Reclaiming Love & Power
By Wendy Hainstock Join Social Scientist Dr. Deepa Narayan for a Transformative Retreat at Hollyhock Dr. Deepa Narayan is a…
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How Entrepreneurs Can Stay Rooted in a Shifting World
By Laurel Dault, Hollyhock’s Director of Development & Impact. Lessons on Business Financing, Growth, and Resilience Markets fluctuate, but your…
Remembering What Lives Through You
By Satya Jehman Why I chose to return to my lineage, and how it shapes my daily life Coming Full…
Alchemizing Anger: From Harming to Helping
By Kevin Yee-Chan I’ve got a confession. As someone who’s dedicated over a decade of their life to understanding the…
The Power of Leadership
By Suzanne Hawkes “If you were to step into the full power of your life’s purpose – what might be…
Eldering Across Generations
By Cheryl Rose What exactly is ‘eldering’? This keyword is a big part of our exploration on Day 1 of…
Reviving Femme Folk Wisdom & Sensuous Power
By Heather Wolf If your body is calling for a soft place to land and a wild space to expand,…
The Only True Guide You’ll Ever Have
By Kimberly Lee JD “What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” — Alan Alda At times…
The Ocean Is Our Teacher: World Ocean Day
Here at Hollyhock, the ocean is not a backdrop. It is a presence. Every day, the Salish Sea sets the…
When the Words Can’t Be Found
By Program Presenter Jenn Forgie I just returned a week ago after leading a group of brave-hearted women through one…
Reflections on Pilgrimage to Silence
By Program Presenter Valerie Brown A Nature Based Retreat for Rest and Renewal I first came to Hollyhock about 10…
Aging Doesn’t Have to Hurt
Written by Martha Peterson Aging Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Let’s Rethink What We Think We Know Somewhere along the way,…
Navigating Midlife with a Devoted Spiritual Practice
Written by Mara Branscombe Instead of struggling through a midlife crisis, what if you chose to step into a midlife awakening?…
Writing the Butterfly
Written by Sarah Selecky Writers want the things we write to feel alive and enchanting. We also want to be…
Deepening the Sage Within
Written by Kas Frost Expanding Your Vision of Self as a Wise Elder Deepening the Sage Within (DSW) is a…
The Power of Somatics
Written by Lauren Walker, Energy Medicine Yoga. ‘Somatic’ is becoming the new buzzword in the alternative healing community. But why?…
Mindfulness
Written by Celeste Young | 2026 Hollyhock Presenter When we practice mindfulness, it helps us to recognize how inevitable change…
A commitment to deepen our climate action
There was once a time where we could imagine that the impacts of climate change were far away: sea-level rise…
Being the Wilderness
I have long thought of the wilderness as a place that is overwhelmingly feminine. The feminine is the unknown; the…
Water Needn’t Apply – Forest Bathing with Amos Clifford
Amos Clifford, M.A. is one of the leading voices in using nature as restorative justice and self liberation. With a…
Climate Hope
I recently made the trip to Victoria to have dinner with my son Aedan who is in environmental studies at…
Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet
Connecting to the “wild and free” world around us has many benefits. We truly awaken our senses to think critically…
Herbal Jedi – May the Forest be With You
As a Jedi you must be one with the world around you, feeling and reading all of the elements and…
Wildly Familiar: Nature’s Sixth Sense
Oriane Lee Johnston listens to horses much like you would converse with a friend; with care and appreciation. As co-habitants…
Homegrown at Hollyhock
Don’t wait for 30 years to be wowed by Hollyhock like I did; get yourself there and prepare to be…
4 Reasons I Love (to practice) SUP Yoga
Growing up, I was always around water: on the water, in the water, under the water. A fish first and…
World of Imagination: Win a Creative Purpose Mentorship Session
Enter the world of Day Schildkret, author of Morning Altars, artist, and creative purpose mentor. By deep immersion into the…
Paint: an Interrelationship with the Planet
Painting directly from nature can be a reverent communication with the land. This is a process of the seer, seeing,…
Nature is my Muse
Whenever I go into the forest something overwhelms me with a sense of calm. So much of my inspiration is…
We Live In Dandelion Times
“We live in dandelion times” – Amos Clifford A couple weeks ago, I took my first complimentary program at Hollyhock…