Hollyhock retreat centre is a registered not-for-profit located on beautiful Cortes Island in British Columbia. Hollyhock offers almost 100 programs each year.
Essential Somatics: Free Your Movement!
With Martha Peterson
September 11 - 16, 2024
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 week-long training program is for you. Come and learn how to restore freedom of movement, resolve chronic muscle tension, so…
Becoming a Spiritual Healer Level I: The Essentials
With Julie Kramer
September 12 - 18, 2024
This year-long, blended learning professional training is designed for individuals who are called to facilitate spiritual healing and tend to the spiritual well-being of others. Those who feel drawn to working exclusively as spiritual healers, as well as those who feel drawn to offering spiritual healing in concert with one…
Social Venture Institute 2024 – Hollyhock
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
September 18 - 22, 2024
Cortes Island
Save the date for Social Venture Institute 2024 happening September 18 to 22 at the Hollyhock Campus on Cortes Island! SVI is an immersive gathering of visionary leaders and social entrepreneurs, dedicated to business as a force for positive social change. Each attendee brings a commitment of social change to…
From Age-ing to Sage-ing®: Deepening the Sage Within
With Annie Klein
September 22 - 26, 2024
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.…
The Nourished Woman Goddess Retreat
With Abneet Kaur Sandhar
September 22 - 26, 2024
Aligned. Knowing. Full Bloom Radiance. Clear. Shining. Grounded. These qualities all exist within us, yet for so many women, we feel depleted and defeated. Our attention being pulled in many different directions, with a low-grade fever of constant overwhelm. We may feel racked with guilt, shame, and comparison, constantly feeling…
Cultivating Wellbeing for Health Professionals (2024)
With Andrea Grabovac, MD, FRCPC and Erin Burrell, MD, FRCPC
September 27 - October 2, 2024
"In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel 'burnout' setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself." -Dalai Lama Replenish and revitalize yourself in this mindfulness-based meditation retreat for health professionals and partners.…
Harmony Within: A Journey of Songwriting and Reconnection
With Leah Abramson and Samantha Parton
September 27 - October 2, 2024
Writing can be a powerful tool of self-expression and intimacy with one's deepest thoughts and feelings. The “Harmony Within” workshop explores songwriting as a medium, a practice, and a journey through which we can reconnect with our creative source, our vulnerability, and our inner wisdom, harnessing the healing power of…
The Art of Resting Well
With Farah Nazarali
September 27 - October 1, 2024
Bring your tired and weary souls for a restful, restorative, and rejuvenating retreat that is an immersion into the art of resting well. This experiential retreat is designed to provide rest for your body, mind, and spirit through land-based and somatic practices--guided beach walks, mindful forest walking, sunset gazing, restorative…
Psoma: The Heart and Soul of Therapy
With Donna Martin & Shelley Winton
October 6 - 13, 2024
How can we assist someone on their healing journey without any suggestion of something wrong, something to fix? Can we recognize healing as an inside job… the unfolding of intrinsic wholeness, rather than a return to wholeness? Is it possible to be the kind of presence that is itself a…
Fermentation of Place
With Kirsten K. Shockey
October 6 - 10, 2024
Learn to collaborate with the microbes that make your foods delicious and your health vibrant. Join world-renowned fermenter, Kirsten K. Shockey in this unique fermentation master class to learn how to ferment confidently and safely in your kitchen. You’ll learn the art and science of this ancient craft by exploring…
Eldering in Times of Transformation
With Cheryl Rose, Juana Berinstein and Zhiish McKenzie
October 6 - 10, 2024
“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 There comes a time when you find yourself, perhaps to your surprise, in a new land which is unlike any part of the long…
Listening to Fish and Water: The Art of Survival
With AM Kanngieser and Zoe Todd
October 11 - 15, 2024
What lessons can we learn about transformation from fish, water, and other inter-connected oceanic and river beings or ecosystems? As Dr. Leroy Little Bear says, fish have survived multiple calamities on Earth over half a billion years. He urges us to ask the fish for guidance on how to navigate…
Wild Mushrooms and the Mycology of Consciousness
With Jim Gouin and David Sumerlin
October 16 - 20, 2024
Save the world, one mushroom at a time. Fungi, particularly mushrooms, offer powerful, practical solutions to enhance both human and ecosystem health. Through lecture, discussion, and foraging: Learn easy-to-grow cultivation methods using a hands-on approach. Gain the skills to identify at least twenty-five species of mushroom, both wild and cultivated. Delve…
Wim Hof Method, Breathwork and Your True Nature
With Cian Dalton and Carolyn Schmidt
October 16 - 20, 2024
"We are so successful at being comfortable that comfort is becoming the enemy of success" - Wim Hof Using the Wim Hof Method and other practices, we will explore our TRUE NATURE as human beings, stripping away the layers to reveal our most authentic powerful selves. Optimize your health using…
SVI Virtual 2024
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
November 14 - 15, 2024
Online
SVI 2024 will provide you with a forum to share your real time struggles, to problem solve and innovate in this new normal, and create community in a brave and carefully curated space. We will gather for ourselves, for our businesses, and for each other.
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Levels 1-2 (Vancouver)
With Alina Frank & Dr. Craig Weiner
November 15 - 17, 2024
SFU Harbour Centre - Segal Rooms
Learn EFT, the most sought after energy psychology approach on the planet. Emotional Freedom Techniques or “The Tapping Techniques” are used by millions of people worldwide. These techniques can quickly and effectively resolve dysfunctional feelings, thoughts, behaviours and beliefs which can lead to challenges in relationships, health, right livelihood and…
Activate: Digital Leadership 2025
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
June 4 - 8, 2025
Cortes Island
Join the sharpest digital minds from political and advocacy campaigns, creative agencies, and progressive causes, for four days of hard-skills training in digital tactics and leadership. Gain clarity on how to intelligently activate your organization from the inside, and crack the code to engaging your target audience to win campaigns,…
2025 Canadian Psychedelic Summit
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Kim Haxton
August 13 - 17, 2025
Cortes Island
Pre-register for the 2025 Canadian Psychedelic Summit! What to Expect Led by facilitator and ceremonial practitioner Kim Haxton, our time together will center the embodied knowledge of Indigenous peoples, creating space for ceremony, storytelling, and connection with ourselves, one another, and the natural world. With these foundations in place, we…