Heart & Hands Health Collective
We are a Community Acupuncture & Holistic Health Collective in Lekwungen Territories (Quadra Village) sharing our nest with our sister business, Green Muse Herbs.
Opportunities for Holistic Practitioners
Heart & Hands Health Collective, partnered with our sister business, Green Muse Herbs are looking for individuals who are social justice oriented, and interested in working with populations that may not have extended health benefits and/or those who are typically under-served by many holistic health services in Victoria.
Serving the community since 2010, Heart & Hands provides hundreds of streamlined acupuncture sessions each month, in a supportive group setting, all at an accessible sliding scale (currently $30-60/session). Community Acupuncture’s affordability, accessibility and inclusiveness makes it a profound tool for positive social change. Community Acupuncture reaches the segment of our community that is often priced-out of accessing higher-cost private practice acupuncture.
We look forward to co-creating a welcoming, inclusive, accessible and culturally grounded wellness hub in the heart of Quadra Village!
Em Postl, Community Herbalist!
Em (they/them) is a white, queer, non-binary community herbalist, gender-affirming voice teacher, farmer, singer, and medicine maker. They grew up in Qualicum Beach on unceded Qualicum, Snaw-naw-as and K’ómoks First Nations territory and their ancestry is French, Irish and German. Em grew up spending lots of time in the garden and forest, but only started building deeper relationships with plants when chronic illness came knocking, and they realized they wouldn’t be receiving the support they needed from the medical system.
Em approaches herbalism through the lens of their lived experience living with fatigue, chronic pain, frequent illness and lowered immunity. As a community herbalist, Em is here is to offer support, validation, resources, knowledge, and care. They are here to offer herbal and holistic invitations, while also reminding people of ways in which they are already taking care of themselves. As a white settler on stolen land, Em actively works to unpack their privilege and learn about how they can further decolonize their approach to medicine and their plant kin. They believe no one is free until we are all free, and their politics and values very much inform their herbal practice.
Trust in yourself, by Jade Kulhawy-Bartlett, R.Ac.
In recent months the only thing I have had any motivation to post about on my personal social media accounts is so-called Artificial Intelligence. That is, exclusively hollering about its negative attributes, celebrating its economic and political stumbles, and enumerating its many deleterious impacts on humans and the world around us. What is the main use of the internet these days if not as a forum for our grievances seamlessly interwoven with advertisements? As gratifying as it is to vent I am also trying to challenge myself to express my values more in terms of what I am for rather than only what I am against.
There are so many things to be against in this world – an endless supply by design when we are actively being manipulated toward overwhelm and over-activation by those who wield political and economic power. The excess of information we have available at hand commonly leaves most people feeling de-centred/ungrounded/whatever other common therapy-speak we want to use to describe the profound sense of disconnection from our bodies, from our interiority, and from what we want out of our lives.
This is where trust comes in.
Attuning to the Spring Season: Perspectives from Traditional Chinese Medicine, Western Herbalism & Shiatsu!
With open arms, we welcome the long, balmy and social days of summer!! Chinese medicine theory considers the outgoing season of Spring and subsequent Summer Yang seasons. Yang energy stimulates growth, expansion, and outward movement. The Yang energy is reflected in the natural world bringing longer, warmer days and an abundance of growth. The hospitable weather encourages us to spend more time outdoors to enjoy summer activities, socializing, later bedtimes, seasonal foods and warmth in the body!
We hope to provide some accessible practical traditional strategies to keep you balanced and grounded to bask in Summer’s glory as well as introducing some clinical supports from members of the H&H practitioner team!
