We have moved to 2612 Quadra St., just north of Kings Ave., on the ground floor of Blue Bird Cabs!
The season has certainly shifted here in Victoria this past couple weeks, with cooler nights, shorter days and the first leaves yellowing and falling from trees. Now is the time to draw our excited and extroverted summer energy back to our core and begin storing energy. It is also the season to release what is…
A solid guide to protecting and strengthening our hearts and spirits by Jenny McCartney, Medical Herbalist. At the request of a good friend, this post is dedicated to those who are fighting for the land, it’s people, and the spiritual integrity and beauty of these things– whether warriors, renegades of the heart, mothers, lovers, front-liners…
Regardless of how you might feel about Valentines day– herbs, love and sex go well together, and so it only seems right to zero in on this synergistic triad this mid-February, and particularly the renowned herbal aphrodisiacs. So what makes a herb an aphrodisiac? Traditionally an aphrodisiac stimulates circulation and blood flow to the erogenous…
Those of you who have perched on the porcelain throne at Heart & Hands may have noticed the sign strategically mounted at toilet-sitting height. We have also affixed one above the tank, so folks standing and facing the toilet would also receive the same message. And I figured it might be useful to reflect upon…
Thought-provoking article from “Queering Herbalism”, http://queerherbalism.blogspot.ca/2013/03/no-herbal-revolution-without-anti.html “Power imbalances exist between herbalists and those who come to them to be healed/ to co-heal. As healers who are very much human, we bring in our assumptions and biases. We can’t leave them at the door. They are very much present in our consultations and inform our healing…
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