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Table of Contents Our Agreement with You pg. 3 Welcome Message from Terah Kathryn Collins pg. 4 About Terah Kathryn Collins and WSFS pg. 5 How to Successfully Utilize and Complete this Course pg. 6 1. Introduction to Essential Feng Shui pg. 8 Audio Program 2. Romance Meditation tbd Audio Program 3. Essential Feng Shui Home Tour tbd Video Program 4. Ch’i Enhancements tbd Audio Program with Handout 5. The Five Elements tbd Audio Program with Handout 6. The Bagua Map tbd Online Course with Workbook Putting it all Together tbd Recommended Reading List tbd Evaluation Form The Essential Feng Shui Basics @ Home Final Assessment Project Cover Sheet & Checklist for Certificate of Completion

Also to add to your Essential Feng Shui studies: Reflections on Feng Shui audio presentation

Western Guide to Feng Shui Meditation Space Clearing with the Five Elements Online Course




Our Agreement with You The Western School of Feng Shui™ promises and agrees to offer you the best in educational programming. If you have any questions that are not answered in this program, please email us at [email protected] and we will be happy to respond as soon as possible. We trust that you in turn agree and promise to honor our dedication and work. If you’d like to share this material as a learning tool with your friends or family, please encourage them to make the same commitment to their personal process and growth as you have, by purchasing the program for their own use. We appreciate your help in maintaining everyone’s highest moral and legal standards. Western School of Feng Shui™




Welcome Message from Terah Kathryn Collins Dear Friend, I am delighted to share the Essential Feng Shui® Basics @ Home Training program with you! Online education was a distant dream when I founded the Western School of Feng Shui™ in 1996. Now, Essential Feng Shui®, the study of how to arrange your environment to enhance your life, can come to you! It is so exciting to know that you can enjoy learning at your own pace in the comfort of your own home. As you learn to see clearly through your Feng Shui eyes, you will discover that your surroundings and possessions make a huge impact on the quality of your life. You’ll observe that your vitality, resources, and loving connections flourish and grow best in harmonious environments that intentionally meet your personal needs and express your unique preferences. And with your Feng Shui eyes open, you will be able to see how to transform your surroundings to continually improve and enrich your life. Essential Feng Shui® is not an event; it’s a lifestyle. I wish you a soulful journey into the “extraordinary ordinary,” where a whole world of deep insights, fascinating discoveries, and creative applications await you. Enjoy every moment of your Essential Feng Shui® Adventures!

Terah Kathryn Collins




About Terah Kathryn Collins and the Western School of Feng Shui™

Terah Kathryn Collins is a best-selling author and founder of the Western School of Feng Shui™. She is also the originator of Essential Feng Shui®, which focuses on the many valuable applications Feng Shui has in our Western culture while honoring the essence of its Eastern heritage. Her inspirational books on the subject have sold over a million copies worldwide. Terah’s first book, The Western Guide to Feng Shui, is filled with practical suggestions and remarkable before-and-after stories. Her alphabetized Home Design with Feng Shui, A-Z provides a quick reference to Feng Shui solutions, while The Western Guide to Feng Shui, Room by Room offers more in-depth information and includes over one hundred photographs. Terah recounts the enriching experiences of Essential Feng Shui® practitioners and their clients in The Western Guide to Feng Shui for Prosperity, and the connection between love and environment in The Western Guide to Feng Shui for Romance. Her newest book, The Three Sisters of the Tao explores the timeless wisdom of Chinese Medicine, the I Ching, and Feng Shui. With a passion for transformational education, Terah founded the Western School of Feng Shui™ in 1996. More than 1700 people from 26 countries have taken her signature course, the Essential Feng Shui® Practitioner Training. This intensive course includes pre-training projects, 10 weeks of prerecorded class videos and live interactive conference calls, and a series of post-training projects to earn a Certificate of Achievement as an Essential Feng Shui® Practitioner. WSFS also offers Feng Shui-related classes, advanced trainings, and online courses to cultivate and uphold the highest potential of Essential Feng Shui® practitioners and their families, friends, and clients around the world. Featured on the PBS Body and Soul TV series, Terah has spoken on Essential Feng Shui® at many special events, including the Magical Mastery and Today’s Wisdom Tours in Australia, and the Women of Wisdom, I Can Do It® Hay House, and Empowering Women Conferences throughout the United States.




How to Successfully Utilize and Complete this Online Course

Just like Wind and Water, the Essential Feng Shui® Basics @ Home sections and this Workbook are synergistic partners. They each support the other in providing you with a holistic educational experience. Each section of the Basics @ Home Training will ask you to complete an exercise. This Workbook will provide the space for you to keep these insights altogether. All sections are designed to give you a deeper understanding and broader experience of Essential Feng Shui for your own home. The Immerse Yourself sections give you an opportunity to deepen and personalize your learning experience. These are provided for your self-inquiry and we do not ask you to share them with us. On the other hand, some exercises will need to be submitted to qualify for a Certificate of Completion. These are listed on the Project Cover Sheet. By the time you complete the Basics @ Home, you’ll understand more fully

the basic Essential Feng Shui tools and know how to determine any changes and enhancements that are most appropriate for each room. To receive a Certificate of Completion, please see the last page in this workbook. We encourage you to immerse yourself in this material so that you can gain a

thorough working knowledge of the Essential Feng Shui Basics and feel confident when applying them in your life.




Essential Feng Shui is: * The study of how to arrange your environment to enhance your life. * The capacity to observe how your surroundings can promote or diminish your health, wealth, and happiness. * The exploration of the dynamic interconnections between you and your environment. * The ability to reveal the impact your environment has on the quality of your life. * Not an event. It is a lifestyle! -- Terah Kathryn Collins

When there is light in the soul, There is beauty in the person.

When there is beauty in the person, There is harmony in the home.

When there is harmony in the home, There is honor in the nation.

When there is honor in the nation, There is peace in the world.

-- Chinese Proverb




Listen to the Introduction to Essential Feng Shui Audio Program

The Three Foundational Principles

of Essential Feng Shui 1. Everything is Alive Everything, including your home, car, and computer, is alive with the vital energy called Ch’i. All of the people, places, and things that surround you are alive with the associations and memories you have about them. All of your possessions are essentially “talking” to you all the time. 2. Everything is Connected Like it or not, you are essentially connected to everybody and everything surrounding you. Your relationships with your home, garden, neighbors, and community are especially important due to their proximity. Also, all aspect of your life, including your health, wealth, and general happiness are all connected to each other, and directly affect each other all the time. 3. Everything is Always Changing The one constancy in our world is change. As you change, grow, and move through your life, it is important to change your environment to reflect who you are now. These changes may be small or large, from a new plant to a new home office in the old guest room. There is a Chinese saying :”If you want change in your life, move 27 things in your house.”

Immerse Yourself




Three Practical Ways

to Bring Essential Feng Shui Principles into Your Life:

1. Live With What You Love Imagine living exclusively with things you absolutely love. Sort your belongings by asking, “Do I love this?” If you don’t, let it go as soon as possible! As you do this, fresh, vital Ch’i flows into your life, and everything that surrounds you becomes a positive Environmental Affirmation. Your environment transforms into a place that truly nurtures and uplifts you all the time. 2. Put Safety and Comfort First Choose things that first pass the safety and comfort test, and let beauty follow. For instance, choose tables with rounded corners and chairs that are genuinely comfortable. Be sure you locate yourself in the “power position” – with a view of the door – as often as possible. 3. Express and Organize Yourself Your Ch’i will expand and strengthen as you creatively express yourself. Make sure you have a place within your home where you can truly express yourself, whether it’s an alcove, a room, or an entire wing of your abode. Expression is like exhalation, and organization is like inhalation. One cannot truly exist without the other. Organize your possessions, and new creative expressions and opportunities will flow into your life.

Immerse Yourself




Listen to the Romance Meditation Audio Program

Yin and Yang Immerse Yourself




Lifestyle Balance Analysis

Please score yourself 1 to 5 on both sides of the following list to determine the Yin and Yang influences in your current lifestyle. If your weekdays are very different from your weekends, score your lifestyle from a weekday perspective and then score it again from a weekend perspective to see how they compare. Please write a few sentences about what you discovered and any changes you made as a result. 1 – Rarely or Never 2 – Sometimes 3 – About half the time 4 – Often 5 – Very Often or Always The way I live my life is to:

___Spend lots of time at home ___Spend lots of time away from home ___Rest/Sleep/Nap ___Work/Be active ___Give time to myself ___Give time to others ___Work Alone ___Work with other people ___Hang out alone ___Socialize and Entertain ___Have quiet intimate conversations ___Have loud animated conversations ___Meditate, journal, reflect ___Move, dance, exercise ___Read silently ___Read aloud ___Lounge ___Do chores ___Speak softly ___Speak loudly ___Listen more than talk ___Talk more than listen ___Feel grounded ___Feel spacey ___Feel relaxed ___Feel stressed ___Feel calm ___Feel excited ___Drink non-caffeine drinks ___Drink caffeine drinks ___Prepare home-cooked meals ___Eat already prepared foods ___Dine leisurely ___Eat on the go ___Take a leisurely bath ___Take a quick shower ___Leave plenty of time ___Rush to be on time ___Be organized ___Be disorganized ___Do one thing at a time ___Do many things at one time ___Drive at the speed limit ___Drive faster than the speed limit ___Engage in quiet pastimes ___Engage in lively activities ___Listen to relaxing music ___Listen to fast music ___Relax in the garden ___Work in the garden ___Get a full nights sleep ___Go to bed late and get up early

TOTAL___YIN ___YANG My favorite Activity is My favorite way to Relax is

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Room Balance Analysis

Use the following list to assess the current Yin/Yang balance of each room in your home. If you have equal amounts of a given feature, such as both small and large art, circle both. If there’s a category that doesn’t exist in a room, simply move to the next one. .Please write a few sentences about what you discovered about one room and any changes you made as a result.

Name of the Room _______________________________

Room size Small Large Location in House Quiet/private Noisy/busy Room’s View Intimate/private Grand Room’s View Natural Houses/buildings/street Ceiling Low High Natural Light Low Bright Electrical Light Dim Bright Open floor space Small Amounts Large expanses Floors Carpeting/area rugs Tile/cement/wood/stone Wall colors Medium, dark or muted Light or bright Furniture Many pieces Few pieces Furniture colors Medium, dark or muted Light or bright Furniture and décor Small Large Furniture and décor Low High Seating Soft, padded Hard, unpadded Furniture shapes Curved, rounded lines Straight, angular lines Patterns Floral Geometric Fabrics Textured Smooth/shiny Design Elaborate/layered/ornate Plain/simple/uncomplicated Displayed collections Many Few or none Art Many pieces Few or no pieces Art Small Large Pillows Many Few or none Books Many Few or none Mirrors Small Large Plants Many Few or none Storage areas & closets Organized Chaotic/disorganized TOTAL YIN___________ YANG____________

Consider: Where in your home is there an open invitation to relax? Where in your home is there an open invitation to be active?

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Watch the Essential Feng Shui Basics @ Home Video

Essential Feng Shui Basics @ Home Tour Think about the areas in your life that you’d like to improve. Make a list of what is currently not working for you in your life. Make another list of those aspects of your life that is working well. On the following page, the Essential Feng Shui De-Cluttering Guidelines will walk you through a de-cluttering process. Take anywhere between 15 minutes and an entire weekend to clear the clutter from an area in your home that is frustrating, annoying, irritating or all of the above. Which area was it? What did you do? How did you feel once it was complete?

Immerse Yourself: What does clutter mean to you. Why do you have so much fucking stuff?

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Clutter =

Items that are disliked, unused, in excess, and/or disorganized.

Choose a space that you consider cluttered, such as a closet, storeroom, cabinet, desk drawer, table top, or kitchen cupboard. Label 3 boxes or bags: 1. Throwaway

2. Giveaway

3. Stowaway

Ask yourself these questions about each item, and place it in the appropriate container until the space is empty:

mories or emotions that I associate with it?

When you have separated all items into one of the 3 categories:

1. Put the Throwaways in the trash immediately!

2. Prepare and label the Giveaways to go to their new home - friends, family, charity, etc. - and make sure to remove them from your space within a week.

3. Stowaway the items you are keeping to their proper places with love and gratitude.

Congratulations! Watch for the helpful people, opportunities, and things that flow into your life because you have let go of the old and made room for the new.

ESSENTIAL FENG SHUI

DE-CLUTTERING GUIDELINES

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Listen to the Essential Feng Shui Ch’I Enhancements Audio Program

Essential Feng Shui Ch’i Enhancements

Immerse Yourself

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Crystals – Round and faceted to circulate Ch’i Lighting – Electric, candles, oil, natural sunlight Living Things – Plants, flowers, animals Mirrors – In general, the bigger, the better, except in bedroom Objects of Nature – Rocks, shells, potpourri, seeds, pods, etc. Sound Makers – Wind chimes, bells, music, instruments Water Features – Fountains, waterfalls, ponds, birdbaths, etc. Wind Dancers – Mobiles, whirligigs, flags, banners, weathervanes Art – Paintings, sculptures, collages, collections, textiles. Colors – Surround yourself with the ones you love! Elemental Associations: Wood = Blues & Greens Fire = Reds Earth = Yellows & Earth tones Metal = White & Pastels Water = Black & Dark tones

Live with what you love!

FENG SHUI CH’I ENHANCERS

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Listen to The Five Elements Audio Program

The Five Elements

Immerse Yourself

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Attend the Bagua Map Online Course

The Bagua Map Online Course Arranging an environment to hold happiness in place is the primary goal of Feng Shui, and one of the most intriguing tools we utilize is the Bagua Map (see Illustrated Bagua Map, next page). Many people discover that their challenges in life are directly related to the Bagua areas in their homes that they dislike, don’t use, or are cluttered. It’s also a very useful tool when building or remodeling a home.

Immerse Yourself

Insert 69 page Workbook alongside this Guidebook.

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Putting it all Together As you open your Feng Shui Eyes, you may see many things that you can do to enhance your environment. However, in almost every case, there are one or two glaring challenges that need to be worked with first. When these primary challenges are balanced, the flow of Ch'i is enhanced and your ability to accomplish other suggestions is strengthened. Therefore, it's important to prioritize your Feng Shui tasks, knowing what to do first, and then how to proceed from there. 1. Address and enhance Bagua areas of the structure. Make sure a whole shape is in some way anchored, using indoor, outdoor, or transcendental enhancements. Pay special attention to Bagua areas corresponding to your challenges or problems. 2. Enhance the Bagua in each room. As above, pay special attention to Bagua areas corresponding to your issues. Choosing personalized enhancements. 3. Balance extremes and put safety and comfort first - look for sharp objects, angles and corners, too much/too little/uncomfortable furniture and lighting, seats and beds with no view of the door, blocked entries, pathways and hallways, heavy overhead objects, etc. 4. Balance the Elements. Ideally, there are yin and yang representatives of all five elements in all spaces, reflecting your own style and taste. 5. Question room usage. Are all rooms being used to your satisfaction? Are there rooms that would function better for you (i.e. turning a guestroom into a home office, etc.)? 6. Thoroughly organize every indoor and outdoor space. Closets, garage, kitchen, storage areas, basements, attics, drawers and jewelry boxes - there's no place to hide from "Feng Shui Eyes!” 7. Highlight the importance of living with what you love, and letting go of the rest. Make sure all your material possessions, including furniture and art, are enhancing the Ch'i and have pleasant memories or feelings attached to them.

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Each item is essentially an "environmental affirmation" in your life. Letting go of the old attracts the new. 8. Creatively express yourself in your environment. Play music, dance, arrange flowers, make art, create blessings, cook, entertain, decorate for the seasons, enjoy hobbies of all kinds. Once you are organized, creativity and self-expression can blossom. Keep in mind the basic philosophy of Essential Feng Shui - That everything is alive, connected and always changing, to live with what they love, address safety and comfort in all rooms, and get organized. Give yourself positive feedback and encouragement as possible, and receive praise and compliments with gratitude!

Immerse Yourself

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Essential Feng Shui Basics @ Home Evaluation Form

Please use an additional page if more space is needed.

1. Thoughts and feelings about the Course topic: Rate on a scale, 10 being the highest: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2. Thoughts and feelings about the Course instructor(s): Rate on a scale, 10 being the highest: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

3. Thoughts, feelings, or reflections about my experience with this Course:

4. I suggest these enhancements be made in future Courses:

5. Here are comments that you may quote in future promotional materials:

6. If the above quotation is used, you may attribute it to me by name or initial:

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Western School of Feng Shui™ Recommended Reading List Books by Terah Kathryn Collins: The Three Sisters of the Tao; Essential Conversations with Chinese Medicine, I Ching and Feng Shui Terah Kathryn Collins. Hay House Publishing The Western Guide to Feng Shui for Romance Terah Kathryn Collins. The Western Guide to Feng Shui for Prosperity Terah Kathryn Collins. Hay House Publishing The Western Guide to Feng Shui; Room by Room Terah Kathryn Collins. Hay House Publishing Home Design with Feng Shui A-Z Terah Kathryn Collins. Hay House Publishing The Western Guide to Feng Shui; Creating Balance, Harmony, and Prosperity in Your Environment

Terah Kathryn Collins. Hay House Publishing The Architecture of Happiness Alain de Botton. Pantheon Ask and It Is Given Jerry and Esther Hicks. Hay House Publishing Attracting Perfect Customers, The Power of Strategic Synchronicity Stacey Hall & Jan Brogniez. Berrett Koehler The Code of the Goddess, Sacred Earth Feng Shui Oracle Carol Bridges. Earth Nation Publishing The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity Catherine Ponder. DeVorss & Co. Feng Shui at Home Carol Soucek King. St. Martin’s Press Feng Shui Chic Sharon Stasney. Sterling Publishers Feng Shui Design Sarah Rossbach and Lin Yun. Viking Feng Shui Directory Jane Butler-Biggs. Watson-Guptill Feng Shui For the Soul Denise Linn. Hay House Inc. Publishing Feng Shui Made Easy William Spear. HarperCollins Publishers The Five Spirits, Alchemical Acupuncture for Psychological & Spiritual Healing Lorie Eve Dechar. Lantern Books A Guide to the I’Ching Carol K. Anthony. Anthony Publishing The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes, Theodora Lau. Harper & Row Healing Yourself the Cosmic Way, Based on the I Ching Carol K. Anthony & Hanna Moog. Anthony Publishing The Healthy Home Workbook Kimberly Rider. Chronicle Books Hidden Messages in Water Masaru Emoto. Beyond Words Publishing A Home for the Soul Anthony Lawlor. Clarkson N. Potter Publishers House Thinking, A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live Winifred Gallagher. Harper Collins How to Grow Fresh Air Dr. B.C. Wolverton. Penguin Books I’Ching – The Oracle of the Cosmic Way Carol K. Anthony & Hanna Moog. Anthony Publishing Interior Design with Feng Shui Sarah Rossbach. Arkana Books A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander. Oxford University The Philosophy of the I’Ching Carol K. Anthony. Anthony Publishing The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life Thomas Moore. Harper Perennial Sacred Space Denise Linn. Ballantine Books The Secret Life of Inanimate Objects Lyall Watson. Destiny Books Sell Your House Faster with Feng Shui Holly Ziegler. Wiley Press A Soul in Place Carol Bridges. Earth Nation Publishing Space Clearing Denise Linn, Contemporary Books Space Clearing A-Z Denise Linn. Hay House Publishing Spirit Gardens: Rekindling our Nature Connection Minnie Kansman. Devas Publishing The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander. Oxford University Press Traditional Acupuncture: The Law of the Five Elements Diane M. Connelly, Ph.D., M.Ac., T.A.I. Inst. What Color is Your Slipcover? How Discovering Your Design Personality Can Help You Create the Home of Your Dreams Denny Daikeler. Rodale Publishing

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Essential Feng Shui Basics @ Home Final Assessment

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PROJECT COVER SHEET Essential Feng Shui® Basics @ Home Training

Certificate of Completion

Name (As you would like it to appear on your Certificate of Completion. Please print clearly.)

Address City State Zip Phone Website Email

Certification Requirements: Balance Analysis page and sentences

page and sentences

@ Home Video Home Tour i Enhancements

The Five Elements requirements for a Certificate of Completion,

which must be completed and submitted in order to earn a Certificate for the Basics @ Home Training Program. Please submit the Bagua requirements first or simultaneously.

Please scan the originals altogether into a single pdf and email as an attachment to:

[email protected] Subject Line: Basics Certificate

Upon review and successful completion of your materials, your Certificate of Completion will be emailed to you within 30 days of receipt.

We look forward to providing you with the best in Essential Feng Shui Educational Programs! Many Blessings, Western School of Feng Shui™ For Reviewer only, please: Reviewed by Certification date Feedback/Questions/Comments:
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