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Notes on nature, ritual, nervous-system care, upcoming retreats, new offerings, and the quiet ways we learn to come home to ourselves.

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New · January 2027

Awakening the Senses

An Ayurvedic journey into the Amazon. An eight-day riverboat immersion through the Brazilian Amazon, based in Alter do Chão, January 10–17, 2027. Promoted by The Holo, with registration through the retreat's team in Brazil.

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New · Two covens this October

The Holo Witch Camp

A four-day immersive retreat on the Sunshine Coast, BC, celebrating folklore, ritual, nature, creativity, and community. Two intimate covens of 8, October 15–18 and October 22–25, 2026.

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Coming soon

Nature Bathing Practitioner Program

A guided certification experience combining online study, in-person immersion, reflective practice, and integration. Immersion days in Vancouver and surrounding areas, or fully guided online.

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Future retreat

Return to the Wild

A restorative day of forest bathing, ritual, shared meals, reflection, and gentle community care.

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Seasonal offering

Rest, Ritual & Reiki

An intimate gathering designed around nervous-system rest, grounding practices, and intentional energetic care.

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Notes from The Holo.

Short reflections and announcements, kept right here on the newsletter page for anyone who prefers to read before they subscribe.

August 2026

Introducing The Holo Witch Camp

This October, we're opening the coven doors to eight witches at a time for four days of folklore, ritual, and fire-lit community. Here's what the retreat holds.

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We've spent the past season building something we're genuinely excited to share: The Holo Witch Camp, a four-day retreat for women and girls who want to reconnect with intuition, nature, ritual, and each other. It's intimate by design, never more than eight participants in a coven, and runs across two October gatherings so there's room for more of you to join without losing the closeness that makes this kind of retreat work.

Guests move through history and folklore, divination, spellcraft, herbalism, magical crafts, ceremony, and shadow work, all set inside a daily rhythm of slow mornings, hands-on afternoons, and fire circle evenings. Everyone leaves with a custom Book of Shadows and a collection of handmade keepsakes from the week.

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July 2026

Why We Build Ritual Into Everything We Offer

Ritual isn't decoration at The Holo. It's the structure that makes healing feel possible. A short note on why we do things the slow way.

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The magic is not in doing more. It's in creating the conditions that allow healing to happen. That belief shapes every program and retreat we build, from the Nature Bathing Practitioner course to Witch Camp. Ritual gives structure to care that might otherwise feel formless: a tea ritual to open the morning, a fire circle to close the day, a spoken intention before a workshop begins.

None of it is about performance. It's about repetition that becomes accessible, then lasting. When a practice is held the same way each time, your nervous system learns it can rest into that shape. That's the quiet engineering behind everything we offer.

June 2026

A Season of Slow Beginnings

Small practices, deep roots. A few grounding notes as the year turns toward autumn retreats and new offerings.

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Every season at The Holo starts small: a single walk outside, a cup of tea taken without a phone in hand, a page written in a journal before bed. These are the practices we return to between the bigger gatherings, and they're often what people tell us they carry longest after a retreat ends.

As we move toward autumn, we're holding two new October dates for Witch Camp, continuing enrolment for the Nature Bathing Practitioner Program, and slowly shaping a few seasonal offerings we'll share here first. If you'd rather these notes land in your inbox, subscribe below.

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