Online Classes, Summer 2025
Wu Xing (Five Movements)
19 May (recording available) + 16 June 2025 | 18:00 BST
Life Guidance, Design and Inspiration drawn from
The Wisdom Arts of Ancient China
Feng Shui, Ba Zi, Yi Ching
Welcome to LifeHouse [命宮]
The Wisdom Arts of Ancient China are among our oldest written ways of knowing, yet they rival our most advanced science. They form a comprehensive and profound way of understanding ourselves and our world. What Ursula Le Guin calls "the pure apprehension of the mystery of which we are part".
Tragically, like so much indigenous wisdom the world over, the original practices have been denounced, destroyed or co-opted to serve global structures of power and self-interest.
Take Feng Shui, once a living art tuned to the pulses of nature and the human spirit, now boiled down to quick-fix formulae that serve superficial notions of harmony and personal aspiration. These hollowed out methods do not benefit the arts, or the people that use them.
At their deepest, richest and most authentic roots, the Wisdom Arts of Ancient China are centred around ideas of spiritual cultivation - of body, mind and landscape. As such, they steer us back towards a radical, relational and embodied understanding that mines the full depth of the human and more-than-human experience.
These ancient practices can help us to restore a meaningful, generative sense of health and vitality to ourselves and our environments.
Hello, I'm Ryan Terren.
I founded LifeHouse as a platform for the contemporary application of the classical Wisdom Arts of China, such as Ba Zi Astrology, Feng Shui and the Yi Ching.
Through my work with Ba Zi Astrology, I help those looking for insights into their nature, guidance on their life path and advice on their self cultivation.
Through Feng Shui, I work to regenerate spaces through design - by aligning them with their surroundings, their occupants, and the present moment.
I love the clarity and confidence this can bring - a meaningful sense of connection within lives and places that, in turn, lead to skillful, ethical choices, and unique, vibrant environments.
I have a growing curiosity into how these timeless approaches can be brought into dialogue with contemporary challenges and practices, both within the individual and collective spheres. This has led me to teaching, ongoing research, and a number of creative projects within regenerative education, architecture and ecology.
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This work builds on many years of theatre-making, coaching, building design and training in Qi Gong and meditation.
Ryan has fantastic communication skills and is able to simplify the complex depths of Feng Shui into real and understandable concepts. I found the experience of working with him both educational and inspirational.
John Teall, Designer
"One of the worlds leading style makers" Taschen
Ryan is hands down a most unique modern sage and oracle, no exaggeration. During our interactions I've gleaned important mentoring, cultivation advice, life path questions, the list goes on.
I count Ryan and the resources/advice he provides to be in the top three of most critical and relevant impacts in my daily life and path.
Sean Compton
"Ryan’s background in both Ba Zi and Feng Shui is both deep and incredibly broad. His analytical work felt fully embodied and considered, and totally trustworthy. Even poetic.
Ryan is generous and friendly and funny, and it made the time working together feel more like a collaboration, and always very comfortable.
Judith Hooper, www.grasshillfarm.org
Working with Ryan was a holistic, practical, and illuminating experience.
He clearly puts a lot of thought and care into his work, and there is so much depth to the information that I will be exploring and unpacking for months to come.
Chris Hambleton
"Ryan is hugely knowledgeable and shared his knowledge generously during
Our sessions have been thought provoking, energising and inspiring and quite unique. Thank you so much Ryan!"
Michelle
"I cannot express how much I enjoy working with and being guided by Ryan.
His knowledge and expertise is second to none. His passion and energy is amazing. Many thanks Ryan.
Alan May, Newton Manor Hall
How we could work together.
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Classes
Every four weeks, I run online classes on the foundations of Feng Shui, Astrology and Divination.
Ba Zi Reading
I offer one-to-one sessions exploring your inner nature, life path, and ways to bring them into alignment.
Feng Shui Consultation
A program of sessions in which we discover a rooted, creative vision for how to evolve your space.