Richard Feather Anderson Seminars

FENG SHUI & WESTERN GEOMANCY:
Finding Common Ground Slide Show

Did you know that every culture on earth has developed something like feng shui, each with a different focus and approach? Western geomancy has preserved ecological site planning, divining energies of place, earth acupuncture, and sacred geometry. What lies at the root of all geomantic traditions? Richard finds the same underlying principles, derived from the laws of Nature, operating in each tradition. Learn about his synthesis of American, European and Asian traditions into a more holistic art of harmonious placement, good design, and timeless architecture. Hear about his many contributions to feng shui theory, including a model for enhancing sense of place, the "Tree of Principles," the "Celtic" Ba Gua, and regional geomancy – all examples of a cross-cultural approach.

CREATING A SENSE OF PLACE
Workshop

Ever wonder why you feel at home in some places, but alienated in others? Geomancy and Feng Shui offer ways to create spaces in which you feel like you belong in them. In addition, Richard has developed a model that helps create a greater sense of place and sense of community. Images from around the world will illustrate the essential elements of place-making. Group movement exercises will bring these elements into your body and reveal how each type of land formation creates a unique sense of place. We will discuss how to revive communities and heal our society's institutions by applying these principles as "social geomancy".

SENSING THE SPIRIT OF PLACE:
Core Practices of Geomancy Workshop

Learn some of the most useful resources from western geomancy – techniques to sense the quality of place directly with your body. The "Circle of Life" energy work is like dowsing with your palms. With it you can feel the edges of human auras, experience communion with tree spirits and the Earth, and tap into a place’s "memory." This is one of the most effective energy sensing techniques you will ever encounter. Learn how to use dowsing as a fundamental feng shui tool, to "see" the pathways of chi, find undetected problems, and choose the most effective metaphysical remedies.

READING THE LANDSCAPE
Workshop in the Field

Introduction to a geomancer's way of seeing, hearing and walking through the world with expanded awareness. Learn how to recognize the patterns and interrelationships of forms and spaces within natural and urban environments, and use that knowledge to inspire the creative enhancement of those places. Richard has developed a systematic process and checklist that stimulates a greater intuitive understanding of the essence of any place. Experience how knowing what to look for increases your powers of observation.

THE FENG SHUI OF ENTRANCES:
Bringing in the Chi Slide Show

If the mouth is closed, ch’i cannot fill the body. How you enter a space is as important as what you do inside. Learn why feng shui remedies inside the house may not improve your life if the entrance is compromised. See how to create inviting and welcoming entryways, that set the right tone for what follows. Learn what feng shui teaches about the broader personal issue of how to open to receive. Before and after pictures will dramatically demonstrate the power of feng shui and timeless design principles.

FENG SHUI TREE OF PRINCIPLES:
A Distillation of Ancient Knowledge Workshop

A unique distillation of the vast body feng shui rules, reorganized into a coherent "tree universal principles" that lead to harmonious design and right relationship. "tree" simplifies by showing all rules spring from two basic aspects life. rephrasing positively, as auspicious conditions, puts focus on what create, rather than avoid. working principles, recipes, makes it easier invent westernized remedies complement american aesthetics. this provides comprehensive guide analyze chi flow placement within any environment.

THE FOUR PAIRS OF THE BA GUA
Lecture/Workshop

Discover a new way to understand and use the Ba Gua as an essential tool in feng shui analysis. Anderson unfolds its symbolism as a creation myth that depicts dynamic relationships between primal forces at play in every environment, influencing every aspect of life. The "Four Pairs" approach reveals that the eight trigrams actually represent four sets of archetypal polarities, rather than eight separate dynamics. Since opposite guas are two reflections of one issue, energy circulates naturally between them. Learn how to use this unique insight to magnify the benefits of feng shui adjustments.

THE ORIGINS OF FENG SHUI & THE LAWS OF NATURE
Slide Show

Understand how Feng Shui was originally derived from observing and mimicking the ways of Nature. All life is sustained by just eight basic shapes or patterns. The essence of a place is created by the relationships between land forms and the inherent patterns of wind and water. Gaining the ability to recognize these patterns and understand how they function to sustain life greatly deepens the practice of feng shui to the level of underlying universal principles.

BEAUTY, HARMONY AND THE GEOMETRY OF NATURE
Illustrated Lecture

Explore the eternal question of "what is beauty?" from the perspective of symbolic geometry, sacred architecture, and ancient Mystery Schools. Rediscover proportion as an essential, yet forgotten, component of feng shui design and organic architecture. Realize how four proportions found universally in humans and nature are the eternal basis of harmony and beauty. Learn how to apply the processes, patterns and proportions of life to create beautiful, life-enhancing buildings, art or music.

EXPERIENCES WITH SPATIAL HARMONICS
Workshop

A hands-on exploration of the ultimate basis of the harmony we seek as feng shui practitioners. Learn how to divide spaces harmonically, so the subdivisions "carry the same tune as the whole." Use the symbolic meaning of natural proportions to choose appropriate shapes. Grasp an understanding of the "golden mean" and three other proportions that are the "roots" of all forms, through a visual, non-mathematical process of drawing with compass and straight edge.

CELTIC GEOMANCY WHEEL:
A Model for Living Workshop

Like native American medicine wheels or Tibetan mandalas, the Celtic Cross serves as a model, map, image and pathway for the Soul's journey toward wholeness. It depicts the order of the universe with all its forces and archetypes bound together in harmonious relationships. Anderson has uniquely synthesized Irish mythology and cosmology, Celtic geomancy and ethical codes, Western Mystery traditions and Arthurian lore into a modern model for living. Through storytelling, energy work and sacred dance, journey around the wheel to explore and embody the basic archetypes: lover, caretaker, protector and seer. Spiral into your sacred center, which integrates the refined qualities of these archetypes and generates a sense of connection and wholeness. Learn to use the Celtic Geomancy Wheel as a geomantic tool to discover the essence of a place, or to align homes, institutions or communities with the order of the cosmos, enabling all to "live within a medicine wheel."

THE EIGHT PATTERNS OF NATURE
Slide Show

Discover how Nature uses just eight basic patterns to create and sustain all life. Learn how meanders, spirals and other dynamic patterns function within plants, animals, and the human body. View a multitude of awe-inspiring images and awaken to the staggering recognition of the order and harmony of the universe.

THE GEOMETRY THAT MATTERS
Slide Show

Re-discover Sacred Geometry as a symbolic language and a branch of philosophy, cosmology and physics – by accessing the Mystery teachings of Pythagoras, Plato, and Islamic sacred art. Realize why geometry holds the real key to the identity and function of DNA, molecules and organisms. Geometry guides energy into matter and is Nature's only way of creating relationships. Understand why we must once again mimic life's underlying proportions, if we are to create beauty, ecologically sustainable culture, and art and architecture that feed the Soul, reflect our true nature, and connect us with the Cosmos.

ART OF THE COSMOS:
Meditations on Patterns of Creation Workshop

Draw a series of interrelated mandalas (based on the Pythagorean, Islamic and Cathedral Mystery Schools) and enter a state of consciousness in which philosophical truths are revealed. Experience symbolic geometry's ancient function as a portal into meditation, soul-work and philosophy (which bears little resemblance to high school geometry or math). A hands-on, visual approach to understand the patterns and proportions, or harmonics, that guide the growth of all organisms. Glimpse how to use these harmonics and the archetypal qualities of numbers to create life-enhancing buildings, art and music; to understand human relationships; or to know oneself. Sacred geometry is a universal visual language which provides one of the purest, non-dogmatic ways to contact the sacred and tap into timeless wisdom.

CREATING MANDALAS AS PRAYERS FOR PEACE
Workshop

An opportunity to enter a peaceful, soulful space, and return to a state of oneness with the Source of Creation. Experience making geometrical mandalas as a meditation that reconnects our bodies, hearts and minds with Soul. Learn the universal symbolic language of sacred geometry and rediscover its ancient function as a portal into realms of timeless wisdom. It provides one of the purest non-dogmatic ways to contact the sacred. Discover how a single master mandala offers a pathway to reconcile perceived differences and conflicts between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, because it expresses the common themes in their creation stories. Anderson’s "coloring book" process makes the ancient mysteries of cosmological mandalas accessible to all, without need for artistic, mathematical or metaphysical training. One exercise, with eyes closed, gets our minds out of the way and allows the world of spirit and intuition to speak directly to us.

WHY LABYRINTHS WORK:
Stepping into Resonance with the Cosmos Slide Show

Why do labyrinths have such power to heal, transform, and re-integrate body, mind and spirit? Hear about the astounding benefits of walking its meandering path: how it can center, balance, calm the mind, revitalize the body, and expand auras and awareness. Is the Cretan or a temple that awakens the "peacemaker" within? Discover the Holy Grail, archetypal symbols, and patterns of Nature residing within the labyrinth, which we magically take into our being as we walk the path. Understand how these patterns and the unique movement sequence play a part in creating the beneficial effects of walking a labyrinth.

ENTERING THE LABYRINTH:
Exploring its Mysteries & Metaphysical Uses Workshop

Explore the healing power of entering the labyrinth as a pilgrim. Experience labyrinth meditations that can stimulate fresh insights into old problems, release blocked energies, balance the chakras, reunite body, heart, and mind, and facilitate the next step in the evolution of human consciousness. Learn how to draw and lay out the ancient 7-circuit (Cretan/Hopi) labyrinth. Hear about the use of geomancy, feng shui and dowsing to find the right spot and create settings that enhance the labyrinth experience.

LIVING A SEASONAL YEAR:
Cycles That Empower Workshop

Journey around the wheel of the year, reclaiming the spiritual meaning of holi ay customs and their origins in ancient Earth-centered myths and rituals. Learn how to attune to and be empowered by solar and lunar cycles, and recognize emotional cycles as earth rhythms within. Gain a fresh outlook on cultural beliefs (like "March 21 is the first day of spring") which put you out of synch with the actual cycles of Nature. Receive a model that makes more sense.

ATTUNE TO SEASONS OF CALIFORNIA:
Cycles That Empower Lecture

Hear the story of the real seasons of the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn why the "four seasons" model obscures recognizing the actual rhythms of California's seasons.

GEOMANCY OF CITIES & REGIONS
Slideshow

View American and European cities through a geomancer's eyes. Hear about their essence and spirit. Glimpse Anderson’s method for discovering the "geomancy of a region," which gives a way to understand and live in harmony with the characteristic rhythms, energies and patterns of the city and region in which you live.

GEOMANCY OF THE S. F. BAY AREA:
Increase Connection to Place Workshop

Why does the Bay Area possess such a unique spirit of place? Learn how the "personality" of a region is formed from a synergy of its geology, geography, ecology, position on the continent, weather, seasons, natural history and the culture that natives and emigrants created as they adapted to and altered the environment. Feel more connected to and rooted in the S. F. Bay Area by understanding how all three factors have unified into a geographic and spiritual landscape entity.

EXPLORING THE GEOMANCY OF YOUR CITY OR REGION
Workshop

Does the placement of your city further your life goals? Every city or region possesses a unique spirit of place. Learn how to synthesize information about the natural and cultural history of a region to gain a deeper understanding of the area's "personality." Work together to evaluate how well your community is situated in the landscape or cityscape. Devise adjustments to ameliorate inauspicious arrangements of roads and buildings, or to revitalize or reconnect areas of the city.

EARTH ENERGIES, POWER SPOTS AND HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS
Lecture

How do earth energies at power spots affect human consciousness? They stimulate visions and expanded states of awareness, activate our personal destiny, and help us connect with universal consciousness. Hear the stories of amazing life-changing experiences of those who have been affected by the power of the sites. Learn about the complex variety of mysterious energies that have been explored by geomancers, dowsers and the British Dragon Project since the 1970’s. With an update of Richard’s views on the nature of sacred places and the consciousness that inhabits labyrinths and crop circles.

GEOMANTIC ENHANCEMENT OF SACRED PLACES
Slide Show

Discover the extraordinary spiritual technology of the Stone Age builders of some of the most spectacular stone rings, passage mounds, and earthworks in America and Europe. Learn how geomancy was used to discover power spots, construct temples, and amplify and direct earth energies and thought forms for the benefit of human communities and the living Earth. How was human consciousness and intention woven into and disseminated through the energetic matrix of the Earth? Was the ley system humanity’s first internet? Do standing stones function as earth acupuncture needles to maintain the Earth’s fertility? What role do megalithic temples play in personal transformation, reconnection with the Earth Spirit, and healing the Earth? Discuss the evidence, the intriguing theories, and how we might apply this ancient geomantic technology in the modern world.

EARTH ENERGIES AND POWER SPOTS
Field Trip

Visit a power spot or megalithic site and learn how to dowse for energy leys, water domes, and other patterns of Earth Energies. Learn how to approach and enter a sacred place with respect. Experience its ability to alter awareness, activate your destiny, or bring you closer to the Creator. How to attune to a site's super-charged energy field; sense the patterns of earth and sky energies flowing through a site; and learn about a site's role in personal and planetary transformation.

FOLK DANCE FOR HEART AND SOUL
Circle Dance

Ancient and modern folk dances from around the world danced in a circle, crescent or spiral with awareness on creating group energy. This way of dancing has an amazing power to transform sadness, exhaustion or stress into joy, relaxation and vitality. Richard’s way of teaching soothes and opens the heart, connects you to yourself, others and the living earth, and brings you in touch with archetypal energies deep in the human psyche. Each dance moves you physically and emotionally in a different way. And it's fun!