Let’s not forget the great outdoors ~ your natural setting ~ the living breathing space that either nurtures or drains you.  It is your surroundings that determine the type and quality of chi that directly impacts your health and prosperity.  Beautifying and purposefully arranging your exterior surroundings invites and captivates auspicious chi for the entire property.  Utilizing the principles of Feng Shui maximizes nature’s benefits, adding new depth and dimension. 

For the homeowner, business, landscape designer and developer looking to transform exterior spaces, Feng Shui tools and techniques customize the answers to your what and where questions.  Targeting the right location for the appropriate function or decoration can change and improve the impact it has on your space and your experience.

The first most important aspect of Feng Shui to consider is the surrounding environment, including natural and manmade structures.

Reasons to focus on your exterior environment:

• Invite healthy energy onto property and ensure proper circulation around it
• Protect the structure from harsh elements
• Create a symbiotic relationship between the land and the structure
• Extend your indoor living space outdoors
• Design a sacred space that personally speaks to you
• Create balance in size, shape and placement of different functions and features
• Correct negative influences in your surroundings

Feng Shui guidance will help answer questions like:

• Where’s the best place to position the pool and what’s the best shape?
• Where do I place a water feature to support my prosperity vs. causing legal problems or gossip or sexual infidelity?
• Where is the best place to put the gate or main entrance into the property?
• How can my landscape help me save money that I work so hard for?
• What is the best placement for my meditation and relaxation area?
• How can I make my indoor living space feel more expansive and alive?
• What elements and decorations will enhance my home, office or building?
• How do I avoid creating health concerns for others and myself?

“The flowing water makes the still mountain move; the vivid trees make the obdurate stone alive.” 
--Shitao 

Shan Shui

Chinese gardens originated from the art form called Shan Shui, meaning mountain-water.  All Feng Shui garden landscape designs therefore incorporate mountain (Shan) and water (Shui) energy.  Mountain energy symbolizes good health, harmony and stability.   It is yang, strong, hard, tall and vertical.  One can identify this energy in actual mountains, higher terrain and mounds.  Virtual mountain energy can be realized in boulders, raised planting beds and walls.

In Feng Shui water symbolizes the potential for wealth.  Water energy is yin, soft, flat and horizontal.  One can identify this energy in actual water such as ponds, pools and fountains.  Virtual water energy can be realized in pathways and a river of stones.

The 4 main ingredients considered for your garden and landscape:

Heart: this is the focal point of your yard; it defines the intention of your outdoor space
Threshold: that which defines your personal space from public space
Pathway: that which invites and draws you and nature’s life-force into and through your garden and landscape
Accents: carefully selected enhancements that elicit positive feelings, artfully enrich your scenery and encourage rest and relaxation

“If the individual temporarily abandons human will and so allows himself to be guided by nature, nature responds by providing everything.”  --Masanobu Fukuoka

Feng Shui methods used to assess your surroundings are:

Yin and Yang: complimentary systems which create depth and dimension
Armchair Theory: creates boundaries that attract vibrant chi and also supports and protects you
Space & Time: tells us where to place certain features; defines influences on occupants based on eight directions and tells us when to do certain activities
Occupants:  reveals the unique relationship between you and your property
Land Shape and Contours: the form and condition of the property reveals the adjustments and corrections required to avoid energy leaks, create symmetry and improve energy flow
Advanced Flying Star: most important is when and where to locate water and mountain energy

A flourishing garden reveals a healthy Feng Shui site.  Design your site according to Feng Shui principles for greater vitality and prosperity and to establish a platform for inner serenity and healing.

“If we go to Nature and inquire into her processes we discern more than one glimmer of light.  The truth is that life is not material and that the life-stream is not a substance.  Life is a force – electrical, magnetic, a quality, not a quantity.”   --Luther Burbank

Schedule your Feng Shui Landscape Garden Consultation Today