Feng Shui
encourages
energy flow
By Chauncey Onyon
CONNECTION STAFF
One of many events featured during this year's Asian/Pacific Islander Heritage Week, April 20 to April 27, was the return of a presentation from last year's events on Feng Shui.
Jodi King, an interior designer, led the presentation. It focused on how to bring good energy flows to one's home through the Feng Shui design as part of the week's festivities.
"I thought it was more fun than last year's," King said.
King, who owns her own interior design business, said she thought the presentation could have gone smoother if her Power Point slides had been working properly.
King opened up the presentation by handing out a quiz to students and faculty members in attendance.
The quiz featured questions such as: "What does Feng Shui mean?" and "What is the death position for the bed?"
Feng Shui directly translated means air and water.
Feng Shui features five main elements that should be included in every room: fire, air, tree or wood, metal and earth.
Certain colors or shapes represent each element.
Fire is represented by shades of red or orange and shades of green represent tree.
King showed the audience photos representing good balances of the elements.
She also showed some before and after photos of rooms she had designed in the past.
Throughout the presentation, King would give the answers to the quiz and had the audience repeat the answers as she said them to be sure they understood.
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Jodi King leads a presentation in the Recital Hall on April 26 about the arrangement of furniture according to standards of feng Shui, an ancient Chinese art form of placement.
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"She engages with the students so well," said Jason Newman, a history professor at Cosumnes River College. "She should be a professor."
Lee said Newman had asked her if King had any teaching experience and Lee replied, "no."
The only teaching experience King has is as a Sunday School teacher at her church she said.
One of the techniques Newman said he liked about King's presentation was the fact that she would give out prizes for
The prizes ranged from compact disks to handfuls of candy hurled to different audience sections.
King said she had gotten the idea of prizes from a presentation by a professional firm.
"It's a good way to keep their attention," King said.
Lee said King had a knack for capturing audience attention and getting participation.
Newman said King provided an excellent artistic and design perspective.
Newman also said he had learned a lot from her presentation.
"I learned of the importance of design," Newman said.
Newman said King's presentation reminded him of how much furniture placement matters when it comes to life.
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King spoke highly of the committee in charge of organizing the entire week's festivities.
"I haven't seen this on other campuses," King said. "The people are really fortunate to have people willing to do this on their own time."
Lee initially brought King into the week's events during last year's Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Week where King did a similar presentation on Feng Shui.
King had designed Lee's home after Lee had seen a feature article on her in the Sacramento Bee.
Lee said she received many compliments on her house after King was done.
"There's such a nice flow around the whole house," Lee said.
Newman said both himself and Lee asked King to do the presentation again at this year's APIHW.
Newman said he thought the week's events seemed to "strike a chord with the Elk Grove community."
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