The Vaastu Workbook: Using the Subtle Energies of the Indian Art of Placement to Enhance Health, Prosperity, and Happiness in Your Home

By Talavane Krishna

Book Overview

- Detailed instructions for creating a home that harmonizes with the natural and spiritual energies of its environment

- Unlike feng shui, which favors adding "cures" to cover existing problems, vaastu (like holistic medicine) focuses on fixing underlying problems for the health of the entire system

- By the director of the foremost vaastu center in India

- Includes 100 line drawings to make all the complexities of vaastu understandable to a beginner

Feng shui practitioners are quickly discovering vaastu, the Indian art of environmental design that helps you create a home that is in harmony with the natural and spiritual energies surrounding it. Until now, books on vaastu have told you where to place your doors or ponds without fully explaining the rationale behind this. The Vaastu Workbook presents vaastu as it was meant to be understood--as an interconnected part of the great Indian tradition of sacred knowledge, along with yoga, ayurveda, and astrology.

Using hundreds of clear line drawings, The Vaastu Workbook takes you through every conceivable vaastu situation, exploring the dos and don'ts of window and door placement, interior design, street focus, directional facing, landscaping, and much more. Introductory chapters provide a thorough grounding in the basics of Indian astrology, the five elements, and the healing tradition of ayurveda, all of which is necessary to truly understand the details of vaastu. With this knowledge in hand, even a beginner can quickly learn how to design a new home--or renovate an existing one--in order to bring peace, prosperity, and happiness to those who live there.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B004X6WM7G
• ISBN13: 9780892819409
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Destiny Books
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

This book is vastupendous!

I am one of many to say that vastu is here to stay. I really never knew anything vastu until my grandmother from Calcutta told me to move out of my parents house and find a wife so she could have grandkids. Well, after I moved out, I found that my world seemed to be closing in around me. What I didn't realize was that my house, my job were not "Flowing." I had knots all over my crazy life. It was when my grandmother sent me this book on Vastu for my 42nd birthday that I realized that I needed to "move" a lot of things around. Now I seem to be able to breathe better, and the world around is more pleasant.

A life-saver!

This book really saved me from disaster. I was suffering from bad health and many financial difficulties that almost led me to take my life. When I understood that the Southwest defect in my house was the cause of all my troubles, I immediately corrected the defect and, in my case, the results were so dramatic that it probably saved my life.

Incredibly practical and easy to understand

Finally, a well presented Vaastu book that helped me decipher the science of properly setting up a home for spiritual balance and physical well-being. One of the best features of this book was the Vaastu score sheet that helped me assess and redesign my home step-by-step.

Great Book - I recommend it!

I congratulate Dr. Talavane Krishna for clearly explaining the inner meaning of Vaastu Purusha story. I had read several Vaastu books before and this is the first time that I understand how to apply these concepts.

My comments of Vaastu Workbook

A well-written book indeed that clearly explains Vaastu - the Indian home design method that is beginning to overtake feng shui due to its precision and practicality. The writing is very easy to understand despite the fact that some of the ideas are very complex. Since the author has related his own personal experience, the results are more authentic.