About Jan Cisek - Feng Shui Consultant, London UK
Jan Cisek is a leading international feng shui consultant and expert, trainer, mentor, and writer with 25 years experience in feng shui and a background in interior design, design and branding. He specialises in Holistic Feng Shui which works in many domains: environmental, emotional, intellectual and virtual/spiritual. Jan lives in London, UK and works worldwide.
He was a co-founder of the Feng Shui Society of Great Britain in 1993 and one of the first feng shui consultants in London, UK. He was also the editor of the Feng Shui Journal for several years.
Feng shui style
Jan’s feng shui style is very eclectic. When he works, he incorporates three feng shui schools of thought – classical feng shui, intuitive feng shui and virtual feng shui – plus environmental psychology. As well as drawing on his extensive experience working with top brands and companies he also introduces elements from other fields in which he has extensive expertise: geopathic stress, electromagnetic radiation (EMR) /EMF pollution, space clearing, dowsing, spirit release, fractality/coherence and earth acupuncture.
Jan has produced many innovative solutions and improvements in feng shui, branding and logo design, mainly by radical simplification. In feng shui, as with so many things, less is more.
Corporate feng shui
As a corporate feng shui consultant he draws on his experience in interior design and branding as well as the latest research in preconscious processing, priming, branding and aromabranding. His particular skill is in aligning companies/brands with their environments to achieve maximum success.
Clients Corporate
Ericsson, Do It All, Cable & Wireless, Friends Provident, Croner CCH Publications, Sony, Columbia Records, BMG, Arista Records, SEAL, Jacek Santorski & Co., SuperExpress, Radio ZET.
Celebrities
Shakira & Michael Caine, the late Princess Diana, Kiki Dee, Julia Stephenson, Alidad, Andrea Ustinov, Anna Pasternak, superstar DJ and record producer Paul Oakenfold, golfer Michael Campbell.
Publicity Jan’s feng shui work has been featured in magazines and newspapers from Vogue to the Evening Standard and the Financial Times. His programmes on feng shui for GMTV attracted 8 million viewers. He also won the competition as a feng shui consultant when he took part in the TV programme ‘Housebusters’.
Feng shui school
Jan has taught feng shui all over the world for more than 15 years and has been instrumental in popularising feng shui in the UK. His White Rose Feng Shui School has produced some of the finest feng shui consultants in the world.
Feng shui logo design
Feng shui principles are applicable to designing corporate identities and brands. Jan is the only feng shui consultant specialising in designing logos, business cards, websites and products according to feng shui principles. Find out how feng shui can impact your brand and your logo.
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FENG SHUI TESTIMONIALS
Flat sold in 3 hours with a feng shui ritual for selling properties
Jan, Today, I simply imagined doing the 'red envelop ritual' for a house sale, ie wood from near the stove into river etc. Less than 3 hours later, I received an email from a neighbour whom I haven't even met, saying he's happy to buy my flat privately!!! I'm over the moon - that's real magic, Feng Shui at it's best - it works even if it's done virtually. Best regards Katherine Loynes, Property Finder, Richmond, Surrey
£8000 out of the blue after following feng shui advice
"After he'd been round the house and the home office, Jan suggested three simple things for us to do to improve our feng shui. The next day, Thursday, we did all three - including putting a large money plant in our 'wealth corner'. On Friday, we were given a load of surplus books which, over the next few weeks, we were able to sell for £8000. Now we make a point of asking him to do a feng shui MOT on our London home and office every year or so." Nanette L'Estrange, Saffire Press, London UK
Big client - new project after moving my desk
"The BIG news, I moved my desk around to exactly your feng shui advice on Monday morning - on Monday afternoon we had a call from a big client about a big new project. I am so enthused and energised by what you said and showed me!!. I have recommended you to another company. My most grateful thanks." John Graham FCSD, Managing Director, London UK
It all makes sense now
"Jan, the feng shui advice you gave me was excellent. I have already changed the sofas around and my husband is praising the changes. Everything makes sense to me now. This is a very exciting and deep journey for me I only wish I could have done feng shui on my home years ago. Many thanks." Susan H, Ealing, London W13, UK
Health improved immediately
"At first sceptical, my wife and I felt a distinct change almost immediately. Our health improved immediately - minor aches and pains melted away. We have Helios3 switched on all the time and I recommend Jan without reservation." Dr. William Bloom, the UK's most experienced teacher, healer and author in the field of holistic development. Glastonbury, UK
Major international contract - two weeks after the feng shui consultation
"We made some essential feng shui adjustments in our premises following Jan's advice and two weeks later were awarded a major international contract for an enormous project. We realise that lighting is one of the key feng shui remedies. It works very well for us and all our clients since spontaneously incorporate these obvious principles in the schemes – to the benefit, health, happiness of tall.. Thank you." Peter Burian Lighting Consultants, London UK
Feng shui – the Chinese art of placement
An interview with Jan Cisek, London-based expert in feng shui by Susan Norman
When I first met Jan Cisek, feng shui expert, he cast his professional eye around my home and home office and made three recommendations: put a money plant in a particular position in the office for prosperity, put a headboard behind my bed for protection and security, and replace the bathroom mirror tiles (which were breaking up my energy) with a big mirror. He also told me to tidy up when I had time. I did all three major things the next day – and on the day after that was given a business opportunity which brought in £8000 over the next two months. I was impressed!
The tidying is a long-term project, but I have noticed that each time I clear, clean, decorate or reorganise an area of my home, positive changes seem to follow.
I decided it was time to know more, so I asked Jan for an interview.
Question: Feng shui is ‘the Chinese art of placement’. Jan, you’re from Poland, what makes you an expert in feng shui?
Jan Cisek: My clients, I suppose. Malcolm Gladwell says it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert – and I’ve done more than my 10,000. I’ve had the opportunity to fine tune the advice I give people and see what gives the most positive results.
Q: And do people all want the same thing?
JC: In general, they all want reassurance and peace of mind that their environment is working for them - a kind of MOT for homes and workspaces. But specifically people want all sorts of things: a profitable business, good relationships, a baby, happiness, find a partner, financial security, design a logo or website with feng shui, improve health, check for geopathic stress, to buy or sell a house…
Having a baby with feng shui
Q: And can feng shui deliver all of that?
JC: Absolutely. From the point of view of becoming an expert, though, the good thing is that clients tend to come in groups – I once had four people in one week who were having fertility problems. One was a radio presenter and she was so thrilled when she immediately got pregnant that she recommended me to all her friends.
Q: So is it just a case of telling everyone the same thing?
JC: No. The causes were different so they called for different solutions.
Q: Which were …?
JC: Well one simply hung a crystal in the fertility corner, but one couple’s problem was that they had an immovable staircase in the fertility corner – so I sent them on holiday, which is where they conceived. With an Indian couple, it seemed that the husband was worried about having children – unconsciously – so we put pictures of happy children playing around the place.
Q: And they all got pregnant immediately?
JC: Yes. Well, within a month or so. Because they all conceived around the same time, I got a rush of thank you cards all in the same week about nine months later, which all said things like ‘I’d been trying for years to get pregnant, but after one consultation with you, I got pregnant immediately’! I had a bit of explaining to do to my girlfriend!
Selling your house with feng shui
Q: I bet. You mentioned buying and selling houses. Are some houses intrinsically better than others, or just better for some people?
JC: Both. In some cases it’s a case of getting a good ‘fit’ between property and owner – feng shui is first and foremost about helping you live the life you want. But there are some properties that it’s very hard to do anything about.
Q: Because…?
JC: Sometimes it’s to do with geopathic stress – a kind of fault line in the earth’s magnetic field which carries negative energy. The opposite of that is ley lines which carry positive energy – and you’ll find that all early churches were built on ley lines to harness the energy of the environment.
Q: And can you do anything to help someone whose house has geopathic stress?
JC: Often you only need to worry about not siting your bed on a fault line, but I might also do ‘space clearing’, and I often install a Helios3 – a small device which plugs into a normal electrical socket and neutralises negative energy of geopathic stress. Ideally you do a sort of earth acupuncture – sticking needles in the ground around the house, but often (in flats or terraces) that’s not possible. Some houses have so many problems that it’s almost impossible to do anything. Kensington Palace is one.
Q: Kensington Palace? You did a consultation for Princess Diana?
JC: Yes. Unfortunately the palace was riddled with geopathic stress. The chair Prince Charles liked to sit on was at the crossing point of three different negative lines. And there was a very strong line across the bottom of their bed – and I’ve noticed a pattern that when couples have this line, one or both becomes unfaithful. Anyway, the best thing I could recommend was that she should move – which of course, she couldn’t. Failing that I recommended she move some of the furniture – and that she stay elsewhere as much as possible and travel more.
Q: I suppose she couldn’t really sell it.
JC: No.
Q: Can you sell properties with such problems?
JC: It can be really hard. Potential buyers don’t necessarily know what’s wrong, but they just don’t feel good when they walk in.
Q: So what can you do?
JC: All the things I mentioned before. There can be other problems too. Often the seller has unconscious blockages about selling – and if these are very strong they may need to do fairly complicated rituals to release them. But the longer the house is on the market, the more they have an unconscious image that the house is ‘unsold’ and it’s important to change that – sometimes by doing something simple, but counterintuitive, like putting the price UP. It’s reverse psychology. And then if you make the selling price number divisible by 9 (which has the energy of completion), you make selling even more likely.
Q: And do houses always sell?
JC: Usually, yes. We often get very quick results even when a property has been on the market for ages. But I did have one apparent ‘failure’ about 18 months ago, where the couple were leaving the country to live abroad and they couldn’t sell their house. Eventually they decided to rent it out instead. And it turned out to be the right thing, because after a year abroad they realised it had been a mistake and they came back.
Q: So what was happening there?
JC: It may be that subconsciously they weren’t convinced that they would stay and that they should sell. And I can only go by what clients tell me. But I always build in a sort of ‘clause’, if you like, that whatever changes we make should be for the clients’ highest good, even if they don’t know what that is.
The early years
Q: So how did you get started?
JC: I think I was interested in this sort of thing from childhood. When I was about 9 or 10 I watched a TV program about dowsing. It’s an accepted discipline in Poland where I come from – it’s called radiesthesia. Everyone knows about negative fault lines (geopathic stress). Anyway, I went outside and cut myself a forked twig – and discovered that I could do it. So I made it a hobby and used it to check if friends where sleeping on geopathic stress.
Q: So you had a natural talent?
JC: I suppose so. And then my father had a decorating business and he used to take me along on jobs and he had a strong belief that colour and how you decorate your house can affect how you live. He used to recommend things to people – he would redecorate and things changed. Single people suddenly got married, or a couple would have a baby. I began to take notice. Actually you couldn’t miss it, because he tried out his theories on the family too. One time we came home from school and found that he’d painted the whole flat blue, and we all became passive and sleepy, until six months later he painted a lot of walls red or warm colours. Everyone was as high as a kite and bouncing off the walls. After that he strived for balance – which is one of the principles I work with now. Although I have inherited his love of extremes. Whenever I learn something new, I like to push it to its limits. For example, I’m a voracious reader (I even trained as a speed reading instructor to read more). I have read (and still read) everything I could lay my hands on, including everything on feng shui and any related subjects.
Q: Subjects such as …?
JC: Well dowsing, décor and design, and geomancy, which is more about earth energy and the terrain than interiors. Also any latest research in Environmental Psychology, Cognitive Ergonomics, Ecological Design, electromagnetic radiation and so on. Everything interrelates.
Q: So what happened in the intervening years to bring you here?
JC: Well when I was 15 I became the chair of the local Polish India Society. There weren’t many of us, but my motivation was to house all their books at home – and I read the lot. And I organised lots of people to give talks on yoga, health, and energy healing, etc – and on Vastu Shashtra, which is a sort of Indian feng shui. Then I went to college to study art and design, and I was doing a lot of paintings in and for churches, and I became aware of sacred architecture.
Q: This is still in Poland?
JC: Yes, although shortly after that I came to England, and I started giving talks about feng shui to the Polish society (in Polish because my English wasn’t very good at that point). People didn’t know much about it at the time, and they were mainly interested in the health aspects – how geopathic stress can be a significant factor in causing cancer, for example. And I started getting clients – and getting results. And then more and more clients. At one point I was doing three or four consultations a day. Some of them I did at a distance from plans, photos and videos – and then I started teaching feng shui and the videos came in handy for teaching purposes.
Q: And I’ve seen your name on the Feng Shui Journal too, haven’t I?
JC: Yes. I was a founder-member of the Feng Shui Society in 1993, and for a number of years I edited and produced the Feng Shui Journal. Then when I was doing feng shui consultations for people’s businesses, I got involved in improving their logos – and that side grew too, until now a significant part of my work is to do with branding companies, and improving their logos and websites.
Q: Using feng shui?
JC: Absolutely. I use feng shui principles to ensure that brands have a powerful energy. And my background in art and design comes in very handy too.
When feng shui doesn’t work
Q: So are there any occasions when feng shui doesn’t work?
JC: Not really. Although sometimes people don’t do what you tell them and then they’re surprised when they don’t get results. And there have been occasions when things have changed but the people didn’t notice, or didn’t attribute it to the feng shui. Or sometimes they had totally unrealistic or non-specific expectations. You can’t expect feng shui to build you a billion-dollar empire if you sit around on the couch watching TV.
Q: Do people have to believe in it for it to work?
JC: No. Even Niels Bohr, Danish Nobel-prize winner, had a horse shoe above his door. And when people used to ask him why he, a scientist, would take any notice of an old wives’ tale, he would say: ‘I understand that it works whether you believe in it or not.’
Q: So a degree of scepticism is OK?
JC: Yes – as long as you follow the suggestions of your consultant. And things like geopathic stress and electromagnetic radiation will affect you whether you believe in them or not. But if people are totally negative, they can sabotage the positive effects of feng shui – which is as it should be. You are the person most in control of your life and your beliefs will have the strongest effect. The people around you will be second in the hierarchy – and then your environment.
Q: So is feng shui at work if I change the colour of my bathroom, or move my bedroom around?
JC: Absolutely. We are all shaping our environment to reflect aspects of ourselves. But most people are doing it unconsciously and some are having more positive effects than others. I once went to work with a guy who was depressed because he was lonely – he didn’t have a partner, he didn’t have many friends. When I got to his flat, I had to squeeze past a huge cactus next to the door – at great risk of being scratched. And he had lots of pictures around of himself doing things alone and of deserts and deserted beaches. He didn’t realise that he himself was creating the separation from other people.
I like to quote one of Winston Churchill’s favourite sayings: “We shape our buildings, thereafter, they shape us.” It makes sense to be aware of the effects we are creating and to get the maximum benefit from our surroundings.
Q: And can you help everyone?
JC: Um … yes. If people know and can tell me what they want, we can work with that. If they don’t know I can generally optimise the environment to make life easier for them. So yes. Feng shui works for everyone who wants it.
Q: There’s one thing I’ve always wanted to ask: is it true that I shouldn’t leave the toilet seat open?
JC: If your toilet is situated in your wealth corner, then the belief is that leaving the lid open allows your wealth to flush away. But then you’re disempowering yourself by thinking that your finances are totally dependent on your toilet.
Q: So is there any advice you can give that I could put into practice? A sort of ABC for beginners?
JC: Well, you want to get a good flow of energy in your home and workplace – hence doing a bit of tidying up. But I as a starting point I have three rules:
• if something is blocked, unblock it;
• if something is constricted, release it;
• and if something is weak, strengthen it. And love your home and workplace.
Q: Nice. Jan Cisek, feng shui expert, thank you very much.
25 years of experience in feng shui
Accredited Consultant Member of the Feng Shui Society
"Feng shui is the psychology of place." Jan Cisek
