What Actually Happens in a Vastu Consultation
What actually happens in a Vastu consultation
People put off booking because they do not know what they are buying. That is a reasonable thing to be cautious about in a field with no licensing and plenty of vagueness.
So here is the whole process, start to finish, including the prices and the parts we will not do.
Before anything: it is remote
The practice is remote and written. Readings are done from a floor plan and a satellite image, for clients in the UK, the US and the UAE.
That is not a compromise. The two things a Vastu reading depends on — the building's true orientation and the floor plate — are both read more accurately from above than from standing in a hallway with a compass. A visit adds atmosphere and travel cost. It does not add precision.
There are no site visits. Everything is done from the plan, the orientation and what you tell us, for clients in the UK, the US and the UAE.
Stage one — intake
You complete a questionnaire and we have a short call.
What we ask for:
- A floor plan. An estate agent's plan is fine. A hand sketch with measurements is fine. It does not need to be architectural.
- The building's orientation. You can take this yourself with the free Direction Finder, or we take it from satellite imagery.
- Photographs of each main room, taken from the doorway.
- What brought you here. This matters more than people expect. "The house feels heavy" and "the business in this unit has not worked for two years" lead to different readings.
What we do not ask for: your date of birth, your star sign, or the building's construction date. Vastu does not use any of them. Any practitioner asking for your birth chart has moved into astrology, which is a different discipline being sold under the same heading.
Stage two — the aura scan
A seven-layer reading, recorded against the zones of your property rather than in the abstract.
This is the part that differs most from a standard Vastu service. A reading of your biofield that is not tied to a place gives you a description. Tied to the building you spend most of your life in, it gives you a map of where description and place disagree.
If you have booked a Vastu consultation alone rather than the combined audit, this stage is brief and the emphasis stays on the building.
Stage three — energy mapping
Your readings and your floor plan become one document.
This is where mismatches become visible: the room where you sleep badly turns out to sit in a zone that wants lightness and is carrying the heaviest furniture in the house. The study that never quietens is under the stairs in a zone that was never meant to hold concentration.
Nothing is prescribed yet. This stage only puts the two pictures on top of each other.
Stage four — quadrant analysis
The sixteen zones, assessed one at a time. Each one is scored and each one is given a correction.
A zone is scored on what occupies it against what the zone asks for. The north-east wants light, openness and low weight; a boiler cupboard in it scores badly. The south-west wants mass; a glass extension there scores badly for the opposite reason.
Scoring every zone — not just the ones with obvious problems — is what stops a reading becoming a list of whatever caught the consultant's eye.
Stage five — the plan
A written schedule, ordered by impact.
Not a list of everything wrong with your home. A sequence: what to move this week, what to change this month, what to consider this year. Most households act on the first three items and see most of the available benefit, because the items are ordered by how much difference they make rather than by which room they are in.
A typical plan contains:
| Section | What is in it |
|---|---|
| The bearing | Your building's orientation, how it was taken, and the date |
| Zone scores | All sixteen, each with what currently occupies it |
| This week | Two to four changes, usually free — moving, clearing, relighting |
| This month | Changes needing a small purchase or a weekend |
| This year | Anything requiring trades, budget, or a landlord's permission |
| Not recommended | Corrections commonly sold that we do not think you need |
That last section is in every report. It exists because the most common question after a reading is "should I buy a pyramid", and the honest answer is usually no.
Stage six — review
A follow-up at six weeks. Included, not upsold.
Six weeks is long enough that you will have done the first items and lived with them, and short enough that you remember what the room was like before. We go through what changed, what did not, and whether anything in the plan should be reordered.
What it costs
Every reading is priced against the property it is for, so the figure comes after we have seen the plan rather than before. Send what you have and you will have a number back the same day, with no obligation attached to it.
Whatever we quote is for the whole process above, including the six-week review. There is no separate charge for the report, and no retainer.
What we will not do
Worth stating plainly, because these are the things that make people wary of the field and they are all avoidable.
We will not tell you your home is cursed. It is a building with an orientation. Some zones are carrying things they are poorly suited to. That is a layout problem with a layout solution.
We will not recommend demolition to justify a fee. Structural change is the last option on our list, not the first. Most faults are corrected by changing what occupies a zone — weight, light, colour, use — not by moving a wall.
We will not make medical claims. Vastu does not treat, cure or relieve any condition and we will not suggest otherwise. If something you describe sounds clinical, we will say so and suggest you speak to a doctor. That is not caution for its own sake: it is what the UK advertising rules require, and it is also simply true.
We will not sell you an object you do not need. The catalogue exists to serve the plan. If the plan does not call for an object, the report says so.
Can you do this yourself?
Some of it, yes, and we would rather you tried.
Take your bearing with the free tool. Find your north-east and clear it. Look at where the heaviest furniture in the house is sitting and whether it is in the south-west. Those three actions are free, take an afternoon, and cover a meaningful share of what a reading typically finds in a British home.
What a consultation adds is the systematic part: all sixteen zones scored rather than the three you noticed, corrections checked against what your particular building allows, and an order of operations so you are not doing the least important thing first.
If you do the free parts and nothing changes, that is useful information too, and it is worth saying before you spend anything.
Book a residential Vastu consultation. Compass reading, sixteen-zone analysis, a written correction schedule, and a six-week review included.