We have moved to 2612 Quadra St. (north of Kings & Quadra, ground floor of Blue Bird Cabs)!

$25 Cash Happy Hour for Community Acupuncture, book on Mondays from 9:30 - 11:30am to use the promotion! No special appointment required, please bring EXACT CHANGE!

  • WE WILL CONTINUE TO MASK, because immunocompromised people matter. If you forget yours, we have medical masks available for $2.
  • We keep our front door locked all day Mondays AND Tuesdays-Saturdays BEFORE 11am & AFTER 6pm. During those times, we will be letting you in at least 5 minutes before your appointment time.
  • We are appointment-only, no walk-ins.
  • If you do not see the timeslot you require add yourself to the wait list. Click on the service or practitioner you require and you will find it at the BOTTOM LEFT. Remember to set the TIME FRAME you require.
  • Please arrive 5-10 minutes early! Clients who are 5+ minutes late will be subject to a $2 late fee.
  • We are accepting cancellations/rescheduling for Community Acupuncture and Cupping up to 12 HOURS BEFORE your appointment. Missed appointments or late cancelations (less than 12 hrs) are subject to a $35 fee. Each of our Other Offerings practitioners will also have their own cancellation policies.

Questions or you would like to send us additional information in advance? Reach us, info@heartandhandscommunity.ca | 250-590-3185

Community Acupuncture

**This service is for Community Acupuncture ONLY - if you want Cupping & Gua Sha, please book the correct service.** Acupuncture treatments offered in a supportive group setting, in comfortable zero gravity recliners, at sliding scale rates. Community acupuncture = affordable and accessible holistic health care. Treatments involve providing distal points (arms, legs, head, ears). Please... Read More

**This service is for Community Acupuncture ONLY - if you want Cupping & Gua Sha, please book the correct service.**

Acupuncture treatments offered in a supportive group setting, in comfortable zero gravity recliners, at sliding scale rates.
Community acupuncture = affordable and accessible holistic health care.

Treatments involve providing distal points (arms, legs, head, ears). Please wear or bring loose fitting clothing for your treatment.

Sessions are 30-50 minutes, at $30-60 sliding scale rates ($10 paperwork fee for NEW clients).


Cupping & Gua Sha

Cupping and gua sha are both therapies used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to remove stagnation and stimulate the flow of qi.
Both techniques are wonderful compliment to acupuncture!

Sessions are 30 minutes, at $40-70 sliding scale ($10 paperwork fee for NEW clients).
*This service is in a private, one-on-one setting.


Somatic Sex Education

Somatic Sex Education works with the felt sense of the body to connect to our inner wisdom, our nervous system, and the ways in which we are already wise and brave.

Sessions are tailored to suit and support your intentions and where you are at. Sessions, may include a combination of breathing, meditation, exercises, games, education, or perhaps hands on body work.


Art Therapy

Art therapy is a psychotherapeutic practice that uses creative inquiry and expression —such as drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and other art forms—as a way to explore emotions, process experiences, and support healing. Rather than focusing on artistic skill or finished products, art therapy values the process of making as a way of accessing deeper knowledge, self-understanding, and trans... Read More

Art therapy is a psychotherapeutic practice that uses creative inquiry and expression —such as drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and other art forms—as a way to explore emotions, process experiences, and support healing. Rather than focusing on artistic skill or finished products, art therapy values the process of making as a way of accessing deeper knowledge, self-understanding, and transformation. For many, it is also a tool for resistance and empowerment, offering a space to challenge dominant narratives, reclaim stories, and imagine new possibilities.


Reiki

Usui Reiki is a hands-based energy healing technique that allows practitioners to act as conduits to channel universal life energy, Ki, to support physical, emotional, and spiritual healing and well-being. The practice is rooted in the belief that this universal/life energy flows through all living beings, and when it is blocked or imbalanced, it can lead to dis-ease manifesting in chronic illn... Read More

Usui Reiki is a hands-based energy healing technique that allows practitioners to act as conduits to channel universal life energy, Ki, to support physical, emotional, and spiritual healing and well-being. The practice is rooted in the belief that this universal/life energy flows through all living beings, and when it is blocked or imbalanced, it can lead to dis-ease manifesting in chronic illness, fatigue, pain, and undesired mental health ailments.


Holistic Massage & Spa Therapy

Treatments to support recovery from pain, injury and chronic illness using a variety of techniques consisting of Hot Stone, Gua Sha, Fire Cupping, Lymphatic Drainage and Facial Rejuvenation in combination with Acupressure Wellness Massage.

Jade (she/her) is a white, trans woman settler who came to Chinese medicine after 8 years of work in activist communities. In them she honed collectivist values and observed a shared need to address our physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies alongside liberation work for the social body.

Jade studied Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) at Pacific Rim College starting in September 2017, completing a Diploma of Acupuncture in December 2020. Licensed since December 2021, she is interested in the ways in which Daoist philosophy underpinning Chinese medicine makes space for identities, bodies, and hearts unrecognizable to Western culture.

As a practitioner Jade is especially curious how she can intervene in the world of often-inaccessible and expensive transgender medical care, a community that has overall lower earnings and less access to stable employment. She has focused her education on interrogating the unique ways Chinese medical modalities can be used to supplement many of the medical interventions trans people receive for gender-affirming care.

She is also deeply passionate about the role acupuncture - and community acupuncture in particular - can play in helping communities and individuals to be more engaged in their own health care. Jade finds the accessible, gentle, and effective medicine we practice to be a radical intervention in the health of our culture as a whole.

Jade (she/her) is a white, trans woman settler who came to Chinese medicine after 8 years of work... Read More

Alyssa (she/they) lives as a white, neurodiverse settler on the unceded ancestral lands of the Lkwungen-speaking peoples. Drawing from her lived experiences as a patient with invisible disabilities within the Western healthcare system, Alyssa is dedicated to providing non-judgmental, neuro-affirmative, trauma-informed, compassionate, and accessible care. Alyssa’s holistic approach integrates mind, body, and spirit. Recognizing the interconnectedness of all of these aspects of a person’s well-being, Alyssa views energy work as a complementary modality to enhance and support clients’ ongoing journey towards stress reduction and improved quality of life.

As a Usui Reiki Level II Practitioner, Alyssa channels universal life energy (Ki) through traditional hands-on (or off your choice!) healing techniques to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Usui Reiki focuses on restoring the flow of life energy, which, when blocked or imbalanced, can cause undesired chronic symptoms like illness, pain, anxiety, and depression. Alyssa aims to rebalance this energy and work with clients towards increased relaxation and stress reduction. Since beginning her training to be a Qigong practitioner, a branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine, she has begun to integrate some Qigong techniques like gentle movements, breathing exercises, and meditations, all harnessing the body’s innate and intuitive ability to channel and balance energy in the body further helping to remove blockages, and supporting stress reduction.

After completing her Reiki level II Practitioner certification in 2022, Alyssa decided to expand her holistic studies to deepen her knowledge base and skills to better help clients. In 2025 she will be completing both her Usui Master level III and Medical Qigong Practitioner certifications. Outside of her energy practice, Alyssa is completing her Master of Science in Clinical Counselling, with a focus on substance use and addictions, neuro-affirmative care, and trauma and somatic therapies.

Outside of her professional work, Alyssa is passionate about advocating for patient safety and care as well as disability equity and rights through local and provincial organizations. When seeking balance in her life, Alyssa finds joy in connecting with the natural world, cooking with her family, sharing a tarot reading with friends, tending to plants, storm-watching at the beach, and finding inspiration for her abstract paintings and sculptures.

Alyssa (she/they) lives as a white, neurodiverse settler on the unceded ancestral lands of the Lk... Read More

Sonya is a polydisciplinary creator whose practice is rooted in living decolonization, neuroqueer world-making, and justice-oriented mutual care. I am a white settler of Irish, germanic bukovinian ancestry that came to live on and benefit from the unceded stolen lands of the Xwsepsum and lək̓ʷəŋən peoples by way of her peoples occupation of several First Nations lands including Kahnawá:ke (Mohawk), Anishinabek, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Sioux) and homelands of the Métis. My practice is an emerging action of coming into right relationship with this land and the impact that my being here has on local peoples.

I consider myself a recovering benevolent. My work is deeply personal and related to my own lived experiences of struggle, grief and transformation. I am a neuroqueer solo mom to two autistic teens surviving in capitalism. I spent 23 years as an RN working in healthcare (street outreach, reproductive justice, harm reduction) where I became increasingly aware of the violence of the status quo and my role in that. Last year I gave up my registration as a nurse - but kept all my lived experience with people and relationships! I have refocused my practice towards art and am just about finished a 2 year diploma in art therapy. I work from a decolonial, intersectional framework that centers relationship and access. I am currently using a sliding scale and pay-what-you-can model rooted in mutuality and collective sustainment.

Through relational, somatic (body-based) art-making, Sonya’s work fosters personal growth, embodied political action, and a critical awareness of the interconnectivity of the personal, collective, and systemic narratives that shape us and we shape. Their practice integrates neurobiology and eco-attachment-informed approaches while challenging dominant therapeutic frameworks that reinforce settler colonial and capitalist ideologies. Sonya is a student at Kutenai Art Therapy Institute where she is completing a 2 year post graduate diploma, a member of the Canadian Art Therapy Association, a facilitator with the Erotics of Liberation Practice Field and a care weaver member with The Liberatory Wellness Network (LWN).

Sonya is a polydisciplinary creator whose practice is rooted in living decolonization, neuroqueer... Read More

West (they/them) is a Somatic Sex Educator (SSE), painter, kitchen witch, and a Pisces. Blending science, spirituality, care work, and relationships has always been at the core of West’s learning and it brings them joy to continue down this path and to share this learning with others.

West has been working with bodies since 2013 but started their formal training with Caffyn Jesse and their in-person Intimacy Educators Training in 2018. West completed their Somatic Sex Educators Certification 4 years later in 2022 at the Institute For the Study of Somatic Sexology (practicum supervised by Katie Spataro). Further trainings completed with Holistic Resistance (“Disrupting Our Whiteness” - 2022) and Dr. Betty Martin (“Like A Pro: Wheel Of Consent Training For Practitioners” - 2022).

West is particularly excited about how SSE can be of service to the communities they are a part of with a lens of harm reduction, Disability Justice, and creativity as a way towards joyful survival. For many years West witnessed a need in their communities for competent and affirming care for folks who have had gender affirming surgeries. As well as education and tools for accessing pleasure communication and embodiment. West has focused their training on working within their queer, trans, and sex working communities.

Living with chronic pain unexplained by western medicine led West down a path of endless learning and informs their deep respect for the body’s mysteries and inherent wisdoms.

West is in the process of completing certification as a Death Doula with the Home Hospice Association and also works on the Peer Health Advocate Training Team at PEERS.

When they are not working one on one with people West can be found following their dog through the tall grass, reading stacks of books in their arm chair, and making dinner for a kitchen filled with friends.

Note: If cost is prohibitive please reach out - I reserve a portion of my practice as “Pay What You Can” for clients who require it access my services.

West (they/them) is a Somatic Sex Educator (SSE), painter, kitchen witch, and a Pisces. Blending ... Read More

Christina (she/her) is a first generation, Hong Konger-Canadian originally from the Greater Toronto Area, the traditional territory of the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Anishinaabeg and since 2005, has been a visitor on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen peoples.

She is a Community Acupuncturist, grassroots organizer-educator, martial artist, lupus survivor and high functioning spoonie. In 2006, Christina became certified as an National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA) provider. Then completed her training as a Registered Acupuncturist at the Canadian College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (CCAOM) in Victoria, BC in 2009.

Christina is a Balance Method practitioner, training in the system since 2010, initially with the late Dr. Richard Teh-Fu Tan, followed by Si Yuan Balance Acupuncture based in the EU and in November 2023 completed the 9 level Balance System Acupuncture certification with Gold Level certified Dr. Sonia Tan, based in Vancouver, BC. Currently, she is part of a 2 year mentorship in the 8 Extraordinary Vessels with the esteemed Dr. Yvonne Farrell.

Active in the community, she is passionate about using acupuncture as a tool for positive social change through providing outreach, increasing accessibility and bringing the practice back to its traditional roots. She continues to explore her own personal experiences as a woman of colour living with chronic illness, Asian diaspora, working class organizer-educator, and founder of an unorthodox social enterprise in Lekwungen Territories, otherwise known as Victoria BC.

Christina (she/her) is a first generation, Hong Konger-Canadian originally from the Greater Toron... Read More

Bara completed her Diploma of Acupuncture at Royal Pacific Institute, studying closely under the well respected Doctor and author, Dr. Ganglin Yin. She completed a Certificate in Microneedling at the BC Academy of Medical Aesthetics and Skin Care and has additional training in Tui Na, Acupressure and Reflexology. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia, where she studied health research and disability justice. She continues to write on health research topics and has advocated for the rights of women and gender-diverse people with disabilities at the United Nations in Geneva.

She uses a variety of techniques such as Acupuncture, Electro-Acupuncture, Electro-Moxibustion, Reflexology, Acupressure, Hot Stone, Herbal Compress, Gua Sha, Cupping, Lymphatic Drainage and Holistic Facial Rejuvenation Techniques. Her practice is informed by Traditional & Classical Chinese Medicine techniques, Sports Medicine, Advanced Balance Acupuncture, Neuroacupuncture, and ongoing extensive studies on evidence-based research.

She is passionate about accessible health education and trauma-informed care. Her treatments support recovery from pain, injury, chronic illness, mental health and more. Having personal experience with Ankylosing Spondylitis and chronic pain, she is particularly passionate about treating pelvic health, spinal conditions, auto-immune disease, complex chronic pain, digestion, mental health and women’s and LGBTQ health.

Bara completed her Diploma of Acupuncture at Royal Pacific Institute, studying closely under the ... Read More

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