WITCHING WAYS

REVIVING FEMME FOLK

WISDOM

&

SENSUOUS POWER

Hollyhock Institute

Cortes Island, British Columbia

July 19th - 24th, 2026.

As the present meets the past, there is a collective wound of the feminine we experience personally, intimately.

Yet go back far enough, we also inherit lineages of wise women healers – known and unknown. These witching ways are our blessings and birthright, an inextinguishable magic rooted in the body, earth, hearth, and wilds.

This workshop is an invitation to come home to yourself, your true voice,  your integral wholeness – together channeling timeless, unbroken lineages of wisdom. We will share in a rhythm of singing, dancing, telling old stories, being in sacred circle and ritual, conjuring magic with the living beauty and elemental power of Hollyhock. Sipping healing brews, crafting with herbs, we commune with the forest, sea, soil and each other.

This is a space to soften into the body and open our wild expression. We will explore sensuousness, eros, and pleasure, tend to our grief and rage, drawing nearer our sources of vitality. Through rest, care, and dreamtime, we reconnect with the subtle language of intuition.

Uplifting the wisdom of the whole, the multiplicity of identities, voices of place, forces of life, seen & unseen, we reweave lifeways of healing folk magic together.

Who This Program is For

• Femmes, women, gender non-conforming, and non-binary 

• Those interested in reclaiming sources of feminine power

• Those interested in cultivating embodied wisdom

What You Will Gain

• A stronger bond with ancestral lineages, folk magic, herbs & ritual craft, with specific practices, songs & gifts to bring home.

• Share deep, authentic connections with others & learn skills of relationship & circle.

• Learn how to open your channels of voice & expression with more confidence and self-trust.

• An integration of your primal wildness, full spectrum of feeling, sensing, knowing.

• The ability to connect more fully with your authentic self, power & magic.

Expected Activities

All activities are choice-based, participants are encouraged to find their own ‘yes’ & ‘no’, follow the truth & needs of their own body.

• Talking circles, creating sacred space & communication tools

• Group & solo ritual practices

• Herbal tea ceremony, herbcraft

• Connection with nature, flowers, time outside in field, forest, garden, beach & sea.

• Singing, vocalization, creative song play.

• Dance & liberatory movement.

• Somatic practices exploring the body, senses, sensuality, pleasure (non-sexual), self-care, body oiling.

• Sacred space to transmute grief & rage.

• Myth, storytelling, guided meditation/journeying.

• Ancestral & lineage exploration, including ancient feminine roots.

• Journaling, solo time, rest.

What people are saying …

“Heather holds space so well. I feel so safe and held with her. I cherish it actually, it’s quite a rare gift.”

“Heather’s insight and compassion create a powerful container for profound exploration. In group settings and one-to-one, Heather has an exceptional ability to bring a spirit of lighthearted freedom and play to the serious business of inner and relational transformation. Her guidance has helped me to identify the stories that hold me back, access my innate wisdom, and move toward more joyous, unencumbered creative expression. If you're seeking a guide on the path to deep personal and artistic growth, I can't recommend Heather highly enough.”

“Heather’s deep holding and compassion for me to embody the truest expression of myself, that deep permission she offers is seeping into all aspects of my life. Working with heather has been a reclamation of who I truly am and who we truly are as humans. Our time together is shaping who I am becoming not just in the aspect of singing but in the aspect of my wholeness as a mother, wife, daughter, sister, granddaughter, niece, cousin and friend. I am deeply thankful to you Heather, for all the powerful space that you hold for us to be able to shine and be heard from the truest place. Deep bows.”

Heather Wolf is a bardic singer, storyteller & musician, True Voice vocal guide, herbal brewer, circle facilitator and ritualist from the islands of the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest. Running through her work is a conviction that folk arts and practices – living within the collective, belonging to the whole, and forming the vital foundation of every healthy culture – help us embody our sacred relations with other humans and the living world.

Heather leads private sessions, retreats, and workshops worldwide, and gives mythopoeic performances of folk song and story with the Appalachian mountain dulcimer. Her work invites us to become more fully alive in the soulfulness of life, and to liberate our creative power, voice, and channels of expression. She uplifts the collective revival of earth-based relationships to create lifeways of more balance and wellbeing for all.

She recently released her debut LP, Midnight Hour, is Lead Trainer for Teen Talking Circles, founder of Brewess Underground herbal mead ritual soirées, and cofounder of artisan fermentation company Iggy’s Alive & Cultured. She studied mythology and cultural anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College & Evergreen State College.