We have moved to 2612 Quadra St., just north of Kings Ave.
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…
Green Muse Herbs and Heart & Hands Health Collective, as businesses, have both been built on values of economic and disability justice, mutual aid, community care, and upholding public health and safety. We are one of the few remaining safer retail and clinical spaces for people with vulnerable and suppressed immune systems and will continue…
It’s been a few weeks operating at 2612 Quadra St and we’ve had a few scheduling mix-ups, so we are taking the opportunity to reintroduce two members of our acupunking team with somewhat similar names… Jaay (Jade) Kulhawy-Bartlett, R.Ac. If I were to describe myself in 3 words: Curious, considered, candid How tall are you?…
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) the season of Fall is associated with the Metal phase or “element”. The natural movement of the metal phase is of contraction or gathering of energy for storing. Think plants dying back to store its energy in their roots, trees dropping their leaves to prepare for dormancy, or bears gathering…
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 AND 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…
Since we are in such a central location, directly across from Fairway Market as well as being in the general vicinity of one of the sorting and distribution locations for Community Food Support Victoria, so logically, of course we’d be a food drop off location :) Especially since the CFSV recently lost one of our…
I recently started going to see Christina, Jade and JO at Heart & Hands. I’m a survivor of domestic violence and have been terrified of touch and being in public, and have struggled to find trauma-informed care that isn’t pathologizing. Christina and her team make me feel safe in so many small ways. Heart &…
I’ve had a pain in my neck, for months. I went for one Gua sha treatment with Jade. The next night, I was getting ready for sleeping and I noticed, the pain is gone! What a relief to know I can address this stress with healing before it becomes so stagnant it solidifies. G.T.
I’ve been getting acupuncture from Christina for over 6 months now. I have lived a lifetime of trauma and abuse growing up and it’s affected my thinking patterns and caused a great deal of anxiety and depression. In 2016 I suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), which was not diagnosed until several years later. I…
A heart-warming thank you card dropped off by one of our lovely doula Community Acupuncture clients who has presently just landed back in the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, otherwise known as Toronto. It has been an honor to care for another…
“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…
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…
For the past 14 years, we have hashed and rehashed the core, the heart, one of the main tenets of Heart & Hands and the Community Acupuncture model : our Sliding Scale. “if it is inaccessible to the poor, it is neither radical nor revolutionary”~Jonathon Herrera Soto This statement, “Sliding Scale is Political. It is…
J.W. landed in Lekwungen Territories for a few weeks before heading to Ontario and they decided to give Community Acupuncture a try in the hopes of dealing with endometriosis and the accompanying intense, painful and dysregulating menstrual cycle. And to add a layer of six degrees of separation, J.W. also happened to be old university…
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