Feng Shui Practitioner Training

Programme 2001

This series of seminars presents a complete professional training in the theory and practice of Feng Shui. The course is organised in 18 modules studied over a two year period. The complete course may be followed, or individual modules may be attended, depending upon previous Feng Shui studies and experience. Each module includes fieldwork and homework exercises, and some include guided site visits and consultations.

Module 1

February 3^rd & 4^th.

Overview and Introduction to Forms School.

History of the evolution of Feng Shui; Yin & Yang; Qi; San Cai - the Three Gifts; Si Xiang - the Four Celestial Animals; Introduction to the Forms School; Mountain Dragons; Water Dragons; The Feng Shui design of Beijing; Principles of site selection; Principles of interior design.

Module 2

March 3^rd & 4^th.

Element correspondences; the Sheng - Creative and Ko - Controlling Cycles.

Module 3

March 26th - 29^th, repeated October 22^nd - 25th

The Mysterious Underground Energies.

Geopathic Stress from Chinese and Western perspectives; The Eight Needles of the Water Compass Method; Sha (‘black’) streams - causes, effects and cures; Geological faults; Radon gas; Mineral deposits; Ley lines; The Hartmann grid; The Curry grid; Other global geomagnetic grids; Map Dowsing; Field dowsing; Earth Acupuncture - Theory and Practical work.

Module 4

April 7^th & 8^th.

Ba Gua and Yi Jing.

The Four Emanations; The Four Symbols; The Ho Tu Diagram; The Lo Shu Diagram; The Ba Gua – Eight Trigrams, Former and Later Heaven sequences; The symbolism of the Trigrams;; The Feng Shui design of Bejing 2; The Yi Jing – Sixty-four Hexagrams: sequences, characteristics of the trigrams, characteristics of the lines, consulting the Oracle.

Module 5

Bau Biology & Electromagnetics - with Jeannie Marie Towers.

Domestic and industrial environmental pollutants; Electro-magnetic pollution and electro-biology.

Module 6

June 16th & 17^th.

Jiu Xing - The Nine Stars.

The nature of the Nine Stars; The Ba Zhai – Eight House Portents; Determining house orientation; Sitting and Facing charts; Former and Later Heaven charts; The Ming Gua and Fu Gua charts; The Nine Star Ki system.

Module 7

July 7^th & 8^th.

The Twenty-four Mountains.

The Ten Heavenly Stems – nature, clashes and combinations; The Twelve Earthly Branches – nature, clashes and combinations; The Twenty-four Mountains; The Twelve Palaces; The San He Double Mountain Elements and Element Triangles; Yang Jun Song’s method of Rescuing the Poor.

Module 8

September 29^th & 30^th.

Ba Zi - The Four Pillars Horoscope.

Chart construction and interpretation; The Twenty-four Solar Terms; Finding the helpful elements; Chart forms; Elements of the Binomials; Gender combination forms; The Luck Pillars; The House of Life; The House of Conception; Clashes and Combinations.

Module 9

November 24^th & 25^th.

Fei Xin - Flying Stars.

The San Yuan Flying Stars - The Three Yuan and Nine Yun; Year and Month stars; House birth chart construction and interpretation.

Module 10

December 8^th & 9^th.

Space Clearing.

Theory and practice of Space clearing; esoteric cures.

Module 11

February 5^th-7^th.

The Luo Pan 1.

History, Evolution, Classification, and Uses of the Luo Pan; The Earth, Human and Heaven Plates - nature and uses; Lost Water and Death Water: The Correct Needle of the Earth plate - 24 Mountains; The Yue Ti Na Jia (Moon Body Embracing Jia) Chart; The Eight Evils Yellow Spring Plate; The Eight Roads of the Underworld Plate; The Sitting Dragon Evil Spirit Plate; The 60 Dragons Penetrating Earth Plate; The Gain and Contract 60 Dragon Plate; The 72 Dragons Penetrating the Mountain Plate; The 120 and 240 Fen Jin Plates; The Hun Tian Na Jia (Sun Moon Embracing Jia) Chart; Yang Jun Song’s Five Qi; The Elements and Strengths of the Binomial Dragons.

Module 12

March 5^th-7^th.

The Luo Pan 2.

The Central Needle of the Human Plate 24 Mountains – Mountain Dragon Xiao Sha (Footstool Hills); 24 Mountain Elements; Triple Combinations; The Fill and Make Solid method. The Seam Needle of the Heaven Plate 24 Mountains - Yin Yang Dragon Tian Pan method. The Stems and Trigrams of the Lunar cycle; The Jupiter Station Plate; The 12 Dividing Provincial Plate; The 24 Heavenly Stars, San He and San Yuan Styles; The 28 Lunar Mansions – nature, the Lunar Mansions Element Plate, the Limit Plate; The Both Mountain 3 Harmony 5 Element Method; The Universe 5 Element Plate.

Module 13

April 17^th-19^th.

The Luo Pan 3.

The San He Earth Mother Change Number Nine Star Plate; Nine Star Mountain Forms; The San Yuan Replacement Flying Stars; The 64 Dragon Plate; The Xuan Gong Flying Stars.

Module 14

May 30^th- June 1^st.

Horoscopes.

The Ming Gua Four Pillars; Advanced Ba Zi (Four Pillars) Astrology - The Hidden Stems, The Twelve Palaces, The Symbolic Stars, The Good and Bad Gods. Yi Jing Astrology; Zi Wei Astrology.

Module 15

July 9^th-11^th.

Dragons.

Mountain Dragon Forms; Water Dragon Forms; Underground Dragons; Flying Dragons; advanced level Earth Acupuncture; Ghosts, Elementals, Entities and Gods; the Shamanic Altar; The Nei Jing Tu - Taoist Inner Landscape Map.

Module 16

October 1^st-3^rd.

Garden Design & Architectural Proportions.

Classical Southern Chinese Garden design principles; Zen Garden design.

The Men Guang, Ding Lang and Ya Bai rulers. Building Ceremonies; The Feng Shui design of Beijing 3.

Module 17

October 29^th-31^st.

Landscape Temples; Sacred Landscape geometry; Landscape Zodiacs; Labyrinths; Geometry and Astronomy of Stone Circles.

Module 18

November 26^th-28^th.

Squaring the Circle.

Revision, synthesis and integration; Feng Shui in the context of Global Geomantic Traditions; Practitioner skills; Establishing a Feng Shui Consultancy.

Venue: The heart of Ashdown Forest, Sussex, U.K.

Cost: Modules 1 - 10: £150 except No. 3 (£300) & No. 5 (£170). Modules 11 - 18: £240.

Contact: Tel./Fax. +44 (0)1825 713215 Email: creightmore@geomancy.ndo.co.uk Mail: The Dragon School, Beech View, Crowborough Road, Nutley, East Sussex, TN22 3HY, U.K.

THE DRAGON SCHOOL

Shamanic and Geomantic Training Programmes 2001

Stone Circle Building Camps and Symposia

with Ivan McBeth and Richard Creightmore

March 19^th-23^rd, April 24^th-26^th, May 22^nd-24^th, July17^th-19^th, September 17^th-21^st.

3 and 5-day camps exploring the astronomy, geometry, earth energy dowsing, ceremony and practicality of the building of a new stone circle on the land, using rope, wood, stone, muscle, and the power of the mind. (Cost: £15 per day inc. food, fuel, hot tub and accommodation).

The Sacred Space School of Shamanic Studies programme,

with Ivan McBeth

The Transformation Series

Seven weekends starting 19^th-21^st January.

A shamanic journey through Death and rebirth. (Cost:£90 p.w.inc.)

Shamanic Skills Year's Course

Twelve weekends starting March.

Dreaming, ceremony, healing skills, journeying, geomancy, emotional healing, symbolic journey of death and rebirth, sweatlodge, meditation skills and more. (Cost:£90 p.w.inc.)

Introduction to Shamanism

March 23^rdeve. - 25^th

A theoretical and practical initiation into the shamanic journey, including a healing sweat lodge. (Cost:£90 inc.)

The Ultimate Journey

15^th-22^nd April

Seven day intensive workshop through dying, death and rebirth into a new life. (Cost:£190 inc.)

Ivan McBeth entered the world of the shaman in 1974, and has studied with among others Gabrielle Roth, Mahavatar Babaji, Hyemeyohsts Storm, Sri Goenka, Leo Rutherford and Philip Carr-Gomm. He is a founder member of the Oak Dragon project, the founder of the Megalithic Order of Druids, and teaches in various holistic schools including the Isle of Avalon Foundation, the Mid-Atlantic School of Geomancy, the Earth Healing School, and Tribal Earth. His passion is the creation of sacred space and stone circles in particular, and he has designed and built six stone circles, including the Dragon stones in Surrey and the large Swan Circle at Worthy Farm, home of the Glastonbury Festival.

Venue: The heart of Ashdown Forest, Sussex, U.K

For further details contact Ivan on 01825 713246 or 07944 108303 or sacredspace@lineone.net