About Sherri + Transcendence Design's Mission


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Sherri Silverman, PhD, is the founder of Transcendence Design, a Vastu conscious design consultant, artist, meditation teacher, and writer. As a Vastu consultant for twenty-five years and author of the acclaimed book Vastu: Transcendental Home Design in Harmony with Nature, she is one of the world's leading Vastu experts. In addition to aligning homes and businesses with the laws of nature, she brings comfort, functionality, individuality, natural materials, beauty, and heart to your conscious design project. Sherri offers a comprehensive Certified Vastu Consultant Training Program and also teaches Vastu for the Sevanti Institute. 

Sherri has been meditating and doing spiritual practices since 1972. She has taught meditation, yoga, and spiritual development courses for decades; she studied directly with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Transcendental Meditation) and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (Art of Living Foundation). Read about how Sherri learned about Vastu in her blog. She was an adjunct professor at Naropa University and various colleges, teaching art history, literature, writing, humanities, and interdisciplinary studies.

Sherri's artwork is on permanent display in the New Mexico State Capitol Art Collection, featured in the book 100 Artists of the Southwest, and in public, corporate, and private collections. See her art prints and art for sacred space original art in our Shop. Find more of her art at https://sherrisilverman.com 

She is a popular speaker at venues ranging from radio shows to the Denver Art Museum to Santa Fe Design Week. She is frequently interviewed for media around the world. Sherri is adept at making Vedic knowledge clear and accessible, whether it is Vastu, Jyotish, sacred texts, or Padmini Vidya. Numerous honors include listings in Who's Who in the West, Who's Who of American Women, and 2000 Outstanding Artists & Designers of the 20th Century.

Making art, meditating, and teaching spiritual practices have enhanced Sherri's sensitivity to energy, beauty, and placement. Her innate talents, Vastu and Vedic knowledge, and intuitive abilities help her create inner and outer serenity and beauty in home, garden, and business spaces and in the lives of her clients. She also has expertise in organizing systems, art curation, and conscious organic lifestyle.

Sherri lives in Marin County in the San Francisco Bay Area. She consults on Vastu and design projects worldwide.

Transcendence Design's mission is to inspire and support beauty, sacred space, and spiritually based life through its courses, conscious shop, and design services. Its offerings are beneficial for people and the planet and are based on Sherri's intention to shift consciousness, nourish, enlighten, and bring more beauty into the world.

Our logo and favicon image are a crown chakra emblem from one of Sherri's pastel paintings based on an eighteenth century Nepalese manuscript.