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The Power of Vastu Living: Welcoming Your Soul into Your Home and Workplace

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I took a 7 week long (2hours a week) workshop with the author and read this book during the workshop and after. The book is almost like having Kathy inside your home to figure out how to make Vastu work for you! It's amazing the changes that have occured within my roommate and my sense of ease now that my house is vastu perfected :) I even began to bring it into the workplace and the changes were amazing. Before I left my job I took my meditation belongings home and the energy around me and throughout my small workplace immediately became less friendly. If you feel like you're looking for something and you're constantly running away from your apartment read this book! It will help you recognize exactly how to make your home a sanctuary for yourself, animals, family, and even roommates! Not to mention guests.

I practice yoga--seriously. I just heard about vastu and bought this book after someone told me it was the best book to read on this ancient science. I enjoyed it immensely and found it so logical to follow and understand. I've started to re-organize much of my apartment. Already, it looks so much nicer and really does make me feel much more comfortable and calm. I highly recommend this book to everyone--especially people who do yoga--the two go together for sure.

Who knew you could change your life so much by simply moving your bed or computer? I couldn't recommend a better book to learn how to improve your health, your job, even your romantic life. Forget all those male/female books that try getting you to color your hair or spend crazy amounts of time at coffee shops. This book lets you know the most significant changes come from within.

It seems whenever a sacred science like yoga or vastu comes to the West it ends up getting twisted and watered down. The presentation in this book of Vastu is no different. Vastu is not primarily about furniture placement as this book is. Vastu is about the flow of energy through, in, and around a structure. Just as Feng Shui has largely been comicized into furniture placement so has Vastu.

I suppose if you are into yoga and want to feel like you are having a positive effect on your living space then go ahead and apply some of the principles of this book. Just keep in mind what you will learn is not really vastu.

If you want to get into the subtle interactions of energy and structures then you should start here Building with the Breath of Life: Working with Chi Energy in Our Homes and Communities. In that book you will really get an insight into the principles of sacred architecture and design.

This is a beautifully designed book but it has little to do with authentic Vaastu or Vastu. The author has good intentions but is following coffee table books that are replete with errors about the science of vastu and the science and technology of vaastu. The true definition of these two words is unknown by the author. Unfortunately this is not the only author who has marketed this topic but does not understand the authentic science. It is being reduced to incense, mirrors, moving furniture etc. Authentic Vastu is far more than the smoke and mirrors presented in this text. I know that this bastardization of truth was not intended, but the author simply does not know what she does not know. [...]

I'd suggest Building Architecture of Sthapatya Veda by Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati or Fabric of the Universe: The Origins, Implications, and Applications of Vastu Science and Vaastu Science and Technology (can be gotten by going to [...]) Both of these books will give you the understanding of real and authentic Vaastu that is so hard to find.

awesome book! even our cousin loved this book and so i passed it on to him. now i gotta get a new one for us! its very descriptive.. and also a good deal for the price. it works nicely for yoga lovers!