Hollyhock retreat centre is a registered not-for-profit located on beautiful Cortes Island in British Columbia. Hollyhock offers almost 100 programs each year. 


Activate Skills: Mobilization Strategy Development

With Jose Nunez, Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Khari Wendell McClelland

March 28, 2024
Virtual
What to Expect Activate Skills is a series of 90-minute interactive virtual workshops designed to support digital changemakers to develop strategies, refine technical systems and discover tools for campaigning and organizing. Workshop Details Mobilization Strategy Development with Jose Nunez March 28, 2024 | 12pm PST | 3pm EST This is a…

Activate Skills: Creators: The Next Frontier of Digital Strategy

With Vidyut Ghuwalewala, Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Khari Wendell McClelland

April 11, 2024
Virtual
What to Expect Activate Skills is a series of 90-minute interactive virtual workshops designed to support digital changemakers to develop strategies, refine technical systems and discover tools for campaigning and organizing. Workshop Details Creators: The Next Frontier of Digital Strategy with Vidyut Ghuwalewala April 11, 2024 | 12pm PST | 3pm EST…

Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

With Michele McDonald, Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey and Sayalay Ma Kamalañani

April 21 - May 5, 2024
Experience Metta (unconditional love and kindness) Vipassana (insight) meditation on beautiful Cortes Island. In this 14-day silent retreat, discover the four immeasurables (unconditional love, wise compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity) through meditations that fuse these fundamental spiritual emotions with the intuitive wisdom of Vipassana. Develop compassionate awareness and a more…

Organize Your Consciousness: Groundwork Accelerator (Vancouver)

With Amrita Ahuja

May 2 - 3, 2024
Suite Genius Mt. Pleasant
It is increasingly difficult to get things done. The world is filled with distractions that drain our energy and prevent us from doing what matters most. Though we look for a way out of vicious cycles that perpetuate stress, overwhelm and worry, often the tools that are supposed to help…

Coastal Foraging Adventure

With Robin Kort

May 8 - 12, 2024
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…

Weaving Ritual: an Embodied Rebozo Retreat

With Collective Rebozo

May 8 - 12, 2024
In celebration of Mother’s Day, we are offering a 10% tuition discount if you attend with your mother/child. Please contact us for more information. In order to open and enter a new stage of life, we need to honour, integrate and celebrate where we’ve come from. This retreat, offered for…

Watercolour and the Art of Seeing

With David McEown

May 8 - 12, 2024
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. Enjoy a dynamic watercolour demonstration; exploring paint as a form of meditation and play. Uncover the secret hydrodynamics of watercolour paint…

Giving the Wound Air: Expressing the Inexpressible In Your Own Words

With Susan Musgrave

May 12 - 17, 2024
“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. Yet we are bereft of time to grieve. Writing, especially poetry, fiction, journaling…

Breath as Entheogen: The Wisdom and Legacy of Stanislav Grof

With Carolyn J Green, BHSc, PhD and Sandy Wiggins

May 12 - 17, 2024
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. Grof® Breathwork is a powerful approach to self-exploration…
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Sketch by Sketch: Connecting with the World Through Drawing

With Emma FitzGerald

May 12 - 17, 2024
Learn to sketch without fear of making mistakes! Join celebrated author/illustrator, Emma FitzGerald as she leads participants through a series of exercises that build confidence and improves observation skills, while allowing for the happy accidents that make a drawing that speaks from the heart. Using pen and water colour paint,…

Ebb & Flow: Kayak & Yoga Immersion (May)

With Kai Harvey and Jasmine Hillier

May 17 - 22, 2024
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…

Translating Science through Writing and Art in Times of “Climate Boiling”

With AM Kanngieser and Zoe Todd

May 17 - 22, 2024
In this time of boiling climate crisis we are inundated with data and information about the dire state of the world. But how do we tell these stories in ways that center our interconnectivity, interdependence and the power of our shared and common action? This four day intensive study will…

Conscious Dreaming: Embodied Wisdom through Liminal Dream Play

With Kimberly Mascaro, PhD

May 17 - 22, 2024
We are more than our ordinary, waking-life self. Liminal dreaming has been long practiced by many as a way of exploring extraordinary states of mind, expanding creativity, managing anxiety, and developing intuition and inner-wisdom. Join Dr. Kimberly Mascaro at Hollyhock, for a generative and restorative experience while exploring the potential…

Finding Joy in Nature: Hike, Swim & Explore

With Alyssa Murdoch and Breanne Kemp

May 22 - 26, 2024
Embark on a journey with Alyssa and Breanne to connect with your love of the outdoors and uncover your innate Naturalist spirit. Finding Joy in Nature beckons you to explore the enchanting landscapes of Cortes Island and immerse yourself in diverse ecosystems of conifer forests, rugged ocean shorelines, pristine lakes,…

Nonviolent Communication From The Roots Up: Relating in a Fractured World

With Rachelle Lamb

May 22 - 26, 2024
"Rachelle facilitates community in an open, accepting way that challenges old beliefs and habits yet offers a loving way to relate to each other." - Past participant Since its initial publication in 1999, Nonviolent Communication by international peacemaker Dr. Marshall Rosenberg has been hailed worldwide as a pioneering approach to resolving…

Informed by Cancer: Yoga Therapy to Support the Lived Experience of Cancer

With Anne Pitman

May 22 - 26, 2024
"Anne creates a space and practice for conversations dealing with ongoing processing of  cancer diagnosis, treatment, healing, grief, fear of reoccurrence and, importantly, how to support ourselves and loved ones experiences at our own pace." - past participant Cancer changes us. It is, in itself, a full-time job: the immediate…

Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: Activating Your Medicine Council (Vancouver)

With Julie Kramer

May 24 - 26, 2024
Conscious Lab
"Julie is a natural and gifted teacher. Attending her introductory workshop is like stepping into a portal of divine possibility, providence, and wonder that envelops the entirety of the weekend. Whether you decide on a whim to tag along with a friend or are traversing your own dark night of…

Untangled: Moving Past Fear in Knitting and Writing

With Matthew J. Trafford

May 26 - 31, 2024
Get unstuck in your creative project and grow beyond what's holding you back. Knitting and writing are both crafts that require working on projects for a long time. Stitch by stitch and word by word we build our creations, but sometimes this process can be overwhelming, intimidating, or paralyzing, leaving…

Raise Your Vibe With Reiki: Levels 1 & 2

With Fleur Choy

May 26 - 31, 2024
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…

Exploring Ocean Mysteries: The Science and Poetry of The Salish Sea

With Marjorie Wonham, Ph.D. and Melanie Koenderman

May 31 - June 5, 2024
The ocean has long inspired curiosity and imagination in scientists and poets alike. Join us in a lively, embodied, place-based experience of the beautiful waters and life of the Salish Sea. In this unique program we will explore ocean shorelines and ocean poetry, and create our own poems that deepen…

The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom

With David J. Helfand

May 31 - June 5, 2024
Atoms are unfathomably tiny. It takes fifteen million trillion of them to make up a single poppy seed—give or take a few billion. And there’s hardly anything to them: atoms are more than 99.999999999 percent empty space. Yet we have learned to precisely count these slivers of near nothingness and…

A Training in Lateral Liberation

With Kim Haxton

May 31 - June 5, 2024
This is a time of high polarity. The need for genuine restoration has far-reaching implications as leaders seek vision and all people seek direction to address the mounting pressure of a system incongruous with the values of the natural world. This immersive training encourages the “lateral liberation” of consciousness by…

Salish Shorelines: A Saltwater Journey (June)

With Jonas Fineman and Tosh Harvey

May 31 - June 5, 2024
Join Cortes Island guides and mariners for a kayaking exploration of the Salish Sea surrounding the renowned Hollyhock Campus. Each day’s adventure offers a safe and comprehensive foray into the seascapes and histories of Desolation Sound and the Discovery Islands. Launching from various beaches around Cortes Island as well as…

Mindful Self-Compassion

With Martin Thomson-Jones, PhD and Megan Prager

June 9 - 14, 2024
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,…

Dance of Connection

With Bettina Rothe

June 9 - 14, 2024
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. Release old patterns of relating that no longer serve and expand your repertoire of how you can relate with others on…

Discover Cortes: Adventures in Nature (June)

With Bill Ophoff

June 14 - 19, 2024
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,…

Coming Home: Exploring the Divine Abodes

With Dawn Mauricio

June 14 - 19, 2024
With the world, news, and societal systems as they are, it is easy to fall into thinking we are not enough, believing we are separate, or being guided by fear. Yet, the timeless teachings of Buddhism remind us that our innate essence is one of boundless love and compassion, and…

Unwind: Yamuna® Body Rolling & Essential Somatics®

With Namchi Bazar

June 14 - 19, 2024
Release pain and restrictions for a total body awakening and rejuvenation. 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…

Finding Fulfillment Through Tantra: Magnetize Your Heart’s Desire

With Yogacharini Maitreyi

June 14 - 19, 2024
Did you know your heart's magnetic field is 5,000 times stronger than your brain’s? Or that the signals from the heart go instantaneously to the brain and regulate the brain’s physiology, making the heart a central node which regulates cognitive and emotional information? How would your life change if you new…

The Healing Power of Yoga

With Peter Sterios

June 19 - 23, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Mar 20, 2024.
Discover the healing power that yoga promises, during a spacious 5-day program of yoga-inspired movement and rest in nature, at Hollyhock on beautiful Cortes Island. The experience and knowledge you gain during the retreat will be uniquely individual, emphasizing your own intuitive creativity to provide you a truly "personal” practice…

Contemplative Mind, Spontaneous Brush: Ink, Colour and Japanese Washi Papers

With Heather Midori Yamada

June 19 - 23, 2024
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Relax body, breath and mind with short guided meditations and simple perceptual exercises. Follow brushwork demonstrations using Japanese sumi ink and watercolour on various Japanese washi papers (provided). Inspired by surrounding natural subject matter, and mixed media approaches of layering, tearing and collaging cultivate personal and unique expressions in abstract…

The Embodied Voice

With Amy Thiessen

June 19 - 23, 2024
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Step into the wisdom of your body & unleash the power of your voice. 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 and reconciliation with the various facets (voices) of our being. In…

Flying SOULO: Your Story on Stage

With Tracey Erin Smith

June 23 - 28, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Mar 24, 2024.
Transform your life stories into a Solo Theater Show or a Keynote Talk. Using improvisation, writing exercises and one-on-one coaching with award-winning director Tracey Erin Smith, uncover the stories that need to be told and transform your experience into a powerful and entertaining show or talk. "Tracey is a true…

Tapping the Stream: A Spring Writing Retreat

With Betsy Warland and Shaena Lambert

June 23 - 30, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Mar 24, 2024.
Tapping the Stream is a week-long retreat - free from interruption - to explore the direction of a work in progress, as well as to foster creativity through community with other writers. “Tapping the Stream is the most wonderful workshop I have ever attended. The facilitators helped me get back…

Wild Soma Being and Becoming: Embodied Practices for Collective Thriving

With Andrea Nann, Julia Aplin, Roula Said and Shannon Litzenberger

June 23 - 28, 2024
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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 sense in our bones, and what we know in our guts? Can…

Pwātamowin “the act of dreaming”: A Yogic retreat

With Malina Dawn

June 30 - July 5, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Mar 31, 2024.
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…

Andean Wisdom: Deepening Your Relationship with the Four Elements

With Jhaimy Alvarez Acosta

June 30 - July 5, 2024
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Weaving together Andean Wisdom Teachings, Ritual, Healing Meditation, and Intentional Practice, this 5-day retreat will provide you with powerful tools to transform and expand your life in beautiful ways. Working with the laws of nature allows for an abundant flow and grace to come into each day. This retreat is…

Shifting Consciousness and Healing Through Narrative

With Barbara Mainguy and Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD

June 30 - July 5, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Mar 31, 2024.
Join us for an extraordinary journey into transformation in the nestled space of the Hollyhock beautiful Cortes Island. Rewrite your story through a loving process of exploration and change. Allow this non-ordinary island to breathe us into non-ordinary spaces of our consciousness. In the landscape, we will uncover the stories…

Four Agreements for a Better Life

With don Miguel Ruiz Jr. and don Jose Ruiz

June 30 - July 3, 2024
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"Everything we do is based on agreements we have made - agreements with ourselves, with other people, with God, with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves. In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is…
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Closer Together: A Weekend with Sophie

With Sophie Grégoire Trudeau

July 5 - 7, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Apr 5, 2024.
"Hollyhock is a sacred, special and transformative place. It’s an honour for me to host this retreat where the theme of togetherness, compassion and relationship to ourselves will allow us to dig deeper and come Closer Together." - Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau Sophie Grégoire Trudeau invites you on a deeply personal journey…

Nature Paints Itself

With Jeremy Herndl

July 7 - 12, 2024
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What if the world created us humans to speak its names, sing its rivers and winds? What if nature paints itself, using our deft human hands and the tactility of sight to emulate its textures, colours and spaces? In this workshop we shall enter the space of nature, the garden,…

Dancing from the Inside Out

With Margie Gillis

July 7 - 12, 2024
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Move into your body’s experiential wisdom and reveal the soul in motion. Develop 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…

Time of Transition

With Thomas Atum O'Kane, PhD

July 7 - 12, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Apr 7, 2024.
Let go of your old identity and lay the groundwork for a new sense of self. Life changes are times of passion and opportunity. The tension of the “in between” time is often coloured by the sadness of letting go, the difficulty of living with uncertainty, and the anticipation of…
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Ebb & Flow: Kayak & Yoga Immersion (July)

With Kai Harvey and Jasmine Hillier

July 7 - 12, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Apr 7, 2024.
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…

Connecting to Source: Yoga, Meditation, Ritual

With Mara Branscombe

July 12 - 17, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Apr 12, 2024.
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…

Singing in the Vocal River

With Rhiannon

July 12 - 17, 2024
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Hear your own song and learn new ones as you find your place in the world of music and invention. Co-create vocal magic in a safe, dynamic circle of singers, delving into the possibilities of spontaneous composition and the language of storytelling. Working alone, in pairs, and in ensemble, meld…
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Something Opens My Wings

With Margie Gillis and Thomas Atum O'Kane, PhD

July 12 - 17, 2024
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“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.” - Rumi Through meditation, movement, creative imagination and the soulful mystery of the Something, we will evoke the states and stages contained in Rumi's poem. Both Margie and…

Discover Cortes: Adventures in Nature (July)

With Bill Ophoff

July 12 - 17, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Apr 12, 2024.
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,…

2024 Canadian Psychedelic Summit

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute, Kim Haxton and Orane Cheung

July 17 - 21, 2024
Cortes Island
Register for the 2024 Canadian Psychedelic Summit and secure your spot at the 3rd annual gathering on Cortes Island.    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…

Radical Dharma: Conversations

With Reverend angel Kyodo williams

July 21 - 25, 2024
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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…

Art of Spiritual Guidance: 2 Year Program

With Thomas Atum O'Kane, PhD

July 21 - 26, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Apr 21, 2024.
Spiritual Guidance is an art, a gift and a calling that has been long practiced in contemplative traditions to support spiritual development and personal transformation. The practice encourages the soul’s quest for expression, authenticity and greater intimacy with the Divine within oneself, one’s relationships, and the world. Develop skills for serving…

Nature & Nurture Yoga: Embracing Abundance

With Fiji McAlpine

July 21 - 26, 2024
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"Fiji is a phenomenal instructor. She created a wonderful atmosphere and allowed us to blossom and learn within our own space." - past participant 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…

The Song & Dance of the Drum at Olatunji Hall

With Gordy Onayemi Ryan and Zoë Ryan

July 26 - 31, 2024
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Bumbamba! - Celebrate Life! Activate the Fire in your hands, the Beat in your feet, and the Song in your Heart on this Soulful journey in Rhythm at the Olatunji Hall. We will drum, dance, and sing inside the iconic Olatunji Hall and outside the Hall in the circle of…

Healing Family & Ancestors: Ritual & Resonant Family Constellations

With Jill Purce

July 26 - 31, 2024
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Transform inherited patterns into magical blessings, bringing harmony, joy, and order into your daily life. Activate the unconscious field of the ancestors, making it a rich source of wisdom and illumination. This healing program uncovers and restores aspects of the psyche that are normally closed to therapeutic methods, transforming negative…

Between the Human Animal and the Animate Earth

With David Abram

July 26 - 31, 2024
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How can we open a fresh and unshakeable solidarity between ourselves and the other animals, plants, and elemental forces that compose this breathing biosphere? The deepening contortions of climate change – intensifying droughts, monster floods, flaring wildfires and heart-wrenching geopolitical cataclysms – all ensure that our species is tumbling toward…

Science, Art, Sound, & the Sacred

With Merlin Sheldrake, Cosmo Sheldrake and Rupert Sheldrake

July 31 - August 4, 2024
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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…

Presence Psychotherapy Training: Integrate Spirituality With Trauma Work (28 CE Credits)

With Michelle Lepak

August 4 - 9, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until May 5, 2024.
Note: Continuing Education Credits available. See below for details. Presence Psychotherapy is a trauma therapy that integrates spirituality, internal inquiry, and relational attunement to facilitate healing. Developed by Michelle Lepak, this intensive 5-day training, rooted in evidence-based practice, helps clients orient to Four Dimensions of Presence to sense compassion in…

Energy Medicine Yoga: The Path to Boundless Joy

With Lauren Walker

August 4 - 9, 2024
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Join Energy Medicine Yoga founder, Lauren Walker, for a profound, immersive and transformative experience. In our 5 days together, you will gain a deep understanding of the truth: Energy is All There Is - body, mind and spirit. Most importantly, you will learn to apply Lauren’s signature Five Star Method…

Writing to Awaken: Memoir as a Path of Healing

With Mark Matousek

August 4 - 9, 2024
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This transformational five-day program uses personal writing as a path of self-discovery, authenticity, and spiritual growth. When you learn to express the whole truth about your life experiences – for personal use or publication – you come to understand the mythic dimension of your personal struggles, triumphs, confusions, longings, digressions,…

Whole Human Health

With Lawrence Cheng, MD, CCFP(EM), MPH and Devon Christie, MD, CCFP, RTC

August 9 - 14, 2024
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Embody your well-being potential! Join us on this five 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…

Body, Breath & Nature

With Loretta (Lo) Laurin

August 9 - 14, 2024
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Take a step outside of everyday life and reconnect to the landscape of your breath and body in nature. Reset and re-regulate your nervous system with an integration of yoga, pilates, and nature immersion. This is an opportunity to prioritize your self-care, decrease stress, and reinvigorate your capacity for balance.…

Non-dual Awareness: An Exploration of Effortless Presence

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

August 9 - 14, 2024
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“I gained so much for my meditation practice and feel so supported and somehow I feel different in the world since then. What I experienced cannot be put into words.” - Past participant We all have awakened presence within us which is created as a spark of bliss at the moment…

Depth Ecology Camp

With Nora Bateson, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Rex Weyler and Kairn Mahon Carrington

August 14 - 18, 2024
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With Special Guests Merlin Sheldrake, Erin Robinsong and David Abram. Humans do not stand apart from the earth and its living systems. To address our global challenges, we must start from our roots as creatures of this Earth. What does it mean to take action and adopt a genuinely ecological…

Kanikapila: Expanding the Magic of Ukulele

With Kimo Hussey

August 14 - 18, 2024
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If you play the ukulele, you likely understand the joyful power of this small but mighty instrument. At Hollyhock this summer, discover kanikapila, the magic that erupts when playing and creating music together. With Hawaiian ukulele master Kimo Hussey as your guide, go beyond rudimentary play and explore the myriad…

Slow Art, Somatic Practice, and Creative Rest

With Shauna Kaendo, Registered Art Therapist | BFA, RCAT and Trudi Smith, Registered Clinical Counsellor | MC, MA, PhD

August 14 - 18, 2024
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Bringing our bodies into the conversation through creative process. In this therapeutic arts program, we get curious about what self-care practices can look and feel like both individually and in community. Through creative meanderings we will experiment with solo and collaborative art-making processes, for example, bilateral drawing, collage, watercolour, bookmaking,…

Radiant Mind, Compassionate Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

With Celeste Young

August 18 - 24, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until May 19, 2024.
During this weeklong silent meditation retreat, we will focus on practices that quiet the mind and open the heart to support the unfolding of insight and compassion. We will learn to bring mindful attention to our moment to moment experience, facilitating a renewed sense of connection with our own bodies,…

The Art of Leadership

With Michael Bell and Suzanne Hawkes

August 18 - 23, 2024
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The Art of Leadership is by application only. Click here to apply! Are you committed to making a difference in the world? In social change, socially responsible business, education, politics or community service? Learn to inspire, engage and collaborate with others in effective action to broaden the impact of your…

Discover Cortes: Adventures in Nature (August)

With Bill Ophoff

August 18 - 23, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until May 19, 2024.
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,…

Nine Patterns of Developmental Pathways: An Interpersonal Neurobiology View of the Enneagram System

With Dan Siegel, M.D.

August 24 - 28, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until May 25, 2024.
"Freud’s theory of the unconscious and Darwin’s model of evolution continue to help us understand the findings from current research on human behavior....Daniel Siegel’s theory of Mindsight—the brain’s capacity for both insight and empathy—offers a similar 'Aha!'" - Daniel Goleman, Author, Emotional Intelligence In this immersive, interactive workshop retreat with…

Menopause Mastery: Empowering Midlife Transitions

With Kate Milne and Teresa Isabel Dias

August 24 - 28, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until May 25, 2024.
Learn strategies and practical tools to navigate the challenges of the transition of menopause effectively. In Menopause Mastery we’ll explore menopause's physical, emotional, and mental aspects, learn targeted and effective wellness strategies, explore how to better manage the transition, hormonal options, and create a personalized wellness plan for your healthier…

Cyanotypes on Fabric

With Sarah Fuller

August 24 - 28, 2024
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This alternative photography workshop focuses on the historical Cyanotype photo process, using objects and plants from the Hollyhock ecosystem to create one-of-a-kind images on fabric. Participants will learn how to create Cyanotype prints on fabric and will be encouraged to use natural elements from the Hollyhock ecosystem to create photograms.…

Four Ways to Freedom

August 28 - September 4, 2024
Reserve your accommodation by clicking the Register Now button above. Click here to learn more and to register for the program. Level Up: An Evolutionary Odyssey in Nature A mindfulness-based personal and professional development retreat Are you feeling a call to transform, to leap into what’s next? In our rapidly…

Opening to Inner + Outer Change: A Life Balance Retreat

With Celeste Young and Meera Bawa

August 29 - September 1, 2024
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How well we navigate changes and transitions has a direct impact on the degree of well-being, purpose, and satisfaction we experience in our daily lives. If you’re considering a big change, are in the midst of one now or are still feeling the effects of past changes, this unique retreat…

End-of-Life Doula Training (INELDA)

With Nicole Heidbreder

September 6 - 11, 2024
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Learn how to provide companionship, comfort, and guidance to those facing a terminal illness or death. As part of this training, learners receive self-paced video exercises as pre-work, an end-of-life doula guide and training workbook, live lectures and presentations from INELDA educators, small group and paired exercises, and self-paced exercises…

Healing at the Edge: Conscious Living/Dying

With RamDev Dale Borglum

September 6 - 11, 2024
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Imagine living without fear. Imagine approaching the unknown with an open heart. There is a path to this freedom. "I recommend anything that Dale teaches.” - Ram Dass For over 40 years, RamDev Dale Borglum has been in close contact with many people who were approaching death. Almost all of these…

Salish Shorelines: A Saltwater Journey (September)

With Jonas Fineman and Jasmine Hillier

September 6 - 11, 2024
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Join Cortes Island guides and mariners for a kayaking exploration of the Salish Sea surrounding the renowned Hollyhock Campus. Each day’s adventure offers a safe and comprehensive foray into the seascapes and histories of Desolation Sound and the Discovery Islands. Launching from various beaches around Cortes Island as well as…

Essential Somatics: Free Your Movement!

With Martha Peterson

September 11 - 16, 2024
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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 week-long training program is for you. Come and learn how to restore freedom of movement, resolve chronic muscle tension, so…

Harnessing Your Nature’s Potential

With Restore Human

September 11 - 15, 2024
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Join us for a transformative three-day journey, designed to empower you to become a better mechanic and pilot of your own human spaceship. Regardless of your fitness level or experience, our program will help you understand and enhance your body's capabilities, regulate your nervous system, and broaden your movement potential.…

SAORI: The Zen of Weaving

With Terri Bibby

September 22 - 27, 2024
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"Terri flawlessly combined the techniques of SAORI with the philosophy. I didn’t want the week to end" - Past Participant Explore the beautiful SAORI weaving philosophy from Japan where there are no rules and no mistakes. This philosophy encourages you to “look out through eyes that shine” and see beauty…

From Age-ing to Sage-ing®: Deepening the Sage Within

With Annie Klein

September 22 - 26, 2024
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A great gift of our older years is the potential for deepening wisdom and expanding possibilities.  As more and more of us are living longer, we want these extra years to be vibrant, inspiring and fulfilling. This program will help you discover what gives your life meaning as you age.…

The Nourished Woman Goddess Retreat

With Abneet Kaur Sandhar

September 22 - 26, 2024
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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 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…

Cultivating Wellbeing for Health Professionals (2024)

With Andrea Grabovac, MD and Erin Burrell, MD, FRCPC

September 27 - October 2, 2024
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"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 meditation retreat for health professionals and partners.…

Harmony Within: A Journey of Songwriting and Reconnection

With Leah Abramson and Samantha Parton

September 27 - October 2, 2024
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Writing can be a powerful tool of self-expression and intimacy with one's deepest thoughts and feelings. The “Harmony Within” workshop explores songwriting as a medium, a practice, and a journey through which we can reconnect with our creative source, our vulnerability, and our inner wisdom, harnessing the healing power of…

The Art of Resting Well

With Farah Nazarali

September 27 - October 1, 2024
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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…

Psoma: The Heart and Soul of Therapy

With Donna Martin & Shelley Winton

October 6 - 13, 2024
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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…

Fermentation of Place

With Kirsten K. Shockey

October 6 - 10, 2024
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Learn to collaborate with the microbes that make your foods delicious and your health vibrant. Join world-renowned fermenter, Kirsten K. Shockey in this unique fermentation master class to learn how to ferment confidently and safely in your kitchen. You’ll learn the art and science of this ancient craft by exploring…

Eldering in Times of Transformation

With Cheryl Rose, Juana Berinstein and Zhiish McKenzie

October 6 - 10, 2024
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“A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species.”  - Carl Jung There comes a time when you find yourself, perhaps to your surprise, in a new land which is unlike any part of the long…

Wim Hof Method, Breathwork and Your True Nature

With Cian Dalton and Carolyn Schmidt

October 16 - 20, 2024
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"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…

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Levels 1-2 (Vancouver)

With Alina Frank & Dr. Craig Weiner

November 15 - 17, 2024
SFU Harbour Centre - Segal Rooms
Learn EFT, the most sought after energy psychology approach on the planet. Emotional Freedom Techniques or “The Tapping Techniques” are used by millions of people worldwide.  These techniques can quickly and effectively resolve dysfunctional feelings, thoughts, behaviours and beliefs which can lead to challenges in relationships, health, right livelihood and…