Our Services
Acupuncture & Traditional Chinese Medicine in North Vancouver
AcuLife Wellness offers acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) treatments in Lower Lonsdale, North Vancouver. Every plan starts with a conversation about how you're feeling, not a fixed protocol.
What is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is a component of Traditional Chinese Medicine that involves placing hair-fine, sterile, single-use needles at specific points along the body's meridians. It is commonly used to help manage pain, ease tension, and support the body's natural balance.
Learn More About AcupunctureWhat is Traditional Chinese Medicine?
TCM is a whole-body approach to health that considers physical symptoms alongside sleep, digestion, and stress. At AcuLife Wellness, TCM techniques may include acupuncture, cupping therapy, and herbal medicine, combined into a plan suited to your specific concerns.
Our Treatments
Every visit begins with a conversation. From there, we design a plan drawn from these core offerings.
View Fees & InsuranceInitial Consultation
15 minutes
A full intake conversation and assessment so your treatment plan is built around your history and goals.
$30
Comprehensive Acupuncture Treatment
60 minutes
Hair-fine, sterile, single-use needles placed at points selected for your presentation.
$120
Herbal Medicine
Herbal formulas prepared to complement your treatment plan. Final cost varies by formula.
Starting from $20
Acupuncture Weight Loss Treatment
60 minutes
Acupuncture offered as part of a broader approach to weight management, alongside your other care.
$120
Acupuncture Facial Treatment
60 minutes
A gentle, needle-based facial treatment carried out in a private treatment room.
$160
Cupping Therapy
30 minutes
Traditional suction cupping used to ease muscular tension in the treated area.
$50
Gua Sha Therapy
30 minutes
A smooth-edged tool drawn along the skin to work through areas of muscular tightness.
$100
Moving Cupping Therapy
30 minutes
Cups glided across oiled skin to address a broader area than stationary cupping.
$100
Acupressure
60 minutes
Manual pressure applied at specific points, with no needles involved.
$140
Traditional Chinese Massage
30 min / 60 min
Hands-on bodywork drawn from Traditional Chinese Medicine, available in two lengths.
- 30 minutes
- $100
- 60 minutes
- $150
Moxibustion Therapy
30 min / 60 min
Warming therapy applied near selected points, available in two lengths.
- 30 minutes
- $60
- 60 minutes
- $100
Sports & Activity-Related Injuries
Acupuncture may be used as part of care for the muscular tightness, overuse discomfort, and reduced range of motion that can follow repetitive training or recreational activity. Whether you run, cycle, ski, lift, or play a racquet sport, treatment is individualized to the area involved and how the discomfort behaves — and works alongside, not instead of, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, or medical assessment where those are appropriate.
Golf
Repetitive rotation and loading may contribute to lower-back, shoulder, elbow, wrist, or hip discomfort.
Tennis & Racquet Sports
Repetitive upper-body movement may contribute to shoulder, elbow, forearm, wrist, or lower-body concerns.
Skating
Repetitive loading and balance demands may contribute to hip, knee, ankle, lower-back, or muscular concerns.
Running, cycling, skiing and snowboarding, and gym or strength training bring their own patterns of strain. Explore the areas we most often support:
Fertility & IVF Support
Acupuncture may be used as complementary care during a fertility or IVF journey. Treatment is individualized according to each patient's circumstances and stage of care, with attention to treatment schedules, stress, and general well-being throughout. AcuLife Wellness works alongside, rather than in place of, medical fertility care.
Fertility & IVF SupportWhat to Expect at Your First Visit
Your first visit begins with a full intake conversation about your health history and current concerns, so your treatment plan is built around you rather than a standard protocol. From there, your practitioner will recommend an approach — which may include acupuncture, cupping, or herbal support — suited to your goals.
Meet Your Practitioner
All treatments at AcuLife Wellness are provided by Hong Ji, R.TCM.P., a graduate of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine with over thirty years of clinical and teaching experience.
Learn more about Hong JiReady to Begin?
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