Feng Shui Tips for home & work by Reeta Vaya, Feng Shui Expert

After a successful workshop on Feng Shui at our space in Chiswick, we asked member and partner, Reeta Vaya, if she could kindly share her expertise with our wider community in written format. She put together this guide on how to arrange your home and work places in accordance with Feng Shui best practises, optimising your wellbeing through spatial layout!

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Within our environment is a life force as important as the air we breathe. Feng Shui is based on the principle going back 6,000 years, that your environment affects your wellbeing and prosperity.

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The ancient art harmonises your home and work space to support your health, relationships, wellbeing, work and prosperity with nature’s natural flow through:

- form

- colours

- textures

- auspicious arrangement

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Approx 90% of Hong Kong’s skyline is feng shui’ed for balance and positive energy. There’s good reason why certain buildings are designed with holes called ‘dragon gates’. It allows dragons to fly easily from the mountains down to the harbour and sip water. Water in the right spot brings prosperity.

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Good feng shui guides chi (energy) to your home and work space! As WFH and hybrid working is common practice now, our flats and houses have doubled up as places where both home and work life take place.  It's more important than ever to optimise the purpose of each room using Feng Shui support to ensure you can feel your best when relaxing and being productive, too.

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Below you’ll find recommendations for each type of space:

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Front garden

Associated with the future / children

• Keep well pruned, Feng Shui practise tells us that an overgrown front garden blocks the future
• Paved driveways are yang, you can balance the energy with plants
• Ensure a clear path to the door, symbolising the welcoming of new opportunities

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Front door

Associated with opportunities and prosperity

• To avoid missing opportunities, keep your door in good condition e.g. paintwork, no rust/rot!
• To welcome energy into your home, ensure your door opens easily e.g. no extreme pressure needed to open the door
• Reverse park your car so that it doesn't point at your door because cars are like tigers that attack your door e.g. your opportunities

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Hallway

Associated with your throat /communication

• Welcome the chi by placing an uplifting scent in the hall, using calming lights and plants or flowers to symbolise life
• Store shoes out of sight e.g in a basket
• To avoid energy bouncing out the door, place a mirror on the side wall and not opposite the door

Kitchen

Associated with relationships & work

• Nutrition is associated with wealth
• Avoid placing the sink opposite a hob because it causes arguments. If this isn’t possible easily then you can remedy by placing plants by the sink!
• If the kitchen is blue or black then balance the energy with plants  or artwork of greenery

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Dining room

Associated with your family & digestion

• Round or oval dining tables work best to support communication, failing that you can place a plants or flowers on the table to have the same affect
• A mirror that reflects the dining table supports family relations

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Living room

Associated with work

• For best support, place the main sofa against a wall and not a window
• Natural light is best, else paint walls in a light colour
• The money pulse point is diagonally opposite the door. To  activate this energy, place a plant or lamp there

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Office

Associated with work

• Having a view of the entire room and door enables you to see your opportunities
• Avoid a door or shelves behind you else, Feng Shui practise tells us that you miss opportunities. Alternatively, you can cover the shelves up
• Try to avoid working from your bedroom else you mix the chi of work and sleep

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Garden

Associated with health

• Ensure solid boundaries e.g. wall/fence/hedge to retain energy which supports your savings and health

• Feng Shui practise tells us that garden furniture invites energy
• Use the garden often to activate the energy there!

Bedroom

Associated with health & love

• Avoid the bed in line with the door e.g. directly in front of it
• For best support, place the bed against a wall, not a window
• Neutral calm colours are best to help you relax

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Bathroom

Associated with waste

• To avoid money draining, attend to leaky taps or pipes
• If the bathroom is black or blue, the colour green helps balance the energy e.g. hand towels/bath mat etc.
• Feng Shui practise tells us that to avoid digestive issues, ensure a clean and easy to flush toilet

Reeta Vaya has transitioned from a career in project management to work full time on Feng Shui. 'I packed in tech projects in 2015 for 5 years studying feng shui. There are many disciplines of feng shui, though I base solutions on Chue Style Feng Shui as led by Grandmaster Chan Kun. He’s one in a handful of revered feng shui grandmasters worldwide whose lineage goes back to the Song Dynasty. My experience and clients have ranged from dental practices to residential homes, vineyards to hotels and even empty buildings.'

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Stay tuned for more Feng Shui workshops with the amazing Reeta!

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