Richard S. Caldwell and Tika Vales Caldwell
Meet the Founders of Living Design Consultants and Living Design Technology®
Living Design Technology® (LDT) started in 2007 and is an outgrowth of Richard and Tika’s individual talents and soul missions.
Tika Vales Caldwell, a professional designer, and Richard Spalding Caldwell, an award-winning commercial and residential architect, combined their professions of environmental energy balancing, personal transformation, and architecture for well-being as Living Design Technology®. Both were trained in Vesica Institute Advanced Biogeometry™, creating a New Science of Earth Healing, and promoting Holistic Healthy Homes.
In 2022 they co-authored the Bio-Energetic Architectural and Living Design System Manual which captures the essence of Richard’s architectural design vocabulary and integrates it with Tika’s harmonizing technology.
Currently, Tika and her LDT team work with private clients, developers, architects, interior designers, builders and master gardeners to apply the benefits of LDT to their personal lives, homes, and projects.
Tika Vales Caldwell
Native New Orleanian Ana Maria Vales also known as Tika Vales Caldwell is passionate about health, wellness, and creating optimal healing environments. A nationally respected designer and healing arts practitioner with 35 years of experience, Tika assists individuals and businesses in alleviating electro and geopathic stress, optimizing external energetic patterns, and creating optimal health potential. In collaboration with leading-edge scientists and engineers, she has developed a product line of energetic tools that utilize ancient wisdom and modern technology to reduce stress and increase balance and harmony in both environmental and personal applications.
Tika holds a B.A. in Education from Alfred University with an emphasis in environmental studies and is certified in a variety of health, wellness, and transformation modalities. She holds a masters in BrainState Technologies™ brain balancing, is trained in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and is a certified Master Practitioner in the Art of Becoming Your Best Self™.
Tika apprenticed for five years with Dr. Gene Basin, the creator of the Art of Becoming personal transformation system. Dr. Basin holds a doctorate in clinical hypnotherapy and published the two-volume “Art of Becoming — Theory and Practice” book with a nine CD audio series. In addition, Tika apprenticed for ten years with Rev. Shirley Saylors Clarkson, BSRN. Shirley is a pastoral minister and health and wellness counselor who was one of the original charter members for the American Holistic Nurses Association.
Since 2000, Tika has received extensive training from two thought leaders in the fields of BioGeometry and subtle energy: Dr. Ibrahim Karim, the founder of BioGeometry, an emergent scientific field of “the energy of forms” that lies at the intersection of science and spirituality; and Dr. Robert Gilbert, founder of the Vesica Institute and a former US Marine Corps Instructor in the field of Nuclear Biological Chemical Defense with more than 25 years of teaching and working with detection and protection against harmful radiations.
Richard Spalding Caldwell
January 30, 1939 — November 1, 2024
Click here to visit Richard’s Celebration of Life page
Richard Spalding Caldwell, an award-winning commercial and residential architect and artist, received his B.A. in Architecture from LSU in 1962. In his early years of study, he developed a deep appreciation for Japanese architecture after sketching and photographing buildings and gardens while living in Japan. He also engaged in the personal study of early Louisiana architecture and its relationship to Caribbean architecture through travel and sketching and photographing buildings in the islands, another early influence.
In 1998 he met Dr. Ibrahim Karim and discovered the science and art of BioGeometry and Sacred Geometry as it relates to architecture. That same year, he worked with Andreas Duany to complete a week-long design Charrette in Baton Rouge. The resulting plan served as a comprehensive guide to redevelop the city’s downtown using new urbanist principles. Recently, Richard worked with the city of Brevard, NC to apply New Urbanist principles to their new comprehensive development plan.
Since 2000, Richard received extensive training from two thought leaders in the fields of BioGeometry and subtle energy: Dr. Ibrahim Karim, the founder of BioGeometry, an emergent scientific field of “the energy of forms” that lies at the intersection of science and spirituality; and Dr. Robert Gilbert, founder of the Vesica Institute and a former US Marine Corps Instructor in the field of Nuclear Biological Chemical Defense with more than 25 years of teaching and working with the detection and protection against harmful radiations.
Richard’s passion was expressing harmonic proportions in all areas of design. He developed a deep understanding of its value to optimize both grace and well-being.
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Click here to read “Healing Spaces” article by Richard Caldwell.
Our Consulting Services
Personal
Using bioenergetic principles and tools, we can assist you in raising the vibration of your personal energy field in order to integrate your body, mind, and spirit.
Environmental
We reproduce nature’s original blueprint to transform electro-magnetic fields and geopathic stress into balanced energy levels that support life.
Architectural Services
We design for well-being. Using traditional, green and bioenergetic principles, our architectural design services enhance beauty, balance, and harmony in every area of your life.
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