For consultants, designers, and serious students building a professional practice: the Liu-Cuo Professional Feng Shui Practitioner Program is not a course you buy — it is a qualification you earn. Sixty hours of structured training in the lineage's working method, followed by written examination, three assessed client cases, a recorded consultation, and a signed code of ethics. Those who pass receive a one-year lineage authorization, renewed annually, listed in a public registry, and accountable to the lineage that issued it. This is a private credential — not a government license or accredited qualification.
Apply for the Founding Cohort — US$99 deposit, refunded if declined Read the program firstThe Liu-Cuo lineage is a family line of Taoist ritual practice from northern Taiwan, transmitted master to disciple for centuries and still in active service today. Its priests keep a working altar: they perform the ceremonies, take compass readings, survey the houses, and train successors — as previous generations did.
Unlike many short-form certification courses, this program descends from a tradition with documented texts, instruments, and a living teaching line. When you are credentialed here, the authorization names its source — and the issuing lineage remains accountable for its standards.
We do not claim to be the only authentic school, and we do not sell mystery. The lineage's position is simple: this is not secrecy — it is procedure. Every method taught in this program is the method actually used, presented with its terms, its steps, and its limits.
| Document | Duration | What it proves |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate of Completion | Permanent | You completed the prescribed training hours. |
| Certificate of Professional Qualification | Permanent | You passed written, case, and practical assessment. |
| Lineage Practice License | One year, renewable | The lineage currently permits your use of its methods, title, and badge within a stated scope, subject to local law. |
| Registry Entry & Digital Badge | Follows license status | Clients can verify you in real time. |
Recorded instruction with subtitles (36 h), readings and assignments (8 h), field and case practice (12 h), examination and assessed consultation (4 h). A monthly live case clinic reviews real floor plans and student casework. The curriculum teaches the Liu-Cuo working method, complete and unpadded.
| Module | Subject | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The lineage, Taoist cosmology, professional ethics | Know the tradition, its boundaries, and the promises you may never make. |
| 2 | Yin-yang, five phases, qi, form, and direction | A consistent working vocabulary. |
| 3 | External forms: roads, water, terrain, structures | Complete an environmental survey. |
| 4 | The luopan compass and the twenty-four mountains | Measure, record, and account for error. |
| 5 | Entrances, circulation, and primary qi mouths | Diagnose entries and shared spaces. |
| 6 | Bed, desk, stove, and core functional zones | Recommendations that are practical, not theatrical. |
| 7 | The full residential survey | From floor plan to a professional client report. |
| 8 | Small commercial spaces and offices | Entries, seating, flow, and brand needs. |
| 9 | Time factors and annual considerations | As actually applied in the lineage's method. |
| 10 | Adjustments and their limits | Distinguish spatial advice, symbolic measures, and ritual — and refer the latter. |
| 11 | Interviews, pricing, reports, and aftercare | Run a complete professional consultation. |
| 12 | Cases, simulated clients, final assessment | Three cases, one recorded consultation, final examination. |
Assessment standard: module tests and final written examination at 80% or above · three accepted case reports · a 20–30 minute recorded consultation reviewed by the lineage · signed Code of Ethics. Final credential decisions are made by the lineage's presiding authority — never by software.
Continuing path: the Qimen Strategy Practitioner Program (second track) opens after the founding feng shui cohorts; dual-licensed practitioners carry both scopes. A small annual Lineage Immersion in Taiwan — instruments, field surveys, and the tradition's working context, in person — is offered by application to qualified students.
These limits are contractual. They protect clients, practitioners, and the tradition itself — and they are why the credential is worth holding.
Behind the program stands the lineage's own research practice: classical ritual and divination texts read in the original, terminology standardized across Chinese and English, and historical claims kept on a documented footing. Where evidence is strong we say so; where tradition and history diverge, we teach the difference.
Students receive a bilingual glossary of working terms, source notes for every module, and case materials drawn from real surveys. You will not be asked to take the method on faith — you will be shown where it comes from and how it is applied.
Payment plans available at checkout. Prices are charged in TWD at the prevailing rate; the exact converted amount is shown before you confirm.
The US$99 application deposit is refunded in full if your application is declined, and credited toward tuition if accepted. If you are accepted but choose not to enroll, the deposit is refundable within 14 days of the admission decision. Full tuition refund terms, in plain language, are stated on the enrollment agreement before any payment.
Questions first? Write to the same address; a real reply, usually within two business days.
No. It is a private credential issued by the Liu-Cuo Taoist lineage under its own published standards: training, examination, ethics, annual renewal, public verification, and revocation. We state this everywhere, including on the certificate itself.
No. This is professional training in a consulting discipline. No religious affiliation, belief, initiation, or ritual participation is required — of applicants, students, or credential holders.
No. This is professional training in feng shui consulting. Religious roles in the lineage are a separate, application-based path with its own vetting and its own ceremonies — never sold, and never automatic.
You keep full course access, receive examiner feedback, and may re-examine (one re-examination included in founding tuition). The same published passing standard applies to every candidate — that is what makes passing meaningful.
Three things: the source (a living Taiwanese ritual lineage, not a seminar brand), the standard (published examinations that every candidate must actually pass), and the accountability (annual licensure, public registry, and revocation). We make no claim to be the only serious school — we simply publish our standards and keep them.
Most students complete the program in four to eight months at three to five hours per week. Access does not expire.
All instruction is in English (subtitled, with a bilingual glossary). Assessments are asynchronous — you record your consultation on your own schedule, without booking a live examination across time zones.
A small annual Lineage Immersion — in-person study in Taiwan: instruments, field surveys, and the tradition's working context — is offered by application to enrolled students. Details are provided after admission.