Receiving a Reiki session is a deeply relaxing experience that is wonderful for reducing stress and achieving balance. I perform sessions in my healing studio (conveniently located in Ormewood Park near Grant Park).

Clients lie clothed on my healing table while I would work from head to toe (front and back) with a series of hand positions, focusing on their chakras, or principle energy centers.

Some hand placements lightly touch the body while others are held several inches above it, but still within the energy field, or aura.

Ounce of Prevention

This healing technique channels life-force energy into your body. If you have particular health issue, we can concentrate on that, but you don't need to be sick to benefit from a Reiki session.

For thousands of years, Eastern medicine has understood that maintaining the harmonious flow of life-force energy ("ki") is some of the best preventative care there is.

Unique Experience

What people experience during a Reiki session varies. Most people sense the energy as soothing heat or pleasant tingling, and some feel completely enveloped in radiant warmth.

As the energy breaks away negative feelings like tension and fear, people sometimes drift in and out of sleep or feel like they're floating. Many of my clients have reported profound experiences.

Sacred Space

My healing studio is a soothing environment featuring candlelight, ambient music and aromatherapy. If your health prevents you from traveling here, I can also come to you, depending upon your location.

Note: While quite soothing, Kismet the cat's services are optional. Please let me know in advance if you're allergic. I've got the skills and equipment to allergen-proof this space.

Sessions last 90 minutes, which includes time for questions and discussion before and after the table work.

I'm an understanding, confidential listener, and clients are welcome to share as much information with me as they feel comfortable about the life circumstances leading them to Reiki.

Many Benefits

Some people seek out Reiki because they are suffering from a physical disease and others because their lives are not working well in other ways. Reiki can help shift the negative energy blocking them from healing and personal growth.

I do not use Reiki to make medical diagnoses, but during the course of treatments, I often detect parts of the energy field and physical body requiring attention. I sometimes share impressions about areas seeming to demand more energy than others.

But I do not venture to specify ailments from which my clients could be suffering. I will gently suggest that they consider visiting their doctor if I strongly suspect that something is seriously amiss. If clients share information with me about their particular health problems, I certainly focus energy on those.

Cost: $80 per 90-minute session (cash or check, made payable to Brad Dixon). Add $25 if I travel to you (depending on the distance).

Appointments: I'm available from 6:30 p.m.-11 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon -11 p.m. on weekends. To make an appointment, call me at 404-444-6924 or e-mail me at brad@wellspringreiki.com. I'll provide you with directions to 1120 E. Confederate Ave., Atlanta, 30316.

Note: The hands graphic above (by Gabriel L. Molano) is from the cover of "Hands of Light," an excellent book on the human energy field by Barbara Ann Brennan.