Community Acupuncture
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April is Pay it Forward Month!
Find out more about our community partner Portland Hotel Society Douglas Community!
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March is *SPRING* Acupuncture Seat Sales
Find out more about this affordable & convenient promotion!
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SUNDAY Feb. 18th: Neck & Shoulder Acupressure
Pre-register to reserve your spot, Drop by the front desk or Find out more about our Take Home TCM Workshop Series!
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Community Acupuncture is…
Community Acupuncture is SO MUCH MORE than affordable acupuncture: It is an innovative return to a traditional form of healthcare, provided in honour of its humble, barefoot roots It strives to be a safe space, welcoming earthlings of all shapes, sizes, genders & life experiences It is a business model that is built first &…
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Shine a light: an article about Seasonal Affective Disorder
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a form of depression, in which the onset is related to changes in seasons. Symptoms commonly start in the fall and continue through the winter months, due to declining daylight hours and temperature, sapping your energy, turning your body into a bag of bricks and giving you the “winter blues”,…
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Community Acupuncture 101: A Guide for aspiring students & practitioners
This article was originally published in the TCMABC Summer 2013 Currents Newsletter, which is no longer in circulation. Information-filled, this is a wonderful and brief introduction to our bread and butter, Community Acupuncture, which can be many things, but primarily a practice and business model, but also a vehicle for positive social change by providing…
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Community Acupuncture, deconstructed.
At Heart & Hands, we’re pretty passionate about supporting the Community Acupuncture movement as it is an authentic and sustainable way to support our community as well as ourselves. This is article will hopefully deconstruct the finer details of why and how this practice model works and why we think it is the future of…
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A Healthy Poke: Demystifying the Science Behind Acupuncture
Many of us have started to embrace the use of alternative medicine, but acupuncture, with its qi, yin, and meridians, still raises eyebrows… While many practices in alternative medicine are slowly but surely making their way into the mainstream, acupuncture is one that still produces skeptical eyebrow raises. This phenomenon is partly due to linguistics….
