August
Work Exchange
2025 Hollyhock Holiday
INTERNAL HOLIDAY PAGE Reconnect to yourself and nature in our spectacular West Coast island setting. Take a breath of fresh air outside of the city, and enjoy the serenity and beauty of our local landscape. Our holiday packages include: Accommodations A variety of accommodations are located throughout our lush campus, ranging in price to suit […]
Science, Art, Sound & The Sacred
With Merlin Sheldrake, Cosmo Sheldrake and Rupert Sheldrake
Explore the entanglements between science, art, sound, and the sacred in a beautiful, wild setting. Our imaginations are a critically important superpower and perhaps our primary means of survival. In this workshop, we will spend time both indoors and outdoors -- in gardens, on seashores and in forests -- connecting with the more-than-human world and […]
Nine Patterns of Developmental Pathways
With Dan Siegel, M.D.
In this immersive, interactive workshop retreat with Dan Siegel, participants will learn about their own lives, how persistent patterns of emotion, thinking, and behaviour—known as “personality”—may have formed, and how to enable those potential prisons to transform into platforms of possibility that serve as playgrounds in life. Dan offers a view from the trans-disciplinary field […]
Between the Human Animal & The Animate Earth
With David Abram
How can we open a fresh and unshakeable solidarity between ourselves and the other animals, plants, and elemental forces that compose this breathing biosphere? The deepening contortions of climate change – intensifying droughts, monster floods, flaring wildfires and heart-wrenching geopolitical cataclysms – all ensure that our species is tumbling toward a sea change of immense […]
From Chaos to Calm: Bringing Presence & Purpose to Your Daily Life
With Caroline Welch
Feeling overwhelmed, or untethered? Finding no time for you, and what's most important to you right now? Feeling that you will never "catch up?" Embarking on a new chapter in your life? Dreading a transition that you know you need to make? Yearning to spend more time in nature? If you answered "yes" to any […]
Salish Shorelines: A Saltwater Journey
With Jonas Fineman and Kai Harvey
Join Cortes Island guides and mariners for a kayaking exploration of the Salish Sea surrounding the renowned Hollyhock Campus. Each day’s adventure offers a safe and comprehensive foray into the seascapes and histories of Desolation Sound and the Discovery Islands. Launching from various beaches around Cortes Island as well as from the 43 foot schooner […]
Embrace the Edge: Yoga Immersion
With Fiji McAlpine
As ever-evolving beings we are always riding on the edge of the next greatest version of ourselves. In yoga the pose is not the point, but rather a tool that we use to explore our own inner alignment in an outward expression. Asanas will be a guide for our own expansion and unfolding and allow […]
Whole Human Health
With Lawrence Cheng, MD, CCFP(EM), MPH and Devon Christie, MD, CCFP, RTC
Journey into the science and art of optimizing well-being at every level—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Guided by Dr. Lawrence Cheng and Dr. Devon Christie, this immersive program integrates functional medicine, mind-body practices, and cutting-edge approaches like precision medicine to empower you with the tools to live a longer, healthier, and more vibrant life. This […]
SoulCollage®: An Enchanting Path to Inner Wisdom & Creativity
With Kimberly Lee, J.D.
Set out on an enlightening journey of self-discovery, guided by the power of your own creativity and intuition. In this immersive workshop, you’ll uncover and access inner wisdom through the inspiring SoulCollage® method. Developed by the late Seena Frost, MA, and based on the work of Carl Jung, this enchanting personal practice harnesses the magic […]
The Art of Leadership (2026)
With Suzanne Hawkes and Michael Bell
You must apply to attend this program. Applications for the 2026 training are now open. Are you committed to making a difference in the world? In social change, socially responsible business, education, politics or community service? Learn to inspire, engage and collaborate with others in effective action to broaden the impact of your work together. […]
Essential Somatics: Free Your Movement!
With Martha Peterson
If you have “tried everything” to relieve your chronic muscle or joint pain for the long term and have only experienced short-term relief (or none at all), then this 5-day immersion is for you. Come and learn how to restore freedom of movement and resolve chronic muscle tension so you can live more fully. Eliminating […]
Slow Art, Somatic Practice, and Creative Rest
With Shauna Kaendo - Art Therapist | BFA, RCAT
Being in conversation with art, process, and ourselves. The theme for this therapeutic arts program is Mapping the Sensory. We will get curious about the sensory experience of art making. Through creative meanderings with solo and collective art processes we will work on slowing down and paying attention to what arises in the process of […]
Harmony Within: A Journey of Songwriting and Reconnection
With Samantha Parton and Leah Abramson
The Harmony Within workshop explores songwriting as a journey of soulful reconnection to our creative source, and to self. Harnessing the power of music and words and focused, creative intention, we seek to illuminate, transform, and transcend what lies within. Over the course of this immersive retreat, participants will learn to effectively articulate the hidden […]
Nature & Nurture Yoga: Embracing Abundance
With Fiji McAlpine
Embrace the late summer abundance in the Pacific Northwest on spectacular Cortes Island. Late summer is the season to savour the fruits of the year’s growth. The warm air is thick with the smell of sweet berries, and the forests are vibrant and lush. This retreat will explore the natural elements in our body on […]
Somatic Summer Camp: Authentic Expression in Tumultuous Times
With Kevin Yee-Chan, Rachel Athey and Winchester Victor
Clear the clutter and return to your innate authenticity through the traditions of yoga, qigong, and somatic therapy. Revitalize somatic trust as you explore the nuances of your window of tolerance, navigate inner work with safety vs intensity, and anchor into your body’s inherent wisdom. Open pathways of expression as you uncover emotional anatomy, engage […]