What if you didn’t have to wait for inspiration to connect to your deepest urge to create? Sense Writing merges somatic principles with the art of writing to help you tap into the rich landscape of your stories, memories, and imagination — whether you already think of yourself as a writer or simply want support […]
Mindfulness
Reclaim Your Mind: Finding Rest and Play in a Wired World
Reclaim your mind, reset your nervous system, and master the art of intentional living in a hyper-connected world. Join Jay Vidyarthi, best selling author and meditation teacher, at Hollyhock on Cortes Island, for a 5-day immersion into your freedom of attention. Learn how to rewire your relationship with technology with Jay, a self described “attention […]
Navigating Life Transitions: A Courage & Renewal® Retreat
“Wholeness is never lost, it is only forgotten.” — Rachel Naomi Remen Are you seeking clarity and support as you face a life transition? Do you want to ‘have your own back’ with compassion and self-confidence? Are you ready to prioritize your needs? Live a whole life. Clarify and affirm your values and life direction […]
Pilgrimage to Silence: A Nature Based Retreat for Rest & Renewal
This program is held in silence. Deeply immersed in nature and exploring the theme of pilgrimage, this silent retreat is designed to cultivate rest, reflection, renewal, and restoration. At these times of change, high stress, and high anxiety, we need now, more than ever, to exhale deeply and feel fully nourished through resilience-building, heart-opening, peace-making […]
Awake in Our Lives: A Silent Meditation Retreat
This program is held in silence. Focus on practices that calm the mind and awaken the heart to support the deepening of insight and inner freedom here and now, in our lives just as they are. A silent meditation retreat offers us the unique conditions to allow the mind and heart to settle more deeply, […]
Writing with Intuition: A Journey into Creative Consciousness
Join author and creative intuitive Sarah Selecky to learn the magical art of writing from your whole self, using intellect and intuition at once. These skills live in the heart of story and poetry, yet they’re rarely taught in traditional writing programs. While academic courses focus on craft and technique, they often overlook the mystical […]
Slow Art, Somatic Practice, and Creative Rest
Being in conversation with art, process, and our senses. This is a therapeutic art immersion. A space to be in conversation (and collaboration) with our art materials, creative process, and the sensory experience(s) of art making. To focus less on technique, and control — and more on how we FEEL when we’re engaging with art […]
Reclaiming the Feminine Elements
Discover the feminine faces of the 4 Sacred Elements that dwell within you. Have you met your own version of Earth Woman, Wind Womxn, Water Woman, or Fire Womxn yet? You are the medicine wheel that contains these four Sacred Elementals. In this western world that has undermined the Sacred Feminine, unwind the wounds inflicted […]
Meditation, Movement, Mystery
Join writer and meditation teacher Jeff Warren for a journey into the mystery of meditation and what it can teach us about being human. This will be a different kind of retreat. Less structured, with lots of room for silence and spontaneity. The idea is to make space for some of the deeper and more […]
Watercolour & the Art of Seeing (Intermediate/Advanced)
Inspired by the ocean shorelines, ancient forests, and mountain landscapes of Canada’s west coast, we will explore the magical spontaneity and flow of watercolour by painting directly from nature. This session is designed for Intermediate to Advanced artists wishing to enhance their perception, technique, composition skills and express their own unique voice and mark making […]
Watercolour & the Art of Seeing (All Levels)
Inspired by the ocean shorelines, ancient forests, and mountain landscapes of Canada’s west coast, we will explore the magical spontaneity and flow of watercolour by painting directly from nature. This session can accommodate the Beginner in watercolour and those artists wishing to learn and grow essential techniques, colour mixing and drawing / perception skills. What […]
Kintsugi: Embracing Imperfection (October)
Kintsugi, 金継ぎ translated literally from Japanese means “golden joinery”. This traditional Japanese art used to repair broken ceramics uses natural materials, like tree sap, clay and flour dusted with gold (or other precious metals) to make the cracks, or broken lines beautiful. The cracks are called Keshiki 景色 and in Japanese, mean scenery, landscape or […]
Wintering: Rest, Reflection & Inward Practices
“Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, [and] that’s where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible.”- Katherine May Step out of the hustle and bustle of modern […]