Juan M. Alvarez  is a senior member of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers, a licensed Real Estate Broker and Certified General Contractor in the State of Florida.  Alvarez has over 40 years of professional experience in the construction industry, including design, construction and financing of industrial, commercial and residential projects.   During the last 10 years Prof. Alvarez has been actively involved in the design and construction of commercial and residential projects using the environmental art of Feng Shui. 

Juan M. Alvarez has been in metaphysics since an early age. He is a forty-year member and Grand Councilor Emeritus of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC and of the Martinist Order. 

Juan M. Alvarez is an internationally recognized authority on Feng Shui.  He dedicates a great part of his time to making people aware of the changes that are happening on our planet through his work with Feng Shui.   Prof. Alvarez has studied Feng Shui with Master Raymond Lo from Hong Kong; completed the Feng Shui Mastery Program (including Module IV) with Grand Master Yap Cheng Hai from Malaysia; and is a student disciple of Grand Master Thomas Lin Yun, creator of the Fourth Level of Feng Shui.        

Prof. Alvarez was a pioneer bringing the teachings of Feng Shui to South Florida and to Latin America.  He travels widely through North, Central America, South America and Spain, imparting the knowledge of Feng Shui.  He has been invited to speak at national and international Feng Shui and professional events, including all the International Feng Shui Conferences in the United States, Special Lecturer in the VII National Congress of Architects and Engineers, City of Panama, Panama, 1996; International congresses of Feng Shui in Bogotá, Colombia; International Real State Show, Curacao, Netherland Antilles; American National Society of Commercial Store Designers, Atlanta, Georgia; Whole Life Expo; Body Mind and Spirit,  Miami Book Fair International and Book Expo Convention.

Prof. Alvarez has also written numerous articles for national and international magazines and newspapers and has participated in different programs about Feng Shui in national and international radio and television networks. 

He is also author of the Feng Shui, the Harmony of Life, Feng Shui, the Ten Thousand Years Manual, Feng Shui, Predictions and Cures,  Feng Shui, the Mystical Meaning and co-author of the book Feng Shui Anthology. One of the most important contributions of Prof. Alvarez in Feng Shui philosophy has been his proposals on the "Geometry of the Eight Trigrams of the I-Ching" and the "Theory of Mirrors", developed for the first time in the appendix of the book “Feng Shui, the Harmony of Life”.    This proposal facilitates the interpretation of the Pa-Chai (Eight Mansions), advanced Pa-Chai and Water Dragon formulas.