Interior harmonyhttp://mnweekly.rian.ru/local/20080807/55340870.html
07/08/2008
If, like many Muscovites today, you are renovating your apartment, you might choose to avoid sharp corners and consider the “flow of energy” when selecting and arranging the furniture. And if you are one of the growing number building a new living space outside the city, you might even choose the location not for its price or beauty, but according to the mandates of an ancient Chinese practice.
This is because feng shui, the ancient Chinese art of harmonious arrangements, is growing in popularity in Russia. Widely touted over the past decade as the latest craze in Western interior decorating, while some Eastern countries employ feng-shui specialists for almost every building or design project, feng shui arrived a bit later to Moscow, but its principles are now becoming in the capital more than just a superstitious fad.
“It’s people of all types who hire a consultant. Mostly women,” Tatyana Shumilina, a Moscow feng-shui consultant, told The Moscow News.
Feng shui, which literally means “wind-water,” is the ancient Chinese practice of arranging a person’s environment in accordance with what are viewed as laws of the heaven and Earth. Proponents of the practice believe it can bring harmony to all spheres of a person’s life: improve one’s health, increase one’s material provisions an
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