The Yoga of Feng Shui

Posted by Tisha Morris on August 5, 2010

With the release of my book, 27 Things to Feng Shui Your Home, I’ve been talking a lot about… well, feng shui. I kept hearing myself make comparisons with feng shui and yoga, such as, ” Feng Shui is just like yoga, but for the home. It is yoga for the home.” After saying this several times, I stopped and really thought about how true this is.

Both yoga and feng shui ultimately have the same purpose: balancing and harmonizing energy.

But the similarities just begin there…

Yoga has been an integral bridge in my life and I know for so many others. If yoga was a drug, it would be marijuana – the gateway drug. It provides that gateway to another world of thinking, being, and living. It led me from the corporate world to the healing arts. Soon after I started taking yoga classes, I started to tap into the subtle world of energy and innately understood the mind-body connection unlike any book could have explained. From there, I became an energy healer. With a background in interior design, I then wanted to heal spaces just like it was a body. I soon learned just how similar the two are.

Both yoga and feng shui are about balancing yin and yang energies.

Within all of us we have a feminine (left) side and a masculine (right) side. Yoga is so much about bringing these two sides into balance physically and thus mentally. A fundamental aspect of feng shui is bringing the yin (feminine) and yang (masculine) energy into balance in spaces. This is when a space feels (and looks) the best.

Both yoga and feng shui are about the breath and flow of energy.

In yoga the breath is the vehicle that unites the mind body and spirit. Without the breath, there would be no yoga or life for that matter. And so it is with our spaces. The flow of energy is like the breath in the body. In fact, after feng shui-ing a space, you can feel your breath change.

Both yoga and feng shui create an energy portal.

As spiritual beings having a physical experience, we are at all times juggling being in two places at once: on the physical earth and the spiritual sky. Yoga helps us be that energy portal that taps us in and balances us between the physical and spiritual. Most of us tend to be too grounded or too airy. Ideally, these two should meet in the middle, right at the heart. Our homes too can be an energy portal. Similar to the same reason churches were built with steeples, our homes or any space can be this portal that connects us with heaven and earth. As it has been said, your body is a temple. And your home can be a temple as well.

Just as yoga has been a bridge into the world of energy, so can feng shui. Our home and spaces are simply mirrors of ourselves. By applying feng shui we can have a conscious daily dose of balanced energy. And as you go to bed at night, you can have an amazing svasana.

Namaste.

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If you would like to experience the essence of yoga and feng shui, join me for one of my The Yoga of Feng Shui Workshops! Check Upcoming Events or contact me about coming to your neighborhood.

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Tisha Morris is a certified life coach, feng shui consultant, energy healer, yoga instructor, and author of 27 Things to Feng Shui Your Home.  For more information, visit www.mindbodyom.com.