FSTC

Core Training Course

Intensive training in Feng Shui core concepts and principles.  This is a certification track program.  Upon completion of your training (in person or on-line), assigned readings (including supporting texts), and field work, you will be certified as a Feng Shui Practitioner.  The following is a complete listing of the topics included in this program:

• The origination of Feng Shui in the Tang Dynasty
• The Form School, land shapes and celestial animals
• The Compass School, traditional formulas including pa kua numbers, eight house methods and more
• The Black Hat Sect of Tibetan Buddhist Feng Shui
• The I Ching (Book of Changes)
• Modern applications of each school
• Modern Feng Shui organizations and levels of certification
• What it means to be a Feng Shui Practitioner today

Chi Theory

This course provides hands-on exercises on how to sense chi, to enhance chi and how to direct chi.

• What is chi? (theory of ling)
• Earth chi and personal chi
• Feeling chi between your hands
• Feeling the chi of a building
• Using dowsing rods to decipher chi flow
• Modern applications of each school
• Ways to enhance chi (both in the body and in the building)
• Measuring chi enhancements

Yin/Yang Theory
This course provides instruction and hands-on exercises to teach you how to sense yin/yang balance in the body and in the environment.  It also includes interior design adjustments for balancing yin/yang.

• Personal assessment of yin/yang balance
• Environmental assessment of yin/yang balance
• Balancing yin/yang in the home
• Furnishings
• Lighting
• Colors
• Textures
• Flooring choices
• Window treatments
• Art work

Five Element Theory

This course provides and explanation of how to use five primary energy patterns, referred to as the five elements, in providing a balanced and harmonious environment.

• Properties of water
• Properties of wood
• Properties of fire
• Properties of earth
• Properties of metal
• Enhancing cycle of the elements
• Subordinating cycle of the elements
• Reading the elements in a person
• Five elements applied to house structures

Applying the Ba Gua

This course provides information on the origin and structure of the Ba Gua, information on how to apply the Ba Gua to a home or business, and training on how to enhance existing sectors and adjust for missing ones.

• The Ba Gua and the I Ching
• The trigrams of the Ba Gua
• The Ba Gua and five element theory
• Ba Gua mapping
• How to apply the Ba Gua to different floors in the same building
• Missing sector or enhancement?  How to tell the difference
• Room-by-room mapping guide
• Enhancing each Ba Gua sector

Exteriors

This course provides information on how to read the chi of a building’s exterior and make appropriate adjustments.

• Land forms
• Building shapes
• Five elements applied to exteriors
• Exterior chi raising rituals
• Lot shapes
• Applying the Ba Gua to the entire lot
• Adjustments for chi flow

Interiors

This course provides information on how to read the chi of a building’s interior and make appropriate adjustments. 

• Reading a floor plan (what to look for)
• Open floor plans, problems and solutions
• Closed floor plans, problems and solutions
• Energetic patterns
• Matching the energy of the space to the function
• Doors (the mouth of chi)
• Windows (vision)
• Walls (support)
• Stoves (chi generator)
• Beds (chi rejuvenator)
• Desks (extending chi to the external world)
• Furniture arrangement (placement and chi flow)

• The Theory of Major and Minor adjustments

  This course describes traditional Feng Shui methods for using objects to shift and balance chi flow through a space.

  • Light refraction (mirrors, crystals, lights)
  • Sound energy (wind chimes, bells, others)
  • Living objects (plants, animals, flowers, aquariums)
  • Hydraulic power and other moving objects (fountains, windmills, mobiles)
  • Electric objects (computers, stereos, TVs, other)
  • Anchors (rocks, statues, large furniture items)
  • Traditional objects
  • Electromagnetic field and Feng Shui remedies (testing for EMFs)

Personalized Cures

• Personal cure meditation
• Setting and using anchors
• Clutter clearing
• Numerology in  Feng Shui
• Adjusting Individual Rooms

Feng Shui as a Profession

• Ten components of a feng shui consultation
• The feng shui practitioner’s tools
• Setting up your consulting structure
• Pricing methods
• Naming your business
• Setting up your business
• Advertising your business

Supporting Texts:

Feng Shui Chic, by Sharon Stasney, Interior Design with Feng Shui, by sarah Rossbach, and Wood Becomes Water, by Gail Reichstein

• Feng Shui Meets Design (4 week addition to Core Training)

What Sparks you? 

• Making it real, looking at your current reality and visualizing ways to re-route the stream.  Pull in your Feng Shui experience, what is your vision?
• Taking the universe as your business partner
• Life Changes
• Fear transcends to favors

Cleaning the lens

• What are you waiting for?

Landscaping with Feng Shui

• Why Feng Shui your landscape?
• Landscape and the Ba gua, Yin/Yang, Chi Flow, and the Five Elements

The History of Interior Design

• Design PioneersFormal training in interior designTime periods of Interior DesignCurrent education requirements
• Available programs

 Feng Shui Design

• Form as Yin and Yang, Arrangement, Proportions, Intentional unconformity, Symmetrical arrangements, Space & Chi, Touch & Texture, Lighting, Patterns, and Stages of the design process
• Contract for Feng Shui design services

Presenting your designs

• Presentation boards, Materials, Components, Organization and Composition
• Titles, Keys and Legends

Design Styles

• Historical Design Periods
• Regional Design Styles

Working as a designer

• designer discounts, how high can your discount be? Pre-shopping, Staging, Developing a design library, and Building a team
• Managing Construction

Business Plan

• Defining your business
• Setting goals and objectives