Feng Shui Forecast.
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By IFSG Blog Team, on April 10th, 2013
Space clearing is the Feng Shui art of clearing and revitalising the energy of buildings. It has many uses, but when I’m asked to summarise the three most important times in a person’s life to do space clearing, here’s what I say:
Moving into a new home
This is the most obvious time to do space clearing, to clear out the predecessor energies of previous occupants and land yourself energetically in your new home. Until you do this, it will never be truly yours. There will always be residual energies from the past affecting everything you do there.
If you move into a completely new building that no-one has ever lived in before, you might think this wouldn’t apply, but in my experience space clearing is still very helpful. It clears out any energies left by the builders and harmonises the space after the disruption of all the building work, so that it immediately starts to feel like a home. Without space clearing it can take much longer for this to happen.
For a home that has had a very chequered history, either because of problems during the building process or because of the history of previous occupants, it is best to call in a professional to do the first space clearing for you, and definitely do this if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, not in good health, or do not feel confident to do space clearing yourself. Most people can do annual space clearings to maintain the energy of their home themselves by carefully following the steps in my book. It’s the very first space clearing that is the most challenging to do and the most essential to get right.
When you feel stuck
Another important time to do space clearing is if you feel stuck in some way in your life. When you feel like this, there will also be a corresponding stuckness in the energy in your home that has been building up for some time. A good space clearing practitioner can tell by sensing the energy of your home what is happening in your life without you even needing to tell them.
Because you are energetically connected to the place you live, space clearing your home is one of the most effective ways to get your life moving again. Where there is stagnant energy there is often an accumulation of clutter too, so clutter clearing done in conjunction with space clearing is usually the most effective combination for this situation.
When you’re going through a major life experience
This can take many forms. It may be the beginning of a new relationship or the end of an old one, starting a new job or leaving an old one, a birth, a death, a wonderful success, a traumatic loss, or any other significant life-changing event.
Space clearing your home creates a supportive environment that will help you to move through a major transition with more clarity and ease. You can do this type of space clearing for yourself, but it’s at times like this that the skills and objectivity of a trained professional are so valuable. All the practitioners I train know how to conduct a space clearing ceremony without projecting their own opinions or agendas onto clients. They will never tell you what to do, but they are very skilled at opening a space for you to be able to see the higher possibilities for yourself so that you can make your own decisions from a more perceptive standpoint.
by Karen Kingston, member of the International Feng Shui Guild
Article Source: The Three Most Important Times to do Space Clearing
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