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• About John Stuart Leslie
  John Stuart Leslie, MLA is creator and founder of My Sacred Garden. A website about the sacred-spiritual aspects of gardens and gardening activities and how they can have a transformative effect on the mind, body and spirit/soul. He holds a Master's degree in Landscape Architecture and has been a landscape designer and licensed contractor since 1982.
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  Articles on Spiritual Gardens, Sacred Gardens, Sanctuary Gardens, gardens of the soul, gardens for the soul, How to Design Sacred Gardens,, articles on Japanese gardens, Zen gardens, dry gardens, asian style gardens
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  Spiritual Gardens Blog for John Stuart Leslie
  
  
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• Creating a Garden Sanctuary
  Sara has a secret garden, a sanctuary where she can go to escape the rigors of daily life, to read, meditate or watch the sunset. Anyone can create their own sanctuary garden using some selective design principles. Here’s a quick primer on how to design your own sacred space.
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• Design and Budget Go Hand in Hand
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• Ebooks - Japanese Gardens, Feng Shui, Bonsai, Herbs, Organic Gardening
  Ebooks - Japanese Gardens, Feng Shui, Bonsai, Herbs, Organic Gardening
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• Feng Shui 5 Element Theory
  Gardens designed using principles of feng shui also use the chinese 5 five element theory in which water, fire, earth, metal and wood are important components to balance the energies within the landscape and garden areas.
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• Feng Shui Garden Books
  shop for Feng Shui books that deal with gardens. Feng Shui garden books that will help you design and enhance your garden. Add Feng shui design principles to the garden
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• Feng Shui Gardens
  Feng Shui applies to not only the interior of the house, but the way the house sits on the lot, its relationship to the street, the topography of the land and the elements that make up the landscaping. As Chi energy ebbs and flows around a house, it is greatly influenced by how well the architecture is sensitive to the site and the landscape elements around it. The front entrance of a house is the “mouth of Chi” and represents our relationship with society also informally known as the "curb appeal". Entrances, front doors and pathways should be inviting and welcoming to attract positive Chi.
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• Garden Bridges
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• Herbs From The Garden Can Heal
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• Gardens Designed For Spiritual Connection
  Sacred Gardens have a Spiritual component that can be accessed by anyone - they can also renew your Soul. Looking at the benefits of a garden in this way makes them Sacred spaces. Conventional gardens are often used strictly as functional, yet aesthetic creations, but can lack that certain symbolic meaning that makes them so special.
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• How to Use a Labyrinth
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• Japanese Gardens Bookstore
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• Labyrinth Gardens
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• Medicine Wheel Gardens
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• Meditation Gardens
  A meditation garden can have different meanings for different people. When you think of a meditation garden, do you think of a Zen type Japanese garden with raked gravel and an island of stones? Do you envision a secluded, private retreat surrounded by lush tropical growth as in a rainforest? Or perhaps you see an area in a traditional yard that has been designated for the purpose of meditating or just sitting in contemplation with a bench or chair or comfortable mat.
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• New An Aroma Garden
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• Sedona Labyrinth Review
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• Spiritual Gardens
  I use the terms “Spiritual Garden”, “Garden Sanctuary” and “Sacred Garden” interchangeably, for they are all so interrelated that it is only useful to differentiate when the term is appropriate to the context in which it is being used. With that said, a Garden Sanctuary is a space thoughtfully designed to create not only an ambiance of peace and prosperity, but at a transcendent level, where one connects with the Spirit of the Garden, facilitating a connection between Heaven and Earth, the Divine and Human, the Self and Universal Spirit.
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• Tea Gardens 101
  Tea gardens are associated with the exterior of a Japanese Tea House where the entrance to the tea house provides a transitional garden to prepare for the ceremony within the Tea House.
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• The Soul of a Garden
  Whether a garden has "soul" is not so much contained in the objects contained within the garden, but rather, one's sense of space and appreciation for what they are seeing and feeling. Your ability to "feel" the soul of a place is in direct proportion to what you are allowing yourself to feel. But you must be present, mindful. There is always soul - or spirit, contained in any garden. How you perceive that soul or spiritual energy, has much to do with your thoughts and feelings at the time.
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• Theme Garden Design Basics
  Designing a garden in any space can be challenging, but the approach to the design depends on what you are starting with, the canvas of your area in which the garden will be built. You may have a completely un-landscaped, brand new home type setting. You may have an existing landscape that needs remodeling. You could also have an acceptable garden but would like to embellish it with the spiritual themes we are discussing.
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• Traditional Japanese Gardens
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• What's Your Garden Design Style?
  Your garden style is a combination of your basic functional needs for your yard and your personality and how you choose to express your feelings and values.
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• Zen Gardens
  Zen Gardens is term used to describe a style of Japanese garden that is of the 'Kara-sansui' style or dry landscape form. It is controversial among Japanese Garden purists in that there is no historical reference to actual Zen Gardens in Japanese garden history. The term is used primarily by western cultures referring to an actual style of japanese garden that is comprised mostly of rocks, gravel and is otherwise sparse of plant materials.
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