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.
H&H acu-nappers receive discount for Green Muse Herbs Immune formulations!
We wanted to encourage and entice more of our H&H clients to take advantage of all of the abundant herbal, educational and ceremonial offerings from Green Muse Herbs
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more importantly, it’s been a pretty respiratory virus riddled summer and many of you are heading into the fall season with thrashed immune systems :(
This is your PSA to start focusing on preventative measures and we’re making it easier and more affordable to stock up on what you need with the start of the school year!
From September 1st to October 31st, Immune formulations are 15% off for H&H clients
Purchase ALL 3 Immune products and receive 25% off the bundle!
H&H turns 14: enter our Humans of Heart & Hands Drive!
This October, we can hardly believe it ourselves, but Heart & Hands turns 14!!!
AND we are inviting you to share with us your Humans of Heart & Hands stories!
Tell us about the impact we have made in your lives and be entered in a prize draw!
We love community. And we love stories. Humans of Heart & Hands is a collection of practitioner, volunteer & client accounts of how Heart & Hands Health Collective has made a positive impact in their lives. This collection of stories are a living document of how community acupuncture can change the world, shifting societal views about self-care, the use of traditional modalities for preventative care as well as supporting our organization and it’s hardworking practitioners.
Humans of H&H stories submitted from October 1st – 31st will be entered in a prize draw
Yin within Yang, by Jaay (Jade) Kulhawy-Bartlett, R.Ac.
When learning how to comprehend the basic principles of Chinese medicine, students are taught that all of the philosophical ideas that underpin the ideas of yīn and yáng, and the ways they are interrelated, can be mapped on to the tàijí – or what in the west we might hear people casually refer to as the ‘yin-yang symbol’. This simple image can represent many different elements of the interplay between yīn and yáng, such as the cyclical waxing and waning of the seasons through the course of the year.
As we travel around the symbol like a clock, starting where there is the most white, we can see the white (representing yáng) slowly diminishing while the black (yīn) grows. This represents the turn from the greatest yáng at midsummer into late summer and fall. During this phase of the cycle of the year, the yáng remains predominant, but the yīn is increasing in effect and influence.
Herbal Broth for Fall Immune Support, by Jade (JO) Oswald, R.TCMP.
“My body is not a temple, it’s a thermos for soup”
Fall is the perfect time to begin incorporating more nourishing broths into the mix to bolster our immune system and protect ourselves against seasonal illnesses. Medicinal herbs can be combined with bones or chicken feet and seasonal vegetables to make for a nutrient-rich broth with added protein and collagen. For a plant-based broth medicinal mushrooms and seaweeds can be added for nutrition and flavour.
If you have specific health concerns or on medication you may want to check with a TCM practitioner if you’re going with a TCM Herbal broth or a Medical Herbalist if you plan to brew a Western Herbal broth.
