Sunday July 28, 11:00am – 4:00pm 2612 Quadra St. (North of Quadra & Kings)
The H&H and GMH crew will be opening up our new space in support of Bara Hladik‘s first holistic massage pop-up! So if you’re new to both our lil’ businesses, please stop on by and check out all the lovely treats and treatments we’ll have available the last weekend of July :)
BOTH Saturday July 27 & Sunday July 28 from 12:00 – 5:00pm, Bara will be working her magic offering Holistic Massage (Hot Stone, Gua Sha, Fire Cupping, Lymphatic Drainage, Acupressure) as well as facial rejuvenation and spa therapies. All sessions are offered by sliding scale, so if you wanna treat yo’ self, book an appointment below!
Softer Drink will be tabling a selection of their delicious and unusual specialty drinks for sale, as well as brewing up some beautiful Camellia sinensis aka tea, including: Cold brew pu-er with seasonal fruit Sidewalk gong-fu tea brewing station Misc cold canned retail drinks
Christina will have delicious brown butter, miso & toasted black sesame rice krispie squares to accompany your Softer Drink beverages
JO Oswald, R.TCMP. will be offering drop-in NADA ear acupuncture. 30 minute sessions. Suggested donation, $10-30. NADA is a 5 point ear acupuncture protocol for addictions, stress and trauma (and much, much more…). Sessions are offered seated in a supportive group setting.
Viriditas Apothecary & Farmwill be bringing their medicinal herb + flower bouquets, some of their small-batch handmade medicines (herbal smokes, rose cream, farm-grown teas…), as well as some late season regeneratively grown herb starts
Green Muse Herbs will be open too for this special occasion for any other herbal needs or desires you may have :)
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