Meet Page
Page is the owner of Hara Wellness and is a Registered Acupuncturist (R.Ac) with the College of Complementary Health Practitioners of BC (CCHPBC) and a Certified Athletic Therapist (CAT(C)) with the Canadian Athletic Therapists Association (CATA). She provides acupuncture, sports medicine acupuncture, and athletic therapy in Nelson, BC, helping active individuals recover from injuries, reduce pain, and optimize performance.
With a Bachelors of Exercise and Athletic Therapy and a Diploma of Acupuncture, Page has advanced her skills in Sports Medicine Acupuncture through Acusport Education and is pursuing full certification as a Sports Medicine Acupuncturist. She has also completed modules in Kiikko Matsumoto Japanese Style Acupuncture and movement optimization through Rehab-U, including Prehab and Performance, Athletic Prehab, and Mobility Fundamentals.
Page has a special interest in acute and chronic musculoskeletal injuries, including neck, lower back, hip, knee, and elbow pain, integrating acupuncture with therapeutic exercise to address multiple concerns at once. For example, treating mid-back pain while supporting digestive function.
In addition to musculoskeletal care, Page uses acupuncture to support mental health and stress reduction, sleep disturbances, and women’s health concerns, helping clients improve overall wellness alongside injury recovery.
My Story
Growing up, Page dabbled in different sports and activities but it wasn’t until she discovered snowboarding that a true passion for sport emerged. She started teaching snowboarding in her early 20s and it was through teaching that she discovered her interest in human movement and body mechanics. In 2011, she decided to explore this interest and enrolled in the Bachelor of Exercise and Athletic Therapy (BAET) Program at Camosun College.
While she was studying for her Athletic Therapy board exams, one of her mentors had mentioned possibly going to school to study Acupuncture….the seed was planted. Over the next few years, acupuncture stories kept popping up, and clients she had been seeing were getting really good results with the combination of Acupuncture and Athletic Therapy. She was fascinated by this ancient form of medicine and wanted to learn more about it. In 2019, she graduated magna cum laude from Pacific Rim College with a Diploma of Acupuncture.
Having completed all her schooling in Victoria, BC she wanted to return to the mountains. In 2019, her and her husband decided to make the West Kootenays home. When she's not in the clinic you can find her on your snowboard, playing with her 2 dogs, Babs and Minnie, running the trails, playing disc golf or working on a course (she's a lover of learning :P)