Community Acupuncture
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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….
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The memory of our bodies
I was recently reminded while receiving my own self-care of how our bodies are a vessel that holds our life experiences. It is a container for everything, large or small, of memories long forgotten and also memories held in the front of our minds. These memories percolate through our human fabric, into our sinews and…
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5 Insights for Acupuncture Newbies
Heart & Hands loves its acu-newbs and we love to ensure that everyone that takes a cruise in our recliner chairs walks out having had a fantastic experience and that their first try is in our community-style clinic setting. We all get poked together, we all nap together, we all feel better together :) Here…
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The Science Behind What Naps Do For Your Brain—And Why You Should Have One Today
At Heart & Hands, we are hardcore nap enthusiasts and any reason to encourage more napping, the better. Take for instance, this interesting article from Fast Company (click for full article): Studies of napping have shown improvement in cognitive function, creative thinking, and memory performance. Ready, set . . . snooze. How sleep affects us…
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How does acupuncture work? | RMIT University
RMIT University academic Dr Zhen Zheng explains how acupuncture works.
