Episode 203: Celebrating the Holidays with Feng Shui

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Episode 203: Celebrating the Holidays with Feng Shui

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It’s the most wonderful time of the year…time for our annual holiday feng shui episode! In this conversation, we’re sharing some of our own holiday traditions and our suggestions for bringing feng shui and intention into your home for the holiday season.

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Episode 196: Connecting with Your Witchy Side with Rosie Velasquez

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Episode 196: Connecting with Your Witchy Side with Rosie Velasquez

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Around the end of October, many of us feel a deeper yearning to explore magic and spirituality. In this episode, Laura is joined by Mindful Design grad Rosie Velasquez. Tune in to learn all about their experiences connecting to their witchy sides and the folk traditions of their own cultures.

We cover: 

  • The energy of this time of year and why we may feel drawn to spirituality and energy modalities right now

  • How Rosie and Laura work with the folk traditions of their own cultures as well as feng shui

  • Why some of us are more in tune with our witchy sides

  • What attracted Rosie to feng shui?

  • How understanding your personal qi can help you work with your gifts

  • What Rosie is doing now and how her intention materialized in an unexpected way

  • How Rosie is incorporating feng shui, Catholicism, and Mexican folk magic into her work

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Rosie Velasquez is an Energy Alchemist, Mentor, Weaver, and Storyteller. A lifelong learner, she draws from ancestrial shamanic techniques (curenderisimo) and incorporates her formal training in geomancy, sound and color therapy, BTB feng shui, Coach certification and clinical hypnotherapy to brings a unique and holistic approach to help Empaths learn to use their unique intuitive gifts.

Rosie’s website: rosievelasquez.com

Rosie’s Instagram: @rosie_velasquez_

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Episode 152: Five Tips for Winter Blues and Burnout with Erin Delander

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EPISODE 152: Five Tips for Winter Blues and Burnout with Erin Delander

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We are so excited to welcome one of our Mindful Design graduates, Erin Delander, to the Holistic Spaces Podcast! Erin joined us to talk about feng shui for the winter season, and her tips for working with winter blues and burnout during the colder months.

We cover:

  • What does the winter solstice represent?

  • The water element in feng shui

  • Giving yourself permission to rest and be “lazy”

  • Seasonal Affective Disorder and the winter blues

  • Erin’s five tips for avoiding burnout and the winter blues

  • How Erin, Anjie, and Laura are embracing the winter season and welcoming more warmth into their homes

  • What Erin is working on now

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Erin has been an expert in interior environments for over a decade. As an interior designer and Feng Shui Practitioner, her purpose is to help people learn to adjust their interiors in a healthy and supportive way, regardless of the season or phase of life they are in.

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Episode 147: Less Stuff for the Holidays with Julia Sarasola

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EPISODE 147: Less Stuff for the Holidays with Julia Sarasola

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In this episode we are delighted to welcome one of graduates, Julia Sarasola, to the podcast! Julia joined us to talk about her experience going through a big transition, the beauty of second-hand items, and our relationships to our possessions.

We cover:

  • What has Julia been up to since finishing the Mindful Design certification

  • Julia’s experience letting go of her home in New York City

  • Julia’s passion for vintage and second-hand items

  • Julia’s process working with second-hand items to give them a new life

  • Experiencing beauty without needing to own every beautiful item

  • How the pandemic has shifted our relationship to shopping and what we consume

  • Choosing gifts thoughtfully

  • Sharing time and space as a gift

  • The benefits of shopping second-hand

  • What Julia learned from going through her possessions in her New York home

  • What nature can teach us about self care

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Julia Sarasola is a certified interior decorator, feng shui practitioner, and vintage shop owner based in Brooklyn, New York. Her design approach is about creating thoughtful physical spaces that breathe and evolve with the client – deeply tuning into the environment and the energy that comes along with it.

Julia's website: juliasarasola.com

Contact: hello@juliasarasola.com

Vintage Shop: @surfaceandshape

Episode 146: Space Clearing for the Holidays

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EPISODE 146: Space Clearing for the Holidays

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During the holiday season, we’re often welcoming a lot of new energy into our home. This makes it a great time to practice space clearing! In this episode, we’re talking about why space clearing is so important, and sharing some of our favorite and most festive space clearing methods.

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Episode 099: Holidays with Holistic Spaces

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EPISODE 099: Holidays with Holistic Spaces

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In this episode, we’re talking about feng shui & holiday decorating! Since Laura loves decorating for the holidays, Anjie interviews her on some of her favorite ways to decorate and how they connect to feng shui.

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Episode 087: Five Feng Shui Basics

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EPISODE 087: Five Feng Shui Basics

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In this episode, we’re reviewing some foundational feng shui principles, including qi/energy, yin & yang, the bagua, the five elements, and the different schools of feng shui. Whether you are new to feng shui or you’ve been practicing it for years, we believe it’s always a good idea to continue deepening your understanding of these concepts.

  • Why so many people are turning to feng shui right now

  • What is qi, and how do we work with it in feng shui?

  • Yin & yang and how this concept is practically applied in your home

  • Why you don’t need to be psychic to perceive energy

  • The importance of cultivating your own qi

  • The bagua and how it can show a feng shui practitioner what may be going on in your life

  • The five element system

  • Different schools of feng shui

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Episode 086: Yolanda Williams & Reiki

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EPISODE 086: Yolanda Williams & Reiki

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Photo by Kent Pilcher on Unsplash

In this episode we’re joined by Yolanda Williams, a gifted healer, reiki practitioner, teacher, coach and host of Reiki Radio podcast. Yolanda has such good qi that it’s uplifting just to hear her voice! We talked to Yolanda all about reiki and the connection between reiki and feng shui.

  • What is reiki?

  • Anjie’s introduction to reiki and how it started her on her spiritual path

  • How Yolanda got into reiki and why she started her podcast

  • The benefits of reiki

  • Yolanda’s approach to teaching reiki

  • Reiki symbols and how they can be used

  • The importance of shifting your own energy first

  • How to reconnect to reiki after you’ve taken a long break

  • The similarities between feng shui and reiki

  • How being a feng shui consultant is like being in a Brady Bunch movie…

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Yolanda Williams

Yolanda is an Intuitive, Self-Mastery Coach and Certified Medical Reiki Master (CMRM); teaching Reiki, Intuitive Development, Elemental Balancing and Chakra Mirroring. She trained with internationally recognized Reiki Masters in the lineages of Usui Reiki Ryoho and Jikiden Reiki®. Yolanda also trained with Shamans and other Healers of various modalities, increasing her intuitive abilities and understanding of Universal Oneness. She uses a blend of techniques to help clients and students achieve deeper connections with themselves, which facilitates new levels of self-awakening and revealing the dynamics of mind, body and energy. Her methods have helped Reiki practitioners, globally, and she is currently authoring a book to highlight how you can deepen your connection, relationship and understanding of what it means to be an authentic expression of your true nature.

Yolanda is also the host Reiki Radio podcast, co-founder of the Mind Body Energy Project and creator of the Seekers Circle, which has become an international community of energy-workers. Through the podcast she shares tools to support your spiritual exploration, including interviews of other healers who practice various techniques. She teaches Usui Reiki Ryoho, all levels, in San Diego, and offers intuitive awakening courses, online. Connect with Yolanda at www.theenergeticalchemist.com.

Episode 085: Plants & Feng Shui

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EPISODE 085: Plants & Feng Shui

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Photo by Brina Blum on Unsplash

In this episode we’re talking about a very popular feng shui topic: plants! This episode is a follow up to our spring equinox feng shui challenge. Anjie and Laura are talking all about their favorite plants, including the ones they have in their own homes.

  • Are pointy and spiky plants bad feng shui?

  • Should you have plants in the bedroom?

  • Plants that are easy to care for

  • The benefits of a more finicky plant

  • Plant recommendations to boost a stagnant corner of your home, attract a partner, welcome wealth, and more

  • Which plants Anjie and Laura have in their homes

  • Plants that help improve indoor air quality

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