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 ...

Biofield therapies -- Reiki, therapeutic touch and healing touch -- are promising complementary interventions for reducing the intensity of pain in diverse conditions, anxiety for hospitalized ...

Reiki, a therapy in which hands are placed lightly on the body or just above it, is increasingly being used to reduce cancer-related fatigue, anxiety, nausea and pain. Several studies suggest a ...

Though her hands never made contact with my torso, I felt their warm, calming presence. With my eyes closed, I laid on my back on a padded table one recent afternoon at The Reiki Studio in Davenport ...

Though her hands never made contact with my torso, I felt their warm, calming presence. With my eyes closed, I laid on my back on a padded table one recent afternoon at The Reiki Studio in Davenport ...