Courageous Spaces & Cultural Intersections: Movement and Your Cultural Compass

With Heidi MacPherson

September 22 - 26, 2023

Date and Time Details:
Starts with dinner on Sept. 22
Ends with lunch on Sept. 26
Sample program schedule

Location: Cortes Island

Tuition: $625 CAD

Campus Rates: Campus rates include accommodations, meals, Hollyhock activities, use of hot tubs and campus facilities (does not include tuition). Click here for details.

Scholarships: Program experiences are enriched by having a multitude of voices and experiences that reflect global plurality. Our scholarship program is one of our key strategies to expand program access to underrepresented and marginalized communities.

A limited number of scholarships are available per program with awards ranging from partial to full tuition. We encourage applicants from those whose identities intersect with, but are not limited to: Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, 2SLGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, newcomers, youth, and elders.

Please apply for a scholarship within your program registration form. We ask for a 5% refundable deposit to apply. Contact us directly if you are unable to pay this deposit.

  • Private Cabin Oceanfront – CAD $3,321.00
  • Single w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $2,521.00
  • Single w/ensuite – CAD $2,361.00
  • Single w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,021.00
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $3,910.00
  • Couple w/ensuite – CAD $3,594.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom – CAD $3,278.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront – CAD $1,957.00
  • Twin w/ensuite – CAD $1,797.00
  • Twin w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,637.00
  • Three-share w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,473.00
  • Women Dorm – CAD $1,277.00
  • Male Dorm – CAD $1,277.00
  • Mixed Dorm – CAD $1,277.00
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $1,257.00
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $2,314.00
  • Commuter – CAD $1,117.00
    • (All prices include CAD $1,017.00 base amount)

Cultural intersectional pedagogy teaches us to live in a courageous space, the space that marginalized and stateless individuals survive in every day. What are cultural intersections and how do we navigate diversity through mindful, thoughtful, and courageous living?

Create and develop your Cultural Compass that guides you towards holistic living and wellness practices that bring clarity to cultural traditions, offering pedagogical tools to merge these practices meaningfully within your own socio-cultural diversity. Map and explore your inner compass incorporating the Great Elements, the Five Directions, the Vayus, Meridians, and the Archetypes that embody the energy currents of the natural world.

Each living being holds a unique resonance, a web of diverse lived experiences that express individual sound, harmony, and rhythm. Honour, ground, and experience this diversity through movement accompanied by Heidi’s harmonium, harp, and percussion. Heidi juxtaposes modes with tonality, explores primordial rhythms and listens to the pulse of your movement to inspire your cultural compass.

Expect movement, breath, ceremony, circle sharing, journalling/sketching to create your Cultural Compass. Movement and breath practices incorporate Yoga tradition, East Asian philosophy, and Indigenous earth wisdom. Experience and embody your inner compass with skillfully guided movement, breath practices and Yoga Nidra.

Heidi is an eternally valued friend, colleague and teacher. She has taught me that sitting with discomfort and asking hard questions is how we can truly learn about ourselves and one another. When I attend Heidi’s classes I feel supported. Her teaching is intentional and skillful, but it is the broad range of students in the room that delivers a true sense of inclusive community. Heidi actively supports diversity and inclusion by identifying where there are barriers to practice and tirelessly works to minimize them. Heidi has had a marked influence on my life both personally and professionally, and I am grateful for her past, present, and future presence. – Jacky Challenger, Coastal Bliss Yoga

Schedule

A detailed schedule will be available 1-2 weeks in advance of the program. View sample schedule here.

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