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Tag: Feng Shui

  • Wednesday, May 7, 1:00 pm – Feng Shui: Enhancing Your Environment

    The guiding principle of Feng Shui is that everything is connected and that when the environment is balanced and filled with positive energy, it enhances life goals and leads to a feeling of tranquility.  Based on thousands of years of philosophy, Feng Shui has grown in popularity due to the extraordinary results it can bring.  Lisa Law will give an overview of Feng Shui philosophy, show how to use Feng Shui tools such as the Bagua, and will teach you to employ plants and nature to enhance your environment, in the Wellesley College Botanic Garden lecture on Wednesday, May 7, beginning at 1 pm in the Botanic Garden’s Visitor’s Center.  Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens: free; non-members: $10. Call 781-283-3094 or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.

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  • Thursday, October 17, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm – Therapeutic Landscape Collaborations: Successful Evidence Based Design

    The Landscape Institute at the Boston Architectural College and The Underground will sponsor a Commemorative Forum in honor of the late Landscape Institute instructor Michael Weinmayr entitled Therapeutic Landscape Collaborations: Successful Evidence Based Design, on Thursday, October 17, from 9 – 12:30 at The Union Hospital, 500 Lynnfield Street in Lynn, Massachusetts.

    Panelists include Harvey Zarren, MD, FACC, Christine Wojnar, Feng Shui Institute of America, Elizabeth (Zibby) Ericson, FAIA, LEED AP, Deborah Gaw, Owner of Garden Scapes Landscape Design, Lisa Bailey, ASLA, BayLeaf Studio, David Jay, ASLA, LEED AP O+M, Weinmayr/Jay Associates, Anna Pelosi, Lead HRO – NSMC Inpatient Psychiatry Services and Manager of the Patient and Family Relations Department.

    One can almost say that all gardens heal. So what differentiates a healing garden? The main distinction is in how a healing or therapy garden caters to its targeted user group such as cancer, rehabilitation, psychiatric and eldercare patients. This forum pairs healthcare providers, researchers and designers that focus on creating healing spaces and restorative landscapes to promote health and well-being. These experts will demonstrate down to the cellular level why gardens heal, and we will explore how different aspects to a healing garden can promote healing in the different user groups. Many examples of healing gardens will be shown, and participants will tour the Dr. Harvey Zarren Healing Garden, pictured below, at the site as a case study.  The fee is $50, and you may sign up by calling 617-585-0101.  You may also register online at http://theunderground.pbworks.com/w/page/22166298/Programs.

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  • Saturday, July 16, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm – Feng Shui in the Garden

    Every gardener knows the joy of working with plants and soil, and how this creates a direct connection with the earth and its energy. A basic knowledge of Feng Shui can enhance your pleasure of working and being in your garden. Learn the basics of Feng Shui and how to apply the practice to your garden, how to make the most of the earth’s energy (Chi energy), and how to create pathways and plantings that enhance this. Make simple changes that have a profound effect, with any style of landscaping. This Boston Center for Adult Education class will take place Saturday, July 16, from 11 – 12:30 at 122 Arlington Street in Boston, and costs $30 for BCAE members, $36 for nonmembers.  To register log on to www.bcae.org or call 617-267-4430.