About Fawn Chang

I have been chasing one question my entire life: what are we truly capable of? What is the magic of being human — what is each human being and their body truly capable of — and how do we begin to live that?

For my entire life I’ve studied the human connection to their environment. What I discovered was that within each of us, right now, is a working — always working — well of health and wholeness. Once we remove the stress that is blocking it, wow is all I have to say.

That is my passion and my goal: to help each person remove what is blocking them from the fullness of their life, their passion, and their health. That is the luxury I design for and speak about — not defined by price or status but by what the body knows as home.

That curiosity took me from deep dives into classical architecture, painting, the writings and religions of the world — the places humans have always encoded their understanding of life — to my discovery of Feng Shui at fourteen. I knew immediately there was something profoundly valuable in this study, and my instinct from the very beginning was to strip away the cultural mythology and find the underlying truth — the direct connection between the human body, the environment, and Nature itself.

In case you aren’t familiar, Feng Shui is a small branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The masters of old were physicians, herbalists, acupuncturists and cosmologists who understood how the body is deeply connected to the environment. They knew how to prepare for and navigate change to permit the body to restore itself and thrive in dynamic balance with all life — and they knew that balance is not a fixed state but a moment-to-moment conversation between the body and the environment, a continuous stream of signals that say “pay attention — something here could be harmful.”

What neuroscience and neuroarchitecture are now discovering and validating, piece by piece, the Feng Shui masters knew as a whole. They were the original scientists — working without the terminology but with a profound understanding that everything is interconnected, that the body, the environment, and the cycles of life cannot be separated. My study of Feng Shui was always in service of finding those connections — stripping away the cultural mythology to reveal the underlying truth that modern science is now catching up to. The environment was one of their tools for supporting the body’s return to balance. It still is. Most people just don’t know it yet.

So I studied and learned everything I could find at the intersection of the body and the world it inhabits — interior and industrial design, life sciences, from anatomy and physiology to astrophysics to fine art at the University of Pittsburgh, LaRoche College, and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Along the way I studied neurodesign, UI and UX, Disney’s approach to immersive environments. Studies included Ayurveda, sacred geometry, acupuncture and chiropractic — not to become a practitioner of each but to see the whole picture from every angle.

Along the way I designed commercial, healthcare, retail, restaurant, and residential environments — always through the lens of what I now call Human Regenerative Design. I taught art and technology to children, administrated a large ophthalmology practice, spent a decade in color marketing and technology with PPGPaints, and was commissioned to translate complex astrophysics research into a public exhibit accessible to a fifth grader — without losing a single person in the room.

I author professional development continuing education programs for Color Guild International, founded The Gentle SHIFT Academy, and have delivered more than 2,500 presentations on stages from Fairbanks, Alaska to Santiago, Chile, from Hawaii to Barbados. Through all of it, the people who escorted me from stage to stage knew we would always make a detour — to put my feet in the water or on the earth, even in frozen fields — because that was the thing that brought me back to myself every time.

The best information is always somebody else’s story. Information is helpful — but your own body is the highest technology available to you, in every moment. Once we remove the stress that the environment has been quietly running on it, you won’t believe what becomes possible. And you won’t need to believe it — because you’ll be living it.

And when everyone feels safe, everything will change.