about the practice
HOME AS AFFIRMATION is a healing practice in which we collaborate with your home in support of your healing, wellbeing and visions for your future. We use the medicines of attention and intention and apply them through the art of Feng Shui.
Photograph by Mel Barlow
Feng Shui translates to “Wind and Water” and is the Chinese art of placement. Its goal is balancing and enhancing life through one’s environment. This practice focuses on the way energy (or qi) moves through space. Like the science of acupuncture, whose meridians map the flow of energy in the body, Feng Shui maps the physical environment and aims to create places where energy flows freely and abundantly. This healthy flow of energy in one’s surroundings has an inseparable relationship with the flow of energy within one’s body. Increased flow leads to increased health, sense of balance and wellbeing.
The way that I most like to think about this practice is through the belief that there is great power in energetic metaphor. If we’d like, we can consider our homes, including all they hold, as a metaphor or hologram of our lives. Imagine that your home is a giant vision board or altar, each item part of the big prayer you’re sending up or the affirmation you’re speaking into being. This is what I mean by HOME AS AFFIRMATION. Whatever energy we choose to cultivate in our spaces holds power in our lives and in the world. If we are in conscious relationship with our surroundings, we can dramatically shift our experiences. I believe that these shifts not only impact us, but have ripple effects that radiate out.