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FENG SHUI CLASS LOS ANGELES: UCLA WESTWOOD CAMPUS

September 25, 2018 by Master Simona



FENG SHUI FOR DESIGNERS & ARCHITECTS at UCLA EX. in Los Angeles (Westwood Campus)
6-Weeks In-Person Class
Thursday September 26, 2019 – October 31, 7-10 pm

LOCATION

UCLA Extension Lindbrook Center in Westwood (adjacent to main Campus)
10920 Lindbrook Drive,
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Room 204D

Closest UCLA Parking Structure 32, Parking lot 36

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NOTE: class is taught in Fall, Winter and Spring quarters.
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This Feng Shui class is Los Angeles examines the principles and application of Feng Shui.

Discussion explores:

— The basic theories from which Feng Shui derives;
— How human physiology interacts with the surrounding environment;
— Landscape evaluation and correction;
— Best orientations, layout, colors, and materials based on the occupant’s energy;
— How building orientation and year affects a building’s energy and occupants;
— And applying these principles to a building in varying stages of development.

This class is part of the UCLA Ex. Architecture and Interior Design Department.

2-Unit Credits apply to students enrolled in the Master in Interior Architecture and Certificate in Interior Design.

Space Planning Assignments are mandatory for students enrolled in these programs.

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FENG SHUI FOR YOUR HOUSE: COLORS & DESIGN

February 24, 2017 by Master Simona

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NEW IN-PERSON FENG SHUI CLASS!!

FENG SHUI FOR YOUR HOUSE: COLORS & DESIGN

Saturday March 25, 2017 – 10am-12pm

UCLA Health Building
1801 Wilshire Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90403

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DESCRIPTION

Do not miss this rare opportunity to attend an in-person class with Dr. Mainini!

Learn how to maximize your energy of wellness and success by applying proven Feng Shui House techniques to your house or apartment.

During this presentation, Dr. Mainini will teach you:

  • Why Feng Shui Effects Your Wellness
  • How Feng Shui Effects Your Success
  • Dos & Don’ts of Feng Shui Design
  • How to Correct Feng Shui No-No
  • How to Obtain Most Restful Sleep
  • What Feng Shui Element is Best for You
  • Which Buildings Are Best for You
  • How to Find Your Feng Shui Colors
  • How to Match People, Colors and Buildings

NOTE: All students must register here to attend prior to the event. Please bring a copy of your registration e-mail confirmation with you. This email confirmation will be sent to you immediately after registration is completed. Check your inbox or your spam filer if needed.

Parking instruction and full location address will be included in your confirmation email.

We hope you’ll enjoy it and that will bring you lots of good Feng Shui luck!

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FENG SHUI COLORS: THE FIVE ELEMENTS

December 5, 2015 by Master Simona

If you are new to Feng Shui, this basic Feng Shui classes for beginners is for you.

FENG SHUI COLORS: THE FIVE ELEMENTS
Pre-Recorded Video Class 90 min.

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Enjoy this presentation about one of the most misunderstood Feng Shui techniques: the Five Elements Theory and how to use it to find your Feng Shui Colors.

Feng-Shui-Colors-Five-ElementsHere you’ll learn:

– What are the Five Elements in Feng Shui
– Five Elements Productive Cycle
– Five Elements Destructive Cycle
– How to Correct a Destructive Cycle
– How People Relate to the Five Elements
– How Buildings Relate to the Five Elements
– How to Match People and Buildings using Five Elements
– How to Find Your Feng Shui Colors
– What Feng Shui Colors are Best for You
-What Feng Shui Element is Best for You

NOTE: A link to the video recording of this course will be emailed back to you after purchase.

It will be included in your order confirmation page at the end our your purchase, as well as in an autoresponder email you’ll receive directly in your inbox few minutes after registration is completed. Please watch out for either or both. Check your spam filter if necessary.

We hope you’ll enjoy it and that will bring you lots of good luck!

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FENG SHUI HOUSE THAT IS GOOD FOR YOU

November 11, 2015 by Master Simona

feng_shui_house_2I often use the term “Feng Shui compatibility”, a phrase I made-up to explain how the energy of a building relates to the people living or working in it.

Feng Shui per se’ has a wide range of energy like the building’s energy, each person’s energy, the year’s energy, etc. and they all interact together, so the trick sometimes is how to prioritize in effectiveness and in the applications of corrections.

But when I talk about “building-person compatibility” in a Feng Shui House I refer specifically to how the energy of a building supports– or antagonizes– the person living or working in it.
Yes, the energy of a building can in fact support you or sabotage your efforts in creating your wellness, relationship, career, business, etc.
And if it is sabotaging you in many cases it can be corrected, but once in a while it cannot. In these particular cases, if your experience is really bad and nothing else works, it’s often just best to cut your losses and get out of the space. I usually never recommend people to move because with my experience I have many techniques I can use to improve their place and make it so that they do not need to move.

How do you know if a house has a Feng Shui that is good for you or not?  The simplest is the “empirical” way, meaning you move into a building and if your life improves it means the Feng Shui is good for you; if it gets worse, it means the Feng Shui is not good.

This is a bit drastic and time consuming, not to mention emotionally tiring. It is however the way most of us have done it and continue to do it.

Another, more effective way to know if you have a good Feng Shui House, is that of having a consultation with somebody like me, simply becasue I have trained longer and I can spot solutions faster. Then, during the usually two-hour process I can tell you:

  • What the problem is and how to fix it.
  • If it is really, really that bad and the cost of fixing it so high that makes more sense moving (this is very seldom and I usually advise for the improvements first anyway)

For example:

During my work as Feng Shui consultant, I was visiting a house in Pacific Palisades, CA yesterday and the woman living in it was a Wood person while the building itself was a Metal building.  Amongst other things (for various aspects of the house), I recommended using blue colors and water elements to decorate with to transform the incompatibility and mitigate the adverse effects the house would otherwise have on her.
In fact, Metal “chops” Wood, but if you had Water then metal feeds the Water and Water feeds Wood.
She was very receptive to doing this rather minor correction in favor of having a positive experience living there. That is one of the ways to turn a bad Feng Shui house into a good Feng Shui house.

Some cases can be easier than others, but there are things that can be done for every scenario, and in these days and age, seem we all need as much good energy as we can to support our endeavors.

We have seen in last week class on the Five Elements how each of us belong to an Element and what houses can be more or less compatible with us. We also learn what colors and elements to use to decorate our house to support our own energy.

Here are the Elements you should use based on your house orientation:

BUILDING FACES FIVE-ELEMENT
Facing North FIRE
Facing NorthEast EARTH
Facing SouthWest EARTH
Facing South WATER
Facing NorthWest WOOD
Facing West WOOD
Facing East METAL
Facing SouthEast METAL

If a person lives or works in a building that is not favorable to them, they should use the missing color and element to decorate the house or office with so as to turn the unfavorable match into a more favorable, positive one.The trick is to pair-up the element of a person with the element of a building. Ideally, the most compatible building for you is the one that belongs to the same element as you. That is a good Feng Shui house. We discussed more of this in our Five-Elements class. If you missed it, you can view the video recording of the whole class here.

One note of curiosity: most people who feel “good vibes” from a building are in fact experiencing a high level of compatibility from it, and as a consequence they usually end up buying or renting it. Some have described it as “like falling in love at first sight” with a building. I’ve found this to be the “Feng Shui reason” behind the expression “curb appeal.”

However, in Feng Shui it pays to take an even better, closer look, for not all buildings that are compatible with you are necessarily going to be good buildings based on the building’s own energy of construction (Building’s birth-energy). In fact, some of them could be so bad they could completely defeat the advantage of the compatibility.

What has been your experience in your place so far? Would you like to know more about what you can do to improve your house or work place? Schedule a consultation with us by calling us at 310 860 8989 or email us at dr.simona@fengshuiarch.com.  We are looking forward to hearing from you!

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Feng Shui Colors: How to Choose Them for Decorating your House & Office

November 19, 2014 by Master Simona

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How to Choose Feng Shui Colors for your House and Office

As we delve deep into the season many of us feel the need to bring some color into our homes and do some Feng Shui decorating. Using colors based on Feng Shui Elements (aka Feng Shui Colors) is the easiest and least expensive way to bring a new look into our house and work place, and in light of this current day and age of “challenges” it can help lift even the lowest of moods with just a small budget.

In general, to create a psychological sense of stability and harmony in an interior, it is better to choose a more classic selection of colors in an environment. Having a lot of contrast, though it may be eye-grabbing at first, cause us to feel “unsettle” and “restless,” feelings that most of us find unappealing in the day-to-day crunch. (Though it can work for short-term advertisements, so it’s there we should leave it’s use for now).

For a good Feng Shui house– or a good Feng Shui office (where stress control is a priority)– a more harmonious choice is always preferable because after all, you’re going to be looking at it for several hours every day for weeks, months, and years. So the goal is really to have color embrace you, not punch you all the time.
A few accents of darker or saturated colors are acceptable, but the overall feel for the room should be of lightness and comfort.

Highly saturated colors (such as with “higher” density or darker) usually provide a high contrast and painting the entire room with one of them– or more than one– may not be the best solution. De-saturated colors (such as those “lighter” or more in the “pastel” color family) are easier on the eye and make you feel immediately comfortable.
In addition they reflect the light and bring more luminosity into a room, hence maximizing natural light rather than dimming it down and making it necessary to use artificial lights. You can understand right away how a dark room is not that inviting. Softer colors soften the light “radiance” too, so they do well in room with excessively bright light exposure.

One of the most popular color trends today is the extensive use of grays or gray-based colors. Major paint companies launched lines of gray-based colors with the tag line “anybody can mix and match them and still make them work”. As enchanting of a concept as that is (“easy” always seems to do it) most of the colors in the fan deck looks like rain, fog, and mud. And you do not need to be living in California to appreciate a sunny day.

If you look around in nature on a sunny day the colors are all clear and vibrant. However, on a gloomy, rainy, or foggy winter day everything takes on a tinge of gray. Most of us cannot help complaining after a few days of winter weather as we wish for the sun to come out again. And countries in Northern Europe (such as Scandinavia) have gray winters that last for months where people often become depressed and even suicidal because of the sad mood that a gray landscape brings on over time. So why are we subjecting ourselves to gray-based colors? Seriously???

I have been in many buildings in my profession, as you can imagine, including historical buildings that have been the homes of kings and queens and I never saw any gray-based wall colors, tapestries, or upholsteries. The Feng Shui color palette was always composed of clear colors like aqua, pinks, reds, azure, turquoise, greens, yellows, and gold– no browns, no grays.

In an office, gray-based colors can easily have adverse effects, not only in the mood, but also in the creativity, focus, and productivity of anyone from the receptionist to the CEO. The only offices that can really do well with the use of gray-based colors are those in which people spend the majority of their time staring at a computer screen. In this case the off time from looking at the computer screen with a gray-based color wall helps with the “balancing” of the eyes. But other then that, no grays– not on the walls, not on the floor, not on the ceiling, not on most of the furniture.

To find the most suitable colors to enhance the Feng Shui of a building that accommodates multiple people is really the work of an expert, as it is defined by many variables and a wide scope, impossible to be fully covered in an article.
However, to further assist you in choosing your personal ideal Feng Shui colors, I have created a list below based on your Feng Shui Trigram (Gua). Your Feng Shui Element is based on your date of birth. If you do not know your Feng Shui Trigram, you can find it in the chart posted here.

Once you have identified your Feng Shui Trigram you can  include them in your house or office by painting the walls, choosing a sofa, chairs, curtains, etc. Overall, I’d suggest for you to pick a clear version of the colors rather than grayish ones. Also a lighter, not very saturated color is preferable.

Feng Shui Trigram (Gua) ———————–Natural Element and Feng Shui Colors

Zhen ————————————————————-Wood: Aqua Green, Bright Green
Xun ————————————————————–Wood: Aqua Green, Bright Green
Li —————————————————————–Fire: Red, Vermillion, Cadmium
Ken —————————————————————Earth: Indian Yellow, Yellow Ochre
Kun ————————————————————–Earth: Indian Yellow, Yellow Ochre
Qian————————————————————–Metal: White, Gold
Dui —————————————————————Metal: White, Gold
Kan—————————————————————Water: Lavender, Blue, Azure, Black

Note: If you’re planning a larger project and feel overwhelmed by your choices, feel free to contact me at 310 860 8989 or dr.simona@fengshuiarch.com and I’ll be happy to assist you.

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Last updated by Master Simona at August 30, 2019.

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