  We present a simplified holographic model of chiral symmetry breaking in
gauge theory. The chiral condensate is represented by a single scalar field in
AdS, with the gauge dynamics input through radial dependence of its mass,
representing the running of the anomalous dimension of the qbar q operator. We
discuss simple examples of the chiral transition out of the conformal window
when the infrared value of the anomalous dimension, \gamma_m, is tuned to one
(equivalently the AdS-scalar mass squared is tuned to the
Breitenlohner-Freedman bound of -4). The output of the model are the masses of
the $\bar{q} q$ scalar meson bound states. We show in an explicit example that
if the gradient of the running of the anomalous dimension falls to zero at the
scale where the BF bound violation occurs, so that the theory becomes near
conformal, then the theory possesses a techni-dilaton state that is
parametrically lighter than the dynamically generated quark mass. Indeed the
full spectrum of excited meson states also become light (relative to the
techni-quark mass) as they approach a conformal spectrum.
