Home Sanctuaries: Creating Sacred Spaces, Altars, and Shrines with Feng Shui - Softcover

Make your home an intimate retreat that will please your senses and nourish your soul. Here’s how to make your home a sacred space... a sanctuary for mind, body, and soul. HOME SANCTUARIES gives you an easy-to-follow, seven-stage process for building personal retreats, altars, and shrines within your home. You will learn how to identify a location, cleanse and sanctify the area, evaluate the balance of energy, assemble materials, and energize your intentions. Specific chapters are devoted to communal rooms, intimate spaces, zones of creativity, and contemplative environments. Hundreds of practical tips and suggestions, insightful stories, and life lessons provide just the guidance you need to implement the ancient principles of feng shui right where you live. Readers who love the books of Denise Linn, Karen Kingston, Nancy SantoPietro, Xorin Balbes, and Tsh Oxenreider will find this book a great companion of equal value. The Alchemy of Intention (From the Introduction) Where intention goes, energy flows. Because of how energy functions, we are each engaged in co-creation with the life force. If you want your life to be sacred, you need to set the intention for it to be so. Setting an intention is like speaking to the Divine through a megaphone: It gets the message across more clearly. This is the true secret behind creating a home sanctuary. Altars and shrines are incredible spiritual tools because they anchor our feelings and thoughts so we become very clear and specific about what we want. Ultimately, whatever we focus on appears in the material world. Creating a sacred space in your home is an opportunity to connect your intimate environment with the realm of the Divine so that your soul is supported and nourished and has freedom to express and flourish.

Shawne Mitchell, M.A., has a gift for aligning people’s lives and lifestyle with their soul’s true calling, a skill honed by her years of studying consciousness, spiritual psychology, transcendental leadership, home psychology, and feng shui, and the world’s wisdom traditions. Shawne holds a master’s degree in Consciousness Studies from the University of Philosophical Research and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Washington. She received her feng shui training in the classic tradition of the Black Hat Sect of Tantric Buddhism and has been a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation for over thirty-five years. Her deep wisdom, combined with her travels and experiences, has evolved into an international consulting practice, which includes spiritual life coaching, sacred space design, conscious business and leadership workshops, speaking engagements, teaching, and books. Shawne has taught and led workshops at conferences throughout the world. Shawne’s published books include Exploring Feng Shui: Ancient Secrets and Modern Insight for Love, Joy and Abundance (New Page Books, 2002), Simple Feng Shui, Ancient Principles to Bring Love, Joy & Prosperity into Your Life (Random House), and Home Sanctuaries: Creating Sacred Spaces, Altars, and Shrines with Feng Shui (Soul Style Press). Her books have been translated into numerous international languages. Shawne is the former Home Sanctuary Editor for Healing Retreats and Spas magazine, for which she contributed regular feature articles and the column “Ask Shawne.” Shawne is the founder of the Center for Transcendental Leadership, the Santa Barbara Community Leader for the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a member of the Conscious Leadership Network, a member of Spiritual Directors International, and co-founder of the Holy Rascalettes. She is also a member of Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, and Who’s Who of American Women. Shawne is a leading spiritual life coach and sacred space/feng shui consultant. Over the past twenty years, through her consulting practice, she has helped hundreds of clients create a life and a lifestyle aligned with their souls. Shawne lives in Santa Barbara, California, and may be contacted through her company, Soul Style.