Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
Join us on the weekends for Nectar Yoga on the Pier at Bowen Island Marina! Our outdoor community classes are returning, offering yoga sessions in a natural setting. Experience the beauty of nature as we practice yoga together, surrounded by ocean views, mountains, sunshine, and a supportive community. Our classes follow a flow style and are suitable for practitioners of all levels.
As May unfolds in the Pacific Northwest, nature buzzes and hums. Soft rains give way to blooming wildflowers. Birdsong and frog chorus fill the atmosphere. The days lighten, warm, and stretch out. Hope, renewal, and possibility dance and swirl. The season is an ideal time to turn inward, attune to your heart’s song, and re-emerge. This retreat is an invitation to step away from the demands of your daily living and into a space of deeper awareness and presence. You’ll have the opportunity to listen to your body, soften your mind, and align with the rhythm of the season.
Join Carolyn Anne Budgell for an afternoon retreat - an opportunity to experience the beauty of Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island while immersing yourself in soothing mindfulness practices for an intentional reset. Carolyn will share tools to help you slow down, reconnect to yourself and discover new ways of caring for your nervous system and heart. Through Guided Meditations, Restorative Spa Yoga, Soothing Breathwork and Group Discussions, you’ll leave feeling clearer, calmer and more whole.
This is a rare experience. Practicing Vedic Rounding multiple times a day is an effortless gateway to feeling whole, present, nourished, and surrendered for the entire week. You’ll gain a tool you can use at home, so the retreat isn’t the only place you feel peace. This practice allows you to take everything you experience and transform it into creative and powerful possibilities for your life. Here, we live the frequency that less is truly more—just as Mother Nature teaches us. You won’t lose your success; in fact, you’ll become more successful. You won’t need to stop fighting for what you care about most—you’ll learn how to do it with more efficiency, potency, and ease.
Over three days on Bowen Island, you’ll unwind through Breathwork, Pilates, Yoga, and somatic movement—practices that regulate your nervous system, restore your energy, and reconnect you to your body’s natural rhythm. You’ll also move through The Mist Experience, a private 90-minute hydrotherapy circuit reserved exclusively for our group, designed to support deep rest and reset.
Join Madelyn Mulvaney, Luminous Studios Founder, on a playful wellness retreat exploring a creative weekend at Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island in the sensual and joyful month of May. Connect to your own beautiful soulful self, enjoy a little restorative pleasure and elevate your social wellbeing by connecting to a cheery creative community. Explore practices intended to re-awaken a connection to inner joy in the most 'springtime' way.
This reflective, expressive retreat blends breath-led yoga, journaling, writing prompts, and mixed-media art inspired by Gemini’s love of story and duality.
A gentle opening movement practice brings awareness to breath and curiosity. From there, you’ll explore poetry, journaling, and intuitive writing as gateways into image-making. Collage, printmaking, and text-layering techniques invite playfulness and experimentation.
Step into the heart-expanding practice of Bhakti Kirtan, a devotional chanting experience that connects us through sound, stillness, and community. In this 90-minute gathering, we begin with grounding breathwork and mindfulness before easing into a call-and-response mantra practice. Most mantras are chanted in Sanskrit, the ancient language of Yoga.
There’s something about this place — the quiet hum of the forest, the rhythm of the ocean, the way time seems to slow the moment you arrive. This retreat is an invitation to settle into that stillness. To breathe a little deeper. To remember what abundance really feels like. Over three days at Nectar Yoga, we’ll move, reflect, and reconnect through grounding yoga flows, mindful journaling, and moments of quiet pause. This is your space to attune to what you’re ready to create, not from effort, but from calm clarity.
You’ll leave feeling lighter. Rooted. Open to receiving what’s meant for you.
Guided by Andrea Clark, this 2-hour session combines conscious breathing techniques, rhythmic movement, and meditative kriyas to regulate your nervous system and support the flow of prana (life force). Whether you’re moving through emotional heaviness or simply seeking renewal, this practice offers a powerful reset. Come as you are and leave feeling more present, more alive, and more connected to the season’s call for expansion.
Nectar is excited to co-create Ceremonial Yin Yoga classes. Harmony Shire has been a certified Yin Yoga Teacher 12 years and a Registered Massage therapist specializing in fascial, craniosacral, visceral and osteopathic modalities for 19. In her classes she weaves the wisdom of her fascial therapies and somatic experience into the traditional long held poses of yin yoga. With her Crystalline Energy training, Harmony helps to weave energetic releases and blockages individually and collectively in the space, holding a sacred container for the medicine of the practice to flow.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
Reconnect with your inner nature through the sacred elements of fire, water, earth, and air in this 3-day immersive yoga and meditation retreat on the lush, serene grounds of Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island. Surrounded by forest, ocean air, and the grounding energy of nature, this retreat offers you the space to slow down, release, and come back into balance—body, mind, and soul.
Join Carolyn Anne Budgell for an afternoon retreat - an opportunity to experience the beauty of Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island while immersing yourself in soothing mindfulness practices for an intentional reset. Carolyn will share tools to help you slow down, reconnect to yourself and discover new ways of caring for your nervous system and heart. Through Guided Meditations, Restorative Spa Yoga, Soothing Breathwork and Group Discussions, you’ll leave feeling clearer, calmer and more whole.
Join Georgie and community in nature for a unique offering as we gather in ceremony for heart-opening cacao and Himalayan Breathwork journey.
Rooted in ancient Himalayan teachings, combining kundalini kriya, breathwork, meditation and mantra these powerful practices work on both the physical and subtle body, supporting the nervous system and reconnecting you to a deeper sense of self, a quiet state of bliss within.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
This retreat is designed to guide you back to your magic—your creative power, fed by connection with yourself and the natural world. In the last breath of spring, we'll spend the days leading up to the summer solstice in deep nourishment: silent mornings, movement, journaling, meditation, yoga nidra, song, expressive arts, group circles, and ceremonies, grounded in reverence for the land and its ancestors. Step back from your daily responsibilities, put your phone away, and let us take good care of you.
Learn new meditation techniques, mind-opening breathwork, and engage in restorative movement practices that bring tranquility and renewal to your being. By intentionally stepping away from speech, technology, and external noise, experience a heightened ability to tune into your heart, access deeper clarity, and forge a more meaningful connection with both yourself and the nature.
Nectar is excited to co-create Ceremonial Yin Yoga classes. Harmony Shire has been a certified Yin Yoga Teacher 12 years and a Registered Massage therapist specializing in fascial, craniosacral, visceral and osteopathic modalities for 19. In her classes she weaves the wisdom of her fascial therapies and somatic experience into the traditional long held poses of yin yoga. With her Crystalline Energy training, Harmony helps to weave energetic releases and blockages individually and collectively in the space, holding a sacred container for the medicine of the practice to flow.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
Time to press pause. Enjoy a balance of introspection through yoga, sound therapy, relaxation and connection with friends on this Bowen Island retreat. This experience will be a link back to your inner self and nature – a space to dream. A humble ground for you to deeply relax. Explore, read, write, draw, rest – do whatever lights your fire. This is your retreat to enjoy as you please.
Join Xochilt over the summer solstice weekend for an immersive journey of mindfulness, thermal spring dips, and daily yoga. Root into the coming season of expansion with the perfect balance of movement and deep rest. This sanctuary offers space and time to be in nature and nourishing meals to help you reconnect and recharge among a wonderful community of like-minded people.
Celebrate the arrival of summer in the warmth of a community summer ceremony at Nectar Retreat Centre. The Summer Solstice marks a special time to honour the sun and receive the generosity of Mother Earth. Led by Nectars creatrix, Andrea, this gathering invites a chance to express gratitude for the season and the evolving rhythms of nature. Andrea will guide you through an all-levels Yin yoga and functional movement class designed to mirror the the longest day of the year, officially welcoming the season of light on this Summer Solstice 2025 evening.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
Carving out space away from our daily routines, retreats invite us into a sacred space of exploration. Through stillness, breathwork & movement practices, we cultivate a grounded sense of being. This retreat is an opportunity to mindfully reset as we open to receive the changing of seasons.
Step into the heart-expanding practice of Bhakti Kirtan, a devotional chanting experience that connects us through sound, stillness, and community. In this 90-minute gathering, we begin with grounding breathwork and mindfulness before easing into a call-and-response mantra practice. Most mantras are chanted in Sanskrit, the ancient language of Yoga.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
Join Carolyn Anne Budgell for an afternoon retreat - an opportunity to experience the beauty of Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island while immersing yourself in soothing mindfulness practices for an intentional reset. Carolyn will share tools to help you slow down, reconnect to yourself and discover new ways of caring for your nervous system and heart. Through Guided Meditations, Restorative Spa Yoga, Soothing Breathwork and Group Discussions, you’ll leave feeling clearer, calmer and more whole.
Set against a stunning natural backdrop at Nectar on Bowen Island, this restful getaway invites you to slow down and restore through Grounding Spa Yoga, calming Breathwork, and Mindful presence. We'll honour the wisdom of summer—creating space to reflect, reset and reconnect.
Through a blend of Slow and Restorative Yoga, Guided Meditation, Breath Awareness, and contemplative practices, you'll be supported in softening the edges, releasing what no longer serves, and listening more deeply to your inner rhythms.
Led by Andrea Clark, this two-hour practice blends solar plexus tapping, heart-opening movement, and Lion’s Breath to release stuck energy and awaken your inner light. You’ll begin with gentle breathwork and somatic practices to cool the body and regulate the nervous system, then slowly move into energizing kriyas and breath to activate the solar plexus and heart.
This nurturing art and yoga retreat honours Cancer’s themes of home, memory, and nourishment through slow movement, breathwork, and the creation of clay vessels. Following a gentle, heart-forward yoga sequence, you’ll move into hand-forming Japanese-style tea cups—simple, handle-less, deeply personal. Using impressions from botanicals gathered on Nectar’s land, each vessel becomes a container for memory and belonging.
Surrounded by ancient forests, clear lakes & majestic mountains, this immersive experience is designed for grounding into presence, awakening deep inner peace and finding true refuge within. This retreat offers daily yoga, breath and meditation practices, nourishing plant based meals, mindful outdoor excursions, beautiful cozy accommodations, and a special thermal experience.
This is a day designed for delight — for slowing down just enough to savour it, while staying light, playful, and connected. It’s an invitation to spend a beautiful summer day immersed in nature, creativity, and community. No overthinking, no striving — just space to enjoy, explore, and be together.
Step into the heart-expanding practice of Bhakti Kirtan, a devotional chanting experience that connects us through sound, stillness, and community. In this 90-minute gathering, we begin with grounding breathwork and mindfulness before easing into a call-and-response mantra practice. Most mantras are chanted in Sanskrit, the ancient language of Yoga.
Surrounded by forest, fresh air, and wide open space, we gather at Nectar to slow down, move our bodies, share good food, and enjoy meaningful connection. This is time to listen inward, be supported by community, and remember the joy of simply being present. Through yoga, nature, and shared experience, we create space for rest, renewal, and genuine connection—leaving feeling lighter, more grounded, and deeply nourished. Expect to begin each day with an invigorating Vinyasa flow filled with breath, movement, and joy.
Join Ally Boothroyd and Kristyn Rose for a transformative retreat at Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island — a sanctuary where forest meets ocean and the soul finds stillness. These seasonal gatherings are an invitation to slow down and return to balance through yoga, meditation, and the wisdom of nature. Each day unfolds gently with breath and movement in the luminous yoga dome beneath the canopy of cedar and fir. Through Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and Ayurveda-inspired practices, we explore grounding, renewal, and connection to the rhythms of the earth.
Join Carolyn Anne Budgell for an afternoon retreat - an opportunity to experience the beauty of Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island while immersing yourself in soothing mindfulness practices for an intentional reset. Carolyn will share tools to help you slow down, reconnect to yourself and discover new ways of caring for your nervous system and heart. Through Guided Meditations, Restorative Spa Yoga, Soothing Breathwork and Group Discussions, you’ll leave feeling clearer, calmer and more whole.
Unwind with the soothing power of crystal healing bowls, guided breathwork, yin yoga and yoga nidra, designed to balance your nervous system and promote deep relaxation. These transformative sound bath sessions incorporate Solfeggio frequencies and other healing tones to promote sound healing, while also guiding you through breathwork that builds resilience and reduces stress.
Evolve Retreats was founded with the intention of helping you bring more fulfillment and clarity into your life. It’s so easy to get caught up in daily routines and lose sight of what truly matters. We bring together a community of like-minded individuals to create meaningful connections, all while supporting your personal growth and self-reflection. Through practices like yoga, meditation, journaling, workshops, and adventures, we offer a safe and nurturing space to explore who you are and who you have yet to become.
Set against a stunning natural backdrop at Nectar on Bowen Island, this restful getaway invites you to slow down and restore through Grounding Spa Yoga, calming Breathwork, and Mindful presence. We'll honour the end of summer—creating space to pause, restore and replenish. Through a blend of Slow and Restorative Yoga, Guided Meditation, Breath Awareness, and contemplative practices, you'll be supported in softening the edges, releasing what no longer serves, and listening more deeply to your inner rhythms.
Step into a retreat designed to help you slow down, move mindfully, and reconnect with yourself. This all-inclusive experience focuses on the art of just being - giving you space to pause, reflect, and tune into what matters most. Join us at Nectar Retreat Centre for a few sunshine filled days of movement, mindfulness, and self-discovery, and leave feeling clearer, calmer, and more present.
Join Carolyn Anne Budgell for an afternoon retreat - an opportunity to experience the beauty of Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island while immersing yourself in soothing mindfulness practices for an intentional reset. Carolyn will share tools to help you slow down, reconnect to yourself and discover new ways of caring for your nervous system and heart. Through Guided Meditations, Restorative Spa Yoga, Soothing Breathwork and Group Discussions, you’ll leave feeling clearer, calmer and more whole.
This retreat is thoughtfully curated so you can experience the beauty and magic these lands have to offer while preparing to start fresh under the sturgeon moon. Justin and Leah have poured their hearts into creating one epic retreat that will challenge you, expand you, and hold space for lifelong friendships to take root. Get ready to reawaken your senses and be nourished by the whispers of the wind that surround you.
Join Andrea Clark, for a somatic practice to consciously release what’s been stored in the body and mind. This evening gathering weaves together somatic shaking, EFT tapping, and restorative yoga to regulate the nervous system and support emotional release. Through movement, stillness, and inner inquiry, you’ll be guided to let go, physically, energetically, and spiritually. Leave feeling lighter, clearer, and more attuned to your own seasonal rhythm.
Grief lives in the body. It arrives not only through loss, but through love, transition, and the unmet hopes we quietly carry. Touching the Bruise is a one-day grief retreat co-facilitated by Andrea Clark, co-founder of Nectar Retreat and Mist Thermal, and Chloe Hunter, a Threshold Doula and ritual guide who supports life’s sacred beginnings and endings.
Step into the heart-expanding practice of Bhakti Kirtan, a devotional chanting experience that connects us through sound, stillness, and community. In this 90-minute gathering, we begin with grounding breathwork and mindfulness before easing into a call-and-response mantra practice. Most mantras are chanted in Sanskrit, the ancient language of Yoga.
The Rites of the Priestess is a six-day ceremonial immersion held in sacred sisterhood on the wild shores of Bowen Island. Rooted in ancient feminine wisdom, this retreat invites you to cross the threshold into your own remembering. The Priestess is she who walks between words — the seen and the unseen, the magick and the mundane. When a woman remembers the ancient rhythms within her, and her ability to be at this threshold, healing begins — not just for herself, but for all she touches.
Take your passion for yoga to beautiful new places. From the mountains to the ocean and everywhere in between, our retreats invite you to slow down, breathe deeply, and reconnect with what matters. Each experience is thoughtfully curated to help you dive inward, to soften into rest, and to release what no longer serves you. We welcome like-minded people from all walks of life, creating a warm space where meaningful conversations, shared laughter, and deep connections naturally unfold. This is your time to explore, replenish, and return home to yourself.
Learn new meditation techniques, mind-opening breathwork, and engage in restorative movement practices that bring tranquility and renewal to your being. By intentionally stepping away from speech, technology, and external noise, experience a heightened ability to tune into your heart, access deeper clarity, and forge a more meaningful connection with both yourself and the nature.
A space to ground, release and renew as summer turns to fall. This retreat is a turning inward and deep reflection through gentle asana of Hatha-Raja, Yin, Pranayama, myth and mantra. With Nourishing meals, walks in the woods and meditations to create grounding, spaciousness and renewal in helping align with the slower, reflective rhythm of autumn.
We are transitioning from the illuminated Summer season and waning towards the darker days of Fall. The inherent shifts that are happening all around us are becoming more visible each day. If we listen and become more attuned, we can also witness an echoing of the seasonal rhythms occurring within us. This gathering led by Nectar Creatrix, Andrea, will offer you the opportunity to slow down, move in communal space, feel the vibration of sound, and relax.
Nestled in the heart of Bowen Island, the 2026 Return to the Wild Retreat marries nature with craft for five inspiring days of immersive storytelling and connection.
Return to the Wild goes beyond a typical writing retreat. It offers a full immersion in the land through local wisdom, as well as creating an inclusive, mindful, and inspiring space for writers to elevate their craft and reconnect to their creative spirit through a nature-centered perspective. This retreat is guided by published authors and industry experts.
Movement Method is a science-backed approach that weaves together Postural Restoration, mobility work, and Vinyasa Yoga - transforming therapeutic exercises into an engaging, feel-good experience. Over the weekend, you’ll experience immersive learning that will reshape your understanding of movement and your yoga practice, balanced with deep rest, nourishing meals, and plenty of time in nature among a wonderful community of like-minded people.
Join Carolyn Anne Budgell for an afternoon retreat - an opportunity to experience the beauty of Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island while immersing yourself in soothing mindfulness practices for an intentional reset. Carolyn will share tools to help you slow down, reconnect to yourself and discover new ways of caring for your nervous system and heart. Through Guided Meditations, Restorative Spa Yoga, Soothing Breathwork and Group Discussions, you’ll leave feeling clearer, calmer and more whole.
Step into the heart-expanding practice of Bhakti Kirtan, a devotional chanting experience that connects us through sound, stillness, and community. In this 90-minute gathering, we begin with grounding breathwork and mindfulness before easing into a call-and-response mantra practice. Most mantras are chanted in Sanskrit, the ancient language of Yoga.
There are so many barriers that separate writers from the publishing industry. With so much conflicting information from people who claim to hold the key to your success, it's almost impossible to parse what's what these days. What's a writer with a dream to do?
This retreat is designed to demolish those barriers and dull the noise with three literary agents who have been in the industry collectively for nearly 30 years—this is where you can collect and workshop all of the very best knowledge we have to offer. Not only that, but you'll make connections with industry pros you might never meet otherwise.
Unwind with the soothing power of crystal healing bowls, guided breathwork, yin yoga and yoga nidra, designed to balance your nervous system and promote deep relaxation. These transformative sound bath sessions incorporate Solfeggio frequencies and other healing tones to promote sound healing, while also guiding you through breathwork that builds resilience and reduces stress.
Join us for a guided workshop exploring the depth and healing potential of Ashtanga Yoga. The sequences provide a foundation from which you can build your own personal practice, honoring your unique body, mind, and experiences. This workshop is open to all levels from beginners to advanced practitioners.
Evolve Retreats are here to support you in cultivating greater clarity and fulfillment in your life. In the rhythm of everyday routines, it’s easy to lose touch with what truly matters. Our retreats offer space to reconnect with what lights you up and rediscover your sense of purpose through embodied yoga, practices that extend beyond the mat, nature-immersed adventures, intentional rest, and meaningful connections that turn into lifelong friendships and memories.
Join Carolyn Anne Budgell for an afternoon retreat - an opportunity to experience the beauty of Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island while immersing yourself in soothing mindfulness practices for an intentional reset. Carolyn will share tools to help you slow down, reconnect to yourself and discover new ways of caring for your nervous system and heart. Through Guided Meditations, Restorative Spa Yoga, Soothing Breathwork and Group Discussions, you’ll leave feeling clearer, calmer and more whole.
Guided by Andrea Clark, this two-hour restorative class supports the lower back and reproductive area through gentle, floor-based postures, breathwork, and subtle somatic cues. You'll be guided through a yoga nidra practice, a restful, imaginal journey to connect with ancestral memory, intuition, and the wisdom that lives below the surface.
This weekend retreat is an invitation to reconnect with yourself through intentional movement, mindfulness, and relaxation. You’ll spend the weekend recharging through intentionally moving your bodies through yoga and pilates, breathwork, contrast therapy with sauna and cold plunging, meditation, spending time in nature, eating nourishing food and more.
Step into the heart-expanding practice of Bhakti Kirtan, a devotional chanting experience that connects us through sound, stillness, and community. In this 90-minute gathering, we begin with grounding breathwork and mindfulness before easing into a call-and-response mantra practice. Most mantras are chanted in Sanskrit, the ancient language of Yoga.
Join Ally Boothroyd and Kristyn Rose for a transformative retreat at Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island — a sanctuary where forest meets ocean and the soul finds stillness. These seasonal gatherings are an invitation to slow down and return to balance through yoga, meditation, and the wisdom of nature. Each day unfolds gently with breath and movement in the luminous yoga dome beneath the canopy of cedar and fir. Through Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and Ayurveda-inspired practices, we explore grounding, renewal, and connection to the rhythms of the earth.
A transformative half-day retreat combining somatic movement, grounding breathwork, guided writing, and Kintsugi-inspired art. We begin with a slow, stabilizing yoga practice to support the body as it moves toward inner depth. Through guided journaling, you’ll write a letter to love or loss, held gently before being released in a communal fire ritual. In the art session, you’ll create Kintsugi-inspired collage boards using ash, ink tones, and gold accents—honouring the beauty of repair and the power of rebirth.
You’re invited to set down the pressure, the pace, and the noise of daily life. Here, surrounded by nature and held by a caring, like-hearted community, you’ll reconnect with the joy that lives beneath the surface of everything you do. Through mindful movement, nourishing rituals, joyful workshops, and the simple beauty of spaciousness, you’ll rediscover your spark and gently rekindle the flame within — because joy doesn’t need to be chased, only remembered.
This weekend retreat is an invitation to reconnect with yourself through intentional movement, mindfulness, and relaxation. You’ll spend the weekend recharging through intentionally moving your bodies through yoga and pilates, breathwork, contrast therapy with sauna and cold plunging, meditation, spending time in nature, eating nourishing food and more.
Join Carolyn Anne Budgell for an afternoon retreat - an opportunity to experience the beauty of Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island while immersing yourself in soothing mindfulness practices for an intentional reset. Carolyn will share tools to help you slow down, reconnect to yourself and discover new ways of caring for your nervous system and heart. Through Guided Meditations, Restorative Spa Yoga, Soothing Breathwork and Group Discussions, you’ll leave feeling clearer, calmer and more whole.
Unwind with the soothing power of crystal healing bowls, guided breathwork, yin yoga and yoga nidra, designed to balance your nervous system and promote deep relaxation. These transformative sound bath sessions incorporate Solfeggio frequencies and other healing tones to promote sound healing, while also guiding you through breathwork that builds resilience and reduces stress.
Nestled in Howe Sound, a fjord northwest of Vancouver, Bowen Island is where she hopes to share the rhythms of the fog and the firs with you. This is a retreat led by nature, to explore your edges in challenge and movement, in stillness and rest, so that you can return to our own steady rhythms. Among coastal rain, ancient trees, and the grey hush of the Pacific Northwest, the world feels closer, slower, and more alive. This retreat is a place for thoughtful humans living full lives to pause, restore, and resource. A return to yourself, and remembering how.
Grief lives in the body. It arrives not only through loss, but through love, transition, and the unmet hopes we quietly carry. Touching the Bruise is a one-day grief retreat co-facilitated by Andrea Clark, co-founder of Nectar Retreat and Mist Thermal, and Chloe Hunter, a Threshold Doula and ritual guide who supports life’s sacred beginnings and endings.
Mimi Young and Andrea Clark are excited to offer a new retreat this year: The act of making is one of the oldest available forms of return: to the body, to attention, to the ordinary pleasure of a thing becoming.
Many Hands is a five-day arts and crafts retreat at Nectar on Bowen for people who create, who practice, who carry a great deal and are in need of refreshment; who are ready to set some of it down for a few days in the company of others doing the same.
Step away from the rush of everyday life and gift yourself the space to slow down, reflect on this quiet meditation retreat. Over 3 days and 2 nights, we will explore many types of Meditation, Mindfulness, and Breathing practices to give the entire system a gentle reset.
Guided by Carolyn, you’ll be immersed into an easeful sense of quiet with her most cherished Mindfulness practices—all thoughtfully woven together. The entire experience will fill you with all the grounding and solitude (in a supportive group environment) you seek.
Join Carolyn Anne Budgell for an afternoon retreat - an opportunity to experience the beauty of Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island while immersing yourself in soothing mindfulness practices for an intentional reset. Carolyn will share tools to help you slow down, reconnect to yourself and discover new ways of caring for your nervous system and heart. Through Guided Meditations, Restorative Spa Yoga, Soothing Breathwork and Group Discussions, you’ll leave feeling clearer, calmer and more whole.
Join us for a transformative 4-night Silent Retreat at Nectar. Align with the quietude of the late Autumn season, fostering inner gentleness and intuitive insight. Experience the beauty of the forest here on Nexwlélexwm (Bowen Island), as you immerse yourself in silence and simplification, allowing yourself the gift of conscious deceleration. This retreat invites you to disconnect from any electronic devices, creating space for a deeper connection with nature, yourself, and the present moment.
Join Carolyn Anne Budgell for an afternoon retreat - an opportunity to experience the beauty of Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island while immersing yourself in soothing mindfulness practices for an intentional reset. Carolyn will share tools to help you slow down, reconnect to yourself and discover new ways of caring for your nervous system and heart. Through Guided Meditations, Restorative Spa Yoga, Soothing Breathwork and Group Discussions, you’ll leave feeling clearer, calmer and more whole.
The term "solstice" originates from the Latin words “sol”, meaning "sun," and “sistere”, meaning "to stand still." During this significant time, the sun's path appears to pause. Gathering in Nectar’s geodesic dome, each participant will be invited to reflect on their journey from the Summer Solstice to the arrival of Winter. Through gentle functional movement and an invigorating pranayama practice (yogic breathing), we will step into deeper relaxation with the meditative vibrations of a crystal bowl sound bath, concluding with shared written intentions and a communal bonfire.
Learn new meditation techniques, mind-opening breathwork, and engage in restorative movement practices that bring tranquility and renewal to your being. By intentionally stepping away from speech, technology, and external noise, experience a heightened ability to tune into your heart, access deeper clarity, and forge a more meaningful connection with both yourself and the nature.
Join Carolyn in a comprehensive 5 day course at Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island, designed to help you explore the profound benefits of breathwork for both personal wellness and professional application. Dive deep into the when, where, and how of various breathwork practices, including techniques for both down-regulating and activating the nervous system to achieve optimal health.
Enjoy an afternoon with Cheyenne Merlo for a day retreat designed to make you feel refreshed and connected. Intentionally set in nature, you'll spend the day moving through yoga, pilates, mindfulness and meditation. Nectar Yoga is a scandinavian inspired retreat centre, just a 20 minute ferry ride from Horseshoe Bay! It’s one of Vancouver’s best kept secrets. You can expect an incredible venue, curated music, a balance of sweat and stillness - a lighthearted yet grounding experience. You will feel a sense of energy, inspiration and groundedness after your Day Retreat.
Movement Method is a science-backed approach that weaves together Postural Restoration, mobility work, and Vinyasa Yoga - transforming therapeutic exercises into an engaging, feel-good experience. Over the weekend, you’ll experience immersive learning that will reshape your understanding of movement and your yoga practice, balanced with deep rest, nourishing meals, and plenty of time in nature among a wonderful community of like-minded people.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
Step into the heart-expanding practice of Bhakti Kirtan, a devotional chanting experience that connects us through sound, stillness, and community. In this 90-minute gathering, we begin with grounding breathwork and mindfulness before easing into a call-and-response mantra practice. Most mantras are chanted in Sanskrit, the ancient language of Yoga.
Join Carolyn Anne Budgell for an afternoon retreat - an opportunity to experience the beauty of Nectar Yoga on Bowen Island while immersing yourself in soothing mindfulness practices for an intentional reset. Carolyn will share tools to help you slow down, reconnect to yourself and discover new ways of caring for your nervous system and heart. Through Guided Meditations, Restorative Spa Yoga, Soothing Breathwork and Group Discussions, you’ll leave feeling clearer, calmer and more whole.
Recalibrate, Release, and Renew: Each day offers a Rare Method™ experience—an immersive blend of somatic-informed movement, dynamic breath, intentional pause, and transformative self-inquiry. Through these practices, you’ll be invited to soften patterns of tension, shake off what’s heavy, and reconnect to your natural rhythm. Here, release isn’t forced—it’s allowed—and renewal unfolds naturally.
Step away from the rush of everyday life and gift yourself the space to slow down, reflect on this quiet meditation retreat. Over 3 days and 2 nights, we will explore many types of Meditation, Mindfulness, and Breathing practices to give the entire system a gentle reset. Guided by Carolyn, you’ll be immersed into an easeful sense of quiet with her most cherished Mindfulness practices—all thoughtfully woven together.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
Join Georgie and community in nature for a unique offering as we gather in ceremony for heart-opening cacao and Himalayan Breathwork journey.
Rooted in ancient Himalayan teachings, combining kundalini kriya, breathwork, meditation and mantra these powerful practices work on both the physical and subtle body, supporting the nervous system and reconnecting you to a deeper sense of self, a quiet state of bliss within.
Learn new meditation techniques, mind-opening breathwork, and engage in restorative movement practices that bring tranquility and renewal to your being. By intentionally stepping away from speech, technology, and external noise, experience a heightened ability to tune into your heart, access deeper clarity, and forge a more meaningful connection with both yourself and the nature.
It's time to create more space in your life. Akasha Rising is a retreat about opening the door to stillness. To a room where clarity arises when we pause long enough to listen, deeply. From the heart of Bowen Island’s forest, where stillness and breath meet the wisdom of nature, we’ll explore how the 5 elements present themselves as archetypes to our own lived experiences.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
Nectar is excited to co-create Ceremonial Yin Yoga classes. Harmony Shire has been a certified Yin Yoga Teacher 12 years and a Registered Massage therapist specializing in fascial, craniosacral, visceral and osteopathic modalities for 19. In her classes she weaves the wisdom of her fascial therapies and somatic experience into the traditional long held poses of yin yoga. With her Crystalline Energy training, Harmony helps to weave energetic releases and blockages individually and collectively in the space, holding a sacred container for the medicine of the practice to flow.
The Return to Center Retreat will include a mix of classes grounded in movement to facilitate self expression and restoration. There will be time and space to connect with other attendees or your own individual time to do what your heart has been yearning to do. The sessions facilitated by Monique and will support attendees feeling rested while also encouraged to reintegrate into their daily lives afterwards. This retreat is available and welcomes anyone with varying degrees of yoga practice. Whether you've ever attended a yoga class or not, please know you'll be well supported!
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
Celebrate the Spring Equinox, a powerful moment of balance, renewal, and new beginnings, on serene Bowen Island. This immersive retreat invites you to pause, step away from daily busyness, and reconnect with yourself, your body, and the natural world as the season shifts toward growth and light.
Join Nectar Retreat Centre’s creatrix, Andrea, in celebrating the Spring Equinox—a sacred day that honours our relationship with the Earth and Sun, symbolizing balance between light and dark, marking the transition into the warmer seasons. Gather in Nectar's geodesic dome to explore themes of creativity, flow, renewal, and release through movement and vibration.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
The emergence of spring equinox awakens our systems in relation to the plants in our environment. The unfurling of Qi from our winter slumber has our Liver tissues stimulated and our digestive systems stirring their fluids raising our yang energies.
Enjoy an afternoon with Cheyenne Merlo for a day retreat designed to make you feel refreshed and connected. Intentionally set in nature, you'll spend the day moving through yoga, pilates, mindfulness and meditation. Nectar Yoga is a scandinavian inspired retreat centre, just a 20 minute ferry ride from Horseshoe Bay! It’s one of Vancouver’s best kept secrets. You can expect an incredible venue, curated music, a balance of sweat and stillness - a lighthearted yet grounding experience. You will feel a sense of energy, inspiration and groundedness after your Day Retreat.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
Approaching the full moon in Virgo, The Worm Moon, we are asked to feel the ground, the support of Pachamama in her sweet infinite abundance of supportive healing energy to help us 'clean up' our physical/emotional/and spiritual spaces. Our spring cleaning begins within, with breath, with feeling, as a witness to the unfolding and a surrender to the release of our grip to what no longer serves our wholeness. What have you been storing within you that may be asking to be free? Let the medicine of the worm serve us in our practice as an alchemical ally in recycling old patterns into new growth.
Set against a stunning natural backdrop at Nectar on Bowen Island, this restful getaway invites you to slow down and restore through Grounding Spa Yoga, calming Breathwork, and Mindful presence. We'll honour the quiet wisdom of winter’s end—creating space to reflect, reset, and reconnect before the energy of spring awakens.
Through a blend of Slow and Restorative Yoga, Guided Meditation, Breath Awareness, and contemplative practices, you'll be supported in softening the edges, releasing what no longer serves, and listening more deeply to your inner rhythms.
Led by Andrea Clark, this class combines breathwork, lymphatic-based movement and abhyanga self-massage, followed by a slow yoga flow and foot release using massage balls. Inspired by the elemental energies of air (Aquarius) and water (Pisces), you’ll be supported to clear mental fog, improve lymphatic drainage, and root into quiet inner flow.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
Join Deviki (Jennifer Henderson) for a transformational evening exploring the ancient tantric practices of vibration, sound, and voice. Drawing from the Non-Dual Śiva Tantra tradition, specifically the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra, a foundational text translated and taught by Dr. Christopher (Hareesh) Wallis, this immersion offers a direct and embodied doorway into the recognition of consciousness as your true nature. Those familiar with The Radiance Sutras by Loren Roche may recognize resonant themes and practices derived from the same source material.
A soothing mindfulness retreat to acknowledge recent learnings and cultivate more curiosity. Time in nature is always incredibly grounding and healing. Resting is crucial for the nervous system and for the heart. Come soak it up & feel whole again. Join Carolyn for a day retreat of soothing spa yoga, breathwork, meditation and introspection - a perfect mini getaway to Nectar Yoga, on Bowen Island.
Start your week with intention. This intuitive and energizing all-levels flow in our geodesic dome is designed to bring clarity to the mind and steadiness to the body, a grounded beginning to your Monday. Guided by Abby Barker.
