About Laura Cerrano
Meet second generation, Certified Feng Shui Master Laura Cerrano. She is also a Certified Usui Reiki Master, Sound Healer, Geopathic Stress Dowser and REMO endorsed Drum Circle facilitator.
Laura Cerrano is an adoptee from Bogotá, Colombia. She is second generation of Certified Feng Shui Masters and first generation Certified Usui Reiki Master within her family. She is a graduate from SUNY New Paltz with a double Bachelor's Degree in Art Education and Fine Arts. She began her Feng Shui training in 1997. During her early years and throughout college, Laura studied with some of the finest Masters in Feng Shui while obtaining her foundational Feng Shui teachings under the guidance of her mother and mentor, Certified Feng Shui Master, Carole Provenzale. Laura received her Feng Shui Certification in 2000. Her mother Carole, was one of the first accredited Feng Shui consultants in America, certified and blessed by his High Holiness Grandmaster Professor Lin Yun, through The Metropolitan Institute of Interior Design in 1997.
This mother-daughter team established Feng Shui Manhattan in 1997 (formerly known as "Feng Shui Long Island"). In 2010, Laura was appointed President and CEO after her mother's passing.
Coming full circle, Laura taught at the Metropolitan Institute of Design in NY for a few years. Not too long after, she established her educational center, The Feng Shui Manhattan School. Through this platform, Laura teaches monthly workshops (in-person and virtually) locally and throughout the country, monthly empowerment groups, monthly reiki healing circles and drum circles, and yearly Feng Shui Certification Classes. She contributes weekly blog posts to her site and has been featured in Oprah Magazine, BBC Radio, The New York Times, PBS, Bravo TV's "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” At Home Podcast with Linda and Drew Scott, HGTV Forever Home - Property Brothers: Season 5 - Go With The Flow, The 98.3 K-JOY Morning Show, CBC Television Documentary called "Superstitious Minds," and News China Television.
Laura advises and helps thousands on issues of personal, professional, and spiritual transformation. She works with various clients and organizations:
Residential and Small Businesses
Fortune 500 Companies
Investment/Banking Companies
Container Shipping/Product Development Companies
Jewelry Companies
Real Estate Developers
Wellness Centers/Hospitals
Public and Private Schools/Universities/Colleges
Hospitality/Airbnb’s
Senior Living Facilities
Cancer Treatment Facilities
Community/Art Centers
Her unique approach to Feng Shui has been credited with reducing stress, anxiety, and depression, and has helped improve focus, sleep, and the betterment of a person’s overall well-being and financial health. Her Feng Shui consulting firm spans across the United States from New York to California and provides international Feng Shui Consulting services.
She is currently conducting research for her upcoming book that focuses on bridging the gap between the ancient wisdom of Feng Shui and the psychology, neurological, and physiological health benefits it provides. The intention for these collaborative studies is to establish the practice of Feng Shui as a credible practice of encouraging people to live healthier lifestyles.
Making sure she practices what she preaches, Laura allocates time to her love of the arts. You often find her circulating within the artist community, exhibiting her award-winning drawings and paintings throughout Long Island, New York City, Brooklyn, and California galleries. Music is another passion of Laura’s, which has evolved to her playing percussions for various bands including The Dee Harris Jazz-blue Project, Raga 2, Shaman, Throughline, Jack Licitra's band, The Waterfall, and “Island Samba” of Long Island, NY.
Laura is a REMO endorsed Rhythm2Recovery and Music for People® improvisational trained drum circle facilitator. She often collaborates with Brooklyn based musician, Todd Rodgers, to facilitate monthly drum circles throughout New York City and the overall tri-state region. For indoor drum circles and musical improv jam sessions, you’ll find them hosting at the Village Zendo in Tribeca or at Anima Mundi Apothecary in Brooklyn, NY. For outdoor gatherings (when the weather allows) they can be spotted near Cherry Hill in Central Park.
Throughout Long Island, NY Laura facilitates on-going public improvisational group drum circle and sound healing sessions for adults, seniors, teens and children. These events are sponsored by the Nassau and Suffolk L.I. County library system.
Laura facilitates weekly drum circles for members of the Hope & Healing program at The Parker Jewish Institute - working with dementia and Alzheimer populations, as well as with their caretakers. The Bristal in Lynbrook, NY has also hired Laura to host monthly drum circles for the memory care unit and assisted living senior population. Since 2011, Laura provides healing services for the nonprofit organization Strength For Life NY, customizing the programming on the topic of Feng Shui, and Reiki, facilitating art therapy healing techniques, and drum circles for cancer patients and survivors during their weekend wellness retreats, which happens 4x a year. Laura has recently teamed up with the Ovarian Cancer Coalition, New York Chapter to provide healing services for their retreat events as well.
Laura is a world traveler, having trekked to the Base Camp of Mount Everest and the Denali Glacier in Alaska (where she was proposed to in 2015). In 2018, Laura and her husband married while traveling through New Zealand, accompanied by the beautiful backdrop of Castle Hill.
Who Laura Studied and Studies With:
Certified Feng Shui Master Carole Provenzale was Laura’s first teacher and mentor in Feng Shui from 1997 until 2010. Through the guidance of Master Carole Provenzale, she passed down the teaching of Feng Shui to Laura from His Holiness, Grandmaster Professor Lin Yun, Pamela Lawrence, Katherine Metz, William Sphere, and R.D. Chin during her years of apprenticeship and training. In 2010, Laura expanded upon her foundational studies by studying with Denise Linn, Alex Stark, Marie Diamond, Lily Rubinstein, Pierre Dubois, Peter Blum, Ron Bates, Tim Walter of Knights Rose, Katie Down, Joseph Schmidlin, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD, Barbara Mainguy, M.A, Mary Kynsh and Jim Oshinsky (music for people), and Psychic Development teacher Sandy Anastasi to expand her knowledge and practice in the field of Feng Shui, Sound Healing, Bodywork, Meditation, hypnosis, physic development, dowsing, emotional and spiritual intelligence, and much more.
Additional Complementary Areas of Study Include:
The History of Black Sect Feng Shui, Shamanism, Bagua Map Theory and Practice, The Five Elements Theory and Practice, Bau Biology, I Ching, Alchemy, Inner Alchemy, Certified Reiki 1 & 2, Master Reiki Level, Certified Bodywork and Sound Healer, Environmental Healing with Feng Shui, Psychic and Intuitive Development, Sacred Geometry, Psychology, Biophilic Design, Spiritual Dowsing, Archetypes, Spiritual Psychology, Advanced Transcendental Cures, Kung Fu, Dowsing, Shabd Meditation, Tai Chi, Dowsing, I-Ching, Environmental Psychology, Feng Shui in Business, Flying Stars Feng Shui, 9-star Ki, The New York Mystery School, 8-Mansions Feng Shui, Feng Shui in Architecture, Feng Shui in Real Estate, Energy Healing, Certified Hypnosis Consultant, Certified New York Art teacher, Certified Personal Trainer.
Sample List Of Clients:
Property Brothers: Forever Home, LA
TEDxCUNY - John Jay College, NY
University of Southern California, CA
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company (USA) INC
North Shore University Hospital - Northwell Health, NY
Ovarian Cancer Coalition, NY Chapter
Silvercup Properties, NY
CBC Television, Canada
TD Bank, NYC
PBS, NYC
The Austin, Forest Hills, NY
The Bristal Assisted Living, NY
Box, NY
Jefferson Ferry (Senior Living), NY
Warner Music Group, NYC
Morgan Stanley, NYC
The Catholic Diocese of San Diego, CA
Friedburg JCC, Oceanside, NY
Parker Jewish Institue (hope and healing program), NY
Rockrose Development, LIC
Unispace Interior Design, NY
Barney's Personal Shopping, NYC
China News Service USA Bureau, NY
Broadway Lyric Theater, NYC
Modern Spaces Developers, NY
Nassau County and Suffolk County Library System, NY
Oliver West Apothecary & Day Spa Inc, NY
Columbia University, NYC
Wall Street Analysts, NYC
Strength for Life, NY (Non for Profit Organization fighting Cancer)
Long Island, NY Nassau and Suffolk County Library Systems
Wake County Library System, NC
New York Athletic Club, NYC
Eyes of Learning, NY
The Spiritual Connection Center, NY
Rhemedy by Rhed Therapeutic Massage, NYC
South Huntington Jewish Center, NY
Douglas Elliman: Alexander Team Real Estate, NYC
Town of Hempstead Cultural Arts Program, NY
Pereira & O'Dell, NYC
The Holistic Home School of Feng Shui, NY
TLC Metal Restoration, NY
CORT Furniture, NYC
Hudson Valley Real Estate, NY
The Vista Building, NY
Bravo TV's 'Watch What Happens Live,' NYC
Tiffany & Co., NY
Deloitte., CA
LinkedIn Corporation, NYC
Nikon Corporation, NY
Viana Hotel and Spa, NY
Omni Martial Arts, NY
Farmingdale School District (Art Department), NY
First In Service, NY
Madison Physical Therapy, NY
Far East Lounge, CA
St. Joseph’s college, NY
National Art Club, NYC
Coldwell Banker, NY
Laffy Fine Homes, NY
Los Angeles County Library System, CA
Scope, CA
BBC Radio Leicester, UK
Merits Realty Group, CA
Molloy College, NY
Baruch College CUNY, NY
Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty, NY
SB Development Group, NY
The Perfume City, CA
18 Park, NJ
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