Holistic Health Community

02/03/2026

As we witness the heartbreaking and unsettling events unfolding across the country, our mission feels more vital than ever. Caring for ourselves is not separate from caring for one another; tending to our own well-being strengthens our capacity for collective care, resilience, and action.

Thanks to our community and donors, we are able to continue offering events designed to support the physical, mental, and emotional health of our neighbors. We hope you’ll join us and share these offerings with anyone in your network who may truly need them this month.

2/15 in Kerhonkson - Planning Your Garden, with George Jacobs

2/17 in Stone Ridge - Holistic Healthcare Day, various holistic healing modalities offered by our practitioners

2/22 in Stone Ridge - The World of Nonviolent Communication, with Barbara Bash and Andy Dillon

2/23 - 2/27 - Virtual Holistic Healthcare Week, connect with our practitioners through a video or phone session and experience one of our many holistic healing modalities

View the full list of our upcoming events at https://holistichealthcommunity.org/events/calendar-of-events/

01/15/2026

Join us in welcoming a new practitioner to our volunteer community, Denise Hopkins!

Denise is an Energy Healer, Forrest Yoga Guardian Teacher (RYT 500), and certified Yoga Tune Up® teacher with over 20 years of experience guiding people back to themselves through breath, movement, and healing touch.

Denise specializes in yoga for injury healing and offers personalized practices that honor each individual’s unique physical and emotional needs. In her Energy Healing Sessions, she weaves together Craniosacral Therapy and One Light Healing Touch to create space for the nervous system to settle and the body’s natural wisdom to emerge—supporting those experiencing anxiety, PTSD, energy depletion, insomnia, tension, or sensitive individuals needing grounding and balance.

Denise will be offering healing sessions as part of our monthly Holistic Healthcare Days 🙏✨

01/08/2026

We’re expanding! Volunteers needed 🤝

In the year ahead, we’re expanding programs that support youth, elders, families, immigrants, and other community members, as well as bringing our community Healthcare Days beyond Rosendale and Stone Ridge to locations across Ulster County and beyond.

To support this growth, we’re looking to connect with people who feel called to contribute in Stone Ridge, Kingston, Highland, and New York City.

If you offer holistic or integrative healing modalities—or have other skills to share, such as administrative support, marketing, event coordination, or hands-on help with setting up and holding spaces—please reach out!

📷 : Holistic Health Community Volunteer & Reiki Practitioner Mary Zak at a community Healthcare Day in Rosendale, overlooking the Catskill Mountains

01/06/2026

Thinking Downstream: Nutrition for Parents and Teens

Certified integrative health and nutrition coach, writer, and illustrator Yael Bernhard will lead a two-part series on Thursday, January 22 and Thursday, January 29 at High Meadow School in Stone Ridge.

This series is designed to support teens in building a strong foundation for lifelong physical and mental well-being, while helping parents navigate outdated versus current nutrition trends and gain practical tools for shopping and cooking with their children.

Parents and teens are welcome to attend together or separately.

Sign up: holistichealthcommunity.org/events/calendar-of-events/thinking-downstream

12/31/2025

Community care changes lives 🤝

Stories like Katy’s remind us why this work matters. For many years, Katy has found support and healing through the Holistic Health Community. Through our offerings, she discovered alternative healing modalities that she credits with helping her heal ancestral trauma and begin manifesting the future she always envisioned.

✨ Help us continue this work in 2026. Your tax-deductible donation supports accessible, affordable holistic healthcare for people like Katy in your community—and your gift will be DOUBLED now through midnight, December 31. 🙏💜

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.