From left, Lee Greenbaum, James Trevor Wright and Johnna White, founder, at Pixie Dust Metaphysical Boutique in Sarasota. (Jan. 7, 2015) (Herald-Tribune staff photo by Dan Wagner)

SARASOTA - Hindu gods, Jesus statues and Buddha icons sit alongside fairies and Pagan goddesses on the shelves of Pixie Dust Metaphysical Boutique in downtown Sarasota.

Johnna White opened the shop in November 2012 in hopes of creating an uplifting and calming space for people to find their inner peace.

We really have something for everyone, White said. Spirituality tends to be a way to inner peace. Pixie Dust is a way to find that path.

Her shop offers spiritual guidance through intuitive and psychic readings, relaxation therapy, aura cleansings and past life regressions.

I've made Pixie Dust to be a different type of place," White said. I consider it a place of love for everyone of all different types of spirituality.

Spirituality came to White naturally. She grew up the daughter of a dowser, or water witch, in rural Kansas where a lack of city plumbing made her community dependent on wells. When somebody needed a well, her father would search for water using a willow branch that would pull toward the ground where water was present.

Watching that, you start wondering a lot about the end scene, White said. I just became fascinated with all those things you can't explain.

White started playing with a pendulum and trying to read a crystal ball when she was a kid. Since then she's become a Master in Reiki, or energy work, and is also a certified hypnotist, ordained minister and rune and tarot card reader. She also studied wiccan witchcraft and psychic reading in Salem, Mass.

It gave me a lot of different perspectives, White said.

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Pixie Dust: 'A different type of place'