Holistic Health Complex To Open In Farmington

A new holistic health center, called the Bridge Healing Arts Center, is set to open this month in Farmington.

Yisroel Rabinowitz, who is from Brooklyn and is the owner of Universal Enterprise LLC, is the founder of the center, which will open at 304 Main St., in an 8,000 square foot building.

The concept, Rabinowitz said, is to create a place where those practicing the holistic and healing arts can set up their businesses under one roof.

“It’s something totally different than I’ve ever done before,” said Rabinowitz, who first purchased the building without knowing what it would eventually become. “The whole world is turning now towards dual healing. Regular medicine in addition to holistic medicine.”

Along with Vera Halina, the center’s director, Rabinowitz decided to use the large building’s 60 rooms as space for these kinds of practitioners who need a place to operate from. Early tenants include a reflexologist, a psychic, a Reiki master, a shaman, a makeup artist, a massage therapist, and a yoga instructor.

“It’s really evolving,” Rabinowitz said. “The holistic world understands and knows there’s a value to medicine that will never go away. But at the same time, there’s a value to using holistic healing. There’s a lot of validity to both ends of it.”

The center’s name, Bridge Healing Arts Center, has to do with the idea of bridging both sides of medicine and healing together. He hopes that by having these kinds of specialists working alongside each other, they can refer patients and clients to one another if needed.

“The tenants have been in business before,” Rabinowitz said. “They’ve been around and been renting somewhere else. The idea of this place is to be under one roof with so many different practitioners. An acupuncturist will say in addition to this, you also need to have a massage. Working under one roof, there will be a synergy.”

While there are over 60 rooms in the building – and seven acres of land – Rabinowitz doesn’t want 60 tenants. He’s hoping the final tally of practitioners will land in the 30 to 35 range.

“This will be a great movement together,” Rabinowitz said. “With this combination of people, you’re going to have the local population who will have the choices of so many practitioners. They will have it all local to them and it will allow people to have it under one roof, whatever their needs may be.”

Halina, who is a licensed massage therapist and a Chinese herbalist, said establishing a center like the Bridge Healing Arts Center will further the legitimization of holistic healing.

“It was ideal to be in here,” Halina said. “There are so many creative people who can come through. We’re calling it the Bridge for a reason.”

The Bridge Healing Arts Center is holding an open house on March 23, from 4 to 7 p.m., for practitioners who may be interested in renting space.