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Workshops, Events, Retreats

Yoga + Qigong

Workshops, Events, Retreats

Alchemical Qigong Series

Redesign your health through movement by learning TCM’s (Traditional Chinese Medicine) frameworks for the 5 elements, generating + controlling cycles, differentiating bodily tissues, and working with pathogenic factors in your qigong practice.

Land in a cohort of practitioners that share your values of authenticity, vulnerability, honesty, healing.

Embody all of this in the movements of the Shi Ba Shi qigong sequence.

Resolve trauma by layering these practices with the principles of somatic therapy. Understand the dynamics of what is held, how it’s held by the body + techniques to release… all woven into fabric of qigong.

🗓️ Jan 14 – Mar 4, Wednesdays 5:30-6:30pm
📍 Glow Creation Studio, or
🖥️ Virtual attendance
🎖️ Certified for 10-hrs of continuing education under Yoga Alliance

Tuition: $168

Ethereal Matters

Manifest with the timing of the lunar new year and equinox energy. Learn about the importance of karma (law of cause and effect) and samskara (mental + energetic imprints) which create context to understand the best conditions for you. Practice with your chakras (energetic centres) in a realistic way that is connected with your own + the collective context.

Create good relationships between emotion, energy, ether, and matter to support big dreams in your physical being.

This course includes:

  • An opening circle live on zoom* Feb 10 at 7-8:15am
  • Daily 20-minute practice (pre-recorded)
  • A weekly live zoom practice* (Tuesdays Feb 17-Mar 17 at 7-8:15am)
  • A closing circle live on zoom* Mar 20 at 7-8:15am
  • Practice buddy/small group connection for support + accountability

*All zooms will be recorded for playback later.
You will have access to all videos for 1 year minimum

It is highly encouraged that you attend all zoom practice session live, to create maximum benefit for you and the group. You are not expected to have “perfect” attendance (life happens), but there is a strong intention to be present for live zoom sessions.

🗓️ Feb 9 – Mar 20 (preparing for the Lunar New Year and the Energetic New Year
📍 Virtual on Somawell
🎖️ Certified for 18-hrs of continuing education under Yoga Alliance

Tuition: $158

Bali Pilgrimage

Walking with Spirit, Mar22-29, 2026

The retreat includes:

  • Visits to local healers and sacred spaces
  • Cultural collaboration + learning
  • Nourishing, fresh meals
  • Daily meditation, qigong + yoga classes
  • Talking circles to welcome emotion
  • Yin integration for accessing deeper states of rest
  • Community acupuncture, breathwork + sound healing

Preparation:

  • Before embarking to Bali, there will be 2 zoom workshops. Each workshop is led by one of the facilitators to share about how to best prepare for the healing work being shared on the lands of the Balinese people.

Integration

  • After returning from Bali, you will have the opportunity for 1-1 sessions with each of the facilitators. We want to immerse ourselves in healing culture + continue the good work by creating a culture of healing where we are.

Earlybird Registration is Open until November 7, 2025!

Questions? Reach out, let’s chat.

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Somatic Summer Camp

Somatic Summer Camp

Authentic Expression in Tumultuous Times
Hollyhock, Cortes Island
Aug 31 – Sept 5, 2026

Clear the clutter…

and return to your innate authenticity through the traditions of yoga, qigong, and somatic therapy. 

Revitalize somatic trust as you explore the nuances of your window of tolerance, navigate inner work with safety vs intensity, and anchor into your body’s inherent wisdom.

Open pathways of expression as you uncover emotional anatomy, engage with like-hearted community, and reconfigure relational patterns through body + voice

Why this matters

In tumultuous times, your capacity to trust the body is a foundational part of liberating your voice. Your authentic expression is vital to healing yourself, and healing your community.

What You’ll Gain

Daily somatic practices like hatha yoga, qigong, yintegration, and breath work support inner pathways of healing + trust

Workshops that offer refreshing perspectives of healing and renewed outlets of expression:

  • Unraveling the intersections of karma, trauma, and trust
  • Yintegration: accessing deeper states of rest through discomfort/comfort
  • Healing with safety vs intensity
  • Emotional anatomy: Chinese medicine + the chakras
  • Speaking with soul: mantra + sankalpa

Where you’ll stay

Hollyhock is your home away from home that rests on 48 acres of forests and beaches on the ancestral lands of the Klahoose, Tla’amin, and Homalco Nations. You may know this area by its colonial name: Cortes Island, British Columbia.

Hollyhock’s programming is committed to a rich, innovative, wellness centered philosophy and centers the human experience.They are renown for having nourishing, fresh, and absolutely delicious meals that are prepared onsite, farm-to-table.

Who this program is for

Caretakers that give a lot to others and are learning to receive more easefully

Facilitators exploring an embodied, trauma-informed approach to speaking

Practitioners (movement teachers, massage therapists, acupuncturists, counsellors, clinicians) integrating physical + mental wellness with spirit work

Healers + activists that value integrity + peace as protest

Somatic Yoga + Qigong Practitioner Certificate

You have the option of using this pilgrimage as 50 hours toward a 300-hr Somatic Yoga + Qigong Practitioner Certificate.

For more details, please email Kevin directly at kinwell@kevinyeechan.com

What you’ll experience

Preparation: mental health intake

Daily practice: group yoga, qigong, or breathwork

Sessions: nature walk + talks, partner work, kirtan, drawing/journaling

Post-retreat integration: optional 1-1 sessions with Kevin, Rachel, or Winchester

How the space will be held

In addition to collective practice time, integration tools such as: solo drawing/journaling, partner work, and small group Walk + Talks are offered by your three facilitators. Healing takes many forms + truly amplifies in relationship. You have the space to connect + heal both individually + relationally, based on your needs in the moment. Post-retreat integration: 1-1 sessions with your facilitator/therapist of choice are available, if requested.

Tuition

A range of options are available from CAD $1,587.50 to CAD $5,065.00 which include:

  • Commuter (no lodging)
  • Tent sites
  • Dormitory
  • Triple rooms
  • Twin rooms
  • Couple rooms
  • Single rooms
  • Private cabin

Earlybird rates (available before June 1, 2026) include 10% off accomodation.

Scholarships are available though Hollyhock Scholarship Fund
(applications open January 2026)

Questions? Reach out, let’s chat.

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