Welcome to LifeHouse

A contemporary practice in the classical Chinese arts of Feng Shui, Ba Zi and the Yi Jing. Creating vibrant, meaningful connection between and within lives and places through design, life guidance and inspiration.

Hello, I'm Ryan Terren

I’ve been weaving design, geography, psychology, theatre-making, Eastern internal arts and, more recently, training in narrative therapy and regenerative architecture.  These threads came together with the founding of LifeHouse, based on an ongoing inquiry into how our most ancient wisdom can be in dialogue with contemporary challenges and restore health and vitality to ourselves and our environments.
I consult, create and teach online or in person - or via collaboration with architects, designers and fellow practitioners.
More about me

  • Ryan is hands down a most unique modern sage and oracle, no exaggeration. During our interactions I've gleaned important mentoring, cultivation advice, life path guidance, the list goes on. I count Ryan and the resources/advice he provides to be in the top three most critical and relevant impacts in my daily life.

    Sean Compton

  • Working with Ryan was a holistic, practical, and illuminating experience. He clearly puts a lot of thought and care into his work, and there is so much depth to our sessions, I will be exploring and unpacking them for months to come.

    Chris Hambleton

  • Ryan’s background in both Ba Zi and Feng Shui is both deep and incredibly broad. His analytical work felt fully embodied, considered, and totally trustworthy. Even poetic. Ryan is generous and friendly and funny, and it made the time working together feel more like a collaboration, and always very comfortable.

    Judith Hooper | www.grasshillfarm.org

Work with me

  • Life Guidance + Astrology Readings

    Using Chinese Astrology and the Yi Jing, I support people navigating transitions — or simply those curious to deepen their personal cultivation. The work brings insight into their nature and life path, helping transform uncertainty into clarity, confidence, and agency.

    Astrology

  • Feng Shui + Design

    Through Feng Shui, I work to regenerate and evolve spaces by aligning them with their surroundings, their occupants, and the cycles of time. This often means finding or optimising the energy of new homes, or transforming spaces that are unsettled or linked to challenging life issues.

    Feng Shui

  • Classes, Courses + Retreats

    I run monthly online classes in Feng Shui and Astrology, as well as occasional live courses and retreats teaching the Yi Jing. I also run a weekly Qi Gong class on the North Dorset / Somerset border

    Learn 
The wisdom arts of ancient China such as feng shui, astrology, qi gong and divination offer a profound means of understanding, and transforming, ourselves and our world. 
Yet, like so much indigenous wisdom, they have been denounced, destroyed or co-opted to serve global structures of power and self-interest. Take feng shui, once a living art tuned to the pulses of nature and the human spirit, now boiled down to design hacks serving vague notions of harmony and personal aspiration.  Such hollowed out methods benefit neither the arts, nor the people that use them.
At their richest and most authentic roots, Chinese wisdom traditions are concerned with the profound cultivation of body, mind and landscape. They draw us back into radical, relational and embodied understandings that mine the full depth of our experience.

Feng Shui highlights

  • The Forge, Dorset

  • Tejanu, Colombia

  • Sudbourne Road, London

  • Grass Hill Farm, Connecticut

  • Mount Street, London

  • Newton Manor Hall, Dorset

  • The Coach House, Dorset

  • Longueville, Belgium

  • Via Nemea, Milan

  • Glentor Road, Plymouth

  • Brimstone Lane, Massachusetts

  • Red Hook, New York State

  • Stuttgart, Germany

  • As a designer I would highly recommend Ryan's services. He has fantastic communication skills and is able to simplify the complex depths of Feng Shui into real and understandable concepts. I found the experience of working with him both educational and inspirational.

    John Teall, Interior Designer

  • I found Ryan's classes beautifully presented, fun and engaging. A generous sharing of wisdom born from many years of living these arts and an invitation into a different way of comprehending the world and our place within it. Seeing Ryan equally at home in the poetic/symbolic and the more grounded and practical made me realise that I had constructed these as polar opposites and that they can and should be married.

    Hannah Kresider-Watkinson

  • Ryan is hugely knowledgeable and shared his knowledge generously. Our astrology sessions have been thought provoking, energising, inspiring and quite unique. Thank you so much Ryan!

    Michelle Everitt