Heart & Hands Health Collective

Our focus is providing compassionate and accessible services to our community. Our mission is to transform community health into community wealth. Acupuncture treatments offered in a supportive group setting at sliding scale rates. Community acupuncture is affordable and accessible health care.

https://www.heartandhandscommunity.ca/

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Closure Tuesday Sept 30th, 2025 for the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective September 16, 2025
The H&H team will taking the day to reflect upon the ongoing colonization of the unceded Indigenous territories we reside…
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What’s in a name? On journeys nominal and otherwise by Jade Kulhawy-Bartlett, R.Ac.
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective August 29, 2025
In a change that has been a long time coming, I have finally completed the legal name change I have…
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A little about Bre
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective August 12, 2025
Hi, I’m Bre (she/they). I’m originally from Prince Edward County and Newcastle, Ontario, on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe,…
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Unmasking Bre
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective July 29, 2025
Hi, I’m Bre or Breanna (she/they). I live and practice on the unceded territories of the lək̓ ʷəŋən peoples, also…
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Late summer scheduling changes & closures!
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective July 26, 2025
Our lean mean acupunking team is taking some well-deserved vacation time at the end of the summer, which means changes…
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Updates from Sonya Gracey, Art Therapist of Otherways Creative
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective July 21, 2025
Hello lovely Heart & Hands community! I wanted to write this small update to let you know how my first…
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The Joys (and Pains) of Gardening – Cupping & Gua Sha for Acute Low Back Pain, by Jaay (Jade) Kulhawy-Bartlett, R.Ac.
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective July 10, 2025
If you’re like me and many of us who live in the “City of Gardens” you might be experiencing the…
Read More The Joys (and Pains) of Gardening – Cupping & Gua Sha for Acute Low Back Pain, by Jaay (Jade) Kulhawy-Bartlett, R.Ac.
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On One Year of Co-Creating Sanctuary Together in Our New Quadra Village Home
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective June 29, 2025
Heart & Hands, Green Muse Herbs & Otherways Creative at the 2025 Oaklands Queer & Trans Farmers Market Well, as…
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I look to H&H as a role model in our community of what caring for each other looks like.
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective June 20, 2025
I first came to H&H to seek help for a persistent injury in my hand and arm, and after experiencing…
Read More I look to H&H as a role model in our community of what caring for each other looks like.
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Clinic will be OPEN Tuesday July 1st
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective June 15, 2025
We will be OPEN Tuesday July 1st for regular hours 9:30am – 2:15pm!! We hope our community is taking the…
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I saw her last Tuesday for an appointment as a perinatal patient. I ended up delivering my son less than two days later…
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective June 13, 2025
Good evening Heart & Hands Collective, I’m just hoping you can please pass this message on to acupuncturist Christina, I…
Read More I saw her last Tuesday for an appointment as a perinatal patient. I ended up delivering my son less than two days later…
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Luckily, I was able to book in with Jade right away and experience immediate relief
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective June 6, 2025
In a moment of joyous abandonment, after an intense retreat for people living with metastatic cancer, I did a sloppy…
Read More Luckily, I was able to book in with Jade right away and experience immediate relief
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OUTSIDE(R) ART: Doing OUTSIDE art is good for us!
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective June 3, 2025
Table Of Contents Being outside in general supports our nervous systems, increases mental clarity and emotional regulation, and offers a…
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This place has been a cornerstone of my sense of wellbeing during my time in Victoria and I will really miss it
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective May 31, 2025
Another beautiful thank you / goodbye card from one of our regular acu-nappers who has made the difficult decision to…
Read More This place has been a cornerstone of my sense of wellbeing during my time in Victoria and I will really miss it
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Congratulations Jade!!
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective May 30, 2025
On April 26th, Jade Kulhawy-Bartlett, R.Ac. reached an exciting milestone by completing her Balance System Acupuncture certification as part of…
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Medicine For All Seeking Health and Healing (M.A.S.H.H.) & an herbal electrolyte formula
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective May 28, 2025
Green Muse Herbs will be joining Heart & Hands at the upcoming Queer + Trans Farmers’ Market on June 28th!…
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I would not be where I am without her help and I thank Christina and the Heart & Hands Health Collective for their ongoing support
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective May 21, 2025
I started coming to Heart & Hands 7 years ago, my mind and body have benefited greatly from this decision….
Read More I would not be where I am without her help and I thank Christina and the Heart & Hands Health Collective for their ongoing support
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H&H and Print Hole Collab: on friendship, community connection & goal setting talismans
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective March 30, 2025
This is a Humans of Heart & Hands appreciation + cross promotional post of one of our talented H&H clients…
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Regenerative Medicinal Herb Propagation Workshop with Marae Dalgas, Folk Herbalist
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective March 27, 2025
Sunday April 27th, 1:00 – 3:30pm Heart and Hands Health Collective, 2612 Quadra St. MASKING REQUIRED – we are prioritizing…
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Q&A: ART MAKING TO KEEP GOING in FUCKED UP TIMES, by Sonya Gracey, Art Therapy Practicum Candidate
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective March 21, 2025
Table Of Contents Creative, collective care! Sonya Gracey (she/they) is a polydisciplinary creator whose practice is rooted in living decolonization,…
Read More Q&A: ART MAKING TO KEEP GOING in FUCKED UP TIMES, by Sonya Gracey, Art Therapy Practicum Candidate
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Incense Making Workshop with Marae Dalgas, Folk Herbalist
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective February 24, 2025
Sunday March 23, 1:00 – 4:00pm Heart & Hands Health Collective, 2612 Quadra St. MASKING REQUIRED – we are prioritizing…
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Spring Femme Clothing Swap!!
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective February 16, 2025
Saturday March 15th – 4:30 – 7:30pm 2612 Quadra St. (ground floor of Blue Bird Cabs) $5-10 sliding scale for…
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Heart & Hands, a Third Place and Community Acupuncture, a Third Culture
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective January 31, 2025
A place that isn’t at home nor is it at work, but another place. Some place in between that is…
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JO taking a pause
ByHeart & Hands Health Collective January 29, 2025
JO will be pausing her hours at H&H starting February 6th, so she will be MIA on her weekly Monday,…
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