Mind & Body
Meditation, Movement, Mystery
With Jeff Warren
Join writer and meditation teacher Jeff Warren for a journey into the mystery of meditation and what it can teach us about being human. This will be a different kind of retreat. Less structured, more room for silence and spontaneity. The idea is to make space for some of the deeper and more personalized movements […]
Nonviolent Communication: A Body-Based Approach
With Farah Nazarali
This innovative approach to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) takes the body as the foundation for understanding how we communicate; what stands in the way of skillful communication, and when to take a step back from engaging with others. Explore the deeper layers of communication- body language, tone, intonation, and rhythm and what these body-based cues reveal […]
Pilgrimage to Silence: A Nature Based Retreat for Rest & Renewal
With Valerie Brown
Please note: This is a dãna-based retreat (see below for details). The registration fee is included in package pricing and does not include teacher compensation. Deeply immersed in nature and exploring the theme of pilgrimage, this silent retreat is designed to cultivate rest, reflection, renewal, and restoration. In these times of change, high stress, and […]
Qi Medicine: Healing Through Qigong & Nature
With Stephanie Nosco and Ben Leggett
Experience the medicine of Qigong and Nature Connection on this transformative inner journey back to yourself. Join Qigong teacher, author, and somatic educator Stephanie Nosco, alongside nature connection guide and educator Ben Leggett, for this special silent retreat that explores the art of Qigong and the practice of deep relationship with the living world. We […]
Awake in Our Lives: A Silent Meditation Retreat
With Celeste Young
Please note: This is a dãna-based retreat (see below for details). The registration fee is included in package pricing and does not include teacher compensation. During this silent meditation retreat, we will focus on practices that calm the mind and awaken the heart to support the deepening of insight and inner freedom here and now, […]
Resilience for Uncertain Times: Wild Earth, Steady Heart
With Kristan Childs and Teddy Kellam
Join Kristan Childs and Teddy Kellam for the Work That Reconnects spiral, a joyful and coherent path to inner wisdom and vitality during unsteady times. “To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from […]
Opening to Inner & Outer Change: A Life Balance Retreat
With Celeste Young
How well we navigate changes and transitions has a direct impact on the degree of well-being, meaning, and balance we experience in our daily lives. Whether you’re contemplating a major change, are in the midst of one now, or are still feeling the impact of past changes, this unique retreat offers you personal understanding and […]
From Age-ing to Sage-ing®: Deepening the Sage Within
With Annie Klein
A great gift of our older years is the potential for deepening wisdom and expanding possibilities. As more and more of us are living longer, we want these extra years to be vibrant, inspiring and fulfilling. This program will help you discover what gives your life meaning as you age. An intimate gathering where we […]
Mindful Self-Compassion
With Susie Fairchild and Martin Thomson-Jones, PhD
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, […]
Skymind: Sacred Land, Sacred View
With Lopöns Pieter Oosthuizen and Charlotte Rotterdam
"Anyone who is interested in learning how to practice open awareness has come to the right place." -Skymind Participant Immerse yourself in the profound nature of mind teachings of Buddhism, with transformational practices inspired by the great 11th century Tibetan yogini Machig Labdrön. Relaxing your body onto the earth, gazing into the vast expanse of […]
Unwind: Yamuna® Body Rolling & Essential Somatics®
With Namchi Bazar
Release pain and restrictions for a total body awakening and rejuvenation. Explore two complementary 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 and […]
Cultivating Wellbeing for Health Professionals
With Andrea Grabovac, MD, FRCPC and Erin Burrell, MD, FRCPC
Replenish Yourself and Gain Tools for Living with Intention Join us for this mindfulness-based meditation retreat for health professionals and partners. Come away to the serene shores of Cortes Island to be replenished, restored, and equipped with tools to help navigate life in modern healthcare. This retreat emphasizes connection as key to vitality, and fosters […]
Reclaiming the Feminine Elements
With Andrea Menard
Discover the feminine faces of the 4 Sacred Elements that dwell within you. Have you met your own version of Earth Woman, Wind Womxn, Water Woman, or Fire Womxn yet? You are the medicine wheel that contains these four Sacred Elementals. In this western world that has undermined the Sacred Feminine, unwind the wounds inflicted […]
Resonance: A Deep Listening, Somatic Retreat
With Kiko Pace and Charlie Gates
Join Charlie and Kiko for an offering of deep listening and sonic exploration as we gather in the belly of Spring on Cortes Island. From sound meditations, reflective journaling, meditative movement practices, and dreaming, we venture to explore and expand our relationship to ways of listening, receiving, and generating creative awe. During our time together, […]
We Are Elemental: Embodying Earth, Water, Fire, Air & Ether
With Sebene Selassie
You are nature. Your bones are earth. Your blood is water. Your warmth is fire. Your breath is air. And the mystery that animates it all? That's ether (also called spirit or space). Various elements are honored across countless traditions—from ancient Egypt and Greece to India and China to Indigenous cultures throughout Africa, the Americas, […]
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 […]
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 […]
When Love Liberates: Buddhist Meditations for Hearts Broken/Open
With Dawn Mauricio and Kate Johnson
The liberated heart knows how to expand and contract, allowing love to flow in and out like the tides. Like roots that deepen through coastal storms, through practice we discover that opening and softening our hearts in challenging times, with wisdom and discernment, is itself an exercise in freedom. In this retreat, we’ll work with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A New Way of Being: Claiming Love and Power in Uncertain Times
With Deepa Narayan and Eric Mulholland
We cannot imagine or create a new world with old patterns of thought and ego-driven ways of being. The crises of our time—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 is […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Queeriosities: A Liberating Retreat for Multi-Spectrum Queers
With Loretta (Lo) Laurin and Michael Jeffery
Transform, restore, and remember your power in community. In a world that often asks us to shrink, Queeriosities invites us to expand — into our bodies, our truths, and our collective power. Together, we will journey into the queer magic inherent in our bodies, emotions, minds, eros, community, and in our integration with wider systems […]
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 […]
Return to Stillness: A Yoga Nidra Retreat
With Kristyn Rose and Ally Boothroyd
Immerse yourself in the beauty of nature and the quiet rhythm of island life as you journey into deep rest and inner awakening during this nourishing Yoga Nidra retreat. This deeply nourishing experience welcomes all, from sincere beginners and curious seekers to seasoned teachers, into an environment of stillness, learning, and renewal. Guided by experienced […]