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Create Harmony In Your Outdoor Space
A Guide to Outdoor Feng Shui: #9 Fix the Front Garden
The most important residential garden area is the one leading to your front door. This is known as the mouth of chi & is where beneficial energy moves to your entrance & then flows throughout your indoor space. Debra Duneier President of EcoChi shares, “The path to your door should..
Wellness Tips for Summer
Wellness Tips for Summer
In Feng Shui, Late Summer is represented by “Earth Energy”. This energy is grounding, offers stability, and is represented by a square shape and the color yellow. Be mindful of the energy brought by this season…
Creating a Sacred Space with Feng Shui
Creating a Sacred Space with Feng Shui
No matter what our living or working situation was in 2019, our lives have drastically changed because of the pandemic. We have experienced the full range of emotions: fear, anxiety, depression, loneliness, sadness, loss…
EcoChi Tips For Spring
Tips for Spring: A Spring Season Unlike Any Other
Life has changed for all of us in very deep ways. Living through a pandemic, loss, mental exhaustion, climate change, political division, insurrection, and even the threat of a third world war. This all impacts our health…
Healing Spaces for Cancer Patients & Caretakers
Healing Spaces for Cancer Patients & Caretakers
While designing wellness focused interiors, I repeatedly remind myself of the words of Hippocrates, “Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.” All of us have been touched by cancer. We may have experienced...
6 Tips for Creating a Minimalist Apartment
6 Tips for Creating A Minimalist Apartment You’ll Love
About three years ago, I moved to a small surf town on the golden shores of Costa Rica. When I arrived in this quaint village where everyone seems to know your name, I carried an excessive amount of luggage with me…
EcoChi Tips For Autumn
EcoChi Tips for Autumn
The moon has phases that offer us a visual representation of life…ever changing. Nature informs us season by season that there is a time for everything. These segments of time are marked by different energies…
Home Spa Tips
Home Spa Tips
A snowy day could be a great back-drop for a “spa day” at home! Get out your fluffiest slippers, your most comfy robe, and let the transformation begin! Here are some tips to get you started:
Personal Wellness & The Five Senses
Personal Wellness and The Five Senses
When we connect with nature we feel happier and regain our natural rhythm. All of our senses become alive and we are reminded of our innate ability to heal ourselves. I created the EcoChi system because I was...
5 Tips For Combining Nature & Interior Design
5 Tips For Combining Nature And Interior Design
When designing beautiful rooms, buildings, offices, and homes, bring nature’s elements indoors using the EcoChi philosophy blending feng shui, green and sustainability, and environmental psychology. The focus in this...
Lighting Design And The Human Experience
Lighting Design And The Human Experience
Spaces that we spend time in impact us as we go about our lives. Our actions, energy and thoughts, as well as our physical well-being, are all profoundly influenced by our surroundings. The design, color scheme...
Feng Shui Your Bedroom For Love
Feng Shui Your Bedroom For Love
Ann called me for a consultation because her love relationship was at a dead-end. She toured me around her home with ease but when we entered the bedroom she became emotional. I asked Ann which...
Mindful Interior Design
Mindful Interior Design
Mindfulness is going mainstream! It is one of the hottest trends in spa, medical and corporate wellness. This concept is new to so many people in the western world, but it is an ancient practice that dates back...
EcoChi Tips For Wellness Travel
EcoChi Tips For Wellness Travel
The word wellness is being used to market everything from vitamins to water. Ewa Hudson, Global Head of Health and Wellness Research at Euromonitor International, estimates that Wellness will be a trillion dollar industry by...
EcoChi Tips For The Red Rooster New Year
EcoChi Tips For The Red Rooster New Year
The Chinese New Year also known as the Spring Festival is quickly approaching. Because this holiday is tied to the lunar solar calendar the date changes from year to year. This year it begins on January 28th. Each year...
Unique Ways to Make Your Space Cozy with Rugs
Unique Ways to Make Your Space Cozy with Rugs
The right rug can be the perfect addition to almost any room in the house. Rugs aren’t just a practical accessory; they’re a stylish way to instantly add personality to a space. They’re so versatile…
Feng Shui On Land And At Sea
Feng Shui On Land And At Sea
In Feng Shui and Traditional Chinese Medicine, it is believed that health for an individual occurs when chi flows freely through the body nourishing every cell. The same is true for a space- whether it is your home, office...
Nature and Interior Design
Nature and Interior Design
When designing beautiful rooms, buildings, offices and homes, bring nature’s elements indoors using the EcoChi® philosophy-blending Feng Shui, green and sustainability and environment psychology. The focus...
How to Spot a Superior Sofa
How to Spot a Superior Sofa
You’re shopping for a new sofa, and they all look beautiful, inviting, and comfortable. But look beyond the glam, and you can see differences that determine whether a sofa is good for the long term or won’t last longer…
Open Office Plans v.s.
Subdividing
Open Office Plans vs. Subdividing
The debate about whether to break up and subdivide large office buildings or opt for open office formats isn’t a new one. Alex Cohen, a commercial real estate specialist at CORE in New York City, is…
What Are Poison Arrows?
What Are Poison Arrows?
The Chief Architect of our world clearly loves curves. Picture the swirls and curls of the ocean waves, the gentle arc of a flower petal, the perfection of a full moon, or the spiral motion of caressing winds on a...
Feng Shui And Meditation
Feng Shui And Meditation
Feng Shui has gained popularity in the United States in recent years. During hard times people often look to Feng Shui remedies to increase income, wealth, love and health. There are many books in the “how-to” category...
Beautiful Places, Greener Spaces
Beautiful Places, Greener Spaces
Some of the happiest moments of our lives are spent outdoors. We all have recollections of these experiences—a blazing sunset, the scent of the ocean air, animal life encountered on a stroll through the woods...
Making Your Hotel Room Feel Like A Home
Making Your Hotel Room Feel Like A Home
EcoChi blends the powerful ancient and modern lessons of classical feng shui, green and sustainable living and environmental psychology, to revolutionize how people feel when they are indoors. Our actions, energy...
Feng Shui Tips For A Good Night's Sleep
Feng Shui Tips For A Good Night's Sleep
One of the highlights of a vacation is a cozy, rejuvenating and restful night’s sleep. The best sleep is often experienced when you are in the mountains, by the sea or in the country. Ideally, that is how we are meant...
