I spent some time looking for another practitioner to book with and came across Michelle Garnier Winkler: http://www.createhealingreiki.com/.

I found her web site very informative, and I felt like I got a sense of her as a person from reading it as well.  She seemed very positive and friendly and down-to-earth, and I liked that.  We exchanged e-mails, the content of which continued my initial impressions, and I booked a session with her for Saturday, April 2.

Her studio is at Healing Waters & Sacred Spaces (eye roll).  I’m finding that I am resistant to some of the aesthetics of the Reiki profession.  It may seem contradictory that I accept as fact, with no personal experience, that life force energy is all around us and may be accessed and balanced by a skilled practitioner, and the notion of healing crystals and flower essences is a bit too foo-foo for me, but there you have it.