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Feng shui and geomancy can create powerful opportunities for the promotion of business and commercial success. This is achieved through a combination of techniques that address the potential of the business site, its architecture and layout, and the authority and leadership of its management. These methods can contribute to the fame and recognition of the enterprise, its financial and monetary prowess, and its competitiveness and influence. They can also create synergies between business, community, and the environment.

In order to do this, we look at the configuration of streets and roads leading to the site, the disposition and orientation of the structure, and the flow of vital energy that nourishes the various activities contained therein. By promoting proper flow and alignment, opportunities are encouraged, potential is maximized, and prosperity is enhanced. In addition, we have specialized techniques for promoting new business, enhancing client satisfaction, and increasing staff efficiency.

In situations where business success is compromised, our services can provide cures for diminishing financial returns, institutional vulnerability, compromised communication, client dissatisfaction, excessive staff turnover, and failing productivity. Specialized techniques can also be used to address situations in which key individuals may be facing competition, vulnerability, or stress. Individual spaces can be tailored to help its user maximize personal and institutional potential.

Our techniques have been helpful in creating success and recognition for client such as Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Hyatt Hotels, Conde Nast Publishing, Whole Foods Markets, Prudential Douglas Elliman, NBC, and many others.

Feng shui and geomancy encompass many techniques used to evaluate the political and economical potential of a site and structure. When used with a high level of sophistication, these techniques and methods can help to enhance the power, reach, and influence of major institutions at the regional, national or international levels. Geomancy in particular is an effective tool that can help to make institutions, NGOs and governmental organizations into more effective, influential and responsible bodies.

To achieve this requires an understanding of the impacts of land form, orientation, and location on the performance of a structure. These, in turn, can shed light on the site’s potential to generate prosperity, success, and influence. They include assessments of land and water patterns, road and traffic influences, and the flow of vital energy throughout the site and its buildings. The latter include evaluations of earth forces, geomagnetic influences, and geopathic stresses (underground energies that are harmful to humans). In addition, other techniques can evaluate the relative potential of the site at specific moments in time. Using these techniques, for example, it is possible to determine the likelihood of success or failure for issues concerning wealth, political influence, or intellectual reach within a site or portion of a site at different points in time.

In addition, special feng shui techniques can be used to evaluate the relative potential of different sectors within a site for specific functions, activities, organizations, or individuals. These can then be correlated with analyses of the patterns of energy flow in the land and buildings in order to determine the most effective configuration for all components of a site.

Retail and sales present exciting opportunities for the application of feng shui and geomancy. Not only is it necessary in these cases to promote the prerequisite prosperity, recognition, and success, but this has to be done against the background of changing trends, fashions, idiosyncrasies, and the vagaries of the marketplace. Despite this unpredictability, our techniques are very well suited to this area of business, and we have successfully advised sales establishments of all types and sizes, from mom and pop corner shops, to regional realty concerns, national supermarket chains, and multinational traders.

In all cases our objective has been to increase sales, expand market share, and add to the recognition of the brand or product. Increasingly, our efforts have also focused on the creation of transformational experiences for shoppers and staff alike. Customers are demanding that products perform not only as functional objects but also as part of the their personal journey of discovery. From the design of the product to its manufacture and display, retail and sales efforts now present a coordinated effort that is aware of the economic, psychological, and spiritual needs of the producer, the consumer, and the sales staff.

As a consequence, the retail sector is undergoing rapid transformation. Part of this trend has focused on the need to enhance a business's edge against increasingly competitive markets. In addition, a new market consciousness now pays a great deal of attention to the inter-relationships between consumer and ethics, between dollar spent and its impact on the biosphere, and to the communal imperative to perform in an ethical and sustainable manner. Staff recruitment, development, and satisfaction are also part of this trend. These, as well as the more traditional concerns for profitability, recognition and success, are part and parcel of the needs our services can address.

Industry presents special problems to the feng shui consultant. On one hand there is the need to promote prosperity and to create value from business activity. On the other hand, there is a need to minimize industry's impact on the earth and the biological web. In fact, many of our clients are actively involved in creating new paradigms in which industry itself becomes an agent of healing and regeneration.

Whether it is a wine manufacturer, a metals producer, or a printing plant, our clients have sought our advice in order to create environments that are efficient, productive, supportive of staff and management, and which are as green and sustainable as possible. In addition, many of them are also exploring the possibility of working with new systems and technologies that allow for more ecologically conscious use of resources, energy, and time.

Traditional feng shui considerations can greatly enhance an industry's prospects for financial rewards, staff and client satisfaction, good management, and conscious business practices. Worker productivity, communication, and management are other areas in which specialized geomantic techniques can be of help. In addition, certain rituals are very effective at promoting success and minimizing risks. Accidents, overages, inefficiency, and waste are some of the many concerns that can be minimized through the use of these techniques.

Furthermore, the global reach of transnational industries can also be enhanced through judicious management of energies internal to the business structure as well as by assessments and adjustments to the environment of both factory space and corporate headquarters.

Of all the areas in which we are involved, education is perhaps the most rewarding. By helping to design and build educational environments we have been able to contribute to the growth and cultivation of student populations, as well as to the dissemination of new ideas and models of thinking that include holism, environmental consciousness, and respect for the land and the web of nature.

We have been involved in a wide range of projects, from early education to institutions of higher learning such as colleges and universities. Among others, we have collaborated with the Board of Education of the City of New York in the creation of improved classrooms and management offices, and with the University of Minnesota's Medical School and its College of Architecture. We have also collaborated with specialized learning facilities such as the Center for Discovery. In all of these cases our fundamental objective has been to improve the educational environment through the use of a more holistic approach to learning

Our contributions include site assessments, evaluations of energy flow, recommendation for interior design, and more personalized adjustments for individual buildings, classrooms, recreational facilitates, and educational offices. We have also participated in focus groups and visioning sessions, and have helped develop guidelines for improved materials, lighting and decor. In addition, we have also produced instructional booklets that highlight the fundamental role of imagery and symbolism in the classroom. Finally, we have also participated in the creation of special rituals for the classroom and instructed educational personnel on the use of these ritual tools.

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These are some of the areas in which feng shui and geomancy can be of use to your business:

-Enhancement of your prosperity
-Cures for blockages and imbalances to energy flow
-Cures for "stuck" energy and stagnation
-Optimal placement for functions, furniture and personnel

Increasing Personal or Institutional Potential:

-Analysis and enhancement of your power base
-Augmenting your fame and recognition
-Making the most of your connections and networks
-Improving your relationships with investors, mentors and clients
-Enhancing your ability to detect trends
-Improve your strength at reinvention, competitiveness, and leadership

Influencing Markets:

-Attracting the markets you need
-Cures for poor marketing or communications
-Ways to attract specific clients, suppliers or advisors

Quality, Efficiency, and Satisfaction:

-Analysis of staff and client potential
-Cures and enhancements to efficiency and productivity
-Optimization of office and production layout
-Optimal placement of functions and duties
-Creation of wholesome, balanced working environments
-Coordination of design: color, materials and energy flow