Pyramid School Feng Shui

Feng Shui (pronounced as “Fung Shway”) is Chinese for wind and water, which are two vital ingredients for life. It has been practiced for over 6,000 years. It uses nature as a guide to design environments where people can feel balanced, inspired and nurtured. Feng Shui is used to design environments that can help enhance people’s lives.

Pyramid Feng Shui takes a serious scientific approach that incorporates knowledge from the myriad of social and physical sciences (architecture, biology, cultural anthropology, environmental health, physics and psychology). Through an integrated approach of the use of these disciplines, Pyramid Feng Shui practitioners identify the many influences of the person-place connection and create recommendations for long-lasting, sustainable change, achievement of goals and support of positive living.

A contented human experience begins with a strong foundation and builds upon that foundation one layer at a time…thus the pyramid is the shape of layering important aspects of life, each essential towards human self actualization adding to Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. We in Pyramid Feng Shui know that what surrounds us also influences us mightily in all areas of life. Pyramid Feng Shui also places the individual at the center of the consultation by using a customized approach that takes into account the culture, beliefs, and design preferences of the client.

Pyramid School Feng Shui was founded by Nancilee Wydra, who in the early 1960's, started her pioneering research on the human condition as it relates to the environment in both nature based and built spaces. She traveled extensively to study feng shui and a myriad of other disciplines in order to compile scientific research that substantiated feng shui's basic tenets. In 1989 she officially founded the Pyramid School of Feng Shui and in 1991 Ms. Wydra assembled her research and teachings into a formal educational program and launched the Feng Shui Institute of America (FSIA) www.windwater.com, the umbrella under which Pyramid School is taught. It was one of the first professional certification schools in America based on a contemporary, Western approach that blended traditional feng shui tenets, Eastern philosophy and social/physical/environmental sciences. At this point, Pyramid Feng Shui, as taught by FSIA, became committed to introducing cutting edge research and incorporating fields related to feng shui into the curriculum of its certification program.

Several aspects of Pyramid School distinguish it from other schools. First, an underlying premise that an individual's current symptoms, issues, and personality expressions take precedence over explanations of a person based upon, for example, their birth date. For that reason, much emphasis is placed on the development and utilization of diagnostic tools, some of which include:

• Elemental personality testing (Five Elements) - a technique used by Pyramid School Feng Shui to determine an individual’s combined elemental overt and hidden combinations based on TCM’s Five Elements.
• Holons - a system of systems that includes a graduated hierarchy where all components must be in place for the individual to be able to achieve goals. A pyramidal shape is used to represent this system and the selection of the appropriate holon(s) is based on the feng shui’s professional’s diagnostic ability. The purpose of Holons is to evaluate a client's issues in order to make appropriate feng shui recommendations. There are several Holons that practitioners can access, e.g. Tao Holon, Yin/Yang Holon and Self-Actualization Holon to name a few.
• Archityping – a discipline that incorporates cellular structures and processes of the human visual system in order to decode an individual’s experience of place that is not consciously accessible. Archityping is used to determine a person’s pre-verbal memory of place along with cognitive/visceral experiences in order to provide for a supportive environment. It is based on the Archi-Mapping process developed by Beverly Payeff in conjunction with research at Harvard and M.I.T.
• Scagging - a tool that uncovers gender roles, social economic status, support systems, generation and historical references, and positive and negative geographical/geological conditions.
• Use of sensorial systems enhancements - process methods via the five senses.

Our Vision - Additional Scientific Knowledge

At FSII’s 2007 Bi-annual conference, The Continuum of Connectedness, the first of many scientific papers were presented on “The Science of Feng Shui.” Six practitioners spent the year researching and documenting scientific studies that back up why feng shui works. Subject matters from “room cell theory” to how our limbic system processes the language of our environment held the audience spellbound. For additional information about our 2007 Bi-Annual Conference go to FSII 2007 Conference.

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