Feng Shui gives quick and powerful results. In this category, Roseline has chosen to share her readers, students and clients stories that will encourage you to Feng Shui your place too!
After one interview… comes another ! Well done Leona de Ridder
When time is right, fame knocks at the door… Ask yourself if you activated something in your sector ‘9’!?
Surely it must have been the case for Leona de Ridder, Landscape Architect and Feng Shui consultant in New Zealand.
Follow this link to find Leona’s LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AOTEAROA interview and spread the word, book her for a garden, park, home or business development consultation and your live will never be the same again.
Roseline Deleu (Feng Shui Steps.com.au) interviews Leona de Ridder (Design by Leona.com)
Leona de Ridder – Landscape Architect New Zealand and Australia – studied with Feng Shui Master Roseline Deleu
1. Please Leona, tell our readers briefly WHEN, HOW, WHERE or in WHICH circumstances we met? I met Roseline in Canberra, Australia, 1998, where Roseline was teaching a night class in Feng Shui. I remember thinking, this is a fascinating woman of the world who has many stories to tell, and I am still enjoying hearing the stories of Roseline’s life of adventure!
2. Since then, could you share what is the most interesting Feng Shui result that you have experienced? I have seen life changing situations evolve, reactions that have affected health and wellbeing in a positive way. And a privileged experience being part of life in a terminal phase of illness, we created a peaceful place to rest and pass.
3. Let’s talk more about you now Leona… Tell us a little about yourself and your business. I can say studying Feng Shui with Roseline cemented my decision to attend University in 2000, to study a Bachelor Landscape Architecture. It soon became obvious the broader Landscape Planning discipline was a serious consideration, so returned back into the fold of University to study Masters Landscape Architecture (Landscape Planning) in 2004.
A short stint practicing in Australia 2007-2009 gave me a broader understanding of landscape scale and another approach to landscape assessment.
My current practice, Design by Leona, was born in the last decade, along with two children. I needed a family friendly practice, so returned to residential design and volunteer work with community groups.
In more recent times, I’ve delved back into the world of landscape planning, focusing on Integrated Farm Plans and indigenous cultural decision making process.
This is where Roseline and I have reconnected once again, always evolving. I have observed Roseline integrating what she has learned during her extensive work with Aboriginal people in 24 remote communities around Australia. Roseline has shared with me how she evolved to respect culture and a more connected practice integrating Oneness, Language Ancestors, Land and Nature Elements within our landscape and homes.
To me, Feng Shui is really creating harmony in our landscape and buildings; after all, the first impression you give to your visitors is the harmony of your garden, your landscape, your front entrance and only then your interior. Practising Feng Shui regularly has helped me strengthen my connection with the Land and clearly understand that we belong to nature.
4. What are the five words that people would use to describe you? 1. thoughtful
2. caring
3. interested
4. a wee bit controlling
5. fun
5. What was the purpose for starting your business? To find my purpose in life really, and that is healing of the land and the people. To leave something in a better state than before (preferably).
6. What are the most common reasons people contact you? Some are wanting elegance in their life, some are wanting to find more peace, some are just bored and want a change, it is all so varied. Usually it is a form of crisis or trauma that instigates change, and wanting to seek help towards change.
7. Tell us more about your services that you provide to your clients? Mostly my service is centred around landscape design at both the residential scale and the broader scale. Some clients don’t want to hear about Feng Shui principles, this is ok and I respect this. I can still incorporate Feng Shui principles into the design without the client necessarily knowing about it, or feeling the need to listen to the explanation, but they can feel it when the end product is built. Others that come into the space can feel it too.
8. Tell us about your process for working with clients? The initial meeting is so important, this when the essence of the vision or the desire is shared by the client. As the design process unfolds into budget discussions, it is important to hold onto that first conversation, to hold onto what is important, to retain the integrity.
9. What advice can you offer to people who are just discovering “Design by Leona”? There is no time like the present to make change, life is too short to procrastinate, to hold onto fears and old patterns. Let’s create those changes together in a safe and supportive way.
10. Do you have a book/s that you would like to recommend? “The Gardeners Garden” by Cox and Musgrave
The study spans seven centuries to spotlight more than 250 of the globe’s finest permanent gardens by leading garden designers, horticulturalists, and landscape architects, brought to life via more than 1,000 sumptuous photographs and in descriptive texts by leading garden writers.
“Your first easy steps to Feng Shui” by Roseline Deleu
Simple, easy to understand for all, this little red book has gone everywhere with me.
After a couple of years of Yin time… deep inside me I found the essential benefits of reflecting.
I recall what one of my old Masters said to me many decades ago: “It is when you are in the deepest Yin, when you think that nothing is happening… That’s when BIG things prepare!” That is SO true!
Indeed, we are living in the area of technology, when everything we want comes at a click (very Yang). Then Covid19 hits (or what the governments decided to do with us). I was isolating like many of us in Australia. People were loosing their jobs, hardly any opportunity was available for months. I thought of all the stress that people endured when isolating and loosing income, being stuck at home, seeing no-one, so what to do? I started offering weekly Zoom sessions on Feng Shui and many people joined, friendship formed, hope and motivation emerged 🙂
I then thought, “What if the worst happens? How can I/we prepare?” I looked at my backyard and for weeks, started to dig and revamp. A vegetable garden was the way! Winter did not stop us, we fed the soil, made a compost, planted seeds – everything grew… I never ate so much dark green kale in my life 😀 The results were worth every minute of our time – eating our own season (organic) vegetables -> our bodies became stronger, talking to the Land -> our minds and spirits connected and we had so much fun!
Seeing GROWTH was inspiring and healing. Today, more than a year later, again, our season vegetables are growing, many parts of Australia are in lock-down due to a Covid19 rapid increase of cases. Time for me to separate those little ones again and look forward to eating some yummy warm soups.
New Zoom sessions on Feng Shui and Emotional Sanity are coming up soon again in English. Register your interest by emailing me at fengshuisteps {at} hotmail.com and I will send you info and invite link.
May calmness and reflection bring you Peace. Take care,
When was the last time you did something new? or… Did something that you haven’t done for decades? During this current COVID19 lockdown, I decided to crochet a beanie! I had not done this since primary school and then, it was not the best result at the time either. Send me a photo of what…
After one interview… comes another ! Well done Leona de Ridder When time is right, fame knocks at the door… Ask yourself if you activated something in your sector ‘9’!? Surely it must have been the case for Leona de Ridder, Landscape Architect and Feng Shui consultant in New Zealand. Follow this link to find…
“OVER THE BONNET PODCAST” – Interviewing international Feng Shui Master Roseline Deleu, Australian journalist Mark Piepers shares with you her secrets and how Feng Shui evolved from a simple approach to encompassing her adventure discovering Aboriginal Culture, connexion with Country and Languages and some amazing concepts unknown by many non-Aboriginal people. Click here for the…
Creating ceremony for small or important events in our lives or – in this case – Respecting Country and bring peace again after long time mining, local Land Custodians used smoke and water to clear space and people. When did you smoke your place and aura last? The best time is during full moon, but…
Roseline Deleu (Feng Shui Steps.com.au) interviews Leona de Ridder (Design by Leona.com) 1. Please Leona, tell our readers briefly WHEN, HOW, WHERE or in WHICH circumstances we met?I met Roseline in Canberra, Australia, 1998, where Roseline was teaching a night class in Feng Shui. I remember thinking, this is a fascinating woman of the world…
Suzie was Here! Intuitive Psychic. Multi medium artist. Angelic Reiki.Roseline Deleu (Feng Shui Steps.com.au) interviews Suzie 1. Please Suzie, tell our readers briefly WHEN, HOW, WHERE or in WHICH circumstances we met?I met Roseline through Josè Toussaint’s, Sunday morning toolbox sessions. Roseline was running the session on Fung Shui, the Australian way. 2. Since then,…
DEVELOP YOUR INTUITION – 4 week-course (or more weeks… all depends on you!)
once per week!!!
Starting a set of 4 weeks made of maximum 40 minutes sessions on Zoom this upcoming:
Sunday 7 June 2020 @ 10 AM Sydney time, which is
Saturday 6 June 2020 evening USA time
Express your interest and reply me to email fengshuisteps [at] hotmail.com I will send you the Zoom link
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Yes, you can share this information to your likeminded friends who may be interested.
Looking forward to seeing you soon joining this limited group of great people!
Roseline Deleu
International Feng Shui Master, Intuitive & Author
My travels recently brought me to the Pilbara in Western Australia. Amazing landscapes when visiting the National Parks. Super hot temperatures though – yes… I was there in January which is Summer and the thermometer showed 47 degrees Celsius.
Closer to the Coast, I fell in love at first sight with what initially appeared to me as a lovely locality: Ieramugadu, better known on the ‘official’ map and by the new Australians under Roebourne Western Australia.
Terribly sad past history unfortunately, this little township now counts other attractions than the old gaol and counts a Cultural Art Centre in the old pub, a lovely park next to it, sports facilities and nice murals!
I could see myself living there.
Roebourne Lookout
Then I drove up to the top of the hill and had a better look and immediately had second thoughts!
The main electrical power plant is located near the Aged Care, Community Services and local Hospital. The close surroundings of the water tower is decorated with Mobile Phone Antennas zapping the water constantly – whether you drink the water or you wash yourself with it, imagine what it does to you!
Last but not least, the local cemetery is surrounded by so many houses that would be very spooky and very unhealthy – physically, emotionally and spiritually – living there.
As very well illustrated in the documentary “Exile and the Kingdom” we see the huge issues of Colonisation, Slavery, Mining booms… I would like to encourage you to watch, through the above link (Part 1) the story of the Aboriginal people of Ieramugadu (Roebourne), their Law, their tribal voice – their survival.
I mentioned those three major issues to one of the local Health Centers who probably thought that I was an alien!
I wish a day would come where mayors, town planners and landscapers would start their projects with common sense first and for the Well-Being of all.
Ignorance leads to another modern slow Genocide again in Roebourne!
Wake up please.
When I answered my new hairdresser question :“What do you do, Roseline?” she probably expected a simple answer! 🙂
Telling her only a couple of stories of my life in remote Aboriginal communities in the Central Desert of Australia, sharing my time with the First Nations people, certainly started to broaden her horizons!
Many decades ago I intrinsically knew that there was more to Feng Shui than the Chinese approach. Having lived in Europe and in Australia, I could feel that the energies of the Land are different and I wanted to know more about my new country that today is called Australia. I started my researches on how housing affects Aboriginal people’s health and here is where my journey started.
Many many years later, I lived and worked in close to 20 Aboriginal remote places from Wanarn (Western Australia) to Ramingining (East Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory) and what I learned most is this:
LISTEN, LEARN, READ about the place you live in, the landscape, the plants, the people, the animals, the sound of the wind in the trees, the language.
Stay away from judgement.
Become part of your new home country with all that is included. REACH OUT!
When my new hairdresser heard about a couple of stories that I related, she immediately said: “This is fascinating, you should write a book about it!” She was ready to know more.
That’s when I asked her… “How many books have you read on Aboriginal or Torres Strait Culture and life since you moved to Australia 38 years ago?”
Her spluttered answer was – “none” !
Sadly many people are in the same situation, even those who were born here.
Please, don’t expect the Government to tell you all what you need to know, it is impossible!
WAKE UP and REACH OUT and see and feel how much happier you become.
May your Journey be as fascinating and enjoyable as mine ❤
With Love and Compassion,
Roseline Deleu
International Feng Shui Master, Author and Professional Speaker www.fengshuisteps.com.au
Some recent events in my life pushed me to feel like a big tree growing another strong branch !
Indeed, new interests have developed in the last few years and are now part of who I am today. These changes made my Feng Shui approach much stronger and my personal links with Nature and the Universe more loving.
I let go of the old website to launch (currently a simple one page) the updated version of myself to discover on www.fengshuisteps.com.au
The best email address to contact me these days is
fengshuisteps {at} hotmail {dot} com
Looking forward to reading from you!
I am often caused to think of you through the feng shui principles you shared with me. In my own place I am experimenting selecting and placing things in places that amplify these principles.
Some of them jump out at you and you know and feel that they are right! e.g. I have a central sky light in the main lounge kitchen area. Is it any wonder that it is my favourite area to sit and work, eat or play.
My kitchen is in the abundance area, needless to say I enjoy preparing and cooking wholesome foods and drinks.
I am constantly challenged to reduce my storage of building materials as I am nearing completion of renovation.
When things are removed a burden is lifted and you have more space to be and you feel “cleaner” and much lighter.
At the right time new things and experiences can be incorporated.
Thank you for the many posts you have been sharing on your blog in the past years, I’m sure it inspired many others.
The best email address to contact me these days is
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