Our homes, carefully oriented, have power to give us comfort and security and to be one of our best investments. We spend a great deal of time and money to accomplish this. However, many of us do not know if we are creating a positive and life-supporting place to live and work. Many people have reported health and financial problems after they had moved into a home or have done home improvements. Unknowingly, we may be doing more harm than good! Vastu Shastra, architectural science with roots in ancient India, takes into account environmental factors that we may be unaware of yet influence quality of our lives.

Vastu is oldest and most complete system of architecture known to man. It involves assessing all environmental influences that affect us, such as geopathic stress, five elements (earth, water, fire, air and space), sun, moon and planets in our solar system. It considers building orientation, placement of rooms, proportions and measurements, slope and shape of land, location of bodies of water and other environmental and geopathic influences.

According to Vastu Shastra, sun creates different qualities of energy on its path from east to west. These different energies influence and enhance specific functions and activities that correspond with specific areas of your home. Where you enter a house or room, where you prepare and cook your food, where you sit while eating, direction in which you sleep, where you face while studying, placement of bathrooms and areas for socializing and meditating are more optimally supported in specific parts of your home than in others.

Vastu is gaining acceptance in U.S. both by businesses and individuals. It is not as recognized as Feng Shui, but we predict it will be next hot trend here. There were three Vastu books published this year in U.S. and more are coming this year. There is presently an estimated 300 million dollars of Vastu related construction going on in U.S. Much of this is new construction related to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s recent emphasis on positive affects of building new Vastu houses. I had honor of being one of architects who worked with Maharishi in late 70’s on designing meditation academies, but this concept is cost-prohibitive for a large number of people.

It is our belief at Vastu Creations that Vastu will grow more quickly when people understand that you don’t have to start from scratch, constructing a new environment or totally remodeling a pre-existing one, to obtain life-changing benefits. Vastu is not an all or nothing science. Americans like economical cures that bring results. There are simple Vastu corrections that people can do to any structure, anywhere in world, that will bring improvements in their lives.

We’ve done many rectifications with wonderful results. Here are a few you might find interesting: