North Valley Magazine - December 2021 - January 2022

BETTER • HEALTH

Marshall Gedge, 18, is a level II reiki practitioner. He is the newest staff member at Burns Integrative Wellness Center. (Photo by David Minton)

Healing Journey Burns Integrative Wellness taps into reiki services

By Jordan Houston

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he North Phoenix-based Burns Integrative Wellness Center is expanding its reiki services to those looking for alternative forms of healing.

The naturopathic medical office, located at 34406 N. 27th Drive, Unit 114, specializes in medical, aesthetic and therapeutic services using herbal,

holistic and homeopathic remedies. It recently announced the addition of its newest staff member, 18-year-old certified reiki practitioner Marshall Gedge.

Gedge, a level II practitioner, says he is looking forward to raising awareness about the alternative practice — which focuses on healing the energy and spiritual side of a person and has been used in Japan for over 100 years — while helping new patients throughout their healing journey.

“I didn’t really know how to feel. I just knew I was excited,” Gedge says of his new opportunity. “And I’m still excited for it.”

Reiki is an ancient therapeutic art designed to “increase the body’s restorative potential and is a complementary treatment approach to health,” according to The Life Enrichment Center.

It works to decrease stress and anxiety through energy healing while promoting well-being and calmness. The Burns Integrative Wellness Center emphasizes that each person has a flow of internal energy dictating their overall health. If low, the body becomes susceptible to “disease and illness,” it continues. Reiki seeks to strengthen that “life force” to promote “good health and happiness.”

The term stems from the two Japanese words rei, meaning “higher power,” and ki, meaning “life force energy.” A typical reiki session with Gedge lasts roughly 15 to 30 minutes, he says.

“I’ll start by asking what they want reiki to do for them, whether it’s to help with anxiety, depression, pain or whatever they want to have reiki do,” Gedge says. “I figure out what they want done, NORTHVALLEYMAGAZINE.COM DECEMBER 2021 | JANUARY 2022

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