Building with the Breath of Life: Working with Chi Energy in Our Homes and Communities

Opens doors to a vast new dimension of design, and provides the tools to successfully apply what lies within. Bender shows the magic that occurs applying to the real world the fundamentally new understanding of how our world works that is inherent with chi. The true tools of place-making are the values we hold and the dreams that move our hearts and hands. Bender shows movingly how to successfully use these tools to create places that both sustain and are sustained by love. A glimpse at the role chi has played in other cultures a foretaste of the rewriting of history that chi is bringing about.

Building with the Breath of Life is the definitive introduction to the emerging field of energetic design. This new work, companion volume to Benders acclaimed Silence, Song and Shadows, provides the detailed historical, conceptual, and how-to information for working with chi energy in our surroundings: Exciting new findings concerning the widespread historical use of chi energy in building and community design in Egyptian, Mayan, Asian, Native American and European cultures. The necessary theoretical concepts from Chinese feng shui, the energetic practices of other cultures, and contemporary research. What is needed for the reader to successfully apply energetics in their personal surroundings and their work: energetic design tools exercises for learning to work with chi and intention how to analyze our homes and communities from an energetic perspective examples of successful use of energetic design in our culture access to a wealth of resources for more in-depth exploration of all aspects of chi design. Vital new perspectives on the role of chi and the sacred in personal, community, and planetary health; interaction of work with chi energy in our bodies and in our surroundings; and significance of the acknowledgment of chi occuring today in our society.