The venue

Stowel Lake Farm is a restorative retreat venue and thriving organic farm located on Salt Spring Island, here on BC’s wild West Coast. Only a 30-minute ferry ride from Victoria (airport code YYJ), British Columbia, Canada, the farm features more than 100 acres of mixed forests, fields, rocky outcrops and rolling hills to explore.

What’s included

•Daily guided 5Rhythms movement | dance sessions with Joanne Winstanley and Anne Marie Hogya with teachings focused on the 5Rhythms Heartbeat map

•Five nights in the accommodation of your choice

•Fourteen delicious, vegetarian meals hosted in a restored timber farmhouse. Stowel Lake’s talented kitchen team offers seasonally inspired farm-to-table cuisine, featuring their own organic produce. In direct collaboration with their farmers, meals are prepared simply and beautifully to highlight the vitality of fresh whole food ingredients (Dairy-free, gluten-free and vegan choices can be accommodated by request)

•Unstructured time to read, write, rest and soak up the natural world and farm property and Salt Spring Island also offers a range of hiking trails, lakes, and ocean beaches to explore

•Full access to all retreat facilities and the scenic Stowel Lake property

•A guided farm tour and nature talk

•Outdoor evening campfire (where seasonally permitted)

•All applicable taxes

The details

April 16, 2024 to April 21, 2024 (Wed. to Mon.)

5 nights | 6 days

Check-in is between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. on April 16. (Dinner at 6:00 p.m.)

Check-out is by 1:00 p.m. on April 21. (Lunch at 12:00 p.m.)

Pricing + registration

•Register on Eventbrite or e-transfer to annemarie@annemariehogya.com. Save $50 off ticket price if e-transferring. When e-transfering please provide your email, full name (first and last), full mailing address, and phone number for registration. Also let us know if you have any dietary requirements, if you are allergic to down bedding, if you need a pick up on the Fulford Harbour April 16th afternoon ferry, and the name of the person if you are sharing a room with someone.

•All pricing is per person in Canadian dollars (CAD) and while supplies last.

•Room selection is on a first come basis.

*Off-site accommodation requests cannot be accommodated. All participants must be able to stay at Stowel Lake Farm.

1. Private Room (one bed in room with shared bath)

•$2475 CAD Tier 1 (Super Early Rate) until October 31, 2024

•$2725 CAD Tier 2 (Early Rate) until December 31, 2024

•$2975 CAD Tier 3 (Regular Rate) until April 6, 2025

2. Shared Deluxe Room (two beds in room with private bathroom)

•$2275 CAD Tier 1 (Super Early Rate) until October 31, 2024

•$2525 CAD Tier 2 (Early Rate) until December 31, 2024

•$2725 CAD Tier 3 (Regular Rate) until April 6, 2025

3. Shared Regular Room (two beds per room with shared bathroom)

•$1995 CAD Tier 1 (Super Early Rate) until October 31, 2024

•$2245 CAD Tier 2 (Early Rate) until December 31, 2024

•$2495 CAD Tier 3 (Regular Rate) until April 6, 2025

•A limited number of separate structure round yurts, which have heat and power, are available on the land outside of the regular room buildings. Please indicate if you’d like to book one of these at no additional cost.

4. Camping (bring your own tent; access to indoor bathrooms and showers)

•$1695 CAD Tier 1 (Super Early Rate) until October 31, 2024

•$1945 CAD Tier 2 (Early Rate) until December 31, 2024

•$2195 CAD Tier 3 (Regular Rate) until April 6, 2025

*Please note that all cancellations will incur a $150 administration fee. Cancellations after January 31, 2025 will receive a 50% refund. Because this is a retreat workshop with individualized meal and accommodation planning, no refunds can be issued for cancellations after April 1, 2025.

*Joanne Winstanley and Anne Marie Hogya met in 1999 at a 5Rhythms workshop on Cortez Island and became fast friends. A year later in 2000 they road tripped together to Marin, California to do a month-long immersion with 5Rhythms founder, Gabrielle Roth and studied and trained with Gabrielle and faculty over the next two decades. Both Anne Marie and Joanne are accredited to teach both the physical (Waves) and emotional (Heartbeat) maps of the 5Rhythms. 

Joanne Winstanley: www.danceherenow.ca 

Anne Marie Hogya www.annmariehogya.com

*This retreat counts 5 days of Heartbeat pre-requisites on the 5Rhythms Teacher Training path.

*Please note that all cancellations will incur a $150 administration fee. Cancellations after January 31st will receive a 50% refund. Because this is a retreat workshop with individualized meal and accommodation planning, no refunds can be issued for cancellations after April 1st, 2025. 

Pre-Registration Required

In Heartbeat we explore our emotions as energy, as power, as part of being human. Old feelings that have been locked in our limbs or caged in our chest begin to shake loose. We get comfortable with feelings, neither hanging onto them nor pushing them away.
PREREQUISITES: Waves