Robyn Bentley In The News...


Chicago Suburban News -  August 7, 2007
Moving in together can mean melding years worth of belongings
 

 
Nirvana Woman magazine Spring 2006
Celebrity Couples And Their Feng Shui Bedroom Compatibility.   (read article)

 

Richmond Home Style magazine April 2005

Wall Street Journal-Wednesday, 3/21/01 Page B-16
EXTRA MILE
The Greater Richmond Partnership, a Virginia business group, has come up with a novel way to lure Japanese companies to the region.  The organization has hired Robyn Bentley, a consultant on feng shui, the Eastern belief that buildings should be designed to maximize harmony and balance.  Ms. Bentley is analyzing three sites currently under consideration by a large Japanese  company that wants to locate a  manufacturing facility somewhere in the southeast.  For each site, she's doing a "flying star" calculation to choose the best direction for the main door to face as well as an analysis of landscape forms and nearby buildings for their positive or negative energies. "We're doing something that's important to decision makers," says Greg Wingfield, the  Partnership's president.  "We want to be able to say we've gone the extra mile."
(UPDATE:  GRPVA ANNUAL REPORT 2002-2003 PAGE 5 "JAPANESE FIRM SELECTS CHESTERFIELD FOR PLANT: Mitisubishi Gas Chemical Company is investing $14 million in constructon of a Nylon-MXD6 plant in the Ruffin Mill Inductrial Park in Chesterfield County.  Production is expected to commence in 2004")


Canadian Living Magazine
April 2004 issue Page 18
Feng Sleep
Feng Shui isn't a science, but it can't hurt to try it.  The 4,000 year-old Tibetan and Chinese practice involves living and working in harmony with the chi, or energy, around us.  "Everyone has positive and negative directions depending on year of birth and gender, and directions correspond to specific areas of life," says Robyn Bentley, a feng shui practitioner in Richmond, Va.  For example, if you're a woman born in 1962, sleeping with your head pointed North should bring you good luck at work.  The direction of your bed, says Bentley, is thought to bring luck (or cause problems) in four areas: money/career, health, marriage/family and wisdom/education.  To check your bed direction, stand at the foot of it and point a compass at your pillows; the way it points is the way you're sleeping.  Then check Bentley's web site, www.fengshuidiva.com for your good and bad directions -  and get ready to move your furniture around. 


RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH
METRO BUSINESS SECTION 12/30/02
COMPANY NEWS......
DISTINCTIONS : Feng Shui Expert Robyn Bentley was hired by ABC Family Television to help balance the Virginia Beach home of one of eight families competing in "My Life Is A Sitcom".


WIRELESS FLASH NEWS SERVICE  01/20/04
GONNA WASH THAT LUCK RIGHT OUT OF MY HAIR

RICHMOND, Va. (Wireless Flash) If you're celebrating Chinese new year on Thursday (Jan. 22) you may not want to wash your hair.  The Chinese believe that washing one's hair on New Year's can wash away the luck, says Robyn Bentley, who runs fengshuidiva.com.  Besides washing luck down the drain, Bentley says the Chinese believe using scissors will cut away luck, using a broom will sweep away luck and lending or borrowing money on New year's will make you a lender or borrower all year long.  Furthermore, Bentley says believers won't say the English word for four because it sounds like the Chinese word for death.  But not all things cause bad luck.  Bentley says cleaning your house before New Year's Eve, displaying oranges and tangerines and opening every door and window at midnight to let go of the old year all help usher in good fortune.


Feng Shui Diva Lands "Iyanla" Gig
Style Weekly Magazine - Richmond Virginia 8/14/01 Page 7

Richmonder Robyn Bentley, who recently trademarked her job title, the "Feng Shui Diva", has left her mark on the latest Oprah-spawned television show, "Iyanla". A mutual friend put Iyanla in contact with Bentley, who was tapped as feng shui consultant for the show, which premieres this week and is produced by Barbara Walters. The host, Iyanla Vanzant, is a self-help guru and frequent Oprah pundit.   
In May, Bentley spent a marathon 12-hour day in New York helping staffers lay out their offices in accordance with feng shui principles. The ancient Chinese and Tibetan system aligns each person's "positive and negative directions", as Bentley puts it, to help people "live in harmony with the energy around them".  To start, Bentley met one-on-one with each of the show's 40 important factor is your sleeping direction", Bentley explains, which is determined by your year of birth.  Aside from overseeing the layout of the worker's cubicles, she decided how to balance the surrounding offices and the private show is taped.  "Every workplace needs good feng shui, whether it's a TV show or a bank", Bentley says. But her advice doesn't come cheap.     Bentley charges $100 an hour for a minimum of three hours.  Bentley's advice is for sale locally, too. She is finishing a book scheduled for release in December. She also holds half-hour sessions at the Aquarian Bookstore in Willow Lawn. 


Applying Feng Shui Commercial, Residential Professionals    Discover Value of Ancient Chinese Practice Extolling Life in    Harmony with an Environment's 

 ......"For the past several years, awareness about feng shui
 (pronounced "FUNG schway") has grown in the real estate industry, especially in California, New York and Washington. Now, it's slowly working its way to Richmond....Although feng shui can be extremely complex, experts emphasized that it's also about being comfortable. "We put things up we feel good about," said Robyn Bentley, a Richmond feng shui consultant who was recently hired to feng shui the offices of "Iyanla," a national television talk show. "We send energy to the things we have around us, and in doing so, we put energy into our goals." 
Bentley added that feng shui does not mean decorating a home with Asian artifacts or symbols. "Symbols are powerful because we give them power by believing in them," she said. "Pick a goal, then pick something that    symbolizes it for you and send energy to it." 
Like homes, businesses that practice feng shui aren't easy to spot.  About three years ago, advertising agency Creasy Woolfolk Concepts hired Bentley to feng shui its office space. "When your livelihood depends on being creative, you're willing to look at anything to keep that creative energy flowing," said Cindy Creasy, president of Creasy Woolfolk Concepts. "We had nothing to lose except rearranging stuff, and everything to gain if it worked."  So Creasy tried it. She placed college awards in her fame and recognition section, and three weeks later, she won a national      award. She's won seven since.  "Is it feng shui? I don't know. Is it my creativity? I don't know," she said. "But you know what? I think I'm going to leave everything where it is."  Creasy added that the agency's office looks like any other office. "You wouldn't notice anything different," she said. "All it comes down to is rearranging." 
For businesses, experts agree that feng shui improves morale among employees by allowing them to work in a positive, comfortable environment.  Other business groups have discovered how feng shui can help give them a competitive edge in the marketplace.  This past spring, the Greater Richmond Partnership Inc. hired Bentley to conduct feng shui analyses on three locations in order to appeal to an Asian company looking to build a manufacturing plant.  The feng shui report was no different from a regular traffic study or soil analysis, said Gregory Wingfield, president and chief executive of the partnership. The Asian company, he said, was pleased that the partnership took the initiative to hire a feng shui consultant. "Different clients have different needs," he said, adding that the partnership would continue to offer feng shui analysis to its clients.
With the growing awareness about feng shui in private and business sectors, even real estate professionals who don't have an opinion about the practice say that it's important to at least be aware of it.  Richmond Times Dispatch 11/04/2001 Page L-1,2 
 

 Where Cupid fears to tread
A variety of Valentine's Day news from the heart beat

BY CYNTHIA MCMULLEN
RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Feb 13, 2003

Fact, fancy, fantasy, fun. A veritable potpourri of Valentine's Day "news"   has shown up on our doorstep. Some is funny, some is useful and some is just bizarre....  (edit) No twin beds? Ozzie and Harriet would be shocked. Richmond's own Feng Shui Diva, Robyn Bentley, offers tips for love and romance. Feng shui involves arranging a space to best work in harmony with the energy that surrounds us. So that space, in this case, would be the bedroom. According to Bentley, the Top 5 bedroom no-nos are water fountains, family photos, televisions and computers, exercise equipment and mirrors. (That's bad news for the Poconos!) The Top 5 bedroom yeah-yeahs are happy photos of the couple, symbols of love and pairs of things, a bed for two with two bedside tables and lamps, soft romantic lighting and scents. (edit)