Holistic Health Community

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.

10/13/2025

Upcoming class: "Marma Therapy: Acupressure for Health & Relaxation"

At this month’s Holistic Healthcare Day in Rosendale, Practitioner Ami Jayaprada Hirschstein will lead a hands-on workshop on how to give a Marma Therapy treatment to yourself or a partner.

About Marma Therapy:
Marma Therapy is an ancient Ayurvedic healing practice developed in India centuries ago. It uses gentle pressure, vibration, and herbal oils to open blocked energy pathways and restore balance throughout the body. No prior experience is needed to participate.

Event details:
📍Lifebridge Sanctuary, Rosendale, NY
🕓 This class will be offered at 4:30pm and 6:30pm as part of our Holistic Healthcare Day.

The link to sign up for this class and to book a healing session with our practitioners will be sent out tomorrow, Tuesday, October 14 at 7am via email.

→ Be sure you’re on the list: holistichealthcommunity.org/contact

10/09/2025

We’re hiring! The Holistic Health Community is seeking a part-time Administrative Assistant who shares our passion for holistic wellness, community care, and expanding our mission to make holistic healthcare accessible to all. Learn more at holistichealthcommunity.org/jobs.

10/08/2025

Struggling with unbalanced hormones and fertility challenges?

It’s not too late to join our online fertility course, Cycle of Tides: Holistic Fertility Support

As part of the course, Ami Jayaprada Hirschstein—Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, Marma Therapist, and Yoga Therapist—teaches how to use Marma Therapy to balance hormones and naturally enhance fertility.

Marma Therapy is an ancient Ayurvedic practice developed centuries ago in India. It uses gentle pressure, vibration, and herbal oils to open blocked energy pathways and restore balance throughout the body.

Dr. Lad, with whom Ami studied Marma Therapy, explains, “Touching a Marma point changes the body’s biochemistry and can unfold radical, alchemical changes in one’s makeup. Stimulation of these inner pharmacy pathways signals the body to produce exactly what it needs, including hormones and neurochemicals that heal the body, mind, and consciousness.”

You can enroll in this course at any time, but the best time to begin is now! The sooner you join, the more live classes you can experience in real time with our community of women. You’ll also get access to all video recordings and course materials right away.

✨Join us: HolisticHealthCommunity.org/fertility

10/06/2025

Certified somatic breathwork facilitator Jon Orsini will lead a breath workshop on Sunday, October 19 from 4–6 p.m. at Lifebridge Sanctuary in Rosendale.

In this workshop, we’ll explore the power of breath as both a gentle anchor for calm and a pathway for release and renewal. Drawing from yoga-based breathing practices as well as somatic approaches, you'll be guided through techniques that support relaxation, reduce stress, and invite deeper connection to self. The session will begin with soothing yoga postures and warm ups, leading into quieter, restorative patterns to ease the nervous system as well as gentle, active breathwork to help clear stuck energy and open space for creativity, authenticity, and self-expression.

All levels welcome. Learn more and register: bit.ly/42XyYj4

Photo by Jon Orsini

10/04/2025

Professional astrologer Kris Journey will lead the next workshop in our monthly astrology series on Tuesday, October 7 at People's Place. Beginners and all levels are welcome.

This month’s focus: secondary progressions. These are a fascinating and powerful tool in the astrologer’s predictive toolbox. You’ll explore how the secondary progressed chart—based on your birth chart—changes as you age, reflecting shifting identities, highs and lows, major “soul” phases, and other significant life transitions. By the end of class, you’ll have the tools to start working with your own and others’ progressions.

✨ Bonus: Receive a printed version of your natal or progressed charts, or both, to reference during the class!

💫 Learn more and sign up: bit.ly/4348ix4

09/30/2025

We are honored to welcome 9 leading women’s health experts from across the Northeast who will be guiding our virtual fertility course starting this Friday, October 3.

These practitioners bring wisdom in reiki, Ayurveda, yoga therapy, acupuncture, herbalism, functional medicine, mind-body coaching, and gut health. They'll be sharing holistic tools and practices to help balance hormones, improve egg and s***m quality, reduce toxins, and support your emotional and mind-body wellness so you can prepare both your body and your heart for conception and long-term reproductive health.

🌸 Last few days to enroll: holistichealthcommunity.org/fertility

💌 Scholarships are available. Message us with any questions!

09/25/2025

An offering from Holistic Health Community Practitioner Dahlia Jarrett, taking place this Saturday through The Kingston Land Trust's Land in Black Hands program.