While Western medicine is essential for maintaining good health, complementary holistic and energy healing practices have been gaining a lot of traction in recent years. And when used in combination ...

Sandra Delgado wasn’t held much as a child growing up in a stern, Catholic, Mexican immigrant home in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley. A high-stress job and spiking blood pressure led her to ...

CHATSWORTH, Calif. (RNS) A spiritual touch practice based on the notion that human hands can redirect one’s “life force energy” to heal, Reiki is the hottest new Eastern healing practice making its ...

Decor at the home of Reiki Master Rosemary Hyde in Ogden. For 100 years, practitioners of reiki have said they provide spiritual or energy healing through a method of holding the hands above the body ...

R.N. Decker answers the question: 'Reiki, Reflexology and Guided Imager?' — -- Question: What is Reiki therapy, reflexology, and guided imagery and will they help me relax? Answer: Reiki, ...

Hollis McGuire offered her dying mother comfort and peace through an Eastern healing technique known as reiki. “I gave my mother a lot of reiki. It was extremely helpful for her to deal with the ...

Editor’s Note: The Vail Daily’s Tricia Swenson searched the valley for alternative wellness modalities that are lesser-known and have proven benefits. Follow this series and take steps to improve your ...

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows ...

When people hear that Linda Husar spends several days a week volunteering for Sharp HealthCare, they are usually pretty impressed. Until they hear that her volunteer hours are spent at Sharp ...

Dried out and covered with mites, the spider plant was dying. Sushila Shah of Baldwinsville , a level III Reiki master, laid her hands on the plant, transferring to it healing life force energy. In ...