• Private Cabin Oceanfront – CAD $3,371.00
  • Single w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $2,571.00
  • Single w/ensuite – CAD $2,411.00
  • Single w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,071.00
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $4,010.00
  • Couple w/ensuite – CAD $3,694.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom – CAD $3,378.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront – CAD $2,007.00
  • Twin w/ensuite – CAD $1,847.00
  • Twin w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,687.00
  • Three-share w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,523.00
  • Women Dorm – CAD $1,327.00
  • Male Dorm – CAD $1,327.00
  • Mixed Dorm – CAD $1,327.00
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $1,307.00
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $2,414.00
  • Commuter – CAD $1,167.00
  • (All prices include CAD $1,067.00 base amount)

Date & Time Details:
Starts with dinner on September 13
Ends with lunch on September 17

Here is your program schedule

Location: Cortes Island

Tuition: $675 CAD

Campus Rates: Campus rates include accommodations, meals, Hollyhock activities, use of hot tubs and campus facilities (does not include tuition). Click here for details.

Scholarships: Program experiences are enriched by having a multitude of voices and experiences that reflect global plurality. Our scholarship program is one of our key strategies to expand program access to underrepresented and marginalized communities.

A limited number of scholarships are available per program with awards ranging from partial to full tuition. We encourage applicants from those whose identities intersect with, but are not limited to: Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, 2SLGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, newcomers, youth, and elders.

Please apply for a scholarship within your program registration form. We ask for a 5% refundable deposit to apply. Contact us directly if you are unable to pay this deposit.

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BE-LONGING: A Reverent Partner Dance Experience

With Malina Dawn and Wren LaFeet

September 13 - 17, 2023

O keep squeezing drops of the Sun from your prayers and work and music
And from your companions’ beautiful laughter, And from the most insignificant movements
Of your own holy body. Now, sweet one, Be wise.
Cast all your votes for Dancing!
-Hafiz

Let’s gather around the fire of community and learn to connect through longing, devotion, reverence and right relationship to self, other and land. Experience partner dance like you never have before. Through a blend of culturally informed movement medicines, comes Be-Longing. Through powerfully attuned inner listening and connection to self we can step into a co-creative dance experience guided by embodied consent principles. Consider this experience an exploration into the reverent dance we refer to as “the inner dance”; a place where the experience of profound connection to self, each other, and all of life appears. This is the dance that happens within; when the dancer allows themselves to BE DANCED.

Through indigenous ways of life, we know that longing to belong to ourselves, each other, earth and the ineffable is a core desire most humans share. In this human experience, it is far too common to feel lonely and disconnected. Oftentimes we suffer in silence and isolation. Be it cultural, ancestral, familial reasons, it is terrifying and depressing to the Spirit to suffer the trials of life thinking we are alone in it. The medicine for this dis-ease is belonging and re-connection. There are many doorways of connection, and in this unique container we explore the pathways of Yoga and partner dance to bring us together for personal and collective connection and wellness.

The retreat will focus on cultivating a connection to self as the starting point for connection with others. The embodied teachings of consent, listening, supportively structured movement, authentic expression, yoga asana and breathwork will be bolstered by reverence, devotion and fun as we approach this inner dance space.

Each day will be filled with yoga asana to create deep connection to yourself and your breath, Cocréa’s unique dance workshops, somatic breathwork to integrate the dance workshops, circles for shares and inquiry, traditional drum songs to open the voice and optional cacao on the last community dance night of the retreat. This is not just a retreat experience, but a movement culture we are inviting you to be part of co-creating with us.

This retreat is for you if you:

  • Feel excited to connect to a more embodied version of yourself
  • Are stoked to develop your dance language
  • Want to know what a safe, brave and consent-informed culture looks like on the dance floor
  • Want to be part of a wider community dedicated to consensual interactions on dance floors
  • Want to broaden your vocabulary around consent
  • Believe embodying Joy and reverence is a powerful act of reclamation for self in society
  • Are a couple who want to ignite your passion, intimacy and playfulness
  • Are single and wanting to connect in nourishing, authentic community settings

Challenges you might be working with that we’re stoked to support you in:

  • Are you yearning for deeper connection in community?
  • Are you struggling with feelings of isolation?
  • Do you feel constricted and calcified in your body?
  • Does the idea of “dancing” feel scary and unattainable?
  • Is your breath right now feeling shallow and quick?
  • Would you like to experience greater ease and grace in your day to day experience?
  • Are you longing for a deeper connection to your heart and ways to feel the hearts of others?

What you’ll leave the retreat with:

  • A new experience of movement and dance in your body
  • A greater understanding of what consent looks, sounds and feels like which can be applied to all areas of life
  • The power of breath in connecting to yourself, others and land
  • Self knowledge in how to work with your personal energy to connect to yourself and others in welcome ways
  • An opened body, heart, mind and spirit
  • A greater sense of connection to all of life
  • And likely a bunch of new friends

Schedule

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Terms & Conditions

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Presenters

Malina Dawn
Malina is a queer nehiyaw-ahpihtawikosisān iskwew (Cree Métis woman) who weaves together, the worlds of indigenous wisdom and yogic knowledge. Raised on the prairies and well travelled through her young adult years, she found her own healing path through Yoga and the Red Road.  Through reclaiming her culture and applying the…
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Wren LaFeet
Wren LaFeet is celebrating entering his 24th year dancing in partnership and loves serving humanity as a somatic permissionary. Teaching partner dance internationally as a practice for mindful, authentic living, and enlivening communities by facilitating his signature modality, Cocréa, has been his joy for over a decade. Using this potent…
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