Feng Shui Learning Spaces
This website is devoted to helping parents, students and teachers use Feng Shui to create an optimal environment for learning. My main website is located at www.tabithamiller.com
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WHAT
IS FENG SHUI?
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese Earth Science developed to bring people into
harmony with nature, time and space. It incorporates mathematics, astronomy,
geography, the environment and physics. Feng Shui literally means "Wind and Water", and
refers to the flow of energy or Chi.
When the chi of your home or business is not flowing in a productive way, you may experience relationship problems, a lack of creativity, illnesses, injuries, or financial trouble. When the Chi of your classroom is not flowing in a productive way it is more difficult for students to learn, work and be successful.
Children
The magic of children is the pure and unregulated energy that dances within them. It is never static. Children are what dreams are made of. There they are ripe and ready for shaping, poised on the edge of potential and of course getting ready to fly. Feng Shui can be an ally in aligning that wonderful energy that teachers and parents can sometimes get so frustrated with.
What Can Feng Shui Do For Your Learning Environment?
Recent Brain Research about how we learn support many of the Feng Shui principles mentioned here. I could have easily just called this site Learning Environments but why not give credit to the art and science that has known most of these ideas all along - Feng Shui. The ideas mentioned here are not new they are just put together in one place. Some of the conditions that are mentioned here will be out of most educators control. Obviously if you're in a windowless classroom you can't start knocking down walls measuring for bay windows. This website however hopes to also identify some of the conditions that teachers can satisfy themselves, minus the construction crew. If you are not teaching or learning in a harmonious environment then consider how many hours students spend in the class room and educators spend even more time there. If you spend 8hrs. a day X 180 days a year, that's not including workdays then you spend at least 1,440 hrs a year in a harsh environment. Isn't that a big enough part of your life to make you want to change it for the better?
Will Feng Shui
Interfere with my Religious Beliefs?
No. Feng Shui was developed by Chinese people who happened to be Buddhists, but it is not related to any religion or spiritual belief system -- it is an Earth Science. The underlying principles agree with Quantum Physics and Relativity.
Quantum Physics?
Now being an art educator, I am not a quantum physics kind of person but in reading books like "The Field" by Lynne McTaggart , I find that it is the scientific proof that some of us needed that Feng Shui works. I use the Time - Space School of Feng Shui, which states that the chi in different compass locations varies in its composition and energy levels, yin/yang and the five elements. Quantum physicists would agree with this and point to the natural environment, the winds and the weather as the explanation of the differing electrical charges the subtle vibrations all around us.
Great Reading on School Design
New York Times Article - The Feng Shui of Schools by Kate Zerneke
School Violence and Feng Shui by Dr. Guy Ferru
