Feel the surrounding embrace of nature and deeply exhale. Explore somatic approaches to health and healing through the wisdom of inspiring teachers, healers, guides, and plants. Harness your own healing energy and strengthen your physical and mental health through the power of nature, mind, breath, movement and adventure.
Health & Healing
Becoming One with the Spirit of the Drum
With Gordy Onayemi Ryan and Zoë Ryan
July 25 - 30, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Activate the Fire in your hands, the Beat in your feet, and the Song in your Heart on this soulful journey in Rhythm in the iconic Olatunji Hall. Drum, dance and sing to increase the flow of vital energy in your body and open your ears to the beauty of…
Science, Art, Sound & the Sacred
With Merlin Sheldrake and Cosmo Sheldrake
July 30 - August 3, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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…
Salish Shorelines: A Saltwater Journey
With Jonas Fineman and Kai Harvey
August 3 - 8, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Join Cortes Island guides and mariners for a kayaking exploration of the Salish Sea surrounding the renowned Hollyhock Campus. Each day’s adventure offers a safe and comprehensive foray into the seascapes and histories of Desolation Sound and the Discovery Islands. Launching from various beaches around Cortes Island as well as…
In These Bodies, On These Lands: Iyengar Yoga and art-making
With Jennifer Van de Pol
August 3 - 8, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Learn Iyengar Yoga posture and breathing practices to support, enliven, and uplift your creative practice/s. Experience ways to integrate journaling/writing, drawing, and intuitive painting with movement (Asana) and breath (Pranayama) rooted in this Yoga tradition. Try out various approaches to making and moving in an encouraging, nourishing environment. As a…
Effortless Mindfulness Embodied: Awakening, Glimpse by Glimpse
With Loch Kelly and Paige B. Kelly
August 3 - 8, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
What would the world be like if each of us discovered for ourselves how to live an awakened life? Awakening begins with a shift out of our small, separate sense of self, to discover an “awake” consciousness that we sense has been there all along. When we begin to inhabit…
Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: Activating Your Medicine Council (Online)
With Julie Kramer
August 8 - 10, 2025
Online
For millennia, people worldwide have used singing, dancing, drumming, whistling, and rattling to generate natural trance states in order to journey into the invisible realms and form alliances with benevolent helping spirits. Whether we’re aware of them or not, we all have compassionate helping spirits who are devoted to our…
Nature & Nurture Yoga: Embracing Abundance
With Fiji McAlpine
August 8 - 13, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Embrace the abundance of August in the Pacific Northwest on spectacular Cortes Island. 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. Each day you will be nourished with…
2025 Canadian Psychedelic Summit
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Kim Haxton
August 13 - 17, 2025
Cortes Island
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…
Connecting to Source: Yoga, Meditation, Ritual
With Mara Branscombe
August 17 - 22, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Since ancient times, the human collective has aligned with the seasons, the elements, the rhythms of the sun, the moon, and the earth as a way to source pure energy and connect to one’s inner compass. The mind-body science of yoga, combined with the practice of meditation, breath-work, and the…
Whole Human Health
With Lawrence Cheng, MD, CCFP(EM), MPH and Devon Christie, MD, CCFP, RTC
August 17 - 22, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
The Whole Human Health Retreat is a transformative five-day 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…
Essential Somatics: Free Your Movement!
With Martha Peterson
August 31 - September 5, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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, resolve chronic muscle tension, so you…
Psoma: Discover When the Body Says Yes
With Donna Martin & Shelley Winton
August 31 - September 5, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
What if we can learn to accompany someone on their healing journey without any suggestion of something wrong, something to fix? How can we recognize healing as an inside job - the unfolding of our intrinsic and natural wholeness? How can we learn to be the kind of presence that…
Nourished Woman Goddess Retreat
With Abneet Kaur Sandhar
August 31 - September 5, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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 is being pulled in many different directions, with a low-grade fever of constant overwhelm. We may feel racked with guilt, shame, and comparison, constantly…
Cultivating Wellbeing for Health Professionals (2025)
With Andrea Grabovac, MD, FRCPC and Erin Burrell, MD, FRCPC
September 21 - 26, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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…
The Art of Resting Well
With Farah Nazarali
September 21 - 25, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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…
Qi Medicine: A Silent Qigong and Tea Ceremony Retreat (October)
With Stephanie Nosco and Catherine (Cat) Reynolds
October 11 - 15, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Experience the medicine of qigong, tea, and nature on this transformative inner journey back to yourself. Join Qigong teacher, author, and psychotherapist Stephanie Nosco, alongside Tea Ceremonialist and Eco-Somatic guide Catherine Reynolds, for this special silent retreat exploring the art of Qigong and the medicine of Tea Ceremony. We will…
Your True Nature: A Cold Immersion & Breathwork Retreat
With Cian Dalton & Carolyn Schmidt
October 15 - 19, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
This retreat invites you to slow down, reconnect, and return to your true nature — through the embodied tools of breathwork, assisted stretching, intuitive movement, and cold immersion. In the pace of everyday life, it’s easy to lose touch with the deeper intelligence of the body. This retreat offers a…
Wild Mushrooms and the Mycology of Consciousness
With Jim Gouin and David Sumerlin
October 15 - 19, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
With Special Guest Paul Stamets 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,…
AI for Flourishing: Weaving Wisdom & Technology
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
October 19 - 23, 2025
Cortes Island
“As we walk the tightrope of planetary-scale transformation, it's becoming clear that we need to upgrade not just our technologies and infrastructures, but our ways of relating – to ourselves, to each other and to the living planet.” - Futurecraft AI for Flourishing is a gathering of technologists, practitioners, founders,…