Feng Shui (pronounced Fung Shway), has practiced for over 3000 years in China. Early practitioners of Feng Shui located building sites for homes and villages. Feng Shui teaches how to create a greater sense of peace, harmony and balance by proper placement of objects and furnishings in our personal and work spaces. Feng Shui practitioners utilize the Bagua Map for much of their work in the mapping of the chi/qi/energy of your home or office.

Our homes and workspaces can be sacred spaces that nourish and support us. They are as full of energy, and alive as our bodies. Our personal spaces are a metaphor for who we are and where we are going. The use Feng Shui can help to manifest our desires. Numerologically, Feng Shui's basic principles correspond to numbers. These numbers are represented by an 8 sided energy map called the the bagua, Each side represents an aspect of your life, one of them being career. The entire bagua can be overlaid on an entire house, building, property, or an individual room, desk or bed in order to determine which areas need to be adjusted energetically.

The Bagua Map originates from the Book of Changes, or I Ching, an ancient Chinese book of divination. The word Bagua describes the eight I-Ching basic building blocks, called trigrams. Each trigram is associated with specific life situations. The eight trigrams are the fundamental building blocks that form the 64 hexagrams of the I-Ching. Each expresses patterns of movement and change. Each has been used extensively in the fields of philosophy, astrology, Chinese traditional medicine, numerology, the martial arts, mathematics, and of course, Feng Shui.

In 1980, a Chinese scholar named Zhang Zhengland discovered that from the beginning, the I-Ching was based on numerological divination. This indicates that the ancient Chinese saw mathematical patterns in the universe and recorded them in the I-Ching.

The purpose of Feng Shui is to create an environment that enables the Ch'i to circulate freely. Moving a bed, changing the direction you face while sitting at your desk, creating a welcoming entrance, or adding mirrors, plants, color or brighter lights are simple changes that can dramatically affect how one feels regarding one's place in the world. Feng Shui is a way to manifest sacred spaces which can empower us by correcting imbalances in room or house design.

Feng Shui practitioners, utilize elements (earth, wood, fire, metal and water) as well as color in their application of Feng Shui. These are explained below.