Episode 115: Ritual Baths with Mama Medicine, Deborah Hanekamp

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EPISODE 115: RITUAL BATHS WITH MAMA MEDICINE, DEBORAH HANEKAMP

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Photo by Elly Johnson on Unsplash

We are delighted to welcome Deborah Hanekamp, known as Mama Medicine, to the podcast! Deborah joined us to talk about ritual baths, doing healing work virtually, following your intuition, and being your own healer.

We cover:

  • Anjie’s experience working with Deborah

  • The healing power of water

  • Ritual baths as a form of energy healing

  • How trusting her intuition led Deborah to pivot her offerings

  • What Deborah loves about working with people virtually

  • The importance of allowing people to be their own healer

  • Why we encourage our feng shui students to find their own answers

Thanks so much for listening to the Holistic Spaces Podcast brought to you by Mindful Design Feng Shui School!

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Mama Medicine is Deborah Hanekamp - The author of the bestselling book Rituals Baths and founder of SPACE by Mama Medicine. Mama Medicine facilitates Medicine Readings online and all over the world. These ceremonies integrate two decades of experience. At the end of every Medicine Reading, Deborah prescribes a Ritual Bath. Her empowering work along with her unique aesthetic and approachable personality, have garnered Mama Medicine tens of thousands of global followers and features in major press outlets. In a world of gurus and self-help, Mama Medicine encourages us to be our own healer and helps us connect to the true master within us all: the power of love.

Follow Deborah @MamaMedicine

Deborah’s website: www.mamamedicine.com 

Episode 113: Feng Shui 101: Follow the Qi

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EPISODE 113: FENG SHUI 101: FOLLOW THE QI

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Photo by Gary Barnes on Pexels

Today’s Feng Shui 101 episode is all about qi: what it is, how we work with it as practitioners, and why it’s such an important and foundational concept in feng shui.

We cover:

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Episode 112: Wood Element with Dr Tamsin Lee

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EPISODE 112: WOOD ELEMENT WITH DR TAMSIN LEE

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Photo by Mirko Blicke on Unsplash

We’re so excited to welcome Dr Tamsin Lee to the Holistic Spaces podcast! We’ve been following and admiring Tamsin and her work for a while, and we loved talking to her in this episode all about the wood element.

We cover:

  • How studying East Asian practices re-connected Tamsin to her cultural heritage and family lineage

  • The importance of spiritual and energetic practices like feng shui, face reading, and divination

  • Why it’s important to take care of your own energy before trying to help others

  • The connection between spring and the wood element

  • Why it’s a good thing to feel angry in the spring

  • How nature can guide us in shifting our lifestyles throughout the year

  • Anjie’s experience of seasonal changes in ikebana and Japanese tea ceremony

  • What we each do to connect to the wood element in the spring

  • What the energy of spring and the wood element feels like

  • What a wood imbalance can look like

  • Why it’s a good idea to dance around your house and move your hips this time of year!

Thanks so much for listening to the Holistic Spaces Podcast brought to you by Mindful Design Feng Shui School!

Dr Tamsin Lee

Bio: Tamsin Lee, DAOM, AEMP is an East Asian medicine doctor community researcher and Daoist face reader. She is the founder of Elemental Archetypes — an online face reading consultation that weaves her family lineage of Korean face reading, and the Five seasonal phases to guide womxn to reclaim their beauty narrative.

Tamsin’s website: elementalarchetypes.com

Tamsin’s Instagram: @elementalarchetypes

Episode 111: Bad Feng Shui Plants

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EPISODE 111: BAD FENG SHUI PLANTS

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Photo by Ivy Aralia Nizar on Unsplash

Have you ever wondered if there are bad feng shui plants that you should avoid in your home? We get a lot of questions about this, so in this episode we’re sharing our perspectives.

We also cover:

  • Best practices for choosing feng shui plants

  • Plants and the five elements

  • Where we see people getting stuck when it comes to the five elements

  • The wood element and spring

  • What we can learn from plants

  • Our tips for taking care of plants (even if you don’t have a green thumb)

  • The importance of observation in caring for plants

  • Laura’s favorite “bad” feng shui plants

  • Anjie’s current favorite plants

Thanks so much for listening to the Holistic Spaces Podcast brought to you by Mindful Design Feng Shui School!

Episode 109: Feng Shui 101: What is feng shui?

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EPISODE 109: Feng Shui 101: what is feng shui?

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Photo by Maksim Goncharenok on Pexels

This episode is the first in our Feng Shui 101 series. We wanted to get back to some of the basics of this practice, because there is a lot of power in simplicity, and because it’s always helpful to approach things with a beginner’s mind. Also, our relationships to feng shui are always evolving, so we wanted to share our current perspectives.

In this episode:

  • The origin of the term “feng shui”

  • Our definitions of feng shui

  • The connection between feng shui and nature

  • Balancing tools and study with wisdom and intuition

  • Paradoxes within feng shui

  • Honoring the simplicity as well as the depth of feng shui

  • Fear-based vs. compassion-based approaches to feng shui

  • Our desire to have absolutes and clear answers

  • The feng shui bagua map

  • Different schools of feng shui

  • Why it’s important go deep with one school instead of jumping around

Thanks so much for listening to the Holistic Spaces Podcast brought to you by Mindful Design Feng Shui School!

Episode 108: The Elements of Sound with Amy Kirby

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EPISODE 108: The Elements of Sound with Amy Kirby

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Photo by Kalon on Unsplash

In this episode, we’re excited to welcome Amy Kirby, Mindful Design graduate, to the podcast! We loved Amy’s final project in the program all about feng shui and sound, and wanted to share it with all of you!

We cover:

  • How Amy decided to focus on feng shui and sound

  • The power of your own voice

  • The benefits of deep listening

  • The connection between feng shui and the human voice

  • Mantras and chanting

  • Why everyone can benefit from singing, even if you don’t think you’re a good singer

  • The connection between doors and voices

  • How to bring in the elements through sound

  • How Amy works with sound in her home on a regular basis

Thanks so much for listening to the Holistic Spaces Podcast brought to you by Mindful Design Feng Shui School!

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With an extensive background in retail and residential design, Amy was drawn to BTB Feng Shui as a way to not only enhance a home or retail environment, but as a tool to support, nurture and awaken. Working with interior design principles and feng shui, Amy brings about a deeper understanding of how our spaces can support our individual journeys and how we all have the power to transform our lives.

Connect with Amy on Instagram at @akozykirby and @caz_and_kozy.

Episode 107: A Flower Elixir for Every Zodiac Animal with Katie Hess of Lotus Wei

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EPISODE 107: A Flower Elixir for Every Zodiac Animal with Katie Hess of Lotus Wei

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Photo by Yoksel Zok on Unsplash

We’re so excited to have our good friend Katie Hess back on the podcast today! Katie is the founder of LOTUSWEI, and if you’ve been listening for a while, you’re probably familiar with Katie and her flower essences. In this episode, Katie is joining us to share a personalized flower essence recommendation for each Chinese zodiac animal to support them in 2021, the Year of the Ox.

In this episode:

  • What are flower essences?

  • How to work with the energy of flowers

  • Each zodiac animal’s compatibility with the ox

  • Which flower essence Katie recommends for each animal based on the year ahead and what kind of support they will need

  • What it means to be in a yin metal year

  • What rituals we recommend for the Lunar New Year (sign up here for our New Year’s Reset Package including the Golden Cicada Ritual!)

Thanks so much for listening to the Holistic Spaces Podcast brought to you by Mindful Design Feng Shui School!

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Katie Hess is a flower alchemist, TEDx speaker, author of Flowerevolution and founder of LOTUSWEI, a leading flower elixir apothecary. She hosts the Flowerlounge Podcast with listeners in over 75 countries, and is founder of the Self-Arising Nature Center, a center for flower essence education, experiences and practitioner training. Find out what your favorite flower means about you at www.lotuswei.com. 

Learn more about Flowerevolution.


Episode 105: Nine Star Ki for 2021

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EPISODE 105: Nine Star Ki for 2021

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Every year, we talk about what you can expect from the year ahead according to your Nine Star Ki number. Nine Star Ki is a system that we use in feng shui that is also deeply connected to the I Ching and the five elements. This year’s episode is a special one, because our dear teacher and mentor Rosalie Prinzivalli is joining us to share her wisdom as well!

In this episode:

  • How to calculate your Nine Star Ki principal number (scroll down for instructions)

  • Why it’s helpful to know your number 

  • How knowing your friends’ and family members’ numbers can help you support them

  • What 2021 has in store for you based on your Nine Star Ki

  • Advice for each number to embrace this year’s energy

  • The five element relationships between different numbers

How to calculate your Nine Star Ki principal number:

As an example, if you were born in 1986:

Add: 1+9+8+6 = 24

Reduce to a single digit: 2+4 = 6

Subtract from 11: 11-6 = 5

*if you were born between January 1 and February 4, subtract from 12:  12-6 = 6

Don’t forget to listen to episode 103 to learn what 2021 has in store for your Chinese zodiac animal!

Get your personalized Nine Star Ki aromatherapy stick for 2021.

Get a 2021 Feng Shui Rat Charm for Protection and Luck.

Thanks so much for listening to the Holistic Spaces Podcast brought to you by Mindful Design Feng Shui School!

Rosalie Prinzivalli

Rosalie Prinzivalli is a 2002 graduate and certified Feng Shui Practitioner of the BTB Feng Shui™ Masters Program, and the only graduate to join the faculty. With 40+ years of esoteric studies, an NYU Stern MBA, and years of corporate management, Rosalie takes a practical approach to Feng Shui and makes complex concepts easily understandable. She is a Red Ribbon Member of the IFSG, where she served as Board Chair from 2006 to 2014.

For more information, visit https://www.btbmasters.com/

Episode 104: Mindfulness of Spaces

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EPISODE 104: Mindfulness of Spaces

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Photo by Xuan Nguyen on Unsplash

We’re changing things up a bit in this episode, and Laura is interviewing Anjie! We’re talking about how mindfulness connects to our homes and feng shui, a timely topic since many of us have been spending more time at home lately.

  • How mindfulness and meditation extend to our environments

  • The connection between feng shui and meditation

  • Common misconceptions about space clearing

  • Getting familiar with our habitual patterns through mindfulness

  • Anjie’s three tips to cultivate more awareness in your home

  • The benefits of simplifying

  • Carving out space and time to meditate every day

Thanks so much for listening to the Holistic Spaces Podcast brought to you by Mindful Design Feng Shui School!