'the lost art of sacred building'

This blog has investigated the importance of designing based on the key principles of sacred geometry and energetic awareness for the purpose of healing.

The project is Moonee Ponds MindBody Helath Centre in Melbourne, Victoria.

Please enjoy the diary adventure of the design, development , construction and opening of the Moonee Ponds MindBody Health Centre.

with thanks

Dakini Space Alchemy

Friday, September 12, 2008

What happened when Dakini aligned in Melbourne? (pt1)



When Max, Lana and I accepted the offer to work on this project, I flew to Australia to get an overview of what we were working with in the building that Dr. Anne had found for the purposes of making this Healing Center. When we first walked into the building interesting things began to happen. We were taking photographs of all the different rooms and areas when we were drawn to what was a stage, that turned out through our calculations at a later point, to be the energetic center of the building. When we stood there, what appeared in the camera lens were three purple columns of light on the opposite side of the room. We all looked carefully into the room and the camera to see if the columns were due to light coming in a window somehow or some other cause. It became clear that it was in fact a form of pure energy, a sacred geometric. None of us could garner a logical reason for this phenomenon. As I said, Sacred Geometry is the interface between Spirit and matter and this was a living example. It was decided in that moment that the meditation room would be built there to honor where the three purple columns of light had appeared.

Much work was done then and has subsequently been done by our Dakini Design team to determine the energy field that comes from the land itself and the energy ley lines that the building was found to be sitting on. It was our utmost intention to learn from the energy of the land and space, how to work with the natural world to create the healing center to be in alignment and coherence with those energies. Dr. Anne had intuitively chosen this space with no “knowledge” of these natural energy lines that lay beneath the building. To be continued...

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

The Separation

During Demolition the overall building adjoined by a roof has had to be separated.

This has a HUGE affect on the overall energy or Qi ( Chinese meaning ) of this new building .

energetically the one building separates out to be two separate buildings for the time between the roof being off and the new roof going on .

In Feng Shui terms this will affect the AGE of the building and to be honest i am still working out how this will come into affect . stay tuned as i will need to dowse to get some confirmation, to combine with the logic !

The front half of the building was built in 1923 , while the back part of the building was built in 1918 , although i believe the back half also was built in two sections . We are now pulling the hole thing together to form one overall health centre. This is quite symbolic also, in that, it is the coming together of so many modalities of healing and health , all pulling together or integrating .

Integrative medicine housed in an integrated building !

the yoga room

Possibly my most favorite room of the whole project , affectionately called the yoga room , this space will be more than just yoga , but it is the principles of yoga and the goddess Quin Yin who will reside in here .

The space will be available for after hours bookings as a self functioning seminar room as well . Small functions, group workshops , meditation circles ....the sky is the limit ...and speaking of the sky , the ceiling in this room will have the most incredible star crystal lights embedded in it !
What a joy when the end of a strenuous physical workout with your personal fitness coach or your yoga class comes to an end and you lie down to look up at a beautiful ceiling .

and so different to whats there now !!
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Still wrapped in bubble wrap , the amazing artwrok for this room is really awesome .

Here's some links to more info on Quan Yin and what she represents ...........

http://www.lava.net/tribalartifacts/qunynex.htm

http://www.crystalinks.com/kwanyin.html

and this is a site i came across for a healing centre in San Fransisco , with similar philosohies to that of MindBody Health

http://www.quanyinhealingarts.com/

What happened to the old furniture?


As part of our efforts to promote green building , we have made sure to recycle the old furniture and all building materials that have come for this site.

It has been enormously important to reuse, recycle and refine the design to meet the green building standards as best we possibly can during the construction of the health centre.

While this is not always the most economical cost saving solution , it is by far the best long term solution .

We have really pushed all services involved to look for the best green alternative solution.

We have used only materials which meet the Green Building Council Australia's requirements .

We have also pushed to ensure low electro magentic field output from such things as, air conditioning , heating lighting , the position of the data and mechanical services control panels
(which give huge output !)

We have worked with service providers to ensure the water flow into and out of the building is not in direct contact with the practitioner rooms and therefore does not interfere with the therapies being offered in these rooms .

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This is an excellent summary site of what EMF, electro magnetic fields are and some of the affects

http://www.emfmeter.com.au/electromagneticfield.htm

and this is a great link to get more idea of green building , and why bother ?

http://www.greenbuilding.com/

Little white men

More orbs in the photos is one thing , but now what ?
little white men !

More orbs in pics





During demolition we noticed a HUGE amount of orbs !!
Some may say the stirring up of dust is really what we were seeing , but perhaps this is just the thing needed to be able to actually capture them in a photograph .
Once again the best book i have read on these is as i referenced before .....
Needless to say , things are moving and the space is clearing out the old for the new .
Thank you

Monday, September 8, 2008

Why is this project so enticing?

The main enticement for me to participate in this unique project from half way around the world in California, was that this unique and avante garde healing center was to be predicated and built on the Universal Principles of Sacred Geometry, which innately model the way in which healing actually energetically happens, in the design of the building itself.

Depending on your own experience with Sacred Geometry, this italicized overview statement (Dr. Anne’s healing center was to be predicated and built on the Universal Principles of Sacred Geometry, which innately model the way in which healing actually energetically happens, in the design of the building itsel)), will or won’t make any sense. Let me elucidate further so perhaps it can. In the broadest sense, Sacred Geometry is a blueprint of the creation that is based on mathematical principles that govern the interface between what is manifest and unmanifest, seen and unseen in our Universe. Simply put, Sacred Geometry bridges the worlds of Spirit and matter. It is and has been used in many cultures and times for example in architecture, science, art, alchemy geomancy, music and mathematics. Leonardo DaVinci’s famous painting of man is based on the principles of Sacred Geometry.

To understand Sacred Geometry, it is essential to understand that everything in the universe is made up of energy and that this energy is always in a state of transformation. Energy can be defined in terms of frequency and harmonics, which is what Sacred Geometry is good at measuring. The human body, for example, is based on the same principles which are found functioning on all levels of creation when looked at simply as frequency or wave forms. All actions follow distinct patterns, and Sacred Geometry describes these laws through shapes, forms and ratios. It is a universal language of pure truths based on the inner workings of nature.*

*abstracted from the brilliant work of geomancer, Dan Winter www.soulinvitation.com

How did this all come about?

It is difficult to say exactly how the universe threads peoples lives together. Dr. Carl Jung called the way this happens “synchronicity”, (seemingly random or chance occurrences that are actually being orchestrated from a more expanded pattern that we just can’t see). I met Dr. Anne Small, the visionary of Moonee Ponds Healing Centre, through a series of events that I feel were clearly meant to happen. First of all when she mentioned to a dear colleague of hers, Susan Probert that she intended to create a new Healing Center, Susan very pointedly mentioned that if she were going to do that in a way that healing started from the moment people walked into the door of the center, she needed to find someone versed in Sacred Geometry.

At that point, Dr. Anne was unfamiliar with what the term meant exactly, but trusting Susan’s intuitive gift, she made note of that fact and determined to look into it. As momentum built for the creation of the new Healing Center, Dr. Anne began to ask people in her sphere, if they knew anything about Sacred Geometry. As you can imagine, there were a lot of shaking heads and perplexed looks. Finally at a most unsuspecting moment, at a party, she felt intuitively guided to ask Ken Campbell of Crystal Universe, if he knew anyone versed in Sacred Geometry. He did a double take. Not only did he know someone whose passion Sacred Geometry is, but how to call her directly, as they were good friends. That someone was me.* The lines of destiny connecting two seemingly different parts of the planet and two different paths of Service, were in one moment reunited. It didn’t take Anne, who is a visionary with amazing skills to bring ideas into manifested form, to connect the dots to arrange for Ken to call me and make the initial inquiry as to whether I had time or interest to participate in such a project as she was proposing.

From there, knowing that I would need on site help and other skill sets beyond the visionary and energy aspect of this work, I felt instantly moved to ask Max Haim and Lana Whittington to assist in this project’s unfoldment as they not only lived in Australia but as synchronicity would have it, were also stunningly skilled in just the areas that our design group needed to manage this amazing project. Lana brought architectural, design and energy sensitivity skills and Max strongly carried the skills of design, geomancy and psychic energy sensitivity that he had developed since he was a child in England walking the leylines there. So with these three players coming together to work on this project, Dakini Design was born.

* This entry is made by Ariel Spilsbury, member of Dakini Design

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