Holistic Health Community

12/10/2025

Join us this Saturday at Lifebridge Sanctuary in Rosendale for a Solstice Celebration 🕯✨

Sign up: holistichealthcommunity.org/events/calendar-of-events/solstice-celebration-ritual-and-renewal

Holistic Health Community presents, with Kathleen Mandeville, a Winter Solstice Ceremony ❄️🕯️

December 13 from 3 - 6 PM
At Lifebridge Sanctuary (333 Mountain Road, Rosendale NY)

Join us as we enter into this holy and sacred time of light and dark
Of the year’s end drawing nigh
Let us tend our fires together
Let us go on the spiral journey
As we hold within our hearts the ember of truth and love

Together we will
🕯walk through a “living bridge” of candlelight as we hold our intention for the new year
🪻place luminariums in a spiral of greens

FREE Community Event - donations accepted to the Holistic Health Community.
Pre-registration encouraged! Please visit https://www.theouteredge.net/events/wintersoltice-lifebridge

Led by Kathleen Mandeville, M.Div. with Meryn Oakwood & Marann Langlois & Irena Nayfeld

12/09/2025

Interested in learning how astrology can offer insights into any type of relationship, whether familial, friendship, business, or romantic?Join us today at People's Place!

Today's astrology workshop with Kris Journey has been cancelled due to the snow. It is rescheduled for next Tuesday, December 9 from 2-4 p.m. at People's Place.

Sign up: holistichealthcommunity.org/events/calendar-of-events/intro-to-astrology-with-kris-journey

12/02/2025

Today is Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving that envisions a world rooted in shared humanity and generosity.

Right now, every gift to the Holistic Health Community is DOUBLED, helping us continue offering holistic healthcare days, sound baths, women’s wellness workshops, group meditations, and more in the year ahead.

“My session made me cry at the end. Words cannot express the immense gratitude I feel…I felt touched physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I really needed this more than I even knew, and I will carry this gift with me onward into the world!”

If you feel inspired to support this work, we would be grateful to have you join our community of supporters. Every contribution—of any size—helps us keep healing experiences like these accessible and affordable to everyone in our community.

Thank you 🙏💜✨

12/02/2025

Today's astrology workshop with Kris Journey has been cancelled due to the snow. It is rescheduled for next Tuesday, December 9 from 2-4 p.m. at People's Place.

Sign up: holistichealthcommunity.org/events/calendar-of-events/intro-to-astrology-with-kris-journey

11/27/2025

Today, as we reflect on our many blessings, we’re feeling especially grateful for the circle of people who make this community what it is.

To our incredible practitioners, volunteers, supporters, and friends: your generosity and presence have carried us through another year of healing, growth, and connection. With your help, we introduced new offerings, continued our long-standing Holistic Healthcare Days, and welcomed thousands of community members seeking support for their bodies and minds. We created spaces where our neighbors could rest, receive care, and experience healing in ways that are deeply needed right now.

Thank you for being part of this journey. Thank you for believing in community care. Thank you for helping us keep our mission alive.

From all of us at the Holistic Health Community, we wish you a happy, healthy, and joyful Thanksgiving!

11/21/2025

It’s encouraging to see holistic wellness becoming part of the bigger conversation. Rutgers University’s new holistic wellness minor is a big step toward integrating these teachings and practices into academic spaces.

A new program from Rutgers University-New Brunswick underscores the growing interest in the wellness job market as the industry booms.

11/14/2025

Join us in welcoming a new practitioner to our volunteer community, Dr. Kimber Olson. Dr. Olson offers culturally grounded, healing-centered trainings for Tribal Nations and their allies, bridging Indigenous knowledge, neuroscience, and community practice to support individuals, families, and social service ecosystems.

Kimber will be offering virtual Somatic Storytelling sessions as part of our monthly Holistic Healthcare Days. This practice is rooted in the Indigenous worldview that the body and the Earth are deeply connected. Her sessions may include breathwork, sound work, somatic exploration, grounding practices, and connection with plant and stone relatives.

We are incredibly grateful to welcome Kimber to our community and to share her wisdom, presence, and practice with all of you.

11/03/2025

In an era of rapid change and uncertainty, how do we stay grounded, purposeful, and connected? Join us in 2 weeks for an interactive symposium where we invite our community into an afternoon of shared ceremony, movement, and reflection.

Through guided somatic and contemplative practices, we will explore how presence in the body can open pathways to clarity of purpose and genuine connection. Guided by three seasoned facilitators — Kathleen Mandeville, Irena Namayra Nayfeld, PhD, and Drew Minter — this gathering will weave sound, movement, meditation, ritual, and conversation to cultivate steadiness, openness, and resilience. We welcome all who feel called to live with greater awareness and authenticity.

Register: holistichealthcommunity.org/events/calendar-of-events/presence-and-purpose-in-uncertain-times-an-interactive-symposium

10/22/2025

Holistic Health Community Practitioner Mary Zak captured this stunning photo of the Catskill Mountains during yesterday’s Holistic Healthcare Day in Rosendale.

Our next community Healthcare Day is Tuesday, November 18! Be sure you’re on our mailing list to sign up for healing sessions: holistichealthcommunity.org/contact

Today at Lifebridge Sanctuary, offering Reiki sessions during the monthly free community healthcare day offered by Holistic Health Community. The views alone are healing!

10/20/2025

We have two more healing sessions available at tomorrow's Holistic Healthcare Day in Rosendale: Counseling for Your Soul with Practitioner Bradley Berg at 5pm and 6pm.

Book here: hhchealthcareday.as.me/schedule/2b4fc8ce/appointment/84321433/calendar/12692265

Learn more about Bradley: holistichealthcommunity.org/volunteers/faculty/bradley-berg-lcsw

10/15/2025

Be part of something healing and volunteer with us!

Our cornerstone program, the monthly Healthcare Day, brings affordable and accessible holistic care to those who need it most—and we’re looking for a few more hands to help make it possible.

We’re seeking volunteers to help each Healthcare Day run smoothly: welcoming guests, assisting with check-in and check-out, supporting in the kitchen, setting up spaces for healing sessions, and helping with clean-up. As a thank-you, all volunteers share a dinner prepared by an organic chef.

This is heart-centered work that keeps our community thriving—a chance to connect with others and celebrate the spirit of community care. If you feel called to help, we would love to hear from you! Send us a message to get involved.