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Metropolitan Institute of Interior Design in New York. She has practiced the art professionally for three years. Although she loves to travel and has given consultations and workshops in places as far afield as Florida and New Mexico, she loves the Blue Ridge Mountains and Rappahannock.
“Feng Shui holds that ch’i comes out from the earth. Where it’s very deep in the earth you get flat, featureless terrain, like a desert area. In our area, that powerful lifeforce energy is close to the surface, pushing out those rolling "fulls and mountains. It’s great to live surrounded by that energy.”
The study of earth energy is basic to each of the several different schools of feng shui. The approach practiced by Boudreau has its roots in the Tibetan Tantric tradition, called the Black Sect Tradition., This tradition was brought to the West by Lin Yun, the Chinese feng shui master considered by many to be the worlds’ foremost authority on the art.
Feng shui consultants like Boudreau use remedies or “cures” to correct imbalances and to alter, moderate and raise the flow of ch’i within and around a person’s environment. Included in the nine basic cures are such things as mirrors, sounds produced by such things as wind chimes and bells, living objects such as plants and fish in aquariums, and other objects such as fountains and stones. There is even a special category of cures in which ribbons, chalk and even the portrait of a beloved child can be used to restore balance and harmony.
“Because feng shui deals with energy that can’t be seen and especially with the power of intention, some people might see it in a sort of ‘smoke and mirrors’ way. I think healthy skepticism is a good
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