Dear Practitioners 

I wish you all a glorious 2017 and a very happy New Year. 

My heartfelt prayer to our beloved Swami is that 2017 usher in beneficent abundance for everyone in all aspects of life. With that said, I request all practitioners to take a moment to express their deepest gratitude to our guiding light, Sathya Sai Baba, for all that has been accomplished in 2016. It gives me immense pleasure to report our key achievements in 2016: 

• Organizational improvements: dedicated volunteer administrators who collaborated to revise guidelines, policies and procedures, as well as organize workshops. A thorough selection process for new applicants was initiated. Continuing ongoing training & development.
• Successful launch and implementation of regular practitioner meetings for effective mentoring, problem-solving, brain-storming and fostering research. These meetings are warm, informal, friendly and supportive.
• Birth of Broadcast Network, initially launched in USA and Canada, to reach patients who are inaccessible due to location, hospitalization or other critical situations. Plan to roll-out an international network.
• Remote access to practitioner records: migrated records to a cloud based computing infrastructure enabling remote need-to-know access for relevant administrators, coordinators and teachers.
• One-to-one individual mentoring for all AVPs who will work closely with an experienced practitioner until they successfully make the transition to VPs.
• Updated the 2004 Vibrionics Practical Guide for SVPs with a substantially enhanced 2016 version.

We are delighted to report that 2016 witnessed a pivotal improvement in the overall commitment and dedication of practitioners as evidenced by the number of impressive case studies received.

Swami says “Love has no limits.” May we fully imbibe this Divine principle and make 2017 a memorable year – living in the spirit of oneness. This year we aspire to improve our understanding and treatment of plants and animals by establishing a dedicated research team to investigate their respective requirements and pathologies. The goal is to develop comprehensive treatment for the healing and optimum health of both plants and animals. 

In 2017, we will also focus on harvesting the initiatives we implemented in 2016 such as expanding the mentor program beyond AVPs, and further exploring cloud computing and digital technology for greater efficiency. 

Many practitioners have expressed an interest in reintroducing the section on lifestyle and health as they found it very useful while counselling patients. As part of our focus on continuing education in 2017, from this newsletter onwards, a new sub-section on the interconnection of lifestyle and health is being initiated. In this issue we will cover the significance of fasting for emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. We are introducing the work of Dr Yoshinori Ohsumi, a cell biologist from Japan, winner of 2016 Noble prize for Physiology and Medicine regarding his discoveries of Autophagy mechanisms. 

Despite these encouraging developments more practitioners are needed to meet our expanding outreach and improvements. We welcome all qualified helping hands and willing hearts and minds to join our vibrionics family in this expanding seva. With Sai's ever blessing hand, let us move forward in confidence, implementing and improving this precious gift of Sai Vibrionics for greater and fuller service to all life.

In loving service to Sai

Jit K Aggarwal