What is Feng Shui?

Feng Shui is the science about how human beings respond to their physical spaces; and, how those spaces nurture a person’s goals and intentions or negates them. Feng Shui fills a void at a time when we are beginning to acknowledge that our experience of place is integral to a better quality life. Feng Shui evolved in China through several millennia. Over time the practice changed as civilizations and the out growth of their geographic locations changed. As a result, various schools of thought developed with different cultures and in different parts of the world. Which is why many people get confused after reading different books. The main tenets of feng shui draw from Taoism, a Chinese philosophy. The words “feng shui” literally mean "wind water". The practice originally came about as an effective way for people who lived in mountainous regions of China to have a way of protecting their dwellings from inclement weather patterns.

In the mid 20th century when feng shui was introduced to America, it once again had to adapt to a completely different culture with a completely diverse set of customs, symbols, and traditions. The Feng Shui Institute of America, LLC, developed the Pyramid Philosophy School of Feng Shui to address the Western beliefs and values. The “pyramid” philosophical approach synthesizes wisdom and knowledge from all of the schools of feng shui while filtering out cultural and geographical proclivities. Graduates from our school assess clients and base recommendations on a hierarchical pyramid of needs for personal growth and change in one’s life. The Feng Shui Institute of America, LLC’s courses pull heavily from cutting edge research in the social, physical, and earth sciences. Examples of fields that support Pyramid philosophy of feng shui include geology, meteorology, cultural anthropology, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, physiology, and psychology, to name a few.

Fsia’s “pyramid” philosophy identifies feng shui as an information system that reveals how a home or workplace can affect health, relationships and self-actualization.  We feel that our experiences in life cannot be isolated from the language of our environment. The thread separating us from many other species is the cognition of our own condition. The pyramid philosophy taught in our courses and practiced by our graduates explores that relationship of how “person connects to place” and how “that place communicates messages to a person”.

Where we are, is as important as who we are.