What is a "conscious living consultant"?

A conscious living consultant is an individual practitioner dedicated to providing services that facilitate body, mind and heart consciousness. My commitment is to assist you in creating balance, harmony, and understanding within your environment and yourself.

I provide services to individuals, couples, families and businesses with health and wholeness as the focus.

Clients enjoy an initial evaluation that assists them in identifying goals and objectives for conscious transformation. The client then embarks on a path of wellness that attends to the three centers of being: body, mind and heart.

Why Green Living Now?

Human activities have always impacted the environment, but our increasing numbers and present-day practices are contributing to unprecedented land and resource misuse, and water and air pollution–undermining food safety and production, scenic and recreational assets, species survival, and quality of life. In response, earth-friendly solutions, products and technologies are emerging... but to make a difference, these ideas and innovations must become part of our everyday lives.

Never doubt that your efforts to live greener, both large and small, can make a difference: Every act, when multiplied over many days and many people, produces meaningful results. Remember, just because you cannot see change, it does not mean it is not occurring.

The Benefits of Going Green

A green living consultation will help you discover lower-impact choices that can improve inefficient, wasteful, and unsafe practices in order to better protect the Earth and yourself.

In addition to the energy cost savings and lower environmental impact, there are health benefits. Americans spend an average of 90 percent of their time indoors, and the concentration of pollutants indoors is often 10 to 100 times greater than outdoors.

Green products reduce exposure to air pollutants. For example, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) typically are emitted by paints, wood preservatives and other sources. These gases have short- and long-term health effects, including symptoms ranging from eye, nose and throat irritation to cancer. There are many healthy alternatives to the products we use daily, such as, cleaners, bedding, and skincare. Many of these changes are easily applied once you have the knowledge!

What is Feng Shui?

Literally translated as 'WIND - WATER' it is perhaps more easily understood as Chinese Geomancy or the 'Art of Placement'. It is an ancient Chinese system in which we are able to harmonize man-made structures within the environment. It is literally the 'Art' of establishing harmony between the winds and waters of our natural surroundings and the buildings we construct in them. Recognizing and working with the natural ebb and flow of the energy of our environment rather than working against them ensures that we have the positive forces of mother nature with us in our endeavors.

Perhaps the single most important concept in Feng Shui is that of 'Chi' or Life Force. This vital energy is at the very heart of the universe itself and is the driving force behind it. In traditional Feng Shui we are utilizing this Chi to gain greater strength and harmony in our spaces, particularly in those man-made structures which we all live and work within.

Similar to the practice of Acupuncture, where the goal is to attain balance and harmony in the flow of Chi through our physical bodies, in Feng Shui we work to attain the same balance and harmony in the free flow of Chi through our homes, work spaces and our surrounding environment. And just as the practitioner of Acupuncture works to find and set free any blockages or 'stagnant' channels in our bodies, in Feng Shui we work to set free any blockages or 'stagnant' channels within our surrounding environment.

Naturally, it is best to ensure there are no such blockages by constructing buildings which harmonize with the surrounding environment from the day they are designed. However, this is not always possible and we may need to 'remedy' our environments from time to time through traditional Feng Shui.

Food Energetics

Rooted in the traditions of our ancestors and the commonsense philosophy that founded the natural healing modalities of traditional peoples the world over, applying Food Energetics principles to your life will change the way you perceive food and nutrition. Practical considerations of what you bring to your kitchen for nourishment are the first big steps in discovering your basic dietary needs through food energetics and will show you how the foods you eat affect your life at every level.

When your physical foods are truly nourishing to your body you will feel energized and have a solid foundation in health from which to choose how you are nourished in your other relationships. Understanding food energetics will give you the opportunity to make sound and practical choices that can change the way you think about food in ways that will help answer many of your diet related questions and open doors to new and interesting discoveries.