Reiki City Guide

Portland’s rain is not melodramatic in the Seattle way; it is relentless in a specific, gray, months-long way that settles into the body as a low-frequency dampness that no amount…

Corporate relocations put Toyota, Liberty Mutual, JPMorgan Chase, and dozens of other major companies in Plano over the past two decades, producing a city that looks like it was assembled…

Three rivers converge at Pittsburgh’s Point — the Allegheny, the Monongahela, and the Ohio — and the city’s 446 bridges, more than any other city in the world, were built…

When the temperature in Phoenix exceeds 110 degrees Fahrenheit for weeks at a stretch, staying indoors is not laziness but physiology. The Sun Belt boom that has driven Phoenix’s population…

The city that drafted the Declaration of Independence and birthed American democracy still carries the tension between its founding ideals and the grinding inequality visible in neighborhoods like North Philadelphia…

The bodies doing the work that keeps 75 million tourists moving through Orlando every year take a serious beating. Theme park ride operators at Disney and Universal stand on concrete…

Warren Buffett still lives in the Dundee house he bought in 1958 for $31,500 — a detail that captures something essential about Omaha’s relationship with value. This is a city…

Oklahoma City sits at the intersection of the Southern Plains and the Sunbelt, a sprawling metro of nearly 700,000 that runs on oil, healthcare, and a growing technology sector. The…

Oakland has been absorbing displacement longer than most American cities have been discussing it. The port economy that made West Oakland prosper, the redlining that concentrated Black wealth in specific…

North Las Vegas is Nevada’s fastest-growing city and one of the most economically diverse corners of the Las Vegas Valley. While the Strip’s glittering economy lies just south, North Las…

Norfolk is a city shaped by water — the Elizabeth River, the Chesapeake Bay, the Atlantic just beyond Virginia Beach’s barrier islands — and by the military presence that has…

Fourteen miles from Midtown Manhattan and an entirely different world: Newark is the city that New Yorkers fly through without seeing, the airport gateway that processes millions of travelers while…

In New Orleans, the invisible world has always been taken seriously. The city that gave America jazz, that absorbed waves of Haitian refugees after the 1804 revolution, that built an…

Nashville has absorbed roughly a hundred new residents per day for much of the last decade, transforming from a mid-sized Southern city into a corporate relocation destination where healthcare giants,…

Prince recorded “Purple Rain” here. The Somali diaspora made Minneapolis home to the largest East African community in the United States. The city has buried George Floyd and argued fiercely…

Lake Michigan drives Milwaukee’s weather with a particular cruelty: polar vortex cold that settles into bones by January, gray skies that stretch from November into April, and a wind off…

Cuba’s santeria, Brazil’s umbanda, Haiti’s Vodou, and Venezuela’s espiritismo all arrived in Miami with their practitioners intact, creating a city where energy-based healing has never been exotic. When Japanese reiki…

The Sonoran Desert imposes itself on Mesa in ways that outsiders rarely anticipate: summer temperatures that push 115 degrees, a landscape of saguaros and caliche that demands physical adaptation, and…

Memphis gave the world blues, soul, and rock and roll — a fact that is not merely cultural trivia but a window into how this city processes feeling. Beale Street,…

Madison is a college town that has never quite stopped being a college town, even as it has grown into Wisconsin’s political and cultural capital. The University of Wisconsin anchors…

Lubbock sits at the center of the Llano Estacado, one of the flattest and most expansive landmasses in North America — a high plains plateau where the horizon is genuinely…

Louisville built its identity on bourbon, horses, and Muhammad Ali — three things that have little in common except that each of them, in its own way, is about the…

No city in the world has done more to export wellness as a cultural product than Los Angeles, and reiki arrived here early — Hawaii’s Hawayo Takata, who brought Usui…

Long Beach sits at the edge of the Pacific and the edge of Los Angeles County, claiming both identities without being reduced to either. The Port of Long Beach is…

The Great Plains stretch away from Lincoln in every direction toward a horizon that the eye cannot find the end of, and this geography does something specific to the people…