Wishing You Peace, Light, and Inner
Balance This Holiday Season
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🎄 Welcome to Your December Newsletter! 🎄
A word from our Chairperson...
As the year winds down and the festive lights illuminate our homes and streets, December often brings with it a whirlwind of activity, celebration, and giving. It's a beautiful time, yet it's easy for the busyness of preparations and social demands to pull us away from our centre.
For us in the healing community, this season serves as a powerful reminder of the need for grounding and quietude. As givers by nature, we must consciously carve out moments of stillness amidst the celebrations, a time to replenish our own spiritual and energetic reserves.
To our incredible BAHA community, our members, practitioners, centres, and associations, we extend our deepest gratitude. Thank you for your tireless compassion, dedication, and hard work throughout the year. Your commitment to promoting the healing movement is what allows BAHA to thrive and grow.
As you step into the holidays, we encourage you to pause, breathe, and intentionally shift your focus to receiving as much as you give. Allow yourself the gift of rest, reflection, and joy.
May your holiday season be filled with light, peace, and restorative balance. We look forward to connecting with you again in the New Year!
Love and light
Sheila Holmes
In this December issue, we continue to build on that vision. You’ll find another powerful Beacon of Influence spotlighting the remarkable work of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, whose mindfulness teachings provide scientific tools for cultivating presence and inner stillness. We've also included an essential article on Self-Care for the Practitioner, because a nourished healer is an effective one!
We've got important updates on new BAHA initiatives and, as always, an invitation for you to get involved.
Thank you for being part of this exciting new chapter. We look forward to connecting with you and promoting the incredible work you do!
News & Announcement
Preparing for 2026
As we close out 2025, we want to give you one final, exciting update on our forward-looking plans:
The BAHA Wellness Weekend is Taking Shape!
Plans for our spectacular BAHA Wellness Weekend in July 2026 are coming together beautifully. This event promises to be a major highlight, providing a platform for education, complementary health insights, and charitable giving.
We are dedicated to making this a truly memorable and collaborative event. Keep an eye on our future newsletters for the official dates and announcements, and start thinking now about how you can contribute your expertise to this exciting new venture!
Navigating the Festive Season: -
Energetic Tools for Holiday Balance
The holidays are a time of warmth and connection, but they are also periods of heightened social and emotional demands.
For energy workers and sensitive individuals, the influx of crowded shops, long family gatherings, and complex emotional dynamics can quickly lead to depletion and energetic imbalance.
Your energy is your greatest tool, and your greatest gift. Protecting and maintaining it is critical to enjoying the season without sacrificing your well-being. Here are simple, practical tools you can use to stay grounded and clear while navigating the festive demands:
Connecting Communities: Announcing Our New "Find a Therapist" Map!
We are thrilled to announce an exciting new feature coming soon to the BAHA website: a comprehensive "Find a Therapist" interactive map!
At BAHA, we regularly receive requests from individuals across the country seeking qualified and trustworthy healers and complementary therapists in their local area. This new map will directly address that need, serving as an invaluable resource for the public to easily locate BAHA-accredited practitioners.
Good News: Complete Privacy is Assured!
To ensure every eligible member feels comfortable listing their practice, we have designed the map submission with flexibility. You do not need to provide your exact street address to be included on the map.
Find a Therapist... continue reading
The Visionaries of Healing
This section will introduce you to individuals who are not only masters of their craft but also pioneers who are actively shaping the future of spiritual and energy healing. Their work extends beyond the treatment room, influencing public perception and bridging the gap between ancient wisdom and modern understanding. We'll explore their journeys, their key insights, and how their contributions are helping to build a more holistic world.
Beacon of Influence: Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and the Gift of Presence 🧘
Continuing our series on The Visionaries of Healing, this month we spotlight a figure who took an ancient spiritual practice "mindfulness" and successfully integrated it into mainstream medicine: Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn.
As the founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Centre for Mindfulness in Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Dr. Kabat-Zinn pioneered Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). His work provides compelling scientific evidence that cultivating a non-judgmental, present moment awareness can profoundly alter our relationship with stress, chronic pain, and illness.
Share Your Courses & Events with Our Community
Do you have a workshop, course, or special event you’d like to promote? We invite our members to share their teachings, both in-person and online, with the wider BAHA community. Whether you're running a local Reiki workshop, a series of online spiritual development classes, or hosting a special event, our newsletter is a great way to reach an engaged and supportive audience. Please send us the details of your course or event, and we may feature them on our website and in our next issue.
Archive
We're thrilled to be on a special mission to digitise our collection of past newsletters and bring our rich history to life. Soon, you'll be able to journey through decades of insights, news, and community stories that have shaped BAHA and the healing arts.
Do you have any old newsletters tucked away? We would love to include your contributions to this project!
If you have a copy of a past BAHA newsletter or your own you'd like to share, please get in touch with our team.
Your archived treasures can help us build a complete and fascinating record for our history. Watch this space for updates as we work to make our full archive available online.
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