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  • Private Cabin Oceanfront – CAD $3,514.00
  • Single w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $2,714.00
  • Single w/ensuite – CAD $2,554.00
  • Single w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,214.00
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $4,296.00
  • Couple w/ensuite – CAD $3,980.00
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  • Twin w/ensuite – CAD $1,990.00
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  • Three-share w/shared bathroom – CAD $1,666.00
  • Women Dorm – CAD $1,470.00
  • Male Dorm – CAD $1,470.00
  • Mixed Dorm – CAD $1,470.00
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $1,450.00
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $2,700.00
  • Commuter – CAD $1,310.00
  • All Packages Include CAD $1,210.00 Tuition and meals

Date & Time Details:
Program begins: May 3, 2025
Program ends: May 7, 2025
Click here to view a sample program schedule.

Location: Hollyhock Cortes Island

Address: Cortes Island, Strathcona, BC, Canada

Package Pricing: Click Register Now to view availability of accommodations and all-inclusive pricing. For more information on accommodation types, click here.

Tiered Tuition:
Generous: $850CAD
Standard: $750 CAD
Reduced: $650 CAD

Pricing Note: Tuition for this program is offered at a tiered rate and we invite you to select the tier that is most appropriate for your financial situation. The “Generous” tier will support Hollyhock in continuing to offer meaningful programs and also support your fellow community members who are experiencing financial hardship.

Scholarships : Hollyhock programs are enriched by welcoming a multitude of voices and experiences that reflect global plurality. The Hollyhock scholarship program is one of the key strategies we employ to expand program access to underrepresented and marginalized communities. Click here to learn more and apply.

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Partnering with Compassionate Spirits: An Introduction to Your Medicine Council

With Julie Kramer

May 3 - 7, 2025

For millennia, people worldwide have used singing, dancing, drumming, whistling and rattling to generate natural trance states in order to journey into the invisible realms and form alliances with benevolent helping spirits.

Whether we’re aware of them or not, we all have compassionate helping spirits who are devoted to our well-being, potentiation, and evolution. The practice of journeying enables us to initiate contact with our spirit guides in order to receive their immediate support whenever we’re in need of wise council, helpful insights, and powerful healing.

Program Highlights

During this experiential immersion, we will embark upon a series of journeys that will enable you to:

  • Explore the invisible dimensions of reality that coexist with our physical world, where you connect with your helping spirits
  • Open the subtle pathways of perception that enable you to sense, see, hear, touch, smell, taste, and feel while journeying throughout the invisible realms
  • Use those subtle pathways of perception to cultivate a shared language with your helping spirits that generates mutual understanding and clarity
  • Refine the inquiries you present to your helping spirits in order to optimize the guidance you receive
  • Journey to receive accurate guidance and potent healing for yourself and on behalf of others
  • Practice the art of telling a healing story, relaying guidance to others when you journey on their behalf
  • Meet the benevolent helping spirits who co-exist alongside you in the place where you live and learn how to create harmony together
  • Learn how to navigate safely, purposefully, and effectively in the invisible spectrums of reality

Each of us has a cohort of specific spirit guides who are dedicated to helping us uncover, amplify, and hone the unique medicine that we carry. This is your Medicine Council. Your singular, inimitable medicine includes your innate gifts, qualities, and capacities, all of which you are meant to share with the world in order to fulfill your soul’s purpose.

By the end of this workshop, you will have met the members of your Medicine Council and your council will be well established. Our time together will culminate with a personalized ritual prescribed by your Medicine Council—and undertaken in collaboration with them—to ignite your medicine in the service of your soul’s purpose.

This is a stand-alone workshop that also serves as the prerequisite for the year-long training Becoming a Spiritual Healer Level I: The Essentials.

Testimonials

“I walked into Julie’s introductory workshop not knowing anything about shamanism or journeying. I remember feeling uncertain in the beginning because it was so different from anything I’d experienced. Julie taught with deep intention and humor, which created a transformational experience for me. From my very first journey that she facilitated, I was hooked. She helped me find a new path of spirituality and self-development that felt so vibrant and alive that I couldn’t wait to apply to her practitioner training.”  – Tiffany Skidmore

“Julie is a natural and gifted teacher. Attending her introductory workshop is like stepping into a portal of divine possibility, providence, and wonder. Whether you decide on a whim to tag along with a friend or are traversing your own dark night of the soul, this workshop is relevant, nourishing, and empowering. Participants become initiates into the infinite well of connection and possibility that lies within us all.” – A. Annesley

Julie Kramer + Hollyhock

To read about the origins of this exciting collaboration, and for more information about upcoming workshops and trainings with Julie, please read here.

Daily Schedule

A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.

 

Presenter

Julie Kramer
Julie Kramer was introduced to the practice of shamanic journeying in 2000 while attending a workshop at Hollyhock, which enabled her to begin cultivating direct relationships with compassionate helping spirits. While continuing to receive training as a shamanic practitioner and facilitator, Julie began leading workshops in 2003 in order to…
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