Institute of Feng Shui

Form School describes the flow of Chi in relation to structures and forms in a landscape. When wind moves over land, obstacles like mountains, trees, even houses cause turbulence and create energy vortices. The rough terrain of mountains allows nature to provide a dense carpet of such energy clusters. Plants pick up these energies. Thus farming became the typical way over millenia for humans to collect energetic nourishment.

Within Feng Shui, Form School also focuses on the quality of Chi and explains how to lead this beneficial energy throughout a house to energize all areas equally.

Compass School is based on energetic observations on flat land without much topography. Instead of following the flow of Chi through the landscape people learned that different compass directions provided different qualities of Chi. For example winds from the North feel different than southern winds and so on.

Compass School focuses on seasonal influences, on repeating cycles, and on star constellations using the various compass directions in conjunction with aspects of time. Flying Stars, Ming Gua and Eight Mansions are some of the more specific systems used to calculate the most beneficial influences of space and time.

Compass school techniques are taught by only a few Masters here in the West. The complex calculations take a lot of practice and therefore are sometimes considered the “higher” and more sophisticated forms of Feng Shui. Each Master teaches specific ancient formulas: how to analyze a situation and how to increase prosperity or determine good timing for important events.