Hollyhock Retreats

Single w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $6,362.00
Single w/ensuite – CAD $5,802.00
Single w/shared bathroom – CAD $4,612.00
Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront – CAD $8,762.00
Couple w/ensuite – CAD $7,656.00
Couple w/shared bathroom – CAD $6,550.00
Twin w/ensuite oceanfront – CAD $4,388.00
Twin w/ensuite – CAD $3,828.00
Twin w/shared bathroom – CAD $3,268.00
Three-share w/shared bathroom – CAD $2,694.00
Women Dorm – CAD $2,008.00
Women Dorm - Upper Bunk – CAD $2,008.00
Tent Site Single – CAD $1,938.00
Commuter – CAD $1,308.00

(All prices include CAD $1,098.00 base amount)

Date & Time Details:
Starts with dinner on April 24
Ends with lunch on May 8

5:45-6:50am Meditation
7:00-8:00am Breakfast
8:00-11:30am Morning Session
12:00-1:00pm Lunch
2:15-5:00pm Afternoon Session
5:15-6:15pm Dinner
6:15pm-9:30pm Evening session, Dharma talk

Location: Cortes Island

Inclusive Price: $1,377 - $2,390 / 14 nights. Includes tuition, room, all meals, and Hollyhock activities (depends on accommodation choice).
No presenter fee. Dana Donations welcome.

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Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

With Michele McDonald and Steven Smith

April 24 - May 8, 2019

Due to high demand, this program is fully booked. Please join our waitlist to be notified if any space opens up.

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Experience practicing Metta (unconditional love and kindness) and Vipassana (insight) meditation on beautiful Cortes Island.

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 loving heart with a unique melding of mindful movement alongside the Metta and Vipassana practices.

Michele and Steven will also be teaching in Vancouver on May 10-12, 2019.

Presenters

Michele McDonald
Michele McDonald has taught Insight meditation for fourty years and teaches extensively throughout America, in Canada, Burma, and various locations around the world. As a guiding teacher for Vipassana Hawai’i she has been a quiet pioneer. She is the first woman to have taught a formal retreat in Burma, side-by-side…
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Steven Smith
Steven V. Smith co-founded Vipassana Hawai’i in 1984 and in 1995 founded the MettaDana Project for educational and medical projects in Burma. Also in 1995 Steven helped establish the Kyaswa Valley Retreat Center in Burma, headed by Sayadaw U Lakkhana. This partnership created Vipassana Hawai’i’s Fusion Dhamma approach combining traditional and…
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