Meet our Founder

Terah Kathryn Collins

Terah Kathryn Collins is a best-selling author and the originator of Essential Feng Shui®, which honors the essence of Feng Shui’s® eastern heritage while focusing on many benefits it provides in today’s western world. Her six inspirational books on the subject have sold over a million copies worldwide.

With a passion for transformational education, Terah founded the Western School of Feng Shui® in 1996 to provide practitioner-level training in Essential Feng Shui®. This intensive course includes pre-training projects, over one hundred handouts, video lectures pre-recorded in a live classroom setting, Terah's bi-weekly live interactive coaching calls, private student/alumni online forum, access to the Alumni Support page, and post-training Final Projects to earn a Certificate of Achievement as an Essential Feng Shui® Practitioner. All graduates receive complimentary listings in the Western School of Feng Shui's EFS Practitioner Directory, and evergreen access to all of the above. 

Terah’s best-selling first book, The Western Guide to Feng Shui, offers many easily implemented suggestions and helpful before-and-after stories. Her alphabetized Home Design with Feng Shui, A-Z provides a quick reference to Feng Shui solutions, while The Western Guide to Feng Shui, Room by Room offers more in-depth information and examples, including over one hundred photographs. In The Western Guide to Feng Shui for Prosperity, Terah recounts the success stories of Essential Feng Shui® practitioners and their clients. In The Western Guide to Feng Shui for Romance,  she explores the connection between your relationships and your environment. Terah's newest book, The Three Sisters of the Tao, reveals Feng Shui's ancient relationship with Chinese Medicine and the I Ching, and the deep wisdom each 'sister' offers you to live your best life. 

Featured on the PBS Body and Soul TV series, Terah has spoken on Essential Feng Shui® at many special events, including the Magical Mastery and Today’s Wisdom Tours in Australia, and the Women of Wisdom, I Can Do It®, and Empowering Women Conferences throughout the United States.

She lives with her husband Brian on the coast of Oregon.