A Guide For A Feng Shui Home Spa Retreat

You could not have the opportunity to take a full week of silence and rest, but you can still create mini-retreat for a day in your own residence. The concept is to create more "yin" ( restful ) energy and take shelter from the hyper-"yang" ( active ) world we reside in.

The day before your retreat starts :

* Clear all the mess and then deep clean your bedroom and master bath with essential oil products. Better yet, delegate it and have the entire house cleaned! Make certain there's no muddle underneath your bed ( so chi can circulate round you and help refresh you ). * Menu-plan, make a shopping list and stock up on fresh fruits, vegetables, juices, smoothies, additions, detox teas, little spa treats and such like. If doing a clean, buy all of your mandatory herbs * Put fresh green colored sheets on your bed and clean gold towels in the lavatory to support your healing. * Surround yourself with beautifully scented, fresh flowers. * Gather reflective music, meditation cd's, and dharma talks as well as sacred texts or poetry you would like to read. * Unplug all PCs, phones, TVs and have a sabbatical from your cell telephone, e-mail, the nightly news and papers. Make efforts to unplug all electronics in your bedroom. * Mix up an aromatherapy spritzer using filtered water and sweet orange, neroli or bergamot oils. When you spray it over yourself or in your environment, it will enhance and lift up your chi.

During Your Retreat :

* Drink from pitchers of filtered water with fresh orange slices. * Create tiny at-home spa treatments with a reflexology roller ; steam inhalations or scented hot cloths with important oils ; herbal foot soaks ; body brushing ; salt scrubs ; facials and such like. * Take part in tea rites with beautiful pots, cups and teas from Japan, India or China. * Play singing bowls, gongs, tingshaws or bells around your own body and through your space. * Move your body each day with movement practices like qi gong, yoga, tai chi or free-form dancing. * Eat your meals ( super-healthy ones ) outside in the clean air. * Pray at dawn or beneath the night stars out in the dewy grass.

* Write truthfully in your book about everything in your life that is draining your life force-people, events, scenarios, things, thoughts and habits. Make a promise after your spa retreat to start to clear them one at a time until you feel free! * Turn off all of the lights at sunset and go by the light of candles or lanterns. Go to sleep early and give your chi deep restoration. * make a special altar in your bedroom dedicated to your healing, rejuvenation and spiritual life. * Be quiet. Meditate. Take snoozes. * Adjust your chi with the inhale / exhale Breathing Meditation which you will find over at my blog.

And now? Open your calendar and schedule yourself for some deep rejuvenation-a week, a day, half-day-for so long as you can! And don't forget to make time for the preparations. Enjoy and luxuriate in the Feng Shui of your body, mind and spirit.