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Creating Luminous Spaces

Ancient and global modern design come together in this practical guide to interior design, biophilic design, and feng shui for your home.

Part spiritual growth workbook and part treatise on the power of nature, Creating Luminous Spaces is your practical guide to giving your home a refreshing energy boost. In this inventive approach to interior design, Maureen K. Calamia blends modern trends with the five elements of feng shui, an ancient Chinese system that brings the cycles and benefits of nature to your home interior.
With inspiring ideas and practical information, Calamia will help you discover which of nature’s elements represents your energy. Should you enhance your home with natural light or a fish bowl? New organizational habits or tall, vertical lines? Featuring practical exercises, meditations, and real stories about clients and students, as you embark on this mind-body-spirit connection with your home, you’ll find out how: Indoor lighting and lighting design can strengthen the fire elementOrganizational behavior is influenced by the metal elementSpace planning with plants nourishes the wood elementAnd more!

Maureen K. Calamia

Maureen is a thought leader, authentic educator, and practitioner in transforming homes and clients lives through the inspiration of nature, biophilic design and feng shui. She is author of Creating Luminous Spaces (Conari Press) and empowers others to discover and nourish their True Nature in their inner and outer spaces. Maureen merges the wisdom of feng shui and geomancy with biophilia and our need to be truly connected to the natural world for joy and wellbeing. She has spoken to a wide variety of audiences including architects and interior designers, environmental science educators, corporate training for staff at corporate offices, healthcare, and realtors. She has written for Huffington Post, Elephant Journal, MindBodyGreen, and OMTimes Magazine. She has served on the board of the International Feng Shui Guild since 2008. Maureen is a yogi and lives in St. James, NY with her husband and two children. Visit Maureen at her website, www.luminous-spaces.com.

Conari Press