Nancilee Wydra, founder of Pyramid School of feng shui, (a.k.a. The Feng Shui Institute of Americia FSIA), and credited with translating the age-old Chinese discipline into a scientifically verifiable contemporary Western practice.
She has taken the “the East meets the West” concept of person-place, and raised the bar of recommendations to another level…the scientific explanation of why feng shui works…and continues her research adding to the school’s curriculum, new cutting edge concepts annually. Student’s constantly have new material to incorporate in their practice..
Ms. Wydra is the most published American feng shui author with 9 books and has written for a myriad of print publications including Cosmopolitan, Better Homes and Gardens and Natural Health.
She has consulted for fortune 500 companies including Coty, Bed, Bath and Beyond, Fort James Corporation and Taskasago’s fine fragrance division and has lectured at such diverse professional conferences as health care, real estate, advertising and architecture.
Ms. Wydra holds degrees in both Psychiatric Social Work at New York University and Interior Design degree from the New York School of Interior Design with additional study in City Planning at Rutgers University. She has taught feng shui since 1974.
Fantastic Nancilee, How perfect to bring your Blog out when we are all in need of inspiration as only you can give us. Scientific and psychological approaches are always welcome to those of us that want Nancilee’s “Cutting Edge Technology” to bring us up to the minute on the latest Pyramid Feng Shui. Do appreciate practical cures so much as well. Your “Cures” Book brought me initially to your unique wisdom of the art of Feng Shui and all of the other benefits I have experienced since 2000 when I became a huge fan of Pyramid Feng Shui. Thank you so much for your teachings, your leadings, your sharings of the knowledge and for all of the future Pyramid Feng Shui I know you will be exposing us to with this Blog. I applaud your momentary “finger on the pulse” of all Feng Shui solutions, but especially at this challenging time in our Country and our economy. Thank you Nancilee. I appreciate you leading the way to a Feng Shui Recovery.
A Pyramid Feng Shui Devotee….Alex Shaw
Hi Nancilee,
You were in my bookstore a few weeks back and I said I’d send you an Alison Luterman and a Mary Oliver poem. Here are two of my favorites:
On Not Flying To Hawaii
I could be the waitress
in the airport restaurant
full of tired cigarette smoke and unseeing tourists.
I could turn into the never-noticed landscape
hanging identically in all the booths
or the customer behind the Chronicle
who has been giving advice about stock portfolios for forty years.
I could be his mortal weariness,
his discarded sports section, his smoldering ashtray.
I could be the 70-year-old woman who has never seen Hawaii,
touching her red lipstick and sprayed hair.
I could enter the linen dress
that poofs around her body like a bridesmaid,
or become her gay son
sitting opposite her, stirring another sugar
into his coffee for lack of something true to say.
I could be the reincarnated soul of the composer
of the Muzak that plays relentlessly overhead,
or the factory worker who wove this fake Oriental carpet,
or the hushed shoes of the busboy.
But I don’t want to be the life of anything in this pitstop.
I want to go to Hawaii, the wet, hot
impossible place in my heart that knows just what it desires.
I want money, I want candy.
I want sweet ukelele music and birds who drop from the sky.
I want to be the volcano who lavishes
her boiling rock soup love on everyone,
and I want to be the lover
of volcanos, who loves best what burns her as it flows.
Alison Luterman
Morning Poem by Mary Oliver
Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange
sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again
and fasten themselves to the high branches —
and the ponds appear
like black cloth
on which are painted islands
of summer lilies.
If it is your nature
to be happy
you will swim away along the soft trails
for hours, your imagination
alighting everywhere.
And if your spirit
carries within it
the thorn
that is heavier than lead —
if it’s all you can do
to keep on trudging —
there is still
somewhere deep within you
a beast shouting that the earth
is exactly what it wanted —
each pond with its blazing lilies
is a prayer heard and answered
lavishly,
every morning,
whether or not
you have ever dared to be happy,
whether or not
you have ever dared to pray.
Nancilee,
It was so nice talking to you. Your entire being radiated love. So very nice. I hope you are enjoying Chautauqua.
Holly Richardson
Off the Beaten Path Bookstore
Lakewood, NY 14750
You never mention what a brilliant jewelry creator you are! I cherish all of my Nancilee Wydra jewelry – especially ribbon knot – now 27 years old and still the symbol of being tied to the love of my life!
Oh my goodness Pegotty I can’t believe a person from the Veedra past. thank you for the compliment. What I tried to do in jewelry is create a visual space that sends an appropriate message…and with the ribbon knot apparently I did. I still love that design and have one myself. Visual information informs us of resolve, beliefs, and wishes. Thank you for reading my blog. Perhaps yu would like to hear one of my free teleconference calls. go to windwater.com and sign up…the next one is March 24th 8 PM and they are once a month…Fondly Nancilee
i been fowelling yoi since 1952 love your work lol
Hello Nancilee, I’m another voice from the past! I was going through my jewelry box today and found two items I purchased from you many years ago when I worked at the old First Union Bank on the corner of Beachland and Mockingbird in Vero. Looking at the pieces brought back all sorts of memories (and I thank you for that) and had me wondering if you were still creating. Here I see you are, just in a slightly different way! It pleases me no end that you’re staying busy and doing well, and I just wanted to say hello.
My best regards, and best wishes for a happy and prosperous life!
Sandra
PS – FYI, I have a beautiful rose gold band-type ring with two ‘sculpted’ swans on it; and a pair of bronze-like dangle earrings about 3 inches long, shaped like flowers with faux pearls clustered in the centers. G-O-R-G-E-O-U-S.