Cortes Island
Hollyhock Holiday Retreat – May 8-13
Looking for a space to unplug, unwind, and slow down? A Hollyhock Holiday Retreat invites you to step out of the busy rhythm of life and into a gentler pace - without schedules, without obligations, and without taking a program. This is your time to rest, restore, and reconnect with your true self. Spend your […]
Hollyhock Holiday Retreat – May 27-31
Looking for a space to unplug, unwind, and slow down? A Hollyhock Holiday Retreat invites you to step out of the busy rhythm of life and into a gentler pace - without schedules, without obligations, and without taking a program. This is your time to rest, restore, and reconnect with your true self. Spend your […]
Hollyhock Holiday Retreat – June 24-28
Looking for a space to unplug, unwind, and slow down? A Hollyhock Holiday Retreat invites you to step out of the busy rhythm of life and into a gentler pace - without schedules, without obligations, and without taking a program. This is your time to rest, restore, and reconnect with your true self. Spend your […]
Hollyhock Holiday Retreat – June 14-19
Looking for a space to unplug, unwind, and slow down? A Hollyhock Holiday Retreat invites you to step out of the busy rhythm of life and into a gentler pace - without schedules, without obligations, and without taking a program. This is your time to rest, restore, and reconnect with your true self. Spend your […]
Hollyhock Holiday Retreat – June 5-10
Looking for a space to unplug, unwind, and slow down? A Hollyhock Holiday Retreat invites you to step out of the busy rhythm of life and into a gentler pace - without schedules, without obligations, and without taking a program. This is your time to rest, restore, and reconnect with your true self. Spend your […]
Hollyhock Holiday Retreat – July 10-15
Looking for a space to unplug, unwind, and slow down? A Hollyhock Holiday Retreat invites you to step out of the busy rhythm of life and into a gentler pace - without schedules, without obligations, and without taking a program. This is your time to rest, restore, and reconnect with your true self. Spend your […]
Hollyhock Holiday Retreat – July 15 - 19
Looking for a space to unplug, unwind, and slow down? A Hollyhock Holiday Retreat invites you to step out of the busy rhythm of life and into a gentler pace - without schedules, without obligations, and without taking a program. This is your time to rest, restore, and reconnect with your true self. Spend your […]
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 […]
Writing with Intuition: A Journey into Creative Consciousness
With Sarah Selecky
Join author and creative intuitive Sarah Selecky to learn the magical art of writing from your whole self, using intellect and intuition at once. These skills live in the heart of story and poetry, yet they're rarely taught in traditional writing programs. While academic courses focus on craft and technique, they often overlook the mystical […]
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 […]
Activate 2026
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Khari Wendell McClelland
Salish Shorelines: A Saltwater Journey
With Jonas Fineman, Kai Harvey and Jordan Best
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 […]
A New Way of Being: Claiming Love and Power in Uncertain Times
With Deepa Narayan
We cannot imagine or create a new world with old patterns of thought and ego-driven ways of being. The crises of our time—economic, ecological, social, and spiritual—ask us to go deeper. They call us to source from love, not fear; from connectedness, not isolation. Love is not weakness, sentimentality, or escape. Love is power. It […]
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 […]
Guiding Souls to Cross Over: The Art & Practice of Psychopomp
With Julie Kramer
Many people facing death report feeling alone and afraid, when in fact, they are surrounded by benevolent helping spirits. These specific spirit guides, known as psychopomp allies, always gather when death is near. Their function is three-fold: to signal to the dying that death is approaching; to help them prepare to release their body; and […]
Presence Psychotherapy Training: Integrate Spirituality With Trauma Work (28 CE Credits)
With Michelle Lepak
Presence Psychotherapy is a comprehensive trauma treatment model that integrates spirituality, work with parts of the mind, and relational attunement to process the many layers and nuances of trauma. Presence Psychotherapy, rooted in evidence-based practice, is highlighted by US News & World Report for trauma healing and grief, is published in the APA Journal of […]
An Autumn Contemplative Retreat: Rooting, Unfurling, Letting Go
With Caverly Morgan and Deborah Eden Tull
What does it mean to truly let go? What are we letting go of, and how? At the threshold of autumn, inspired by the natural world—a natural teacher—join Deborah Eden Tull and Caverly Morgan for this contemplative and restorative journey. We will delve into the profound themes of rooting in presence, unfurling into embodied being, […]
Presence, Play and Possibility
With Donna Martin and Shelley Winton
A gentle invitation to come home to your authentic self With the demands of living in a dynamically changing world, we sometimes lose track of what has heart and meaning for us. We can be swept along by the speed of change or expectations. What if we could slow down with the intention to re-discover […]
Social Venture Institute Hollyhock 2026
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
If you believe that business can (and should) be a catalyst for social and economic transformation, you belong at Social Venture Institute. Join Canada’s longest-running social enterprise gathering to find the inspiration, resources, and relationships you need to propel your mission forward. SVI is a five-day oceanside gathering of 100+ CEOs, entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, movement leaders, […]
Kintsugi: Embracing Imperfection
With Yuka Morino
Kintsugi, 金継ぎ translated literally from Japanese means "golden joinery". This traditional Japanese art used to repair broken ceramics uses natural materials, like tree sap, clay and flour dusted with gold (or other precious metals) to make the cracks, or broken lines beautiful. The cracks are called Keshiki 景色 and in Japanese, mean scenery, landscape or […]
Sacred Roots: Ancestral Healing Through Yoga, Breath & Ceremony
With Satya Jehman
Held in the days of the harvest full moon and the yogic season of ancestral remembrance known as Pitru Paksha, this retreat is a sacred portal into healing, connection, and embodied renewal. Across cultures, this time of year has long been honoured as a season to remember, pay tribute to, and commune with those who […]
The Language of Flowers: Contemplation and Realization in Nature
With Heather Midori Yamada
At first glance there is harmony, balance and beauty underlying many Japanese arts. Ikebana, the art of Japanese floral arrangement has a rich and long history with many schools, rules and philosophies developing and evolving over time. Originating from a traditional Japanese environment to contemporary expression worldwide, the language of flowers includes everyone and anywhere […]
Return to Stillness: A Yoga Nidra Retreat
With Kristyn Rose Foster
Step away from the pace of daily life and return to the quiet intelligence within. Held in the serene beauty of island life as the season turns inward, this retreat is a deeply nourishing immersion into Yoga Nidra, the art of conscious rest and “divine sleep.” As autumn invites a natural softening, you are supported […]
The Art of Entanglement: Fish, Flow, and Knowing
With Zoe Todd and Courtney Chetwynd
Dive into a creative world where fish, water, and story are teachers. Building on the energy and excitement of last year’s “Fish as Storytellers”, this year’s program moves more deeply into themes of entanglement, reciprocity, and relational ways of knowing. Through art-making, storytelling, and land-based reflection, we’ll explore how knowledge moves in quiet and unexpected […]
Eldering in Times of Transformation
With Cheryl Rose, Juana Berinstein and Zhiish McKenzie
“A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species.” Carl Jung What is the human purpose of the “third third” of your life? How might it hold meaning for you and for our world? What pressing questions are you holding as […]
Wintering: Rest, Reflection & Inward Practices
With Farah Nazarali
“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, [and] that’s where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.”- Katherine May Step out of the hustle and bustle of modern […]
Fall Foraging + Outdoor Cooking
With Cheryl Chang and Candace Campo
Explore the forests and tidal edges of Cortes Island through your senses. Gather with Cheryl Chang, professional chef, and Candace Campo, Indigenous knowledge keeper and Talasay Tours founder, for a sensory experience that will weave together learning, foraging, and cooking. Together, we’ll explore the intertidal zone and the forest floor — reading the landscape for […]