Feng Shui London and UK Spacessential

The first traces of Feng Shui date from Neolithic China. The orientation and location of the burial sites was the first design of Feng Shui. Long before the invention of the Luo Pan, the Chinese geomantic compass, the practice was based on astronomical observations. This first form of Feng Shui is what became the Yin Feng Shui.

Yin Feng shui nowadays deals with the burial sites.Those techniques have then been developped and expanded for house to become the form known as Yang Feng Shui.

The theories and techniques of actual Feng Shui have more or less originated 5000 years old. The esoteric knowledge has been lost and rediscovered many times over history through different masters and books. The cultural revolution and the coming of Mao Tse Tung changed a lot the face of China and forced many traditional Feng Shui masters to go undercover or to move to other countries in Asia – such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore or Malaysia. This in turn became a blessing in disguise for us Westerners as this is how we really became exposed to Feng Shui theories in the 20th century.

A Chinese lineage is essential to guaranty the accuracy and efficiency of a Feng Shui school, or body of techniques. The Han Wu San Yuan lineage for example that I use as a Feng Shui expert is 2500 year old and has 71 generations of direct Feng Shui masters.

In the 20th century however things became a bit more complicated. While many schools were traditionally developed over centuries – Ba Zhai, San He, San Yuan etc. the "neo" or "Mc" Feng Shui came in and changed everything. Some opportunistic Chinese and Westerners alike saw the it was difficult to market traditional Feng Shui into the West as it was full of Chinese theories and symbols. Under the influence of good marketing the Feng Shui was then simplified, watered down and rebranded into a "Western" fashion. Law of attraction, home psychology and New Age products became part of this mainstream Feng Shui while they had no connection with it in the first place.

There are always two sides of a coin so I guess we should be grateful to those people for having spread the name and the awareness of Feng Shui. Many Feng Shui experts like I can now work in London, the USA or Dubai and not only in Asia because people became aware of Feng Shui.

However such modern Feng shui is to the tradition and efficiency of the techniques what Mc Donald is to gastronomy. I can see the benefit of positive intention; however as an expert in classical Feng Shui I know that if you do not treat internal and external water exits, the stove position, the Chi setup and many other aspects then you won't gain the results you're hoping for. It's great to focus on growing a nice flower: but first and foremost you need for it to have a good soil to grown in.