MUSTANG LIONHEART - A Movement|Dance Retreat at Stowel Lake Farm

LIONHEART Retreat at Stowel Lake Farm

Come revive your wild.

Join me for a long weekend retreat, where we’ll step away from the world to the spectacular Stowel Lake Farm located on Salt Spring Island, BC. Here, we’ll steep in nature, nourish our bodies with farm-fresh food, and move together in sun-soaked spaces. Experience nature, growth, and community in an unforgettable setting.

We can learn to be wild and fierce and break free of our self-imposed limitations.

We can learn to heed our inner truth and follow our instincts.

We can learn to push out our comfort zone and allow new freedom.

We can learn to feel our emotions and be generous in expressing our hearts.

This takes small and big acts of brave.

This takes a Mustang Lionheart.

The experience

A special experience, both wild and soft, we’ll create space to move, to breathe, for unbridled play—all designed to recharge your mind and body, and restore balance and calm.

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 movement | dance sessions with Anne Marie and guest 5Rhythms teachers (using the catalytic 5Rhythms dance | embodiment practice ) - no experience required
• Five nights in the accommodation of your choice
• Fourteen delicious, vegetarian meals (including one westcoast fish evening) 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. 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

June 27, 2024 to July 2, 2024 (Thurs. to Tues.)

5 nights | 6 days

Check-in is between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. on June 27. (Dinner at 6:00 p.m.)

Check-out is by 1:30 p.m. on July 2. (Lunch at 12:00 p.m.)

Pricing + registration

• Register here 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 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)

• Room selection is on a first come basis.

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

• $2750 CAD

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

• $2520 CAD

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

• $2175 CAD
• 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)

• $1720 CAD

*Please note that all cancellations will incur a $150 administration fee. Cancellations after May 1st 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 June 10th.

Sample schedule of a retreat day

8:30am Breakfast

10:00am Morning Session

12:30pm Lunch and Break

3:30pm Afternoon Session (some days unstructured free time)

6:00pm Dinner

7:30pm Evening Session

*Retreat Sessions can include: Dance and Movement exploration (adapted to all levels and abilities) which offers a somatic embodiment journey into ourselves | Instruction in the 5Rhythms Movement Practice | Writing | Reflection | Partner and Group Sharing and Connections | Community Evening Gatherings. Any of the sessions can be free time to wander and explore the Farm or Salt Spring Island.

*A wide-ranging selection of phenomenal music is played that encourages a body (and heart) to move. Silent Disco Headphones are available if you want to dance outdoors, control your own volume and still hear the music and the facilitation.

*About the 5Rhythms™: The 5Rhythms is a dynamic movement practice—a body-based awareness practice—that ignites creativity, connection and community. The 5 Rhythms–Flowing Staccato Chaos Lyrical Stillness®–are states of Being and exploring them can lead us back to our real, vulnerable, wild, passionate and instinctive self. The 5Rhythms practice was created and developed by artist, theatre director and author Gabrielle Roth. I started studying and training with Gabrielle Roth in 2001 and have been immersed in this catalytic practice for over two decades. I am accredited to teach both the physical (Waves) and emotional (Heartbeat) maps of the 5Rhythms.

*This retreat counts towards Waves and Heartbeat pre-requisites on the 5Rhythms Teacher Training path.

Words From Past Mustangers

“This retreat was absolutely amazing and and the location (omg)! Being cared about in community, it was my first time to feel this. Thank you for creating this incredible space.”

"I think it should be mandatory to being a human on earth to be able to experience this work."

“This was an amazing retreat…it was the entire package: farm, people, music, interactions…every exquisite moment.”

“I loved all of it! Loved the music, loved the location, loved my room, loved the food. Sign me up!”

“It was awesome. A lovely group of people. It felt safe, easeful, fun and inclusive.”

“5Rhythms + AnneMarieHogya + StowelLakeFarm = AWESOME!”

“I loved your authenticity and vulnerability as a presenter. Thanks for being such role model of authenticity. So great to process emotions and also involve the body and cultivate freedom and joy.”

“Huge thanks to Anne Marie and the team for a magical, magnificent retreat! I’m feeling so alive and I’m finding the magic in life again. It was awesome!”

“I really enjoyed the spontaneous, intuitive nature of your facilitation, Anne Marie, I would ABSOLUTELY come again!”

“It was cathartic, an incredible release. This was such a beautiful and freeing experience. I feel more spacious, free, wild.”

“I’ve never done 5Rhythms before and this seemed like a perfect opportunity to learn a new way of moving my body. Also the theme of Mustang and untethering my wild is fantastic!”

“It was an unmissable opportunity to get back into my body after years of sedentary rest. I didn't expect it to be transformative and experience the belonging, the connection and release too. I am full of gratitude.”

“The inclusion, acknowledgement and encouragement was so life giving. I realized how isolated and disconnected I had become and the incredible medicine of moving my body. You have a mastery in facilitating the process, guiding the energy, trusting. I like you, admire and respect you and love you for real. Thank you!”

“I was in awe the full retreat.”

"Anne Marie, I am so grateful for the space and experience you provided for me/us to do my healing work ❤️. I feel more balanced and whole than I have felt in a long time. I remembered who I am, what I am, and am back on a good track. Thank you from the deepest place in my soul.”

“Thank you for all your beauty, wildness and skill. My heart is open, tender and pulsing.”

“It was VERY nourishing on many levels. The chance to dance and to rest and to be in such a beautiful place.”

“You have a unique, open, available, comfortable-in-your-own-skin, generous, so here, way of leading a group that creates more trust and openness than what I’ve experienced before.”

“It was the sum total of the experience - the dancing, writing, eating, conversations, connection, and the amazing music - and with your leadership, heart and instincts creating the container. I would absolutely recommend because of YOU!”

“It's been a long time (over 22 years I think) since I've done a retreat and it was a wonderful experience. Dancing sure beats silent meditation retreats; and the biggest takeaway for me is to look for more “movement" opportunities. I would recommend attending any workshop/retreat or event with you because you are an AWESOME facilitator.”

"Thank you so much for this magic! I'm so grateful to be a part of it!!"

“It was the sum total of the experience - the dancing, writing, eating, conversations, connection, and the amazing music - and with your leadership, heart and instincts creating the container. I would absolutely recommend because of YOU!”

“Thank you for the care you put into crafting these immersive experiences, from planning and logistics to music and dancing, to holding space for all the emotions that come up in so many people. Your warm, direct, honest vulnerable shares and teaching style resonate deeply.”

“I am so grateful for the retreats I have experienced with you - invigorating, cathartic, restful and restorative.”