Take Home TCM Workshop Series
Take Home TCM is series of workshops providing practical, do-it-yourself, home remedy-based knowledge about Traditional Chinese Medicine! Our series is a fun, informative and engaging way to meet more folks from your community who are also interested in looking after their health and well-being :)
Our workshops are educational, empowering, inclusive and accessible to people of all walks of life. Learn more hands-on techniques and strategies that will keep you relaxed, warm, digesting well and balanced from the inside out!
These techniques are for personal use ONLY and are considered adjunctives for the prevention or relief of basic health complaints. They do not replace primary medical care and if your condition persists or worsens, consult your health care practitioner.
All workshops are offered in-person at Heart & Hands Health Collective, 2612 Quadra St, ground floor of the Blue Bird Cabs Building.
Workshop registration fees are $15-25 sliding scale. Pay what you can afford.
Registration is available online or at our front desk.
Questions? Contact us
Upcoming workshop dates
*Dates are subject to change*
Supporting Immunity with Traditional Chinese Medicine
Sunday Feb 1, 2026 – 1:00 – 3:00pm
Facilitated by Jade Kulhawy-Bartlett, R.Ac. & Christina Chan, R.Ac.
~2 hrs in length
Hand-outs and moxa stick are provided
BRING SLIPPERS, a pen, notebook & your imagination!
MASKING REQUIRED – we are prioritizing the health and safety of our staff and attendees. If you forget yours, we will have medical masks available for $2.
Cold and flu season is upon us and many of us spend the fall-winter-spring season in this revolving door of illness, slow recovery and back into illness, over and over for months. Those with certain work environments (ie. outdoors, small offices, schools, health care) or certain elements at home (ie. kids, pets, mold, dust). Some unfortunate souls spend the majority of the colder months with perpetual sniffles, sore throats and general malaise as they drag through one illness to the next.
Furthermore, transitions between seasons are also a time where you may be more vulnerable to external pathogenic invasions due to the waxing and waning of the seasonal energies as we exit one season to enter the next.
And in pandemic times, it is additionally important to support and protect immunity to avoid COVID infection or to ensure you recover effectively and fully after the fact so your risk of lingering symptoms or long COVID is reduced.
Our session will include a basic introduction to the TCM theory of immunity as well as teaching 3 practical and accessible and traditional approaches (1) Moxibustion, (2) Gua sha and (3) Lifestyle/diet therapy for supporting and/or rebuilding immunity.
Workshop registration fees are $15-25 sliding scale. Pay what you can afford.
Registration opens Jan 1, 2026, register online (click button below) or at our front desk.
Neck & Shoulder Acupressure
Sunday Mar 1, 2026 – 1:00 – 3:00pm
Facilitated by Jade Kulhawy-Bartlett, R.Ac. & Christina Chan, R.Ac.
~2 hrs in length
Participants will work in pairs, hand-outs are provided
BRING SLIPPERS, a pen, notebook & your imagination!
MASKING REQUIRED – we are prioritizing the health and safety of our staff and attendees. If you forget yours, we will have medical masks available for $2.
Learn a simple and relaxing sequence of acupressure points that will release tension, decrease pain and relieve stress. Done with a partner, this sequence is safe, easy to learn, provide relief for a variety of stress-related tensions and help build mind-body awareness.
Workshop registration fees are $15-25 sliding scale. Pay what you can afford.
Registration opens Feb 1, 2026, register online (click button below) or at our front desk.
Intro to Chinese Medicine Diet Therapy
Sunday Mar 29, 2026 – 1:00 – 3:00pm
Facilitated by Christina Chan, R.Ac. & Breanna (Bre) Johnston
~2 hrs in length
Hand-outs are provided
BRING SLIPPERS, a pen, notebook & your imagination!
MASKING REQUIRED – we are prioritizing the health and safety of our staff and attendees. If you forget yours, we will have medical masks available for $2.
Coffee is hot and bitter in nature, while green tea is cold and bitter in nature. Learn about the inherent nature of the food you eat and how to eat for your unique constitution. A basic introduction to food energetics as well as how food preparation influences those energetics, in addition to how nutrients and our digestive function are the root to our health and wellness.
Pain in the neck? Weight of the world on your shoulders? Are you a teeth grinder?
Workshop registration fees are $15-25 sliding scale. Pay what you can afford.
Registration opens Mar 1, 2026, register online (click button below) or at our front desk.