The Story That Your Illness Tells (Vancouver)
With Dr. Gabor Maté and Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD
March 24 - 26, 2023
Public Talk
The Cultch (York Theatre), 639 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
Weekend Workshop
SFU Segal Building, 500 Granville Street, Vancouver
Interested in the Evening Public Talk only? Purchase tickets here. Illness of mind or body can be seen as random misfortune or a genetically decreed calamity. While the latter does occur, it is rare. In most cases there is nothing pre-ordained about a disease, nor is it a stroke of…
Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living, Conscious Dying
With RamDev Dale Borglum
May 10 - 14, 2023
Cortes Island
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Imagine living without fear. Imagine approaching the unknown with an open heart. There is a path to this freedom.
Breath as Entheogen: The Wisdom and Legacy of Stanislav Grof
With Carolyn J Green, BHSc, PhD and Neil Hanon, MD, FRCPC
May 20 - 24, 2023
Cortes Island
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Using enhanced breathing, evocative music, focused bodywork, and art, Grof® Breathwork helps to expand consciousness for the purpose of self-exploration, spiritual awareness, and healing. It is an excellent adjunct to psychotherapy, as well as a powerful method of self-care for helping professionals.
Raise Your Vibe With Reiki: Levels 1 & 2
With Fleur Choy
May 28 - June 2, 2023
Cortes Island
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A 5-day Reiki training to awaken your healing powers and expose your light to the world.
Tantra and the Energetics of Intimacy: A Traditional Immersion
With Yogacharini Maitreyi
June 16 - 21, 2023
Cortes Island
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Learn Tantric practices and tools for your daily life that create deeper self connection, self awareness, healing and resilience. Work with your mind and prana and experientially understand the principles of Tantra.
The Embodied Voice
With Amy Thiessen
June 16 - 21, 2023
Cortes Island
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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 & reconciliation with the various facets (voices) of our being. In each embodied voice session, you will be guided into a new dimension of voice…
Mindful Self-Compassion
With Megan Prager and Martin Thomson-Jones, PhD
June 25 - 30, 2023
Cortes Island
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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, practice self-compassion in daily life, motivate themselves with kindness…
Whole Human Health: Functional Medicine 2.0
With Dr. Lawrence Cheng and Dr. Devon Christie
July 28 - August 2, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off campus rates! Offer valid until Apr 28, 2023.
Embody your well-being potential! Join us on this four day immersive retreat to learn, explore and experience true health and healing, from a cellular to whole-being level. Dr. Lawrence Cheng and Dr. Devon Christie expertly guide you through their unique and holistic synthesis of functional and mind-body medicine, and share practices to…
Informed by Cancer: Yoga Therapy for Integration of Lived Experience
With Anne Pitman
August 30 - September 3, 2023
Cortes Island
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Cancer changes us. It is, in itself, a full-time job: the immediate flurry of tests and difficult decisions as well as having to navigate unexpected side effects of treatment. Family, friends and caregivers are also impacted; differently, but significantly. In the rush and mayhem, little room or time can be…
Fermentation Demystified
With Kathryn Lukas-Damer and Kirsten K. Shockey
August 30 - September 3, 2023
Cortes Island
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Learn to collaborate with the microbes that make your foods delicious and your health vibrant. Expert fermenters Kirsten and Kathryn come together in this master fermentation class to explain the safe and simple process of how to ferment in your kitchen. You’ll learn about the history, science and health benefits…
The Nourished Woman Goddess Retreat
With Abneet Kaur Sandhar
September 13 - 17, 2023
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, 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 we…
Living With Loss
With Hope Edelman
September 17 - 22, 2023
Cortes Island
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The death of a close loved one is a profound, transformative, and often life-altering experience. Yet Western culture offers little recognition and few rituals to mark the enormity or the enduring nature of this event. Whether your person died recently or in the distant past, making sense of the loss…
Reconnect with Breathwork and Earth Medicine
With Ariana Fotinakis
September 22 - 27, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off campus rates! Offer valid until Jun 23, 2023.
Modern life has left us disconnected from ourselves, our communities, and from the land. Our planet and communities are hurting, and the healing process begins as an individual journey. Embark on your healing path as you explore your own personal medicine wheel and move through the four directions and their…
Psoma with a P: The Heart and Soul of Hakomi
With Donna Martin & Shelley Winton
October 15 - 22, 2023
Cortes Island
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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…