February 16th marks the arrival of the Chinese New Year – Earth Dog. The earth element is one of grounding and supporting the birthing and manifesting of your goals, dreams and aspirations.

Aligning the Earth Dog energy with the new energy of 2018 which adds up to an 11 (represents spiritual doorway) will provide a beautiful, supportive and spiritual container for eliminating what doesn’t support you in manifesting your truth, power and your divine expression in your life.

By applying the sacred principles of Feng Shui while shifting and recalibrating the energy of your home and life, you can prepare your environment to support you in embodying love, vibrant health, abundance, spiritual growth and more.

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There’s something changing at Fulmore Middle School on South Congress Avenue. Administrators report fewer major behavioral incidents among students this year, the school’s soccer and basketball teams are on a winning streak, and substitute teachers who used to avoid the campus now regularly seek assignments there.

“I’d say the climate of the campus has changed for the better,” says Steve Maddox, assistant principal at Fulmore. “There’s a calmness. The changes have been subtle.”

Maddox says two different substitute teachers have recently commented how students are more attentive and that overall student behavior has improved. And, he says, teacher turnover is down dramatically.

This wasn’t always the case. Fulmore has had its share of problems associated with urban middle schools, from major behavior problems that lead to automatic expulsion, to low test scores.

What’s going on? A new disciplinary plan? A more rigorous academic schedule?

Feng Shui.

Two years ago, feng shui master Stacy Davenport began a program to bring the philosophy to local schools. She began by donating dozens of hours to Fulmore, fi rst applying feng shui concepts to the administrative offi ces. She and several volunteers rearranged the furniture, re-hung pictures and painted walls. Gone are the school’s stark, cold colors of bright blue and white and in their place are tones of sandy brown. The back wall of the offi ce is now a bright red.

Maddox says the effect has been palpable. “The offi ce feels more conducive to getting work done,” he says, adding that there have been other changes that are less quantifi – able. “When kids get sent to the of- fi ce, they come in angry. But now, it’s like they sense the calmness in the offi ce, and they seem to calm down, too.”

Davenport did more than move furniture and paint walls. On two subsequent visits to the campus, she performed a yu wai, or exterior space clearing. For a space clearing, Davenport mixes rice, which symbolizes abundance, with the brightly-colored minerals realgar (arsenic sulfi de) and cinnabar (red mercury sulfi de), and one-hundred-fi fty-oneproof rum, which represents energy. Davenport tosses the mixture around the perimeter of the building’s foundation, in a methodical motion of three overhand tosses, followed by three underhand ones.

“What this does is it pushes out the old energy, and brings in the new, positive energy,” she says.

Inside the school, Davenport and her volunteers used a mixture of salt and alcohol to wipe down nearly every surface in the school, including more than one thousand lockers, desks and chairs, as well as doors to more than seventy classrooms. Davenport says the process brought a renewed energy balance to the sprawling campus.

“What happens in buildings is that energy gets imprinted into a space,” says Davenport. “The school was built in 1911, so all the students who had been there before had left part of their energy in the space, and we went in and cleared it out,” she says. “Think about when you buy a house, the first thing you do is clean the bathtub. From an energy perspective, that is what I do. I clear away the old energy and welcome in the new.”

“Doing this work for schools is so important,” says Davenport. “If children can have a spiritual, safe place that is warm and welcoming, then they can do their best work.”

Davenport also works with large businesses and has given feng shui blessings for Mecca Gym downtown at Fifth and Lamar and the new Seton Medical Center Williamson in Round Rock.

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Others swiped desk tops, shooing dust.

Obregon, the school’s dropout intervention specialist, said the space is a shelter for some students that have difficult family lives.

The scene had all the trappings of a typical scrub-the-corners deep-clean. Except for Stacy Davenport who took care of the less tangible gunk.

Stepping gingerly around the room with a thin foot-long copper rod, Davenport paused as the limber metal started spinning counter-clockwise. The sudden rotation signaled bad energy. She waited until it righted, bobbing up and down.

Davenport, a feng shui consultant who organized the event, said she thinks about peace during those quiet moments.

“As humans, we clean our surfaces,” she said. “My gift is to read the unseen aspect of energy and life.”

About 12 volunteers, including two of the school’s students knocking out required community service hours, tackled the principal’s office, cafeteria and classrooms with cleaning supplies and essential oils to clear the campus’ bad energy.

Children soak up negativity, Davenport said. And with teacher fears about layoffs, budget cuts and the emotional baggage that students cart into the building

day, she said the school was a natural choice for volunteering her services.

According to Texas Education Agency, 80 percent of the school’s students were economically disadvantaged in 2010-11; 50 percent qualified as “at-risk.”

Saturday was Davenport’s second time clearing the energy at Fulmore Middle School. In 2006, she incorporated other elements of feng shui, painting the walls of the administrative office and installing wind chimes in the courtyard.

She attributes a drop in absenteeism and teacher turnover in the wake of her work to the healthier environment she and about 30 volunteers labored to create.

But not everyone is convinced, including some Fulmore teachers.

To the skeptics, Davenport compares the energy she clears to a bathtub in an apartment that 20 people have rented. What would happen if you never cleaned it?

This year, volunteers replaced red signs that urged students to stop bullying, name calling, teasing and threats with charts encouraging positive behavior. Davenport tossed a concoction of rice, rum and powder meant to clear the energy around the school’s perimeter.

Eventually, she said, she hopes to clean one school in the district every month.

“Kids, for me, they’re the future,” Davenport said. “Keeping a safe and harmonious environment helps them.”

Walking into a freshly cleaned room, Obregon exhaled.

“Immediately you sense it,” she said. “It feels lighter. I just feel happier in here.”

Read the article on Statesman.com.

Photo credit: Rodolfo Gonzalez