Meet our instructors!

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Terah Kathryn Collins

WSFS Founder, Bestselling Author, Originator of Essential Feng Shui®

  • 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 certification training in Essential Feng Shui®. This intensive coursework, now offered online, live, and on Zoom, 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 latest 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.

    Currently, Terah hosts Feng Shui Decoded, the Western School of Feng Shui's podcast with co-hosts and Essential Feng Shui teachers Karen Abler Carrasco, Lorrie Webb Grillo, and Ellen Schneider. 

    She lives with her husband Brian on the Oregon coast.

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Karen Abler Carrasco

  • Karen authors our yearly Chinese New Year articles, sharing positive opportunities each new year’s energies offer.

    Karen is a very popular Feng Shui teacher, and mentor who specializes in teaching the many nuances of Ch’i flow and Space Clearing in the Essential Feng Shui® Practitioner Training. Her inspirational teaching style incorporates her studies in South Africa, Europe, Mexico and several Native American communities. Karen holds a B.A. in Native American Studies and is also a California native plant expert, garden designer, and a certified herbalist with an expansive Feng Shui practice that includes homes, businesses and rural properties.

    karenfengshui@gmail.com

Presenter, Graduate and Mentor of the EFS Practitioner Training

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Becky Iott

Presenter, Graduate and Mentor of the EFS Practitioner Training

  • Becky Iott is a masterful Feng Shui teacher, mentor and seasoned consultant. She is an expert in the teaching of Five Elements Theory and Application, the Bagua, and Feng Shui for Business in the Essential Feng Shui® Practitioner Training. Her unique presentation techniques emphasize the rapid learning of Feng Shui concepts and practical solutions through a combination of lecture-dialogues, interactive exercises, and hands-on practice with case studies. Becky holds a B.A. in Communication and an M.A. in Social Science.

    becky.iott@yahoo.com

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Anita Adrain

Graduate & Teacher of the Live EFS Practitioner Training in AB, Canada

  • Anita Adrain has been a certified Essential Feng Shui® Practitioner for over 20 years. Anita facilitates the Essential Feng Shui® Practitioner Training in Canada. Students are welcomed in Red Deer, Alberta for the in person training to become graduates of the Western School of Feng Shui.

    She is an energetic alignment coach who shares a holistic approach to align the environment with the inner aspirations of her clients and students.

    Anita is a two time published author, having launched her first book The HeART of Feng Shui…Simply Put in 2019. She is a contributing author of the International bestselling book Ignite Love. Her third book to be released by Ignite Publishing in 2023 is co-authored with her business partner, Cheryl Viczko. (who is also an WSFS graduate)

    Over the last 25 years Anita has empowered thousands of people to live a more harmonious balanced life. She is passionate about helping her clients and students align the energies of their home with the energies of their heart. Her mission is to empower her clients and students to reach an elevated state of emotional excellence.

    fengshuisimplyput@gmail.com
    (403) 391-3899

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Lorrie Webb Grillo

Graduate & Teacher of the EFS
Fast-Track ZOOM Training

  • Lorrie Webb Grillo
    Certified Practitioner of Essential Feng Shui®
    Owner/President, Thriving Spaces, Denver, CO

    Lorrie is a Certified Practitioner of Essential Feng Shui® and owner of Thriving Spaces, LLC, a Feng Shui consulting practice in Metro Denver, Colorado, established in 2009.  She facilitates the WSFS Essential Feng Shui® Certification Training program in a two-week, Fast-Track Zoom "classroom" with daily coaching meetings and recorded sessions. Her practice includes residential and commercial consultations, teaching live and online workshops, and writing about Feng Shui.

    Her book, Yin Yang and Prosper, How to Create a Thriving Feng Shui Practice tells the story of how she built her business and what she actually does in a Feng Shui consultation.

    Learn more about Lorrie at ThrivingSpaces.com or contact Lorrie:  

    lwgrillo@thrivingspaces.com 
    (303) 882-7275

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Rosanne Rusnock

Graduate & Teacher of the Live EFS
Practitioner Training in Sedona, AZ

  • Rosanne Rusnock is certified in Essential Feng Shui® by the Western School of Feng Shui™️ and facilitates the live Essential Feng Shui® Practitioner Certification Training in Sedona Arizona. She also is an international EFS consultant, public speaker, teacher, and mindfulness coach. Ro consults with both residential and commercial property owners, helping her clients improve their lives.

    After 30 years in Phoenix, Arizona, she has recently returned to the Bay Area.

    (480) 241-5805
    ro@elementsandenergy.com