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Upcoming Programs
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Dream Medicine: A Conscious Dreamwork Retreat
With Kimberly Mascaro, PhD
May 10 - 14, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Feb 8, 2023.
Connect with who you truly are along the spectrum of consciousness (waking, dreaming, and sleeping) through the dream arts. Conscious dreamwork supports our tremendous capacity for growth. From there, creativity, enhanced wellness, and healing potentials are abundant. Join us for a holistic dream-based kickstart - Live your unique dream medicine!
Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living, Conscious Dying
With RamDev Dale Borglum
May 10 - 14, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Feb 8, 2023.
Imagine living without fear. Imagine approaching the unknown with an open heart. There is a path to this freedom. For over 40 years, Dale has been in close contact with many people who were approaching death. Almost all of these people were reaching out for healing – healing in relationship to death, healing in relationship to illness, to a wounded heart, to separation from their own self. Are there some powerful truths about life and about healing that we can receive from these few who, as they went through the process of dying, deeply realized their own wholeness?
Watercolour and the Art of Seeing
With David McEown
May 10 - 14, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Feb 8, 2023.
Explore watercolour’s magical flowing spontaneity and essential techniques as you paint directly from nature. Enhance your perception, way of “seeing”, and connectedness to the earth with this travel-friendly medium.
Tapping the Stream: A Spring Writing Retreat
With Shaena Lambert and Betsy Warland
May 21 - 28, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Feb 19, 2023.
Tapping the Stream is a 7-day retreat - free from interruption - to explore the direction of a work in progress, as well as to foster creativity through community with other writers.
Raise Your Vibe With Reiki: Levels 1 & 2
With Fleur Choy
May 28 - June 2, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Feb 26, 2023.
A 5-day Reiki training to awaken your healing powers and expose your light to the world.
Groundwork Masterclass: End Your Overwhelm in Work & Life
With Amrita Ahuja
June 2 - 7, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Mar 3, 2023.
Put into place a new framework that will give you clarity and help you produce results beyond your wildest dreams. In this masterclass, you will clear the inner and outer clutter, and return to your life with a new and powerful way of getting things done with ease.
Activate: Digital Leadership (Application)
With Hollyhock Leadership Institute
June 7 - 11, 2023
Cortes Island
Join the sharpest digital minds from political and advocacy campaigns, creative agencies, and progressive causes, for four days of hard-skills training in digital tactics and leadership. Gain clarity on how to intelligently activate your organization from the inside, and crack the code to engaging your target audience to win campaigns, raise money, and hit your goals.
SAORI: Weaving without Boundaries
With Terri Bibby
June 11 - 16, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Mar 12, 2023.
Immerse yourself in colour and texture while creating your own unique weavings! Explore the beautiful SAORI weaving philosophy from Japan where there are no rules and no mistakes.
Tantra and the Energetics of Intimacy: A Traditional Immersion
With Yogacharini Maitreyi
June 16 - 21, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Mar 17, 2023.
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
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Mar 17, 2023.
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 through a combination of breathwork, somatic experiencing techniques, movement, vocalization, and connection practices. Land in greater comfort, confidence, and fluency in your authentic expression layer by layer.
Unwind: Yamuna® Body Rolling & Essential Somatics®
With Namchi Bazar
June 21 - 25, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Mar 22, 2023.
Explore two 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 you exercise without pain.
Mindful Self-Compassion
With Megan Prager and Martin Thomson-Jones, PhD
June 25 - 30, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 15% off listed prices! Offer valid until Mar 26, 2023.
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 rather than criticism, meet difficult emotions with greater ease, transform challenging relationships, and manage caregiver fatigue. This program fulfills the prerequisite for MSC teacher training.
Joy of Ukulele: Beyond C, F, & G7
With Kimo Hussey
June 30 - July 5, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off listed prices! Offer valid until Mar 31, 2023.
Beyond C, F, & G7 is the much-anticipated extension of our Joy of Ukulele series with master player and teacher, Kimo Hussey. Expand your aptitude and appreciation of this beloved instrument by embracing new techniques to enhance musical quality.
Nitõtitān – Let’s Listen: A Yogic retreat to deepen connection to self, community and Land
With Malina Dawn
June 30 - July 5, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off listed prices! Offer valid until Mar 31, 2023.
Nitõtetān is a Cree word meaning ‘Let’s listen’. Listening deeply is key to living in balance. Living in balance means we are not only taking good care of our selves, but being an active and willing participant in life. We take care of our communities, the earth and all our relatives. When we are present and clear the debris of the mind, we can then listen and this listening allows us to learn where we are out of balance in any of these areas and make the changes necessary to live a joyful and fulfilling life centred in service. When…
Time of Transition
With Thomas Atum O'Kane, PhD
July 9 - 14, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off listed prices! Offer valid until Apr 9, 2023.
Let go of your old identity and lay the groundwork for a new sense of self.
Connecting to Source: Yoga, Meditation, Ritual
With Mara Branscombe
July 14 - 19, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off listed prices! Offer valid until Apr 14, 2023.
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 alchemy of earth based rituals creates a channel that leads to present moment awareness, mind-body-spirit integration, and a wild transformation within.
Art of Spiritual Guidance: The Reunion
With Thomas Atum O'Kane, PhD and Margie Gillis
July 14 - 19, 2023
Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off listed prices! Offer valid until Apr 14, 2023.
Reunion - Remembrance - Renewal - Rededication. A 5-day reunion gathering of Spiritual Guidance graduates from around the world.