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Many Hands Retreat: A Craft Camp for Making & Being Made


  • Nectar on Bowen 720 Gardner Lane Bowen Island, BC, V0N 1G2 Canada (map)

A 5-day witchy arts + crafts retreat for making things in company

MOnday, November 23 to November 27, 2026

WHERE
Nectar Retreat Yoga on Bowen Island

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Many Hands Retreat brings Mimi back to Bowen Island. The act of making is one of the oldest available forms of return; be it to the body, to attention, to the ordinary pleasure of a thing becoming. Spellwork and ritual knows this too. The work has always been where the two meet.

Many Hands is a five-day arts and crafts retreat at Nectar on Bowen Island for people who are spiritually inclined, and who create, who practice, who carry a great deal and are ready to set some of it down for a few days in the company of others doing the same. Witchcraft and ritual are woven into the shape of the days. They are present for those who want them and invisible to those who don't.

Mimi Young is an occultist, predictions consultant, maker, and founder of Ceremonie.. She holds a design degree from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she has since returned as a guest speaker, and attended an artist residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She owned and operated a quilt business before founding Ceremonie. Her work has been published in print and featured in Vogue and Goop.

Daily morning movement practices, with a focus on yoga for tension relief will be offered by Andrea Clark, founder of Nectar and Mist.


HIGHLIGHTS OF MANY HANDS CRAFT CAMP

  • Hand embroidery

  • Miniature mint tin / matchbox dioramas and collaged paper crafts

  • Relief printing

  • Decorated stationery and letter sets

  • Bookbinding by hand

  • The Charms Box: a collaborative cabinet of curiosities built across the retreat, filled by every person in the room, taken home by each

  • Charm Box preparations and charm assembly

  • Daily animist divination and tea ceremonies

  • Evening “adult camp” circles by the fire telling fun ghost stories

  • Solo time for self-reflection and creative flow

  • Daily functional movement and yoga for stress relief led by Andrea Clark

  • A session of forest bathing and contrast therapy at Mist Thermal Sanctuary

  • Time by a covered fire pit surrounded by the forest

You will leave with a full Charms Box, a rested body and spirit, a few things you m

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