I discovered Moni’s blog and videos about 8 months ago, and her sincerity and thoroughness hooked me in. I especially appreciate her clarity and insight bringing together architecture and design with exhaustive study of different schools of feng shui.
When the Decluttering From the Heart course came along, I knew right away it was what I needed. Clutter is in the way of everything for me, and I have spend years on my packrat tendencies only to attract clutter over and over again, so I knew that my changes truly needed to come “from the heart.”
This was not the first online course I’ve taken, but I appreciated the combination of video presentation, chat for Q&A, support of a group, and email follow-ups with recording, helpful links, and “homework” reminders.
A tremendous amount of information was introduced in small, actionable pieces. The organization of the material was not immediately clear, but it felt good, not overwhelming. It turned out the order made perfect feng shui sense and the explanation came in exactly the right timing.
I cannot claim a miraculous transformation of my entire home– yet. When I told one friend I was going to take this course, she said, “You don’t need a class. You know what you need to do– just do it.” I felt a little shame, like there was some truth to that and *I* was the problem, but I felt like I needed the class anyway. Now I am empowered to remove obstacles and let the process be easy. I could not “just do it” before” but I can now, and I can recognize when not to push, when to let something be and look for movement in other areas of my life instead.
I am less likely to beat myself up over what’s not getting done, and I can more easily make a decision and then follow through. It is easier to let things go that have been accumulating in my house.
I would recommend this course to anyone who has struggled for a long time with clutter. It is also interesting, I think, to people who maybe are not clutterbugs but are interested in feng shui and its symbolism. Moni elucidates feng shui without imposing it on anyone’s culture. For years, feng shui was an fascinating but confusing mess of rules to me; Moni’s presentation of it is orderly and also cyclical, so that each time a concept reappears you do a little bit deeper.