About

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese philosophical way of living, where everything is harmonized with the environment. While Feng Shui covers much more than the home, learning to balance the elements of your home can help you to not just create beautiful spaces that you can enjoy, but also to create harmony, balance, and happiness in the careful and planned organization of spaces, shapes, colors, and focal points of your home.

Interior design is about carefully controlling the look of your home, but Feng Shui takes this a step further, by allowing you to control how your home feels. More than 54% of people in the United States, the UK, and in Europe suffer from stress at one point in their lives, and a happy, balanced home can help to avoid this.

Many people also use Feng Shui to improve the balance of a rental so that it becomes more like a home, to increase the appeal of a home up for sale, or to increase their own enjoyment while living in the home.

Requirements

International Open Academy courses are designed for anyone with an interest in learning. No formal qualifications are required to study with us. Our courses are suitable if you want to learn new skills, start a new career, or if you’re already working in a particular industry and wish to upgrade your talents and enhance your resume.

Lessons

Module 1: An Introduction To Using Feng Shui Indoors

• What is Feng Shui
• How Does Feng Shui Affect the Home
• An Introduction to the Forms What is Not Important in Interior Feng Shui
• Your Feelings as a guide

Module 2: Feng Shui Basics For A Happy, Balanced Home

• Clutter and Chaos
• Chi and Balance
• Yin, Yang, and Tao
• Object Placement
• Finding Balance Module 3: Common Feng Shui Forms, Doors, and Windows

Module 3: Common Feng Shui Forms, Doors, And Windows

• An Introduction to Interior Forms
• Balancing the Forms
• The Main Door
• Additional Doors
• Windows

Module 4: Feng Shui In The Kitchen, Dining And Living Spaces

• Kitchen Placement
• The Stove and the Sink
• What Not to Worry About
• Dining Tables
• Living Spaces

Module 5: Feng Shui In The Bedroom And Sleeping Spaces

• The Bedroom Location
• The Bed and Its Placement
• Decorations, Shelves, and Beams
• Windows
• Electronics and Technology

Career

Who is this course for?

• Anyone who wants to improve the balance of their home
• Those who are redecorating and want to increase positive energy in the home
• Interior designers who want to get started with Feng Shui
• People with a cluttered or busy lifestyle and want to improve it

Career Path

After completing this course, you could:

• Use it to attract more customers to your interior design business
• Real estate agents can use this knowledge to advise homebuyers, offering an additional edge in their competitive field
• Home sellers can adjust the look and feel of their home to get the sale that they want
• In any career, lessening your stress at home and increasing the feeling of happiness in your domicile will create positive effects at your job

Certification

Creator

Brandy Cross

Expertise: Nutrition and Wellness

Brandy Cross is a professional writer and journalist, AFPA Certified Nutrition and Wellness Consultant, certified Pilate’s mat teacher, and student currently working towards her 500 Hour RYT Yoga Teacher Certification and a certificate in Plant Based Nutrition at Cornell University. Brandy's first job was in a restaurant, where she quickly learned the basics of cooking and crafting food, and she cannot remember a time when food was not an important part of her life. Lactose intolerance drove her to studying the basics of nutrition, where she learned about eating properly, controlling weight with food, and ensuring proper nutrition for health and wellness. When she discovered yoga, which she practices several hours per day, Brandy began studying the basics of plant based nutrition and vegan food, and creating recipes based around legumes, mushrooms, and other plant based proteins. With hundreds of hours applied to learning basic to advanced food skills, she is capable of crafting recipes and has ghost written multiple recipe books. Outside of nutrition and fitness, Brandy owns one cat, keeps a small balcony garden, and writes fiction in her spare time.