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) <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Johnna White opened the shop in November 2012 in hopes of creating an uplifting and calming space for people to find their inner peace. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Her shop offers spiritual guidance through intuitive and psychic readings, relaxation therapy, aura cleansings and past life regressions. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
It gave me a lot of different perspectives, White said. <\/p>\n
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