10/08/2024
The Booking Portal is Now Open for this residential retreat on Salt Spring Island, Summer 2025.
We are living in turbulent and painful times. Many of us are exhausted and needing solace, needing time and space to touch the Land and feel our hearts beating together. Even in the darkest of times there is a vitality current that moves through Life into form. Between each one of us is a vibrant ecotone yearning for unfolding - a wildly fertile place to kindle and strengthen creative life force. Come, gather around this generative fire and collaborate in the making of supple magic.
From July 31st-August 4th, 2025, we will gather at this beautiful venue to nourish our vitality, strengthen voice, and spark the creative callings that long to emerge into clearer and focused shapes. Movement, art, writing, somatic inquiry, playfulness, spaciousness, deep relations with Earth and Sky, resonant listening and quietude.
Salt Spring Island is gorgeous, and easily accessible from Victoria and Vancouver. Forested with majestic Old Cedars, Hemlock, and Douglas Fir, salal and ferns, and colourful Arbutus, this Island is a gem.
Stowel Lake Farm provides a lush setting that is steeped in intentional care through permaculture, bio-dynamic farming, and organic agriculture. The Land feels loved there and the deeply artistic community is welcoming and offers a place for restoration of soul, heart, mind, and body. The lodgings are cozy, the vegetarian food is delicious, and the studio space is Filled with light. There are cozy nooks to gather into for solitude or conversations with others, and trails, meadows, and beaches for wandering.
This retreat is a creative cauldron to nourish deeply. Folks who care for others need nourishment of depth. Folks on the receiving end of microaggressions and assaults to dignity need nourishment of depth. Folks who feel the profound pain of these times need nourishment of depth. Folks feeling called to step more fully into their own wisdom currents need nourishment of depth.
The door is open to step in, to tend our instinctive and improvisational creativity in a loving collective rooted in magic, in brave space, the arts, Q***r praxis, and love of Earth.
Dance art and writing for vitality, voice, and vision, a salt spring island retreat body songs creative play in community
