Gala and Awards Night
Friday, June 5, 2026, starting at 7:00 p.m.
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel West Edmonton
Logan Palisade Ballroom
Get ready to be swept into The Oasis at the NHPC Gala and Awards Night!
NHPC members, practitioners, and industry leaders are invited to our formal gala evening, featuring a three-course dinner, awards, keynote presentation, and entertainment.
This is an annual favourite community event, and this year we’re taking the evening to new heights with a live band and keynote speech by one of our very own members!
What can you expect at the Gala?
Follow along as we guide you through an evening of connection and celebration:
- three-course plated dinner with alcoholic beverages available at an additional cost (food allergies and intolerances can be accommodated upon ticket purchase)
- NHPC awards presentation, featuring acceptance speeches from the winners of the President’s, Outstanding Volunteer, and Life Membership Awards
- entertainment from a local band.
- exciting giveaways and draw prizes from Canadian vendors
- time to connect with the NHPC Board of Directors, staff, industry leaders, and fellow members
- inspiring keynote speech from NHPC member Aimee Sebastian, starting at 7:55 p.m.
Dress code: semi-formal
Gala tickets must be purchased separately from your conference pass. Bring a plus one — your significant other, friend, or colleague? Make sure to buy them a ticket to enjoy a fun night out (non-members welcome).
Keynote Speaker: Aimee Sebastian
Aimee Sebastian is a pain recovery specialist, reflexology innovator, author of Reflexology Redefined: Unlocking the Face Code to Becoming the Healer, and founder of Indulgence Lifestyle Studio.
She has over 25 years of experience in health, wellness, and the healing arts.
From the Treatment Room to the National Stage: Innovation, Impact and Practice Evolution
This keynote is both a call forward and a roadmap for sustainable professional growth.
Once trapped in years of debilitating pain and dismissed by conventional medical systems, she refused to accept a life defined by symptoms — and instead began decoding the body from the inside out.
She discovered natural health modalities as dynamic, nervous system-centered methods capable of transforming pain recovery and modern practice.
Today, Aimee is known for redefining facial reflexology and pioneering an integrative approach that weaves facial reflexology, cranial reflexology, and craniosacral therapy with nervous system intelligence.
Her work challenges the idea that pain is something to suppress, revealing it instead as a language — one the body uses to communicate what has been unheard, unprocessed, and unresolved.
As an expert in pain recovery, Aimee bridges modern science with ancient healing arts, empowering people and practitioners alike to move beyond symptom management and into true self-healing.
Through her clinical practice, teachings, published work, and the evolving Face Code framework, she is leading a new paradigm in wellness that restores agency, dignity, and trust in the body’s innate wisdom.
Aimee’s message is simple yet radical: your body is not broken, it is speaking. And healing begins when you learn to listen.
