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
Collective Reset: A Leadership Retreat
With Janet Moore and Adrian Sinclair
May 7 - 11, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Join a group of leaders in social, political, environmental, and educational impact organizations for a 5-day retreat. We are co-imagining what it means to collectively reset our nervous systems and meet others building businesses and fostering movements in the systems-change sector. The purpose is simple: engaging fully with our own personal/embodied…
Helping the Helpers: Social Justice, Restoration and Hope for Those Who Give
With Sarah Delroy and Zahura Ahmed
May 7 - 11, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Restoration for those who generously give: Rejuvenate the mind, body and spirit through somatic exercises and nature connection practices. As generous souls, we often carry the weight of the world’s suffering, grappling with how to engage in the right ways without becoming overwhelmed. The desire to make a difference can…
Ebb & Flow: Kayaking & Yoga Practice (May)
With Kai Harvey and Jasmine Hillier
May 11 - 16, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Immerse yourself in the rhythms of the natural world and the ebb and flow of the Salish Sea. Hollyhock, located on the southern coastline of Cortes Island (on the unceded land of the toq qaymɩxʷ (Klahoose), ɬəʔamɛn qaymɩxʷ (Tla’amin), and ʔop qaymɩxʷ (Homalco) Nations) is an ideal basecamp and launch…
A Financial Therapy Retreat with Bari Tessler and Danielle Cohen
With Bari Tessler and Danielle Cohen
May 16 - 21, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Money is far more than numbers in accounts or symbols of status—it's one of our most intimate daily companions. For some of us, it's a constant whisper in our minds; for others, it lingers in the background until suddenly demanding our attention. It's there as we pause before initiating a…
Write from Your Heart
With Susan Musgrave
May 16 - 21, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional” - attributed to the Dalai Lama. It is hard work, when we are grieving, not to suffer; suffering — personal and universal — has become a condition of how we live. Writing, especially poetry, fiction, journaling and memoir, has always been a place where…
The Heart of Communicating
With Farah Nazarali
May 21 - 25, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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The Heart of Communicating masterfully weaves together polyvagal theory, conflict resolution, nonviolent communication, yogic practices and Eastern wisdom. This is an innovative, experiential and holistic course in a new way of communicating and relating using somatic intelligence as the foundation for how we engage and interact with others. Explore the…
Resonance: A Deep Listening, Somatic Retreat
With Charlie Gates and Kiko Pace
May 30 - June 4, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Join Charlie and Kiko for an offering of Deep Listening and feeling as we gather in the belly of Spring on Cortes Island. From sound baths, reflective journaling, meditative movement practices, and Somatic Dreaming® - we venture to explore and expand our relationship to ways of listening, receiving, and generating…
Love Actually: Learning to Balance Power and Love
With Deepa Narayan, Eric Mulholland and Peggy Taylor
June 8 - 12, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Hollyhock’s core purpose, since its origin, has been inner transformation for outer change in community with others. A place for body, mind and spirit renewal. This workshop draws from mystics, philosophers, neuroscience, psychology and community arts practices to explore the ideas of power and love as the foundational drives of…
Dance of Connection
With Bettina Rothe
June 8 - 13, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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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. Expand your repertoire of how you can connect with others on the dance floor and in life. Release old patterns of…
Qi Medicine: A Silent Qigong and Tea Ceremony Retreat
With Stephanie Nosco and Catherine (Cat) Reynolds
June 13 - 18, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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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 Catherine Reynolds, for this special silent retreat that will explore the art of Qigong and the mindful practice of tea ceremony. We will…
Mindful Self-Compassion
With Megan Prager and Martin Thomson-Jones, PhD
June 13 - 18, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Application is required before registering. You may apply here. This 5-day residential program is an intensive form of the internationally recognized, eight-session Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) training developed by Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff. It is open to laypeople and professionals alike. Participants will learn to: understand the science of self-compassion,…
Coastal Foraging Adventure
With Robin Kort
June 18 - 22, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Forage for wild food and cook with professional forager, cookbook author and sommelier Chef Robin Kort of Swallow Tail Culinary Adventures. Connect to the food of the coastal ecosystem on Cortes Island from forest to sea. Foraging at the sea tunes your senses to the ebb and flow of the…
Unwind: Yamuna Body Rolling & Essential Somatics
With Namchi Bazar
June 18 - 22, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Release pain and restrictions for a total body awakening and rejuvenation. Explore two complementary modalities to support your journey of self-discovery and self-healing. Let go of unproductive holding patterns as you develop effective body-wellness routines that are easy to incorporate into your home practice. Focus on foundational movements that help…
Raise Your Vibe With Reiki: Levels 1 & 2
With Fleur Choy
June 22 - 27, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Awaken your healing powers and expose your light to the world. If you have felt sensitive your entire life and feel ready to fully embrace your gifts, or if you are already a healing practitioner and are seeking to diversify and establish yourself as a multidimensional healer, this training is…
Wild Soma Being and Becoming: Embodied Practices for Collective Thriving
With Andrea Nann, Julia Aplin, Roula Said and Shannon Litzenberger
June 22 - 27, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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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 know in our bones? Can we resonate care and connection across our…
Shakti is Nature: How to Listen for the Divine Mother
With Raja Choudhury
June 27 - July 2, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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One of the key teachings of Sri Vidya Tantra or Shaktism is that the Divine Mother, in whose womb we exist and who acts through us, speaks to us all the time, whispering in our ears through plants, animals, the water, the air and through all the people we meet. It…
Being Human Takes Practice
With Jeff Warren
July 2 - 6, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Join writer and meditation teacher Jeff Warren for a journey through the core skills of meditation practice and what they have to teach us about being human. These skills lie at the headwaters of mental and emotional and spiritual health. Through a mix of guided, seated and movement meditation, nature…
Ebb & Flow: Kayaking & Yoga Practice (July)
With Kai Harvey and Jasmine Hillier
July 6 - 11, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Immerse yourself in the rhythms of the natural world and the ebb and flow of the Salish Sea. Hollyhock, located on the southern coastline of Cortes Island (on the unceded land of the toq qaymɩxʷ (Klahoose), ɬəʔamɛn qaymɩxʷ (Tla’amin), and ʔop qaymɩxʷ (Homalco) Nations) is an ideal basecamp and launch…
Dancing from the Inside Out
With Margie Gillis
July 6 - 11, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Move into your body’s experiential wisdom and reveal the soul in motion. Refine 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…
Slow Art, Somatic Practice, and Creative Rest
With Shauna Kaendo, Registered Art Therapist | BFA, RCAT and Trudi Smith, Registered Clinical Counsellor | MC, MA, PhD
July 11 - 16, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Being in conversation with art, process, and our bodies. In this therapeutic arts program, we offer a blend of creative care practices…getting curious about what that can look and feel like, both individually and in community. Through creative meanderings with solo and collective art-making processes like bilateral drawing, stick brush…
Pwātamowin – the act of dreaming – A Yogic retreat
With Malina Dawn
July 11 - 16, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Pwātamowin is a Cree word meaning “the act of dreaming.” But this is not the kind of dreaming you do when you sleep; it is akin to catching visions. This planet needs more healed people and a big part of that process is us being able to catch a beautiful…
Discover Cortes: Adventures in Nature (July)
With Bill Ophoff
July 20 - 25, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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The natural world is your classroom as you hike, kayak, and sail amid the wild beauty of Cortes Island. Discover the flora and fauna of both land and sea along with local history and geological phenomena as you adventure forth with Hollyhock's knowledgeable, fun-loving naturalist. Explore ancient forests, sandy beaches,…
Radical Dharma: Conversation
With Rev. angel Kyodo williams Roshi
July 20 - 25, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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It’s time to create the conditions that reimagine a path of healing, reconnect with authentic community, and manifest true justice. Radical dharma (“complete truth”) is a way to enter the critical conversation about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out and prevents our collective awakening. We…
Meditation in Action: Becoming One with the Spirit of the Drum
With Gordy Onayemi Ryan and Zoë Ryan
July 25 - 30, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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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
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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…
In These Bodies, On These Lands: Iyengar Yoga and art-making
With Jennifer Van de Pol
August 3 - 8, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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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…
Tantra: Freedom, Embodiment, and Transformation
With Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Keith Cantú
August 8 - 13, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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Have you ever dived into the ocean of Tantra? Have you experienced the weaving of the world? Join scholar-practitioners Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Keith Edward Cantú as we explore Tantric practices and perspectives on topics like freedom from external interference and self-sovereignty (Sanskrit svādhikāra), the link between physical and so-called “subtle…
Nature & Nurture Yoga: Embracing Abundance
With Fiji McAlpine
August 8 - 13, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
With Andrea Grabovac, MD, FRCPC and Erin Burrell, MD, FRCPC
September 21 - 26, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
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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
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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…