We have moved to 2612 Quadra St., just north of Kings Ave., on the ground floor of Blue Bird Cabs!
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…
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…
RMIT University academic Dr Zhen Zheng explains how acupuncture works.
This is a range of recommended treatment frequencies. The frequency of treatment is dependent on a variety of factors including health history, severity, season and/or climate, age as well as how your body responds to the first 1-3 sessions. The response to acupuncture varies greatly from individual to individual. Receiving acupuncture is a PROCESS that…
At Heart & Hands Health Collective, we are a Community Acupuncture clinic that loves our bikes! Community Acupuncture (CA) sessions are in a supportive group setting at sliding scale rates ($20-40). Cycling is integral to getting us practitioners and our gear around town, and because many of our clients walk or cycle to their appointments,…
As the Royal Victoria Marathon slowly approaches, we’d like to offer our care and expertise to the folks who are out there pounding the pavement! We’d like to encourage you to incorporate Community Acupuncture into your training schedule not just because we think everyone should take a nap, but also that acupuncture is an ideal…
This autumn, there has been an increasing number of clients who are telling me, “I’m thinking of doing cleanse”… And then, I spend a bit of time talking them out of it. As a Chinese Medicine practitioner, what are my thoughts about it? Fall is rolling in foggy, chilly and damp. You can start to…
Ever wonder why you wake up at the same time every night? You might experience weird food hankerings, energy crashes, anxiety, digestive issues etc. with uncanny regularity. This awesome online graphic may reveal a little something about what your internal organs might be up to and what those symptoms are indicative of. 24-hour Organ Qi…
How to invoke magic: “When you express gentleness and precision in your environment, then real brilliance and power can descend onto that situation. If you try to manufacture that presence out of your own ego, it will never happen. You cannot own the power and the magic of this world. It is always available, but…
“We need to find the link between our traditions and our present experience of life. Nowness, or the magic of the present moment, is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present.” Excerpt from “Shambhala, The Sacred Path of the Warrior. I think this applies fully to the concept of adapting the ancient…
Do you love Humans of Heart & Hands? Do you love us? We would love it if you contribute your story and photo!