Reiki is a Japanese technique of healing by laying on of hands. It works with the natural energy of the life force to promote balance and wellness in living beings. Reiki is used to release stress and promote the body’s natural healing.

During the Reiki session, the client remains fully clothed and may stand, sit, or recline in any comfortable, relaxed position. With the client’s permission, the practitioner’s hands are placed on or near various parts of the body, allowing the Reiki energy to be guided and directed by the practitioner’s open palms. A Reiki session may create feelings of relaxation, enlivening, warmth, cold, tingling, pressure, lifting or pulling—generally in a gentle way. It is also perfectly normal to feel nothing during a session, or to be aware only of a sense of generalized well-being.

The energy of Reiki goes where it is needed in the body and energy field of the client. It can align and ease tensions in the body, emotions, thoughts, or spiritual processes; it can also clear away difficult emotions and the physical residue they leave behind.

Some clients settle into stillness during the session and may even fall asleep; others find it useful to verbalize what they are feeling as it arises. Anything we talk about during the session remains confidential.

Fee: $60 for a one hour session, $36 for a half hour session.