Episode 186: Feng Shui Tips for Moving Into a New Home

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Episode 186: Feng Shui Tips for Moving Into a New Home

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Whether you’re moving into your forever home, signing a new year-long lease, or checking into a hotel room for a week, feng shui can help you step into a new living space on the right foot. In this episode, we’re sharing five feng shui tips that you can use when moving into a new home. If you aren’t moving anytime soon, we suggest sending this one to a friend who is!

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Episode 184: Feng Shui Qi Forecast, August 2022

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Episode 184: Feng Shui Qi Forecast, August 2022

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In this episode, we’re sharing a feng shui qi forecast for the month of August 2022! First, we go over what’s going on in nature and what you can expect energetically this month, and then Anjie shares an I Ching reading for the Holistic Spaces Podcast listener community. We also share how you can make the most of this month’s energy in your home through feng shui.

We cover: 

  • Key dates to look out for this month in the moon’s cycle and the Chinese solar term calendar

  • What to expect energetically this month

  • Entering a slow transition into a more yin season

  • Harvest, abundance, and being open to receive

  • The connection between endings and beginnings

  • Which areas of the feng shui bagua to work with right now

  • Other feng shui tips to make the most of this month

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Episode 164: Spring Equinox and the Wood Element

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Episode 164: Spring equinox and the Wood element

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Happy Equinox! In the Northern Hemisphere, we are moving from a quiet, yin season (winter) to a more active, yang season (spring). In this episode, we’re sharing our perspective on the spring equinox and some feng shui tips to welcome this new energy.

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Episode 149: Feng Shui 101: The Bagua Map Part 1

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EPISODE 149: Feng Shui 101: The Bagua Map Part 1

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If you’ve been listening for a while, you’ve probably heard us mention the feng shui bagua. The bagua is a tool that feng shui practitioners to gain more information and clarity about a client and their space. In Part 1 of this three-part series, we are covering the New Beginnings, Wealth, and Health areas of the bagua.

We cover:

  • What is the feng shui bagua?

  • How to lay the bagua on your home

  • A simple way to start with the bagua if your home layout is more complicated

  • The New Beginnings area

  • The Wealth area

  • The Health area

  • What each of these areas represents

  • When you might want to work with each of these areas

  • Simple ways to activate each of these bagua areas

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Episode 060: Spring Equinox with Amy Shellhorn

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EPISODE 060: Spring Equinox with Amy Shellhorn

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Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash

We’re in the spring season now, even if some days feel more like winter. I’m excited to kick off a series of interviews with our Mindful Design students, beginning with Amy Shellhorn. Amy is interested i seasons and feng shui, so she’s chatting spring equinox with us today! Check out her tips for living more joyfully this season!

Thank you so much, Amy, and happy spring!

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Amy Shellhorn helps families create joyful spaces that nurture and support their unique family culture. By combining feng shui with other ancient wisdom, she works with modern families to shift the energy of their home to align with their goals. Amy holds a certificate in feng shui from Mindful Design School, a Masters of Architecture from the University of Washington and is a LEED AP BD + C. 

For more information about working with Amy, please visit her website at:

http://www.joyfulfamilyspaces.com  or email her at amy@joyfulfamilyspaces.com

Episode 049: Organizing and Functional Spaces with Diane Lowy

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ORGANIZING AND FUNCTIONAL SPACES WITH DIANE LOWY

This month on the podcast, I'm excited to sit down with organizer and creator of "apartment solutions," Diane Lowy. Diane works at New York at Home to help New Yorkers create functional, organized spaces that help their lives to flow more easily, kind of like we do with qi! Also, check out this month's My Favorite Things, where Diane suggests some great options for getting organized for the school year and / or busy season!

  • Apartment functionality

  • How functionality relates to organization

  • Benefits to having a functional, organized home

  • Clutter and stress

  • Getting rid of what no longer serves you

  • The idealized self vs. the actual self

  • Accepting who you are

  • Knowing when to get rid of things

  • Organizing the right places

  • Organizing closets for work / school

  • Reducing clothing decisions

  • Back-to-school tips

Thanks so much to Diane for sharing these wonderful tips on organizing your space! A holistic space is almost always an organized one. :) Did you learn any new tips on how to manage your space? If so, let us know in the comments! 

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Diane Lowy has managed the New York spaces for diverse brands such as Google and Chanel. She also has a technical background from her years working on historic restoration projects in Central Park and at Columbia University. She studied installation art (a combination of sculpture and architecture) at Bard College with a focus on the way spaces can evoke emotions.  She also studied construction project management at New York University.

Helping groups of professionals use the same space in many different ways inspired her to apply this strategy to homes in order to identify small adjustments that can have a big impact. Read more about her at newyorkathome.com.

Episode 047: Feng Shui for Katie Dalebout

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FENG SHUI FOR KATIE DALEBOUT

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image credit: Abbey Moore

My friend Katie Dalebout, author of Let It Out, has just relocated to New York City from the midwest, and I'm very excited to have her on the Holistic Spaces podcast to address the feng shui in her new space! Katie has her own podcast as well, Let It Out, so for this episode, we'll be doing a collaboration with her! Listen here for the consultation with her, and be sure to check it out here as well!

I'm so excited to finally have Katie here in New York! Hopefully she's able to implement all these feng shui cures and create a wonderful, nourishing holistic space in the city. We may even do a follow-up with her later to see how it goes!

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Our podcast giveaway ends next month, so be sure to review on iTunes for your chance to win a free mini-consultation!

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Tune in August 1 for the next Astrology & Feng Shui!

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Episode 040: Feng Shui for New Beginnings in Spring

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FENG SHUI FOR NEW BEGINNINGS IN SPRING

Happy Spring! Spring is an amazing time for new beginnings, both in the world of feng shui and in life in general, so this week, I thought we would talk about how to welcome spring and new beginnings in our holistic spaces. We have many posts on the Holistic Spaces blog about spring and new beginnings, so be sure to check them out after this! 

I want to thank each of you for listening to the Holistic Spaces podcast! You are the reason I do this! I would love to hear what new beginnings you are looking forward to this year and how you may use these feng shui adjustments to ensure they go well.

If you have specific questions about feng shui, new beginnings, green design or holistic living, send them along or set up a consultation call. Your questions could even be featured on our Q&A Sunday series!

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Episode 005: The Feng Shui Bagua Map: New Beginnings, Abundance and Health

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THE FENG SHUI BAGUA MAP: NEW BEGINNINGS, ABUNDANCE AND HEALTH

This week I'm excited to start our series on the feng shui bagua map. For the next few episodes, we'll be going more in depth on each of the bagua areas, starting with New Beginnings, Abundance and Health. 

  • Feng Shui Adjustments for

  • If you're unsure which guas need work

I encourage you to make ONE change to just ONE area this week! If you'd like, email me your floor plans for our Q&A Sunday blog posts at info@holisticspaces.com. 

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