Meditate with Mara: Win 4 Weeks of Meditative Study
Hollyhock collaborator, friend, and presenter of this coming season’s “Summer Solstice: Yoga, Ritual, Meditation“, Mara Branscombe, has something special for…
Movement + Nature
Life’s Changes: Loving your Body
Change is the only constant in life. – Heraclitus Change may be constant, but that doesn’t make it easy, especially…
Roll into an Open Heart -Core Matter
Want an easy way to ensure your body is functioning at its best everyday? Namchi Bazar shows us a technique…
Nature is my Muse
Whenever I go into the forest something overwhelms me with a sense of calm. So much of my inspiration is…
Trust Your Gut
Embodiment is a maturing field that has much to offer to improve leadership, communication, and innovation. For decades it has…
Flexible to a Fault
I have a secret to confess: I’m a yoga teacher who doesn’t believe in yoga. Don’t get me wrong –…
I Am Not a Runner
In grade school, I loathed track and field day. All the other kids loved to ditch their desks to show…
What does Yoga have to do with Social Justice?
In Yin Yoga, easeful poses are held for about 2-5 minutes. The long slow holds – and more importantly, the…
Stoned Ape & Fungal Intelligence
In this quirky animation by After Skool renowned mycologist, author, and advocate of bioreditation and medicinal fungi, Paul Stamets describes the…
Harvesting Elderflowers
Inspired by the healing alchemy of old world herbal tonics and brews, Heather Wolf, Founding Brewess of Iggy’s Alive &…
Wildcraft Art
Paint from stone? Paintbrush from a branch? Charcoal from wood? Everything changed when I started making my art materials directly…
5 Minute Movement Practice
In the middle of a busy day, Tamara Teeter Knapp of Expressive Arts Florida Institute goes to her expressive arts practice…
Office Somatics Made Simple
Are you still sitting at your desk?! Sitting has become so entrenched in our society that many of us don’t…
Why is There so Much Beauty in the World?
Why is there so much beauty in the world? Is it all in the eye of the beholder? Does humanity…
Dance of Oneness Daily Practice
This 30-minute daily routine is designed to help you ground and center yourself. Done regularly, you will cultivate a sense of peacefulness…
Dancing in Bhutan
To dance is to embrace expansive wisdom and deep belonging to the wild. Margie rediscovered nature’s power to ground herself…
How to Think About Science
All things come into question. Even science. In this episode of How to Think About Science, David Cayley discusses how…
Forest Therapy: 8 Steps for Beginners
Also known as Forest Bathing (from the Japanese “Shinrin-Yoku”), Forest Therapy helps us remember our place in a kin-centric network…
Con Su Permisso in Africa
“Here come the horses!” Although there are just two of them, it might as well be a thundering herd for…
Enchanted Forests
When you take a trip through the forest with me, you never look at a tree in the same way…
Why I Love My Tiny House
Hi! I’m Charlene. I’m the Program Director at Hollyhock. As some of you may know, my partner and I decided…
Cortes Island Wetland and Wildlife Corridor Further Protected by New Conservation Covenant
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 48-acre campus of Hollyhock Leadership Learning Centre now under permanent protection The Land Conservancy of B.C. (TLC)…
Newt X-ing
Why did the newt cross the road? MMMM…. I would have thought that our favourite local newt would have several…
Mindful Movement Patterns
Most of us have lost the ease and joy of doing the things we love. Over our lifetime, years of…
Behind the Misty Isles Life
At 43 feet, Misty Isles is certainly the biggest member of our family! Since purchasing the schooner in 1997, I’ve become known…
Standing Strong
Take a moment right now to notice how you are holding your body… Are your feet touching the ground? Are…
From Cold to Crazy
This winter I found myself rolling around in the snow in nothing but a bathing suit. Never in a million…
Nature Boy: George Sirk
[vc_single_image image=”20741″ img_size=”full”][vc_single_image image=”20740″ img_size=”full”]From Margaret Atwood to the Victoria Natural History Society everyone is talking about George Sirk’s new radio program…
6 Steps to Stop Toxic Thoughts
Toxic Thoughts Are Holding You Back from Your Mind-Body Connection How often do you have negative thoughts? Have you ever…
Poses & Power for Peace
Yin is always in relationship to something else, the b side, or heads to tails. Yin is feminine, yielding, solitary…