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Natural elements play a strong role in the feng shui cycle. There are five major elements to feng shui that are addressed throughout the practice: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Each of these main aspects needs to nurture each other in order to maintain a healthy circular system. As a result, if one of these is not nurtured, it weakens and prevents the circle from being completed. In decorating, many of the pieces in a room reflect one of these five elements. For example, wood is symbolized by living plants, fire by candles or fireplaces and metal by many possible shiny objects.

As with most natural health practices that draw from spirituality, in order to harmonize the mind and body, like yoga and traditional Chinese medicine, feng shui must be taken seriously in order for it to work. Buying a plant for your entryway, a table fountain for your dining room, painting your kitchen red, and keeping a lucky penny on your mantle won’t help to bring you fortune or good health unless you invite the actions of feng shui.

Learn how to integrate feng shui into everyday life. Join Eva Wong as she teaches you how nature’s energy can bring balance to your life. Through talks, discussions, slide shows, and walks at Shambhala Mountain Center, Eva Wong will present the principles of landform and the nature of the carriers of energy in the land—dragon veins in the mountains, earth dragon in valleys, and water dragons in rivers and lakes. Contact Shambhala Mountain Center to learn more.

By now most of you have heard of the term “feng shui” and, not surprisingly, probably associate it with an expensive form of decorating that will less likely stand the test of time, as so many decorating styles fail to do. These attitudes have created a negative association with a term that actually extends far beyond decorating and has much deeper facets that reach into all aspects of life, not just the arrangement of your furniture.

Developed thousands of years ago in China, feng shui is a combination of art a science, whose intent is to create a balance in all parts of life. The energy balance that takes place in feng shui is often ignored in the West where feng shui has merely become a way to arrange a room according to harmonizing colors and calming doorways.  When practiced fully, living in feng shui brings more than good decorating; it brings positive fortune and long-standing good health.

Learn how to integrate feng shui into everyday life. Join Eva Wong as she teaches you how nature’s energy can bring balance to your life. Through talks, discussions, slide shows, and walks at Shambhala Mountain Center, Eva Wong will present the principles of landform and the nature of the carriers of energy in the land—dragon veins in the mountains, earth dragon in valleys, and water dragons in rivers and lakes. Contact Shambhala Mountain Center to learn more.