The Element Within
Space & energy Alignment for homes and workplaces
Activate YOUR element within!
Your environment has the power to either support your growth or hold you back. When the energy around you flows with ease, your inner energy responds — becoming clearer, more confident, and more connected to who you truly are. By harmonizing your space and aligning it with your unique elemental blueprint, I help you optimise your space so they work with you — not against you.
When your surroundings reflect your highest potential, your life naturally begins to rise to meet it and you start to activate your Element Within.
The Element within Mission & Vision
Mission
The element within helps people create harmonious spaces that support wellbeing, clarity and success through traditional Feng Shui practices.
Vision
To inspire a world where every home and workspace flows with balanced energy, empowering people to live with purpose, confidence, and inner harmony. Through accessible, traditional Feng Shui wisdom, The Element Within envisions environments that nurture wellbeing, unlock clarity, and elevate the lives of all who inhabit them.
The Element Within Services
I help optimise homes and workplaces using proven environmental alignment techniques derived from traditional Feng Shui. I am an accredited practitioner with the Feng Shui Institute.
The Element Within Entrance Enhancer
Best For
- Quick, high-impact improvements
- Homes that feel stagnant or unsettled
- Businesses wanting to improve client perception
- New homeowners
The Element Within Signature Consultation
Best For
- Homes undergoing change or transition
- Persistent stress, sleep, or relationship issues
- Renovations or redesign planning
- Business environments seeking performance improvements
- Clients wanting the most complete guidance
The Element Within Personal Chart Analysis
Best For
- Personal insight and self-understanding
- Decision-making support
- Clients not yet ready for a property consultation
- Complement to future environment assessments
About Me
Hello! I’m Jo, a certified Advanced Feng Shui practitioner with a genuine passion for helping people create spaces that truly support their lives. What I love most about Feng Shui is how it brings together the energy of your environment and the energy within you. Through this beautiful practice, I help you understand yourself more deeply, transform your surroundings with intention, and create a natural sense of balance, clarity, and harmony in your everyday life. You could could say I help to awaken YOUR element within.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Feng Shui?
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice that focuses on how energy, or chi, flows through our environment and how it affects our well-being. It is based on the understanding that our surroundings influence how we feel, think, and live. When energy flows smoothly, life feels more balanced, supported, and harmonious.
At The Element Within, Feng Shui is about more than arranging furniture — it’s about aligning your space with your inner energy. By balancing the Five Elements and working with the natural flow of chi, Feng Shui helps activate your Element Within: the connected, aligned version of you that thrives when your environment truly supports your life.
How can Feng Shui benefit you?
Feng Shui helps create balance between your environment and your inner energy. When your space is aligned, life often feels calmer, clearer, and more supported. By improving the flow of chi in your home or workplace, Feng Shui can enhance well-being, strengthen relationships, support focus and productivity, and create a sense of harmony and ease in everyday life.
At The Element Within, Feng Shui is also about activating your Element Within — your ideal, balanced self. By aligning your space with your personal energy and elemental blueprint, Feng Shui helps remove blocks, restore flow, and support you through life transitions, growth, and new beginnings. Small, intentional changes in your environment can create meaningful shifts in how you feel, think, and move through the world.
Why is a water feature important in Feng Shui?
In Feng Shui, water represents flow, opportunity, clarity, and abundance. It reflects how energy (Qi) moves through your life—financially, emotionally, and energetically. When water is placed correctly, it encourages ease, momentum, and renewal rather than stagnation.
Water features are positioned using the Flying Stars (9 Star) system, which maps the energetic blueprint of your home. This system is calculated from the property’s orientation and time period, revealing how different energies move through the space over time. Each star carries a specific quality, and water is used to activate or enhance particular energies when appropriate.
Because water is such a powerful activator, professional calculation is essential. Placing water on the wrong star can have serious implications, potentially amplifying stress, instability, or loss rather than abundance. Feng Shui is never about guesswork or copying placements—it is precise, intentional, and personal to each home.
The quickest and most effective way to activate a water star is through clean, flowing water, which is why a water fountain is often recommended. Continuous movement keeps energy active and alive, but it is essential that water is always clean, fresh, and well maintained.
There are also gentler ways to activate water energy. Freshly cut flowers can be used to stimulate a water star, although this is less efficient than an actual water feature. In addition, each month an Empowerment Corner moves through the home. When activated correctly, this monthly star can enhance growth, wealth, and opportunity. Placing fresh flowers in this location can be an ideal and subtle activation alongside an existing water feature. Always consult a Feng Shui practitioner to ensure the space can safely support additional water energy.
Ultimately, water in Feng Shui is not decorative—it is intentional and essential. When aligned correctly, it becomes a quiet yet powerful supporter of flow and prosperity. When water is placed with intention, it restores natural flow—allowing prosperity and ease to move through your space and reconnect you with your element within.
Explore a personalised Flying Stars consultation to understand where and how water can best support your home.
How can Feng Shui be incorporated into your daily wardrobe, and what are the benefits?
Feng Shui isn’t limited to your home—it also applies to what you wear and how it supports your energy each day. Your clothing is the closest environment to your body, subtly influencing confidence, mood, and how you move through the world.
This approach is guided by the Four Pillars of Destiny (BaZi), calculated from your full birthdate and time. Your Four Pillars chart reveals your personal elemental balance, showing whether certain elements are missing or overly dominant. From this, your balancing element is identified—the element that best supports your energy and wellbeing.
By knowing your balancing element, you can incorporate it into your daily wardrobe in simple, intentional ways—through colour, fabric, texture, or material. These choices don’t need to be visible; something as discreet as socks, underwear, or jewellery can provide energetic support without altering your outward style.
Each day of the year also carries its own elemental influence. Understanding which elements support you allows you to gently offset more challenging days. On days when the energy feels unfavourable, adding a single supportive element through clothing can help create steadiness, resilience, and ease.
The result is a wardrobe that works with you, not against you—supporting confidence, balance, and alignment. When you dress in alignment with your energy, confidence and balance follow naturally reflecting the element within from the inside out.
Discover your balancing element through a personalised BaZi reading and learn how to dress in alignment with your energy.
What is the importance of knowing your favourable / unfavourable direction?
In Feng Shui, directions influence how energy meets you. Knowing your favourable and unfavourable directions allows you to position yourself in ways that naturally support clarity, confidence, and ease—often without changing anything externally.
These directions are identified using the Ming Gua method, calculated from your date of birth. Your Ming Gua reveals which directions best support rest, growth, relationships, and success, as well as those that may be more challenging. What supports one person may not support another—making this insight deeply personal.
In everyday life, this awareness can be applied in simple yet powerful ways. Sleeping with your head in a favourable direction can support deeper rest and emotional balance. Sitting in a supportive direction during an interview, important meeting, or even on a date can help you feel more grounded, confident, and present. Even positioning your desk or computer screen in a favourable direction can improve focus and efficiency at work.
Directional awareness can also support travel and transitions. Choosing a favourable direction when relocating, moving into a new home, or travelling to an important interview can help create smoother experiences and a greater sense of alignment.
Feng Shui is not about rigid rules or superstition—it is about placing yourself where life can meet you more easily, allowing opportunities, relationships, and clarity to unfold naturally—guiding you back to your centre and into your element within.
Learn your personal directions with a Ming Gua consultation and begin working with energy rather than against it.