The Holistic Health Fund is a non-profit organization founded in 2011, with the purpose of making holistic healthcare services available to people with limited finances and educating the general public about the benefits of holistic healthcare services. This Examiner interviewed Isis Martinez, whose inspiration and personal experience gave birth to this organization.
Isis reports that her interest in holistic health was sparked when her son's father passed away at the age of 52 from a heart attack. Following this sudden loss Isis focused on her own spiritual healing, and following from her own healing process she herself became a holistic practitioner. Isis' healing work has included offering Reiki and other healing support in the community. Isis studied spiritual teachings through the Unity Church as well as exploring Kabbalah and other metaphysical teachings. After a couple of years as a full-time holistic practitioner she found many people in the community don't know much about holistic therapies or couldn't afford to pay for them. Isis used ideas from her prior marketing background to help promote holistic therapies and offered much of her work by donation to enable people to receive it. She wanted to get more practitioners working by donation so more people can access these holistic therapies. Isis got what she describes as "a divine download," an idea that filled her with energy and enthusiasm. It would not be the same as health insurance, it would be a non-profit foundation. The philosophy inspiring this endeavor would be based on what she had learned from studies of metaphysics and the law of attraction. Why focus on disease like many organizations and charities have been doing, when these spiritual principles teach to focus on what you want rather than what you don't want? Why not have a foundation for health and organize a walk for health? Isis realized that these ideas of promoting holistic health and applying metaphysics would support one another.
"It's not mine,"' says Isis about the organization. She stresses that it's a community focused organization with a board tasked to ensure it serves its intended purpose. Along with making care affordable for low income individuals and families the plan is to sponsor education so that people will learn what is available and how these therapies can benefit them. The Holistic Health Fund is planning a partnership with W.H.O.L.E. (Web Of Holistic Educators) to join forces for educating the community. The health fund will be receiving grants that will be used to cover the cost of holistic services for those whose income levels qualify. The funds will be paid directly to participating holistic providers when treatments are received and the recipients of this funded care are required to donate some of their time to community service as a way of giving back for what they have received.
Isis completed a personal walk for holistic health, going up the East coast of the USA in 2011, and she hopes that what she begins in Miami will spread around the country. She intends to meet with people along the Eastern coastal states again this August to help launch additional chapters of the Holistic Health Fund. On Saturday, April 14th, 2012, the Holistic Health Fund is holding a Walk for Holistic Health to raise funds and publicize this initiative. This will begin at 7am at Tropical Park in Miami, where there will be a walk and run at 9am and a walk and stroll at 11am, followed by an expo in the Tropical Park stadium featuring over 100 tents with exhibitors covering health topics of mind, body, spirit, and Earth, along with holistic-friendly corporate sponsors. It will cost $10 for those registering to walk, which includes receiving a raffle ticket for a special prize drawing. This is not a race or walk for a cure, but rather an event for health. Isis says "where there's health there's no need for a cure," and points out that America is behind many other countries when it comes to health and education. Those interested in learning more about the Holistic Health Walk or in supporting the Holistic Health Fund and its outreach in the community are encouraged to visit www.holistichealthfund.org
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