VASTU VIDYA - THE INDIAN FENG SHUI

Julier Pegrum, the author of the book VASTU VIDYA - THE INDIAN FENG SHUI is a
freelance textile and spatial designer who spends several months out of the year in India,
where she works to preserve indigenous textile techniques. Pegrum studied the art of Vastu
Vidya under the Indian master Subramanya Babu. She has applied her knowledge of this
ancient art by serving as a Vastu Vidya advisor on buildings throughout the world.

Vastu vidya is a book about how to design, arrange and organize your home and workplace
according to vastu, and in doing so, to improve good fortune and give you lasting well being.
Vastu Vidya is one of the most valuable treasures of ancient Indian knowledge. The word
Vastu means to dwell and Vidya means science, so Vastu Vidya is the sacred science
related to designing and building houses.
According to Vastu, the external and the internal are interchangeable, for the underlying
energies that govern the elements, such as wind or fire, are the same as those that control
the organs of the human body. However, in recent times, the essential connection between
the two has been forgotten, modern humankind having dissociated itself from the
fundamental forces that govern the universe.
As a consequence society has become scattered and restless, alienated from the natural
world.

Chapter 2 of this book talks about how to harness the surrounding energy field within a
space, through orientation, so as to receive maximum benefits from the cosmic forces.
Orientation is of great importance in Vastu, to assess the movement of energy through a
house.
In Vastu it is believed that energy movement through a four-sided structure exhibits the
same characteristics as planet earth. The home, mirroring the earth, should therefore be
designed accordingly.
The most important tool is the Vastu Purusha Mandala and this chapter culminates in a
description of it, bringing all the components of Vastu under one roof. Vastu theory is a code
and the Mandala provides the key to unlocking the workings of underlying energies in the
universe. The Purusha is portrayed as a demon looking down on earth, with his body
aligned to the north-east/south-west axis, his head in the north east. He resides in every
home as a reminder that every house behaves like a living organism. His head direction
indicates that this is where the positive pranic energy enters a house, just as the air we
breathe is inhaled through the mouth.

In conclusion, the Vastu Vidya is the basis of practice of "dwelling" science. Vidya
Handbook is your key to discovering the secrets of this ancient art. By making the correct
choices, you can create the optimal environment.