ACUPUNCTURE AND OTHER THERAPIES WITH LAUREL IN KEREMEOS AND PENTICTON, MOBILE OR VIRTUAL: Book online or email oksacupuncture@gmail.com for more info.

CUPPING AND TUI NA MASSAGE WITH ALANA IN KEREMEOS: Book online or email alana.leask@gmail.com for more info.

We offer private, couples and group services in Penticton and Keremeos, and by invitation throughout BC.

Sliding scale rates and low income subsidies available, please enquire.

Limited mobile services available in the South Okanagan / Similkameen based on need and successful application. Please contact us for details.

Virtual consultations and treatments, and herbal remedies / personal treatment supplies available by contacting (250) 499-1905 (phone or text) or emailing oksacupuncture@gmail.com.

Our clinic aims to protect the health and safety of our patients and community from any communicable disease by utilizing symptom pre-screening, masks, distancing, air purification, and frequent handwashing and sanitizing.

Thank you for choosing us as your health provider. We value your trust in us and look forward to working with you.

Herbs and Nutrition

Traditional Chinese Medicine provides a unique and highly effective set of tools with which to understand and treat our health. This can be especially useful when conventional tests, diagnostics and treatments do not seem to help. Let this rich tradition help you regain your quality of life in a way that is completely safe, and easy to apply to your currrent life and lifestyle. I believe in sta... Read More

Traditional Chinese Medicine provides a unique and highly effective set of tools with which to understand and treat our health. This can be especially useful when conventional tests, diagnostics and treatments do not seem to help. Let this rich tradition help you regain your quality of life in a way that is completely safe, and easy to apply to your currrent life and lifestyle. I believe in starting simply: what do you already use and enjoy that has therapeutic benefit? What foods and herbs do you have access to... what is already in your kitchen, what grows easily where you live, and what is readily available and affordable? This is where we start!

In some cases, plant based medicine from the Materia Medica may be appropriate. Our clinic has a fully stocked Western herbal apothecary, and many of our remedies are made onsite: from dried herbs and tea blends, to herbal concentrates such as tinctures, glycerites, medicinal vinegars and honeys, to topical salves and liniments. We also carry essential oils and flower essences, including the complete Bach Flower Remedies, and dozens more. Most of our remedies are custom made to order, tailored specifically for your needs. Herbal plans can be adapted to any budget, we accommodate specific diets, allergies, sensitivities, and safety needs.


Virtual Consultation

Phone or online consultation with a Traditional Chinese Medicine Registered Acupuncturist. Your practitioner will listen to your concerns, ask about your symptoms and health history and offer recommendations based on Chinese Medical knowledge. These may include dietary recommendations or a food plan, Western herbal medicine, self treatment techniques - such as ear seeds, cupping, gua sha - und... Read More

Phone or online consultation with a Traditional Chinese Medicine Registered Acupuncturist. Your practitioner will listen to your concerns, ask about your symptoms and health history and offer recommendations based on Chinese Medical knowledge. These may include dietary recommendations or a food plan, Western herbal medicine, self treatment techniques - such as ear seeds, cupping, gua sha - under the direction and supervision of your practitioner, tailored cultivation exercises such as qi gong, or other lifestyle guidance to assist you with your specific concerns.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is supported by research and utilized in clinical settings around the world. It is a holistic approach to healing, that takes into consideration all factors that may affect your health, not just the presenting symptom. It is a unique tool to help understand and treat your condition when there may otherwise seem to be no answers. TCM practitioners undergo a minimum of 4 – 5 years' intensive study in acupuncture, herbs, nutrition, anatomy & physiology, etiology & pathogenesis, and medical philosophy from both Eastern & Western perspectives, and are required to complete an undergraduate degree before being accepted into Chinese Medicine schools.

Conditions TCM is used for include (but is not limited to):

• Acute and chronic pain; pain from strain, injury, overuse or degenerative conditions
• Headaches & migraines
• Stress, irritability, depression, anxiety, sleep disorders
• Reproductive health
• Digestive health, food sensitivities
• Immunological & endocrine conditions
• Cardiovascular health
• Allergies and respiratory health
• Pre- and post-surgical support and healing
• Side effects of medications or other therapies such as chemotherapy and radiation
• Cosmetic acupuncture, weight management
• Addictions, relapse prevention, smoking cessation, and other lifestyle changes


Treatment Supplies

Contact us to arrange pick up or delivery of herbal products, and treatment supplies including silicon Fascia Buddy facial and body cupping sets, gua sha tools, ear beads and seeds, magnets, and more.

Alana is a recent graduate from the Acupuncture Diploma program at the globally recognized and award-winning institution, Pacific Rim College in Victoria, British Columbia. Currently practicing on the traditional unceded territories of the Sylix, and Smalqmix nations. In Alana’s practice she shows special interest in pain management, digestive health, gynaecology issues, mental-emotional disorders, stress, and addictions.

She aims to collaborate with you to achieve your health goals. Your body holds the innate wisdom to heal itself, but we could all use a helping hand from time to time.

Alana is a recent graduate from the Acupuncture Diploma program at the globally recognized and aw... Read More

Laurel is a BC Registered Acupuncturist, and certified Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist and Balance System Acupuncture Practitioner. She successfully completed the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Doctorate Diploma Program in 2004. Her post graduate training includes Chinese medical philosophy and metaphysics, Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion, Balance Method (developed / popularized by Dr. Richard Tan), Master Tung style, auricular acupuncture, Koryo Hand Therapy, and NADA acupuncture for addictions.

Laurel is also a clinical herbalist who draws from her education and ancestral traditions in Eastern and Western herbal medicine. She completed the intermediate program at the Saltspring School of Herbal Medicine. She is an avid wildcrafter and medicine maker with a dedicated apothecary. She works with traditional formulas, custom blends, and her own line of over the counter botanicals.

Over the past two decades, Laurel has created dozens of acupuncture outreach programs in the Lower Mainland, including Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and around the Southern Interior. She has worked in hospitals, public health clinics, First Nations communities, and for many non profit organizations.

Laurel continues to work in diverse settings and with a diversity of needs, including injury and pain, stress, emotional and sleep disturbances, facial rejuvenation, smoking cessation, addictions and lifestyle changes, internal medicine - including digestive, respiratory, hormonal and reproductive health - and community care.

She enjoys finding the underlying patterns within complex and stubborn conditions, loves the surprised look of a first-timer experiencing immediate results, and always feels gratitude witnessing people finding the gentle relief acupuncture brings.

With a background in front line support and outreach service provision, social justice and environmental stewardship, she advocates for accessible, intersectional, resilience-based, and community led health care.

She has completed trainings in trauma informed care, San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety certificate training for health care workers, and ongoing workshops with KinSHIFT and Indigeneyez.

Laurel loves the outdoors, traveling, learning, and time with her family. After many years in Vancouver and around BC, she is happy to be back in the Okanagan, her first home.

Laurel is owner, acupuncturist, herbalist and educator at Okanagan-Similkameen Community Acupuncture in Keremeos, Osoyoos and Penticton BC, on the traditional unceded territories of the syilx and smelqmix people. She serves the South Okanagan and Similkameen Valley, and is available by invitation throughout BC.

Laurel is a BC Registered Acupuncturist, and certified Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist and ... Read More

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