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Tantra and the Energetics of Intimacy: A Traditional Immersion

With Yogacharini Maitreyi

June 16 - 21, 2023
Cortes Island
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
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
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
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
Book now and get 15% off campus rates! Offer valid until May 31, 2023.
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
Book now and get 15% off campus rates! Offer valid until May 31, 2023.
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
Book now and get 15% off campus rates! Offer valid until Jun 14, 2023.
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…

People & Plants: Exploring Horticultural Therapy in the Hollyhock Garden

With Cheney Creamer

September 17 - 22, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off campus rates! Offer valid until Jul 3, 2023.
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” - Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden Experience the raw beauty and power of the Hollyhock Garden like never before!  Examine the principles and practices of horticultural therapy in this heart-opening, hands-on experience. While…

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…

Cultivating Wellbeing for Health Professionals

With Mark Lau, PhD and Andrea Grabovac, MD

September 22 - 27, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off campus rates! Offer valid until Jun 23, 2023.
"In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel “burnout” setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself." -Dalai Lama Replenish and revitalize yourself in this mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) meditation retreat for physicians,…

Wim Hof Method, Breathwork and Your True Nature

With Cian Dalton and Carolyn Schmidt

October 6 - 11, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off campus rates! Offer valid until Jul 7, 2023.
"We are so successful at being comfortable that comfort is becoming the enemy of success" - Wim Hof Using the Wim Hof Method and other practices, we will explore our TRUE NATURE as human beings, stripping away the layers to reveal our most authentic powerful selves. Optimize your health using…

Psoma with a P: The Heart and Soul of Hakomi

With Donna Martin & Shelley Winton

October 15 - 22, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off campus rates! Offer valid until Jul 16, 2023.
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…