Episode 16

016 How to make Feng Shui Simple with Amanda Gibby Peters

Published on: 10th May, 2022

This week I talked with Simple Shui™ founder Amanda Gibby Peters about her journey with Feng Shui and why she believes in making Feng Shui simple and accessible to everyone. Amanda also gives us some tips to get started with Feng Shui now, even if we don’t know much about it yet. We’ll be doing a Feng Shui Challenge this week, so be sure to follow us on social media and join us in making some changes to your space!

Guest Bio

Amanda Gibby Peters is the voice and visionary of Simple Shui™ — a modern-day, mission-driven, love-based practice of Feng Shui. She’s been teaching Feng Shui techniques and tips for over a decade, witnessing the breathtaking life transformations of her readers and clients. Her superpower is making complex, ethereal ideas tangible, fun and life-changing! Her work has been featured on Architectural Digest, My Domaine, Food52, Lonny, MindBodyGreen, Well + Good and Amazon. She was recently named one of Instagram’s “Best Feng Shui Accounts” by The Spruce for her vibrant and innovative influence in creating positive spaces. Amanda is Dallas-based with an international clientele, where she lives with her husband, twin daughters, and their rescue dog, Ruby.

Featured in this episode

Featured candle: Beeswax candle from Mithras Candle

Featured brew: Phin Ho Forest Green Tea from Paru Tea Bar

Featured Tarot deck: The Meraki Tarot by Bouchette Design

Episode Highlights

02:50 - Card pull from Meraki Tarot

05:55 - How Amanda developed the idea for Simple Shui™

09:06 - The story of how Amanda found Feng Shui

12:28 - What Amanda did to manifest a job when she needed one

17:17 - How Amanda ended up with the business she has now, based on her experiences with Feng Shui

20:12 - How Amanda works with clients now

21:35 - Amanda’s tips to start working with Feng Shui now

29:10 - Join us for a Feng Shui challenge!

30:12 - What home is to Amanda

31:21 - What rituals Amanda is doing now

34:20 - What’s coming up next for Amanda


Connect with Amanda

Simple Shui™ Website 

Instagram


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Rachel is a Mystic, Reiki Master, Tarot Reader, Feng Shui Practitioner, Energy Healer, and Holistic Interior Designer, whose intimate connection to her intuition and ancestral roots enabled her to rise above a challenging childhood and blossom into the powerful and impassioned healer she is today.

Committed to empowering others by teaching modalities that support connection to intuition, Rachel hosts workshops and retreats focused on the ancient practices of Feng Shui, Tarot, crystals, herbs and oils, ritual and ceremony, astrology and metaphysics — in addition to live and virtual new moon and full moon circles.

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