Creative Harmony Feng Shui
Deborah Ryman, Certified Feng Shui Practitioner
Santa Cruz, California
Creative Harmony
P.O. Box 872
Soquel, CA 95073
United States
Phone: 1-831-247-2753
Fax: 1-831-464-2088 (Call
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deb@creativeharmony.org

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Deborah Ryman, M.A.

I earned my Master’s Degree in Transpersonal Psychology at the
Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP) in Palo Alto, CA. I also
completed the coursework for the doctorate in Transpersonal
Psychology at ITP & was advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D.

I studied Feng Shui with Master Teacher Carol Bridges & was
awarded first level Feng Shui practitioner certification from the
Nine Harmonies School of Feng Shui. I also studied Reiki with
Master Teacher Michelle Brennan & was awarded Reiki Master
Teacher certification from the International Center for Reiki
Training.

I have also studied Process Work, Psychosynthesis, the Enneagram of
Personality, Jeremy Taylor's Model of Dreamwork & many other
spiritual pyschologies, models & systems. I strive to weave each
thread of my experience into a custom tapestry for you.

My Personal Feng Shui Story

Feng Shui has really changed my life. In the mid-nineties, I was
working as a marketing rep/underwriter for an insurance company,
when I found myself downsized. After the initial shock, I realized I
had a rare opportunity to completely change my life.

After actively searching for something I could resonate with, I
found the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, where
I excitedly enrolled in graduate school. First, I dipped my big toe in
and earned a certificate in Transpersonal Psychology, then I
obtained my master's degree, and eventually made the big
commitment and went for the Ph.D. (It had been a childhood dream of
mine to be a psychologist).

By the time I entered grad school, my children had left the nest, and
I yearned to be closer to the water. I sold the inland house I had
lived in for 22 years, and moved to a tiny cottage close to the beach.
My now grown kids helped me with the move. Because my new house
was sooooooo small, they haphazardly stuffed everything in the
basement on moving day.

Before moving, we had sold what I thought at the time was "a lot of
junk" at a yard sale, but I still had tons of personal items I had
accumulated all of my life. Down in the basement it all went. Stuff
was piled on top of stuff. I'm surprised we got the door closed.

For the next few years, I concentrated on my studies. In fact, my
life consisted chiefly of work, attending school, writing papers, and
eventually researching and writing my doctoral dissertation (all when
not "babysitting" or later, home-schooling, my beloved grandson!) I
rarely ventured down to the basement, and when I did, it was an
overwhelming experience, one I did not want to soon repeat.

And then one day I began thinking about the basement and its
contents. First, it was just the vague idea that "I should clean out the
basement," but it quickly became more and more compelling.

I had studied many of the works of Carl Jung and was also a student
of Process Work at the time (Arnold Mindell). I knew the basement
represented my unconscious. I finally realized that my unconscious
was calling me to let go of old material. I had also begun studying
Black Hat Sect Feng Shui, and all of a sudden "got" that all of the
stuff in my basement was holding me back. I instinctively knew that
once I cleaned up the basement, things would begin to change in my
life, but even today I am still in awe of how quickly the changes
occurred.

I called my kids to ask them to help me with the daunting task of
cleaning out the basement. We worked for days, and I continued to
work on sorting and eliminating stuff for weeks.

I had been holding onto so much - mostly memorabilia from old &
some toxic, relationships - letters, pictures, souvenirs of all kinds.
Once I let it all go, I suddenly knew I could no longer work on the
dissertation - it became obvious that I could no longer afford to
either financially, physically, spiritually, or emotionally. I was done
with the dissertation!

The week after my epiphany, I was on a flight to Indiana to begin
formal study of Feng Shui with Master Teacher Carol Bridges. I was
attracted to Carol's school (Nine Harmonies) because of the feminine
(in the Jungian sense) orientation of Grand Master Lin Yun's Black
Hat Tibetan school of Feng Shui, which has its roots in indigenous
culture. Once home, I also added Reiki to my new pallet of healing
modalities.

In retrospect, the instinct to clean out the basement was the impetus
for making dramatic changes in my life. I sometimes wonder why it
took me so long, but I also know that people make changes when they
are ready and not one second before! I believe strongly in Divine
timing. It might not make sense to me, but things unfold at their own
pace, in their own time, for the highest good. If I can get out of the
way (keep the chi flowing), then so much the better!

I do realize that in Western culture, there is little awareness of how
stuck chi can negatively impact a person. With the popularity of
Feng Shui, the status quo thoughts and beliefs about "accumulating
and storing stuff" has begun to change.

Just think of it: As chi is becomes unstuck from house to house, from
person to person, everything else has got to change

A Feng Shui revolution!
Feng Shui -
Order of Impact

Your own chi
Bed
Bedroom
House
Yard
Neighborhood
Community
Universe
Sun, Tide, Moon
Other factors
Change Your Environment-
Change Your Life!

Feng Shui cannot be
approached from a logical
standpoint. In Western
culture, we have been
trained to think only in a
linear mode. People commonly
say they don't believe what
they can't see or can't
understand logically! I think
they must forget about
electricity & gravity!

Feng Shui is about awareness
of energy & how it is
expressed in the
environment.