July
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 […]
2026 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 […]
Embodied Practices for Collective Thriving
With Roula Said, Julia Aplin, Shannon Litzenberger and Andrea Nann
In this time of intersecting social, political, and planetary crises, how do we embrace and honour all that is arising in us as bodies? What if we listen closely to what we feel in our hearts, what we know in our bones? Can we resonate care and connection across our differences, tuning into our sense […]
Singing in the Vocal River
With Rhiannon
Hear your own song and learn new ones as you find your place in the world of music and invention. Co-create vocal magic in a safe, dynamic circle of singers, delving into the possibilities of spontaneous composition and the language of storytelling. Working alone, in pairs, and in ensemble, meld intuition and invention with skill […]
Freedom Begins with Letting Go
With Chelene Knight
Join award-winning writer and creative practitioner Chelene Knight for a transformative journey into letting go and deepening your understanding of self. Through emotionally rich and immersive activities, such as letter writing, discovering personal connections in meaningful objects, guided meditations, and discussions on abstract ideas like love, loss, and grief explored through literary greats such as […]
Discover Cortes: Adventures in Nature
With Bill Ophoff
The natural world is your classroom as you hike, kayak, and sail amid the wild beauty of Cortes Island. Discover the flora and fauna of both land and sea along with local history and geological phenomena as you adventure forth with Hollyhock's knowledgeable, fun-loving naturalist. Explore ancient forests, sandy beaches, colourful tide pools, windswept bluffs, […]
Homecoming: A Journey Into Source, Ritual & Yoga
With Mara Branscombe
Return to your body Reconnect with your source Remember your spirit There comes a time in each season of life when we’re called to return to the breath, to the body, and to the shifting rhythms that need tending. Source + Spirit is an immersive journey into your most authentic self—through the elemental wisdom of […]
Tapping the Stream: Summer Writing Retreat
With Shaena Lambert and Betsy Warland
Tapping the Stream is a 6-day writing retreat - free from interruption - to explore the direction of a work in progress, as well as to foster creativity through community with other writers. This unique retreat combines self-directed writing time, a one-on-one session with both Betsy and Shaena, several morning craft intensives (focusing on subjects […]
Murmuration
With Margie Gillis and Rhiannon
The culmination of 30 years of teaching side-by-side programs at Hollyhock comes next summer with this long-awaited collaboration! Join Margie Gillis and Rhiannon for their first joint-retreat at Hollyhock, MURMURATION. Murmuration is the form where body and voice meet, movement and sound, in equal measure. The starlings move in the sky by the hundreds and […]
Dancing from the Inside Out
With Margie Gillis
Move into your body’s experiential wisdom and reveal the soul in motion. Refine your sensitivity to the connection between thought, feeling, spirit and body as you listen in to your body’s inner wisdom, impulses, conversations and emotions. Becoming sensitive to and engaging with this inner life provides information both for expanding well-being, as well as […]
Witching Ways ~ Reviving Femme Folk Wisdom & Sensuous Power
With Heather Wolf
As the present meets the past, there is a collective wound of the feminine we experience personally, intimately. Yet go back far enough, we also inherit lineages of wise women healers – known and unknown. These witching ways are our blessings and birthright, an inextinguishable magic rooted in the body, earth, hearth, and wilds. This […]
Radical Dharma: Conversation
With Rev. angel Kyodo williams Roshi
Together we can create the conditions for healing, reconnection, authentic community, and justice. Radical dharma (“complete truth”) is a way to enter the critical conversation about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out, preventing our collective awakening and connection. To shift, we must create conditions for radical honesty, where we drop […]
Energy Medicine Yoga for Surviving and Thriving
With Lauren Walker
In a world gone wild, with systems breaking down and apart, how do we keep ourselves balanced, healthy, connected and joyful? Steeped in the gorgeous landscape of Hollyhock, you will learn techniques for nervous system regulation, the skills to re-establish calm and grounding, and how to rewire your stress-response to be less reactive. We can’t […]
Healing Family & Ancestors: Ritual & Resonant Family Constellations
With Jill Purce
Transform inherited patterns into magical blessings, bringing harmony, joy, and order into your daily life. Activate the unconscious field of the ancestors, making it a rich source of wisdom and illumination. This healing program uncovers and restores aspects of the psyche that are normally closed to therapeutic methods, transforming negative patterns into natural blessings. Jill’s […]
Becoming One with the Spirit of the Drum
With Gordy Onayemi Ryan and Zoë Ryan
Activate the Fire in your hands, the Beat in your feet, and the Song in your Heart on this soulful journey in Rhythm in the iconic Olatunji Hall. Drum, dance and sing to increase the flow of vital energy in your body and open your ears to the beauty of rhythms and songs from many […]
Painting Nature, Here and Now
With Jeremy Herndl
Is it possible to have a conversation with nature? When we set up to paint outside we can take the time to notice that things are moving and changing before our eyes. Being here, immersed in colours, sounds and scents and through the reciprocity of looking and painting we connect with place, ourselves and each […]
Ebb & Flow: Kayaking & Yoga Practice (July)
With Kai Harvey and Jordan Best
Immerse yourself in the rhythms of the natural world and the ebb and flow of the Salish Sea. Hollyhock, located on the southern coastline of Cortes Island (on the unceded land of the toq qaymɩxʷ (Klahoose), ɬəʔamɛn qaymɩxʷ (Tla’amin), and ʔop qaymɩxʷ (Homalco) Nations) is an ideal basecamp and launch point for kayaking adventures. Against […]
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 […]