I have attended Heluo's classes in Rotterdam and my review is as follows:

Venue: The courses took place in DJOJ.  I found this place very peaceful and very happy. Might be the name DJOJ (pronounced as "joy") itself did the trick. My time there is just like a retreat or a spiritual weekend (please note: Feng Shui, Nine Star Ki and Four Pillars have nothing to do with spirituality. Please remember).
I quite like the simple vegetarian dishes there. I like the herbal tea there too. I have bought quite a few boxes of tea bags back to the UK as a little treat for myself! The simplicity of the place makes me feel relax and forget everything from the "normal" busy life (might be no television there helps!). I think this environment is the best for me to concentrate and learn.
 

Course Fee: It is very very good value for money. Okay, see "course book" and “the class” sections for reasons. There are also different discount schemes. As an example, your second course fee within the same season in the same year will be 10% off, and your third course fee within the same season in the same year will be 25% off.

He really does not need to do this to attract students; and, to some of you, you must be thinking that it is too good to be true. I cannot explain this to you. Heluo is a bit crazy, but I think his passion is to share these subjects with as many people in the world as he can. In the past, I did tell my colleagues that he should be registered as a charitable organization. Okay, I don't think I can explain more on this. However, I do hope people could publish their feedback like I did, so that other people could also be benefited. Also, to a lot of practitioners here, I am sure the course fee is relatively nothing.
 

Course Book: Each course book is as thick as the telephone directory. It is about 5 to 6 centimeters thick and printed on double sides of A4 paper. Okay, thickness of the course book does not mean anything. It could contain a lot of useless or wrong information. However, I have every confidence that majority of the content (if not the whole book) are accurate to the best of his knowledge. I would, indeed, recommend these courses to people at all levels. For beginner, the course book contains genuine information on the subject (I think only a few people could really understand the importance of the last sentence. For those of us who have spent a lot of money on different "variations" of so called "Feng Shui" should understand this). (It is a bit unprofessional to mention Master Yu here. But I think Heluo has done too many Master Yu's courses (i.e. study with Master Yu long enough), I would be very surprised if he does not share the genuine stuff in his Feng Shui and Four Pillars course books with us. I am sure if Heluo is teaching rubbish, Master Yu would have disowned this guy and removed his "Master of Feng Shui" title by now!).
 

A few highlights on individual course book are as follows:
 

Feng Shui – I love the quotes of the Chinese Feng Shui classic and its explanations. To me, it is something special and unexpected. If you don’t study and understand them, you don’t really know about Feng Shui. To me, if the Chinese version of the quotes are also printed, I would be absolutely delighted.  A wealth of good quality information is in there. It is, to me, a good handbook on the subject and no doubt, this course book will be with me and generations to come.
 

Nine Star Ki – I don’t have any highlights on this. It is because the whole subject is amazing, an eye opening experience to me. The only word I can describe is “spooky”! (Okay, once again, I don’t mean it in a spiritual way). Predicting world events. Looking at the magic square, I can even see myself traveling to Rotterdam to do the course! (I booked the ticket a few good months before I know about 9 star ki). Okay, the last chapter is written in Dutch at the moment, but it is not life threatening. Heluo is working on the translation at the moment anyway.
 

Four Pillars – His own graphical representation of four pillars works very well with the traditional format. Also, how to change destiny through behavior and diet are discussed. It might or might not be directly related to the subject, however, I do appreciate a few words were said.
 

A few chapters are the same in all three course books. But then, the three subjects are interrelated in one way or another after all.
 

The Class – The course itself ran from Thursday to Sunday. It is good for me because I only need to take the minimum number of days off work. There are about 10 students in average for the three classes I attended. I like small class size. Majority of the attendees are Dutch and their English are pretty good. The classes were conducted in English. A little of Dutch were used very occasionally to ensure the Dutch classmates totally understand the key points before proceed any further.
 

There were advanced students there and it is true. They took notes seriously, and to me, they still got something to learn in the class.
 

There is one thing which I think it is worth pointing out, or should I say, set the expectation right. No one can learn Feng Shui, Nine Star Ki or Four Pillars in four days, even if you are a super student and your tutor is a super teacher. The main objective of the four days, to me, is to put you onto the right track, so that you can continue your study, with the use of the course book, in the right direction (sail in the right direction). In other words, to point out the key basics of the subject, so that you can apply and have a good foundation to build on when you want to take the subject further (Also, it is wrong to believe that you will know everything on the subject after the four days. In reality, you can still pick up new things every time you read the course book again).

As an example, Heluo explained the Binary Model of Creation, Twelve Zhong Qi, the Big Dipper and the waxing and waning Qi in the Feng Shui class. In the past, these were the chapters I would have skipped when I read most of the books. I thought they are boring and I don’t want to know about them. The subjects might be interesting but I just want to read the Feng Shui bit. Thanks but no thanks. Only when I was forced to listen to him in the Feng Shui class, I can only then realize and appreciate how important they are to the principles of Feng Shui.

Another example. I find it very hard to learn Four Pillars without a person physically to show me how (it is just my style of learning. Apparently, there are four different styles of learning and everyone is different). In the four days, I have learnt at least the basics of the Four Pillars. It is now up to me to study the subject further through the course book and to gain my experience through regular practice.

And the last thing I have to mention (and I am sure a lot of us have the same experience when attending seminars) is to meet a lot of interesting people sharing similar interests and new faces with a very familiar name. It has been my great honor to meet Herman, Vicky, Tony, the wolf lady and a few others.

I have not been paid by anyone to write this. However, if anyone wants to, I am not going to refuse!  J : )

Chi Wing