Thomas Heikes is Heart Radiance, an acupuncture clinic infused with somatic, spiritual, ceremonial, and energetic healing modalities to deeply support the body, mind, and spirit. In service, gratitude, and devotion, it is the synthesis of his life journey and the offerings of his heart.

Treatments are a flowing blend of acupuncture with a deeply embodied spiritual shamanic healing experience that we journey into together. This fusion includes medical qi gong energy work and chakra balancing, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, ceremonially calling in plant spirit connections with herbal medicine extracts during acupuncture sessions, guided meditation journeys into energetic obstructions, sound healing is also used such as tuning forks and singing bowls, hot stones are placed on the body, and herbal smudge therapy and moxibustion is often woven in as well.

We spend most of the session together with far less time to rest alone than a standard acupuncture session. Together we nourish vitality, transform stagnations, and reclaim heart radiance by guiding the powerful energies that flow in your acupuncture channels combined with western herbal medicine plants that heal our vessels. Classic Chinese body work techniques such as cupping, gua sha, and tui na are often utilized too. And of course we anchor from the Chinese medicine foundations of vital foods that balance your being holistically, and seasonally harmonized lifestyle guidance.

What Thomas truly offers is an invitation into stillness, to be seen with an open heart in a safe healing container, to support a return into alignment with a sacred way of being. Thomas shines brightest when sharing with those who welcome journeying into the unknown, even if it may be a challenging process, to explore what is inhibiting one’s fullest expression, and together we may meet and transform it.

Thomas is a highly sensitive magical being, gifted with innate sensitivity, intuition, empathy, and a curious loving heart. He has been on the medicine path for most of his life, fully committed to holistic vitality by necessity, the wounded healer’s journey, learning how to thrive in developed sensitivity instead of numbing and retreating from the intense world we live in. The offerings of his life and heart are sharing and teaching about developing personal relationships with creation and the great forces that sway our lives, connecting to the land and to the Earth, cultivating plant spirit allies and herbal medicine knowledge, ceremonial magic and ritual, trance states, and creating medicine music. The longer term vision is to co-create a holistic healing centre set within a small intentional community in the Slocan valley in the Kootenay mountains of BC, Canada.

Thomas graduated from a Traditional Chinese Medicine program at Pacific Rim College in British Columbia, Canada in 2020. He practiced acupuncture in the USA for a few years prior to his return to practice in British Columbia in 2024. He taught five semester long courses at the local Chinese medicine college in Nelson, BC in the fall of 2024. Thomas has deeply studied Western herbal medicine for many years through intensive apprenticeships, many professional courses, and much self exploration, and sharing plant medicine is his true passion. He has also studied Medical Qi Gong, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and energy work for many years. Most recently he is apprenticing in the realm of psychopomp work, the art of helping energies cross over into the spirit world in a good way. Weaving all this together is the magic of his offerings.

Thomas can often be found outside connecting with nature, creating herbal medicines including elixir tonic drinks, offering workshops on Earth connection, magic, and plants, and gathering in intentional circle with community. He also loves to play, as well as build, the Native American style flute, explore and offer sound healing. He has spent many years learning permaculture on farms, was a professional natural builder, is a food enthusiast, amongst so much more.

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