“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.” ~Joseph Campbell
The essence of the heart nourishes the spirit/spirit body and manifests our inner and outer sanctum…
Sacred Space: Our Body, Home & Environment
Home
A place where one lives, a house or residence; abode, dwelling, habitation; domicile; asylum.
A dwelling place together with the family or social unit that occupies it.
An environment offering security and happiness.
A valued place regarded as a refuge or place of origin.
The place…where one was born or has lived for a long period.
The native habitat; the place where something is discovered, founded, developed, or promoted; a source.
A headquarters; a home base.
An institution where people are cared for.
Source: The Free Dictionary
Topophilia
Topophilia (From Greek topos “place” and -philia, “love of”) is a strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place.
Source: Wikipedia
The term topophilia was coined by the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan of the University of Wisconsin and is defined as the affective bond with one’s environment—a person’s mental, emotional, and cognitive ties to a place.
Source: Environmental Health Journal
Our natural way of being in relationship includes Nature and a nature-infused home/living environment help us reset from everyday experiences that may contribute to an elevated stress response, mind-body imbalances/dysregulation and dis-ease as well as emotion overwhelm and trauma.
Studies have shown that people who love their environment are:
- Drawn to restorative spaces that benefit their health and help them enjoy a high quality of life.
- Associate their environment with feelings of connection or belonging, safety, comfort, and well-being.
- Enjoy a connection that makes the home a uniquely distinctive, special, preferred and meaningful place with intrinsic value.
Our inner space also can co-create our home/living environment in a similar way. As we holistically heal, we experience harmonics, coherency, and synchronicities from balancing and restoring relationships. This contributes to a cohesive inner and home/living environment that is calming, peaceful, and restorative…sacred space.
Home is Where the Heart is…
“It is so important to seed our environment with things that speak to us and support us in all we are capable of being.” ~ Xorin Balbes
Our home is an intimate, living environment that ideally offers enjoyable restorative space to feel validated and secure. The heart and inherent beauty of a home is in its ability to uplift, console, and contribute to the important things in life as well as holding personal space and the relationships of a partner, family, and friends. Home positively affect our mood, emotions, ideas, and behavior as well as making our hectic lifestyles easier and efficiently conserving energy and financial resources. Our home environment supports our needs, goals, and aspirations as well as health and wellbeing; enjoyment; personal development; and life changes, challenges, and transitions.
The aesthetics of the architectural design, features, décor, outdoor landscape and vivid experiences create a connection that deepens over time. Repository of memories, experiences, enjoyment, and happiness. The home becomes an extension and a reflection of us.
A restorative home environment supports healthier living and creates a balanced, peaceful, and inspiring atmosphere meeting the diverse needs of you and your family members (ages and activities). Natural settings within the home provide regular emotional-mental-spiritual refuge for privacy, quiet, peace, and inner reflection. Calming spaces help to relieve stress and mental fatigue, balance emotions, problem solve, and prioritize goals.
Serene living spaces relieve stress and mental fatigue; while helping to balance emotions, problem solve, and inspire authentic expression.
Harmonizing, natural home design helps reduce the carbon footprint and contribute to health, wellbeing, and quality of life.
Harmonize natural living and home design helps reduce the space’s carbon footprint and contribute to health and wellbeing/quality of life.
Curation
Curation is “the action or process of selecting, organizing, and looking after the items in a collection or exhibition.” Our redesign takes a curation approach to creating an imaginative, artistic, restorative, and balanced, room composition embodies connection, warmth, and healing. Cohesive scheme with heart-warming color, and healthy, sustainable decor selections that are arranged for efficient, frequent use, and daily enjoyment.
- Enhance the beauty and comfort of a room or your entire home
- Improve functionality
- Inspire with color and texture create vibrant accents with unique decor
- Bring new life to architectural features
- Optimize furniture layout
- Intentionally place accessories to complement your space
- Reuse, recycle, and repurpose; revitalize with non-toxic, earth-friendly furnishing, finishes, flooring wall and window treatments
“Color and texture helps to make our world a fascinating and beautiful place.” ~ Anna Starmer
A clear vision and intention for the space. Color to change mood, uplift spirits, and balance emotional needs. Right color palette and healthy paint finishes that work well with the natural lighting and complement the architectural style and features. Easy-maintenance, live greenery contributes to cohesive design providing multiple mood and health benefits. Cleaning, Cleansing, and Decluttering helps to energetically select items that can be reused, repurposed, recycled and/or upcycled to provide unique. Caref selection and placement that compliment current furnishings unique, beautiful selections that are also healthy, green, and sustainable rejuvenate or “liven up” your home. Sustainable, healthy furnishings uniquely, beautiful selections.