But who’s to say we would not all be happier if we were to live in a house designed and built to feng shui principles? And we’re talking the real deal here – a design overseen by a master practitioner in the discipline.

Would we be happier if our bed was turned in the opposite direction to the view, as Boon Yap and fiance Kim Powell do in this project? And no, this is not sarcasm; it’s a genuine question that needs to be asked, as Moller does, right at the start of this show:
“Sceptics say it’s ‘superstitious humbug’, but what if it’s not?”

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For most of us, our home represents the most expensive single purchase we will ever make in our lives. Most of us go to some lengths to inspect its structural integrity. We may then spend a good deal more redecorating, to suit our individual tastes. Why?
Because for those with sufficient means it is a showpiece. For the great majority (workaholics excepted), it is the one place where we spend most of our waking and sleeping hours. Most importantly, it embodies our inner sanctity. So it is not surprising to find that homeowners and even those renting, are turning to the traditional Chinese science and art of Feng Shui.
Does Feng Shui truly work?
Yes – but only if done properly. Feng Shui has the ability to not only safeguard the well-being of your family, but the power to truly enrich your life, bringing good health, harmony and prosperity.
Authentic classical Feng Shui is about:
• Compass direction and location of ‘forms’ i.e. mountains, buildings, rivers, roadways, the shape, size, appearance and lay of the land.
• Determining energy flows in and around the property.
• How the Five Elements are carried in these energies and interact with the surroundings.
• Time influence on the above.
So would you leave your chances to mere colours, wind-chimes, mandarin ducks or money frogs?
How to identify a good practitioner

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Feng shui masters believe that we can alter one-third of our luck by applying the principles of feng shui to harness the life-giving forces of nature, writes MAJORIE CHIEW.

IS FENG shui a superstitious practice? Does it involve evil spirits? The answer to both questions is an emphatic “No”, says Yap Cheng Hai, grandmaster of feng shui.

Feng shui is a science based on the systematic and formulated knowledge of the philosophy of Tao and the impact of the complex forces of nature on our lives, says Yap. It is also the art of strategic alignment and positioning of our workspace and living space according to the influence of qi, the energy or life force of the universe.

Simply put, Yap will tell you that the ultimate practice of feng shui is “to harness beneficial forces (and avoid harmful ones) to promote personal health, harmony and prosperity.

“Feng shui actually works!” Yap enthuses.

Yap began studying feng shui seriously 50 years ago. His two young sons then were always falling ill with bouts of bronchitis or asthma attacks. After five years of visits to the doctor, the boys were still doing poorly.

“From my study of feng shui, I discovered what was wrong, especially the position of the bed,” said Yap.

He moved their beds around. After practising feng shui for two months, Yap said the boys’ condition improved.

Yap has provided feng shui advice to countless business tycoons, politicians, members of royalty, celebrities and spiritual leaders all over the world. He has travelled extensively to deliver powerful talks on the life-changing secrets of feng shui and helped countless individuals to improve their fortune and quality of life.

Yap was addressing participants at an inaugural two-day feng shui for beginners course conducted by his daughter, Hwee Boon. Fondly known as Boon, she is the principal of Feng Shui for Enriching Lives, a Melbourne-based company offering consultancy and classes in feng shui. Boon started her feng shui classes in April this year when her father’s clients approached her to teach the subject. She took up feng shui out of her deep love for the subject.

Boon, who resides in Australia, runs a successful business consultancy in strategic marketing and business development for the highly technical biomedical industry. She operates at an international level, introducing US biomedical technologies into the Asia-Pacific region.

“The skills in interpreting feng shui come from experience as well as the individual’s ability to assimilate knowledge,” says Boon, who advised the participants to abandon whatever preconceptions they had about feng shui and learn from the course.

The Beginners Intensive Course provides the groundwork for the study of feng shui. It covers the fundamentals of feng shui; principles of Forms, Eight Mansions and Flying Stars; and the vital secrets of effective application.

Under the fundamentals of feng shui, participants will learn about qi, the principles of yin and yang, the five elements and the two systems of classical feng shui, among other topics.

The principles of Forms focus on the four celestial animals – the white tiger, red phoenix, green dragon and black tortoise – which influence the feng shui of a place; how to select ideal sites; and recognising poison arrows. Participants will also learn about the concept of Eight Mansions, and how to use related formulae and reference charts.

Lessons on Flying Stars will teach students how to fly the stars, plot the charts and understand the principles. A good student is capable of knowing the feng shui of his house by simply flying the stars!

More importantly, Boon shows her students how to use these methodologies to remove contradictions and achieve results.

The three types of luck or cosmic trinity is a fundamental concept of the universe involving Heaven, Man and Earth. A person’s luck is said to be under the influence of these three entities in the cosmic trinity.

“Heaven luck (fate or destiny) is what we’re born with. It cannot be changed and affects one-third of our lives,” says Boon. “Man luck is what we achieve through hard work, education, perseverance, and what we do. It affects another third of our lives. Man luck is within our control to a large extent.

“Earth luck has to do with feng shui. It is the art of harnessing the energy or forces of nature. This aspect of luck affects one-third of our lives, and is left in our hands to do as we please. By applying the principles of feng shui in our homes, we can alter one-third of our luck.” Under the five elements of feng shui (fire, earth, metal, water and wood), one learns how to interpret the qualities of qi involving these five elements, according to their productive, weakening and destructive cycles.

The feng shui of a house, says Boon, is determined by three important factors: the position of the main door, stove/kitchen, and the master bedroom. One can learn to identify auspicious and inauspicious qi, and harness the life-giving forces for one’s well-being.

Sharp or jagged edges pointing at one’s house or property are deemed to be poison arrows which bring sar qi (inauspicious qi).

Boon relates how the owners of a building in Kuala Lumpur sought her father’s advice when a very tall structure was built in front of their building.

“The new construction looked really threatening and my father advised the owners to build a beautiful rock garden in front of their building to draw auspicious qi in.”

Houses sitting on the curve of a road are also said to be in the path of the sar qi. Houses facing T-junctions are also in the direct path of bad qi.

Interior designer Shobana Sivalingam, who attended Boon’s basic feng shui course, believes that her newly-acquired knowledge will enable her to be a better designer and give her clients more value for their money.

Another happy participant was contractor C. Kam. Kam proved to be a good student who could “fly the stars” (that is, work out the feng shui of a house).”I hope to study the feng shui of my house and improve on it,” said Kam.

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By Majorie Chew

GROWING up in grandmaster of feng shui  Yap Cheng Hai’s household, you couldn’t help but be involved in the art of geomancy. Or so says Yap’s only daughter Boon.

Yap Hwee Boon, now in her 40s, remembers that her father’s habitual “moving things around” was something that the family had to get used to. As a young child, she remembers hearing a lot of stories about the miracles of feng shui from friends of her father who would seek him out to assist them in their problems. There would be stories of difficult times and what happened after feng shui was applied – stories of improved health and wealth.

“Feng shui was very much part of our lives,” says Boon of her growing-up years.

Boon made use of her acquired feng shui knowledge for clarity of mind when studying during her school days, and this has served her well as she has gone on to excel in her studies and have a successful career in the world of science.

When she first had to move to Australia, Boon put her feng shui to use whenever she had to choose a place to rent, and subsequently to find her own home.

She says: “My knowledge was nowhere near as much as I know now of course, but with even basic authentic feng shui principles, one can enjoy a comfortable living.”

At 18, when she was living in a university residential college in Melbourne, she repositioned her bed and desk as soon as she moved in. When her friends noticed the “movements” in her room and enquired about it, she only offered that she was trying to “feel at home”.

She kept her feng shui practice secret for a reason. “There were not many Asians about and I did not know whether my Australian friends would accept or understand feng shui. I was concerned that college mates would think I was into hocus pocus,’’ she says.

About five years ago, Boon started to formally learn feng shui from her father, who was a general manager of a wholesale hardware distribution business while his children were growing up and never really had time to teach them the art of geomancy properly then.

When Boon finally committed time to pursue her feng shui heritage, she was in luck as her dad had just started teaching as well.

For Boon, feng shui is a life-long learning process. In the end, she feels “the knowledge one gains is an individual thing. It’s how much time one puts into it, one’s ability to internalise the information and one’s ability to apply it.”

Having said that, she also admits that the knowledge acquired from Yap’s lineage is very in-depth. According to her, “the knowledge of the senior students of five years is like that of a disciple from the old school following their master over a period of 35 years!’’

In recent years, a lot of Westerners have heard of feng shui and many have asked her for advice. As a result, Boon started Feng Shui for Enriching Lives, a feng shui consultancy firm in Melbourne.

Feng shui consulting for Boon began very much how it did for her father.

“Friends who realised that I was seriously following in my father’s footsteps approached me for feng shui consultancy. As their lives improved, I probably got mentioned in their ‘dinner circles’, and progressively received more requests on feng shui consultancy. There was a feng shui consultancy project involving a block of 200 luxury apartments that landed on my desk last May.”

She began teaching feng shui this year as an accredited instructor in her father’s Center of Excellence in Kuala Lumpur.

Her course is held over one and a half days, as she likes to give her students more opportunities to practise. After all, feng shui is as much about having the knowledge as it is about the ability to apply it.

“The way I approach my feng shui interest is fairly relaxed. I am not enticing people off the streets because I do not need to depend on feng shui consultancy for a living. I do it because I wish to make authentic classical feng shui available to all.

My vision is for feng shui to be a part of our everyday lives. Not wait until something bad happens and then find a need to fix it,” says Boon who is developing a website, Feng Shui For Enriching Lives (www.yhbfengshui.com), primarily to provide information about geomancy.

Early training

Apart from feng shui, Boon also learned martial arts when she was just four years old. Her father cemented the backyard to give lessons to some 20 to 30 students in Shaolin martial arts.

A vivid memory was “sitting” in a particular pose for a half hour. “Me and my brothers, we had to strike this pose of bent knees and raised arms, like riding a horse. We did this in the hall in front of the altar and would watch the clock ever so eagerly,’’ Boon says, almost gleefully.

Those stance exercises to train inner stamina were a daily regimen before going to bed. When Boon and her siblings were old enough to join in the kung fu practices, it was twice a week at home and thrice a week at a clubhouse where they would train with other children. She is very grateful for those days as the exercises have given her inner stamina.

In reflection, she says: “Kung fu played a prominent part in our lives. We were mischievous kids. So it was a way of getting our energy under control, but we enjoyed it. In the beginning, our muscles ached and it was boring especially for us little kids, but we did as father commanded!”

Boon continued her kung fu practice while studying in Melbourne with the Chee Kim Thong Pugilistic Society. She helped her guardian train his students and started a martial arts club at her University and became founding president. One of the students was a police sergeant of 193cm, who would get rather frustrated whenever Boon “checked” his moves during sparing sessions as he would get “tossed about”.

Well, at least he knew whenever he was out of step,” she says cheekily.

An outdoors lover, Boon has tried most things including kayaking, rock and mountain climbing, scubadiving, caving and hiking. She still hikes and scuba-dives these days when time permits.

“I don’t go to the gym or exercise for the sake of it as I find it far too boring. I need to be outside. I feel alive walking through the mountains,’’ says Boon, who has hiked through the Rockies in Canada, climbed the Dolomites in northern Italy and Peruvian Andes, backpacked on the Great Walks in South Island New Zealand, explored the Mulu Caves in Malaysia and hiked through most of the alpine areas in South-Eastern Australia. She has also dived in most of the Victorian coast, parts of the Great Barrier Reef, the Philippines, Thailand, Fiji and the Solomon Islands.

(More recently Boon safaried in Kruger South Africa, gazed in wonder at the Cradle of Humankind in Sterkfontein, followed in Shackleton’s footsteps in Antarctica, awestruck by the Pyramids in Giza and the Valley of the Pharoahs in Egypt, soared the Incan spiritual site of Machu Picchu, sailed the Galapagos and learnt to detach in Tibetan monasteries in NE India).

On the scientific trail

Career wise, Boon is a scientist and is known in the West for her research work in blood plasma fractionation and technology implementation in the stem cell transplantation field. She persisted in studying biology in Australia even though most of her peers in Malaysia realised it would be difficult to make a living in this field. Her secret desire was to be a naturalist.

“When my schoolmates were running around with pop idols on their file covers, I had images of chimpanzees and poison arrow tree frogs,” recalls Boon.

Though her father didn’t quite understand her need to “sit in the jungle looking at monkeys”, Boon’s mother believed in her, saying “if you follow your interest, you could do well.”

Boon went to Methodist Primary School and then to Assunta Secondary School, both in Petaling Jaya. She credits her teachers and schoolmates very much for influencing who she has become today. She stays in touch with her schoolmates and two have become her employees in Australia.

Boon majored in the basic sciences of biochemistry, genetics and microbiology, and for her Honours thesis gained skills in protein purification science that was eventually to gain her recognition in the blood-related field. She won a PhD scholarship (Fletcher Research Award) for medical research at the University of Melbourne (from 1984 to1988). Her thesis was on cell regulation in bone and breast cancers, but she opted out and completed with a Masters degree when she realised fundamental research in a university environment was not for her.

Says Boon: “I have to see the end results of my efforts. Applied research gave me that satisfaction, where my findings could be immediately beneficial.”

Upon graduation, she joined CSL Limited (1989), which is one of the foremost world companies in the plasma fractionation industry. Boon was brought in as a research scientist and co-leader of the Albumin Project. Her team developed a method for purifying human serum albumin, a protein solution derived from human plasma as a blood substitute in numerous medical conditions where red blood cells are not required. It was a breakthrough method enabling full automation, removing the need for hazardous handling of blood by plant personnel, as well as producing the most pure form of human albumin in the world.

In fact, the company built a world renowned green-field facility costing A$230mil, based on the work Boon and her colleagues were engaged in. “The project was immensely satisfying. Very few scientists would have the breath of work experience that involved research, pilot plant scale-up, production for clinical trials, transfer to production and experience with regulatory authorities, let alone seeing ones’ work gain acceptance internationally in the medical field,” she says.

She was later seconded into a business development role to obtain contractual agreements for processing other nations’ plasma collections. In her position as regional product manager of Asia, Malaysia ’s National Blood Services became a customer. Boon also had to liaise with the national transfusion services, government bodies and key opinion leaders in haematology in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand.

Boon was later headhunted to join CellPro Incorporated in 1995, a Seattle-based company, to establish and head their Asia-Pacific Regional office. Cellpro was the leader in stem cell transplantation. They were the first to obtain FDA approval for enabling human stem cells to be used as a drug in the treatment of blood related cancers such as leukaemia and lymphoma. Boon was responsible for developing the Asia-Pacific market for their stem cell purification device, which included setting up distribution channel, developing and implementing marketing strategies, clinical support as well as technical training.

While working and travelling extensively, Boon embarked on a Masters in Business Administration at the prestigious Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales. Upon completion of her MBA, Boon joined her partner’s business as director of C.M. Whittington & Associates Pty Ltd and started a separate arm of the business in biomedical consultancy called APac BioMed Solutions. Her clients are high-tech biotechnology companies primarily from the United States, ranging from venture capital backed firms to multinationals. Boon says the joys of her job are meeting and working with people from different cultures. She has now among her good friends, the local distributors she has worked with in the various nations, and prominent medical leaders from university teaching hospitals such as the Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Boston, United States. Australia , Boon feels, is as a great place to operate from.

She says: “Its time zone is conducive to trading at the global level. Furthermore, it still has the attractiveness of a ‘big-small town’ without the typical congestion and chaos of cities in Asia. Although, I prefer the pace in Asia, I go back to Australia to gather my energy again!” How do people react when they know she is a scientist?

Boon admits that most people she comes across in her professional life don’t think twice of her as a scientist. “In such technical fields, one’s track record and credibility speaks for itself”.

However, outside of her specialist field “Some, especially older Westerners tend to perceive Asian women in a submissive role. Asian men of my age may feel intimidated by independent women, and perhaps women with degrees,” she says.

Her philosophy in life is rather simple. Values are very important to her. She has a set of values that she holds dear and lives her life and chooses her friends by them. She says: “I have a high regard for people who are driven to make a useful contribution to the world, whatever that may be. I tend to back causes that do not have much support and are often associated with nature, like conservation and sustainable natural resources”.

So perhaps it is not surprising that explorers Captain James Cook, Charles Darwin and Sir Ernest Shackletion, naturalists and scientists Sir David Attenborough, Jane Goodall, Einstein, Fritjof Capra, Donnall Thomas and Peter Doherty, and spiritual leaders such as Castenada, Alfred Huang, the Dalai Lama and some notable chinese sages of days gone by, are some of her heroes.

“When it comes to work, an essential philosophy of mine is enjoyment. The instant I stop enjoying it is time to quit.”

Fact File

Name: Yap Hwee Boon

Age: 40s

Profession: Scientist

Hometown: Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Years abroad: 25 years

Current Base: Melbourne, Australia

Early Education: Methodist Primary School and Assunta Secondary School in Petaling Jaya

Tertiary Qualifications: B Sc (Hons), La Trobe University, Australia; M Sc, University of Melbourne, Australia; Executive Masters in Business Administration, University of New South Wales, Australia.

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By Majorie Chew

When feng shui consultant Boon Yap moved into her new apartment in Melbourne, Australia, she positioned everything in it according to feng shui principles. All seemed fine for about two years. 

She was satisfied that her home had good feng shui but was puzzled why things were at times rather chaotic. It was then that she decided to take another reading of her main door using her geomancer’s compass. 

Boon held her feng shui compass against various parts of the door, also veering from side to side, back and forth, in her attempt to double-check the readings. 

“The readings from against the door alone varied by as much as 40 degrees and that was indeed strange,” says Boon of her many attempts to get the precise reading of her front door. “It was very difficult to get a consistent reading for my front door. By right, there should be only one reading.” 

The source of the problem was the magnetic influence of the iron balustrade of a flight of steps leading to her front door. 

Boon tapped into her inner spirituality and told herself that the new reading she was going to take would be the real reading of her front door. “And what do you know! Finally, I got the true reading of the entrance to my home and it was ‘dead’ north,” she says. 

But this was a bull’s eye that one does not look forward to. Certain directions of the compass are called “death and emptiness” lines according to classical feng shui which warns us to best avoid these lines. 

Explains Boon: “The compass reading of zero degree, for example, is dead north and if a door faces this direction, it is a violation of a major death and emptiness line. 

“Zero degree is too powerful for normal people but it’s good for kings (palaces) and spiritual centres.” 

“So one has to be extremely careful with such a simple thing as obtaining the measurement of a door, as feng shui has a strange way of challenging the practitioner. Often one has to call upon one’s intuition that only comes from experience and pureness of intent.” 

Her solution to the direction the door was facing was “to tilt her door frame to a reading that corresponds to auspicious qi (energy) based on several systems of feng shui.” She called in her carpenter, an Australian, to make the necessary changes. 

She quips: “I’ve taught him how to hold the feng shui compass (luo pan) to get the reading of the door and he has since become very good with this geomancer’s compass. Confident of his work, I engaged him as my feng shui renovator and recommended him to many of my clients.” 

Boon, a scientist by training, has since been living in the apartment, which doubles up as her office for the last 14 years. 

She has a Masters in Science in medical research and a Masters in Business Administration and is based in Melbourne. She runs a successful business consultancy in strategic marketing and international business development for the biomedical industry throughout Asia Pacific. 

As a scientist, Boon likes to test the validity of various feng shui principles. Boon decided to change the position of the back door to her apartment in the direction of “total prosperity” from south to south-east – a good 45 degrees,” she says, adding that she has “people coming in and out who didn’t realise that it is not the original door. Subsequently, my business further improved.” 

Boon cited this as an example where good feng shui alteration is not obvious. It is often subtle and fits the look of the place.  

Boon is the only daughter of prominent local feng shui grandmaster Yap Cheng Hai and her courses and practice follow her father’s wisdom. 

The Yap Cheng Hai lineage, she says, is the first to fully integrate the different and often apparently contradictory schools and systems of feng shui. She was brought up immersed in feng shui and honed her knowledge and skills through formal study. 

In recent years, feng shui has been represented in a simplistic way. Boon runs a feng shui consultancy business and is director of Feng Shui for Enriching Lives. She believes the multi-faceted aspects of feng shui need to be better communicated as it is a complex discipline. 

Death and emptiness lines come under the feng shui topic of San He School of feng shui “Killing Forces” which will be taught in Boon’s forthcoming Intermediate Feng Shui Practitioner’s Course from April 8 to 10, 10am to 5pm, at Holiday Villa, Subang Jaya, Selangor. 

Other “Killing Forces” including Eight Palaces Yellow Spring (Eight Killing Forces), Eight Roads Yellow Spring (Eight Roads of Destruction), Peach Blossom Killing, Frightened Goat Killing, Triple Punishment, Six Harms and Four Destructions, are formulae to identify negative energies to be avoided. 

Intermediate Feng Shui Practitioner’s Course presents many of the principles of San He and San Yuan Schools of feng shui, including the Mountain and Dragon Formation theory and the details of Xuan Kong Fei Xing (Xuan Kong Flying Star System). 

Prior to this, Boon will teach Elementary Feng Shui Practitioner’s Course from April 2 to 4, 10am to 5pm, at the same venue.  

Elementary Feng Shui Practitioner’s Course presents the fundamental principles, knowledge of the major systems and the vital secrets of effective application that have been proven to work.  

“It begins with understanding the ancient classics, followed by principles of Forms, Eight Mansions (Ba Zhai) and an introduction to Timing Influences. It concludes with highlights of practical application,” says Boon, who emphasises that this intensive three-day course is structured to provide the foundation for subsequent learning. 

It is for beginners, self-taught practitioners in search of formal instruction, experienced practitioners who wish to complement their knowledge and refine their skills, and those who seek clarification between ancient and other versions of feng shui. 

Eight Mansions will be one of the topics covered under Introduction to Ba Zhai (system of) Feng Shui in this elementary feng shui course. 

Boon says: “If there is time to learn just one feng shui formula, this is one that my father recommends and it’s relatively simple to use and a very effective formula.” 

This feng shui system also has “timing influences” and one will be able to learn what are the times in which the direction of sheng qi (total prosperity) is at its strongest or weakest. You can attain ultimate prosperity by tapping into sheng qi direction when it is strongest. 

Similarly, one needs to know the times when the direction of jue ming (total disaster) is at its strongest or weakest.  

She says: “You want to be exceptionally careful when you are positioned in an inauspicious direction (of total disaster, for example) which is at its strongest because if you can, you should correct the situation to avoid any misfortune.” 

“The beauty of feng shui is that you can diagnose the (feng shui) problem to reveal the luck of the occupants of the building and correct it to improve their situation to ensure personal health, harmony and prosperity.” 

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Feng shui, which literally means wind and water in Chinese, not only has the ability to ensure our general well being but also the power to enrich our lives. According to Master Boon Yap, classical traditional feng shui has a history dating back to more than 5,000 years where the classical texts have been passed down to the masters.
“Feng shui is an ancient science and a formulated knowledge. It is very systematic. It is tried and test, and it works!,” she told the crowd who attended the evening talk on “Feng shui for enriching your life” which was organised by Prestij Permai Sdn Bhd, the developer of Aman Sari in Puchong. Boon, the daughter of grandmaster Datuk Yap Cheng Hai, went on to elaborate that the feng shui is based on the Tao philosophy and the I-Ching classics. It is a study of qi or energy flow as governed by the roads, water and corridors and knowing where it gathers.
“Roadways are water. A good road represents good water in feng shui. You want it (water) to flow and meander. You do not want it to stagnant. Water can also be in the form of a little fountain. It does not have to be flowing all the time.”
She said water is one of the five elements often mentioned in feng shui besides metal, wood, fire and earth

(See table in FULL ARTICLE).

Water features play a very important role in your home. Normally water is quite peaceful but too much of the sound water can be negative and disruptive.

ACHIEVING BALANCE
As people live frantic lives, attaining an equilibrium of sorts is hard to do – whether it’s at home or in the office. For that very reason, people seek out experts or practitioners like Master Boon to help them attain that harmonious balance.

Master Boon says: “As people spend more and more time away from the home and toil away in their offices, there seems to be a need to create a more conducive work environment by tapping the positive energies or Qi, or even to eliminate unnecessary stress.

“On the other hand, even the home space is quickly being turned into working areas as the workforce becomes more mobile or people simply opting to work or carry out businesses from home. Here, the home has to be conducive to both living and also to running a business – tapping the potential Qi in the home for these very reasons could bring numerous benefits.”

Her emphasis in living with harmony with one’s environment is best realised by utilising the art and science of feng shui – assessing the effects of the environment on people’s lives and harmonising these effects to the benefit of the individual.

“If you are a manager in an office, you may want to tap the Qi that will give you power. If you’re a human resource manager, you do not want to tap that same energy, you may want the Qi that will help you promote harmony and balance in the office.”

“While at home, you may want positive energies like peace and harmony in the living room, romance and definitely not power (one hopes!) in the bedroom,” she laughingly adds.

PRACTICING FENG SHUI
So how can you engage Master Boon’s expertise or unlock the secrets of feng shui yourself? If you have decided to live in harmony with your surroundings and want to tap and harness the positive Qi around you, then you are in luck.

Master Boon is the principle of Feng Shui for Enriching Lives. She will be conducting Yap Cheng Hai Academy Feng Shui Practitioners’ series based on the true principles of I Ching Ba Gua, ancient Feng Shui wisdom that is not available elsewhere.

Entitled Feng Shui for Enriching Lives Study Retreats: Elementary Feng Shui Practitioners’ Course will be held on November 18 to 20 and Intermediate Level on November 25 to 27 at Avillion Port Dickson. Study Retreats details and registration form, visit www.masterboon.com or call Master Boon at (012) 303 1991.

PRACTICING FENG SHUI
So how can you engage Master Boon’s expertise or unlock the secrets of feng shui yourself? If you have decided to live in harmony with your surroundings and want to tap and harness the positive Qi around you, then you are in luck.

Master Boon is the principle of Feng Shui for Enriching Lives. She will be conducting Yap Cheng Hai Academy Feng Shui Practitioners’ series based on the true principles of I Ching Ba Gua, ancient Feng Shui wisdom that is not available elsewhere.

Entitled Feng Shui for Enriching Lives Study Retreats: Elementary Feng Shui Practitioners’ Course will be held on November 18 to 20 and Intermediate Level on November 25 to 27 at Avillion Port Dickson. Study Retreats details and registration form, visit www.masterboon.com or call Master Boon at (012) 303 1991.

Says Master Boon, “My vision is to promote a deeper understanding of this ancient wisdom worldwide, so people can use Feng Shui as a way of life to attain fulfillment and for the betterment of all. Passionate Feng Shui amateurs and professionals who like to refine their skills will acquire in-depth knowledge of Classical Feng Shui and of each School and System of Feng Shui.”

“Students will gain first-hand, the vital secrets and skills of effective application that truly differentiates this lineage from the rest. On completion, students will be well-placed to be a respected Practitioner with the knowledge and critical proficiency to benefit themselves and others,” advocates Master Boon.
Master Boon also holds an MSc in medical research, plus an MBA.

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