We send you warm wishes this holiday season and we welcome you to join us in our excitement and joy as we begin celebrating 20 years of service to our community. We would not be here if not for your participation in the Heartwood community and for this we are deeply grateful. In 1999, a group of 12 holistic healthcare providers came together at 1599 Maple, across from Benisons Bakery in Evanston, with the shared vision to offer a safe and compassionate place for people to come and heal. We wanted to offer a refuge for people suffering and to offer concrete ways for people to come to understand their suffering. We began with acupuncture, bodywork, psychotherapy and tai chi and yoga. Those early days were filled with so much laughter and love as we began to envision what the Heartwood healing community could be.
Today Heartwood has become a non profit under the umbrella of the Osel Ling meditation center and shares the beautiful Maitri Building at 1818 Dempster in Evanston. Maitri is a sanskrit word for friendship and loving kindness. We now have over 50 practitioners and teachers offering a wide range of healing modalities and welcome over 1500 people a month as a place for their healing. We are still that precious refuge for people for healing as well as a place where our greater community can come to gather and hold programs. We are happy to offer free space to many local organizations such as our neighbor Curt's Cafe.
We are most proud of our Women & Cancer Program which has for the past 10 years offered free holistic healthcare to low income women living with cancer. This year we are very happy to be expanding our program to include men and kids as well. We know that you have many choices in your holiday giving and we hope that you might join us this year in supporting our Women & Cancer Program and helping us to both continue to offer these much needed free services and to expand them. Click here to go to our website for more information on how to donate.
We look forward to celebrating 20 years of Heartwood with you over this next year and hope that you will join us in our upcoming events: December 15th is our Holiday Healthcare Fair where you can enjoy a tasty treat as you shop locally for the holiday gifts, May 4th 2019 will be our educational symposium where you can learn more about holistic healthcare, June 22nd will be our big anniversary party outside in our parking lot with tents, music, food and much more and in August we will have a community meditation weekend. All of these events are to show our gratitude to you for helping us grow this amazing Heartwood healing community over these past 20 years. Take care and we look forward to seeing you soon here at Heartwood!
Warmly,
Nancy Floy, Founder & Director
Heartwood Council Members
