Discover the wild edges of your creative practice using your body, voice, and imagination with the brilliant guidance of leading, creative luminaries and artists from around the world.
Creative Expression
Weaving Ritual: an Embodied Rebozo Retreat
With Collective Rebozo
May 8 - 12, 2024
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In order to open and enter a new stage of life, we need to honour, integrate and celebrate where we’ve come from. This retreat, offered for the first time in Canada, is meant for those who are longing to cultivate more ritual in their lives. Together we will weave a…
Watercolour and the Art of Seeing
With David McEown
May 8 - 12, 2024
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Explore watercolour’s magical flowing spontaneity and essential techniques as you paint directly from nature. Enhance your perception, way of “seeing”, and connectedness to the earth with this travel-friendly medium. Enjoy a dynamic watercolour demonstration; exploring paint as a form of meditation and play. Uncover the secret hydrodynamics of watercolour paint…
Sketch by Sketch: Connecting with the World Through Drawing
With Emma FitzGerald
May 12 - 17, 2024
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Learn to sketch without fear of making mistakes! Join celebrated author/illustrator, Emma FitzGerald as she leads participants through a series of exercises that build confidence and improves observation skills, while allowing for the happy accidents that make a drawing that speaks from the heart. Using pen and water colour paint,…
Translating Science through Writing and Art in Times of “Climate Boiling”
With AM Kanngieser and Zoe Todd
May 17 - 22, 2024
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In this time of boiling climate crisis we are inundated with data and information about the dire state of the world. But how do we tell these stories in ways that center our interconnectivity, interdependence and the power of our shared and common action? This four day intensive study will…
Untangled: Moving Past Fear in Knitting and Writing
With Matthew J. Trafford
May 26 - 31, 2024
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Get unstuck in your creative project and grow beyond what's holding you back. Knitting and writing are both crafts that require working on projects for a long time. Stitch by stitch and word by word we build our creations, but sometimes this process can be overwhelming, intimidating, or paralyzing, leaving…
Exploring Ocean Mysteries: The Science and Poetry of The Salish Sea
With Dr. Marjorie Wonham and Melanie Koenderman
May 31 - June 5, 2024
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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…
Dance of Connection
With Bettina Rothe
June 9 - 14, 2024
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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…
Contemplative Mind, Spontaneous Brush: Ink, Colour and Japanese Washi Papers
With Heather Midori Yamada
June 19 - 23, 2024
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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…
The Embodied Voice
With Amy Thiessen
June 19 - 23, 2024
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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…
Tapping the Stream: A Spring Writing Retreat
With Betsy Warland and Shaena Lambert
June 23 - 30, 2024
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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. "Both facilitators were wonderful. I felt so supported and really encouraged." - past participant This unique retreat combines…
Wild Soma Being and Becoming: Embodied Practices for Collective Thriving
With Andrea Nann, Julia Aplin, Roula Said and Shannon Litzenberger
June 23 - 28, 2024
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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…
Dancing from the Inside Out
With Margie Gillis
July 7 - 12, 2024
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Move into your body’s experiential wisdom and reveal the soul in motion. Develop your sensitivity to the connection between thought, feeling, spirit and body as you listen in to your body’s inner wisdom, impulses, conversations and emotions. Becoming sensitive to and engaging with this inner life provides information both for…
Singing in the Vocal River
With Rhiannon
July 12 - 17, 2024
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Hear your own song and learn new ones as you find your place in the world of music and invention. Co-create vocal magic in a safe, dynamic circle of singers, delving into the possibilities of spontaneous composition and the language of storytelling. Working alone, in pairs, and in ensemble, meld…
Something Opens My Wings
With Margie Gillis and Thomas Atum O'Kane, PhD
July 12 - 17, 2024
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“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.” - Rumi Through meditation, movement, creative imagination and the soulful mystery of the Something, we will evoke the states and stages contained in Rumi's poem. Both Margie and…
Healing Family & Ancestors: Ritual & Resonant Family Constellations
With Jill Purce
July 26 - 31, 2024
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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…
Nature Paints Itself
With Jeremy Herndl
July 26 - 31, 2024
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What if the world created us humans to speak its names, sing its rivers and winds? What if nature paints itself, using our deft human hands and the tactility of sight to emulate its textures, colours and spaces? In this workshop we shall enter the space of nature, the garden,…
Science, Art, Sound, & the Sacred
With Merlin Sheldrake, Cosmo Sheldrake and Rupert Sheldrake
July 31 - August 4, 2024
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Explore the entanglements between science, art, sound, and the sacred in a beautiful, wild setting. What we call art and science both arise from our faculties of imagination, wonder, and curiosity. We will spend part of our time outdoors – in gardens, on seashores and in forests – connecting with…