June
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2024 SPRING Program Template Design
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
Bold first sentence. Include a short program description of 1-2 paragraphs, around 250 words. An ideal program description should provide a concise overview of the event, making it easy for potential participants to understand the value it offers. Be sure to include key details: the presenter's name, program content, location, and the program's potential benefits. […]
2024 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 […]
Spring Holiday - May
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 most budgets. Choose […]
Spring Holiday - June
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 most budgets. Choose […]
Salish Shorelines: A Saltwater Journey (June)
With Jonas Fineman and Tosh 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 […]
A Training in Lateral Liberation
With Kim Haxton
This is a time of high polarity. The need for genuine restoration has far-reaching implications as leaders seek vision and all people seek direction to address the mounting pressure of a system incongruous with the values of the natural world. This immersive training encourages the “lateral liberation” of consciousness by drawing from the embodied knowledge […]
The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom
With David J. Helfand
Atoms are unfathomably tiny. It takes fifteen million trillion of them to make up a single poppy seed—give or take a few billion. And there’s hardly anything to them: atoms are more than 99.999999999 percent empty space. Yet we have learned to precisely count these slivers of near nothingness and to read the details of […]
Exploring Ocean Mysteries: The Science and Poetry of The Salish Sea
With Marjorie Wonham, Ph.D. and Melanie Koenderman
The ocean has long inspired curiosity and imagination in scientists and poets alike. Join us in a lively, embodied, place-based experience of the beautiful waters and life of the Salish Sea. In this unique program we will explore ocean shorelines and ocean poetry, and create our own poems that deepen our understanding of how we […]
Activate: Digital Leadership
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
Dance of Connection
With Bettina Rothe
Come home to yourself, find connection and nourishment in community, and with the land. Together we take refuge in our primary language "rhythm", and find belonging in the dance. Release old patterns of relating that no longer serve and expand your repertoire of how you can relate with others on the dance floor and in […]
Mindful Self-Compassion
With Martin Thomson-Jones, PhD and Megan Prager
Application is required before registering. You may apply here. This 5-day residential program is an intensive form of the internationally recognized, eight-session Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) training developed by Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff. It is open to laypeople and professionals alike. Participants will learn to: understand the science of self-compassion, practice self-compassion in daily life, […]
Finding Fulfillment Through Tantra: Magnetize Your Heart’s Desire
With Yogacharini Maitreyi
Did you know your heart's magnetic field is 5,000 times stronger than your brain’s? Or that the signals from the heart go instantaneously to the brain and regulate the brain’s physiology, making the heart a central node which regulates cognitive and emotional information? How would your life change if you new how to harness that power? […]
Unwind: Yamuna® Body Rolling & Essential Somatics®
With Namchi Bazar
Release pain and restrictions for a total body awakening and rejuvenation. Explore two modalities to support your journey of self-discovery and self-healing. Let go of unproductive holding patterns as you develop effective body-wellness routines that are easy to incorporate into your home practice. Focus on foundational movements that help you exercise without pain. "Namchi's classes […]
Coming Home: Exploring the Divine Abodes
With Dawn Mauricio
With the world, news, and societal systems as they are, it is easy to fall into thinking we are not enough, believing we are separate, or being guided by fear. Yet, the timeless teachings of Buddhism remind us that our innate essence is one of boundless love and compassion, and all we have to do […]
Discover Cortes: Adventures in Nature (June)
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, […]
The Embodied Voice
With Amy Thiessen
Step into the wisdom of your body & unleash the power of your voice. Our voice is both the channel through which we excavate past traumas and conditioning as well as a vehicle through which we may find healing and reconciliation with the various facets (voices) of our being. In each embodied voice session, you […]
Contemplative Mind, Spontaneous Brush: Ink, Colour and Japanese Washi Papers
With Heather Midori Yamada
Relax body, breath and mind with short guided meditations and simple perceptual exercises. Follow brushwork demonstrations using Japanese sumi ink and watercolour on various Japanese washi papers (provided). Inspired by surrounding natural subject matter, and mixed media approaches of layering, tearing and collaging cultivate personal and unique expressions in abstract or naturalistic imagery. Deep intuitive […]
The Healing Power of Yoga
With Peter Sterios
Discover the healing power that yoga promises, during a spacious 5-day program of yoga-inspired movement and rest in nature, at Hollyhock on beautiful Cortes Island. The experience and knowledge you gain during the retreat will be uniquely individual, emphasizing your own intuitive creativity to provide you a truly "personal” practice that helps uncover the hidden […]
Wild Soma Being and Becoming: Embodied Practices for Collective Thriving
With Andrea Nann, Julia Aplin, Roula Said and Shannon Litzenberger
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 sense in our bones, and what we know in our guts? Can we resonate care and connection […]
Tapping the Stream: A Spring Writing Retreat
With Betsy Warland and Shaena Lambert
Tapping the Stream is a week-long retreat - free from interruption - to explore the direction of a work in progress, as well as to foster creativity through community with other writers. “Tapping the Stream is the most wonderful workshop I have ever attended. The facilitators helped me get back to writing after a concussion […]
Flying SOULO: Your Story on Stage
With Tracey Erin Smith
Transform your life stories into a Solo Theater Show or a Keynote Talk. Using improvisation, writing exercises and one-on-one coaching with award-winning director Tracey Erin Smith, uncover the stories that need to be told and transform your experience into a powerful and entertaining show or talk. "Tracey is a true wizard who creates a whole […]
Four Agreements for a Better Life
With don Miguel Ruiz Jr. and don Jose Ruiz
"Everything we do is based on agreements we have made - agreements with ourselves, with other people, with God, with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves. In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is impossible. One single agreement is […]
Shifting Consciousness and Healing Through Narrative
With Barbara Mainguy and Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD
Join us for an extraordinary journey into transformation in the nestled space of the Hollyhock beautiful Cortes Island. Rewrite your story through a loving process of exploration and change. Allow this non-ordinary island to breathe us into non-ordinary spaces of our consciousness. In the landscape, we will uncover the stories that we are living and […]
Andean Wisdom: Deepening Your Relationship with the Four Elements
With Jhaimy Alvarez Acosta
Weaving together Andean Wisdom Teachings, Ritual, Healing Meditation, and Intentional Practice, this 5-day retreat will provide you with powerful tools to transform and expand your life in beautiful ways. Working with the laws of nature allows for an abundant flow and grace to come into each day. This retreat is an invitation to embrace your […]
Pwātamowin "the act of dreaming": A Yogic retreat
With Malina Dawn
Pwātamowin is a Cree word meaning “the act of dreaming.” But this is not the kind of dreaming you do when you sleep, it is akin to catching visions. This planet needs more healed people and a big part of that process is us being able to catch a beautiful and powerful healing vision for […]
Dinner by the Sea Accommodations
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 most budgets. Choose […]