Thomas Heikes & Heart Radiance
Thomas Heikes is Heart Radiance — An acupuncture clinic, online holistic wellness consultations, and teachings of life alignment.
He helps people shift from stress and overwhelm into alignment, resilience, and deep embodied vitality in today’s intense and stimulating world. He shines brightest when supporting sensitive and neurodivergent individuals to thrive, as well as anyone seeking to feel more regulated, connected, and balanced.
Together we explore the patterns of imbalance within your unique being and provide personalized holistic care to support deep nervous system regulation and lasting vitality.
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.
He creates a truly supportive healing experience by slowing down into a safe, slow, and grounded space, exploring how to be of greatest support on your healing journey. Through calm, attuned sessions, acupuncture supports regulation of the nervous system and nurtures embodied resilience and inner calm in a world that can feel intense and overstimulating. We spend most of the session together with far less time to rest alone than a standard acupuncture session.
Modalities & Services
He offers a gentle and powerful healing container to help nourish vitality, transform stagnations, and reclaim heart radiance by harmonizing acupuncture with deeply embodied modalities such as somatic touch including Chinese massage and bodywork, medical qi gong and biodynamic craniosacral therapy. He often weaves in handcrafted herbal medicines, sound therapy with singing bowls and tuning forks, hot stones, herbal smudge, cupping, gua sha, and body alignment guidance. Guided journeys into energetic obstructions is sometimes explored when it’s supportive and needed.
His approach is rooted in Chinese medicine wisdom, guiding holistic alignment and reclaiming inner heart radiance through seasonally attuned lifestyle guidance and harmonized dietary knowledge. Care is adapted to each individual, honouring your unique being and supporting aligned living and transformative vitality.
Thomas has been in practice for many years, and is an instructor at a local Chinese medicine college.
The deepest offerings of Thomas’ heart beyond clinic are sharing explorations, teachings, workshops, and courses about guiding others in developing personal relationships with creation and the great forces that sway our lives, with consciousness and intuition, connecting to the land and to the Earth, cultivating plant spirit allies and herbal medicine knowledge, ceremony and ritual, 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.
Holistic medicine is just another expression of consciousness, of love, of medicine plants, of community meals and laughter, of challenges and growth, it’s the pattern language of life applied to health. He seeks to help others heal the deepest and most wounded parts of the modern human through experiencing universal connection to source, by remembering the amazing gift of being alive. He dreams to be in service by guiding a reclaiming of what life is all about, to heal through connection with the Earth woven together in community, living in sacred alignment.
Thomas is a highly sensitive 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 developing sensitivity instead of isolating and retreating from the intense world we live in. He has been unavoidably required to completely surrender to a healing journey, to embrace the medicine path or struggle on in pain and suffering.
His journey has taken him around world, it’s been the greatest source of learning of life, and the most confronting and humbling experience as well. It has required finding balance and coming into right relationship with himself and with the Earth in order to heal. He is so grateful for his experiences, each one is a brush stroke on the canvas of his life.
Training & Education
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 is also an instructor at the Chinese medicine college in Nelson, BC. He has also studied Medical Qi Gong, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and energy work for many years. Thomas has deeply studied Western herbal medicine for many years through intensive apprenticeships, many professional courses, and much self exploration as well as studying ceremonial plant medicine mediation with many groups and teachers.
Thomas lives for exploring plant medicines, growing herbs and making medicine, getting to know their essence in a personal way, meditating with the medicines and communicating with the living plants, and sharing this passion with others. He looks forward to teaching his community about holistic plant medicine through workshops, plant spirit meditations, as well as offering empowering education in nutrition, and much more.
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, as well as many other instruments, and he is exploring offering sound healing sessions. He has spent many years learning permaculture on farms, was a professional natural builder, is a food enthusiast, amongst so much more.
In service, gratitude, and devotion to living in deepest alignment with the flow and intelligence of creation. Heart Radiance is the synthesis of Thomas’ life journey and the deepest offerings of his being.
Other Creations by Thomas
The following are other explorations, creations, and past life chapters in Thomas’ life. Simply a further sharing and place to document the elements of his curious creative heart.
Art
Harmonograph Drawings & Machine
Building Projects
Natural Building Portfolio
Musical Instruments
Instruments beyond wooden flutes
