Body As Wise Healer

09/09/2026

Dear ones, I'm so grateful for the beauty of people gathering in creativity and gentleness, in our biodiversity and our longing, to tend this living in the midst of all the immensity and uncertainty of this strange unravelling time.

Do you feel this unravelling? It's a time of such intensity and fraughtness. And gathering together in creative community and sensitive gentleness and curiosity is a balm for the soul and a source of fertile soil for alchemy work.

Do you have a place for this gathering, in your life? I encourage you to reach for that... through dance, song, drumming, improvisational play, writing... ways of being together with others in creative practice and listening. It helps, loves.

07/27/2026

The School of Play is a gathering ground
Relational Ecology is my jam, & Creative Improvisational Group Facilitation Training and Embodied Leadership for Turbulent Times is soul food!!
Rooted in Liberatory Ecological Feminist Praxis for Magic
A circle of truly lovely humans are beginning together Sept 19 for a bold and curious step into mystery. Join us? More here: https://www.bodysongs.dance/the-school-of-play

07/04/2026

Movement and Breath play are forms of creative sustenance, dear one. And free to us all. Nervous System Hydration.

06/24/2026

Dear Ones, a time of deep rest and play, tending our vitality through creative beauty, care for the exhaustion, depletion, burnout, and grief that comes from the times we are in. A time of collective relaxation, and beauty magic, in a fertile valley in the forest on Salt Spring Island. Body As Earth Song, August 18-23; there is still space for you to join us there. Register:
https://www.bodyaswisehealer.com/residential-retreat

02/24/2026

02/23/2026

Retreat & Training for Therapists
https://hollyhock.ca/programs/8306/body-songs-26/
Hollyhock

02/19/2026

May 27-31 Care for the Helpers, at Hollyhock
Therapists need times of nourishment, time to release and restore. The work we do in the world is heart work, that requires presence, attunement, flexibility, and creativity. Our practice becomes sustainable when we are caring well for our own beings.
Body Songs: Movement for Therapists is a pocket of nourishment for therapists amid the intense times we are living in.

Come gather at a shared creative well spring, with the nuance of somatic inquiry and the supple beauty of movement, woven with reflection through art and creative writing.

Come learn about ecosomatic inquiry and movement as wise practices in psychotherapy, in a program that centers your own health as a therapist.

You will learn core principles for somatic movement practice, to support you in offering this approach with your clients and gather a range of wise practices to nourish your own wellbeing. Our time will be spacious and focused, gentle and enlivening, welcoming and inclusive, exhilarating and tactile.

Grounded in 26 years of learning as a somatic movement psychotherapist, Katrina Curry will hold a container of depth and levity, playfulness and tender quietude, rooted in neuroscience, wisdom lineages, and liberation praxis. We will be held by the beauty of Cortes Island, by the waters and the forest, and by the kindness of Hollyhock retreat center. Come soak in the beauty and restore your own creative life force.
https://hollyhock.ca/programs/8306/body-songs-26/

02/01/2026

These times are a lot. Being a Therapist in the midst of all this complexity requires a great deal of us. We all need vessels for transformation of pain into potency - Body Songs: Movement for Therapists, May 27-31, at Hollyhock Retreat Center

“All of us alive today live at an evolutionary threshold. Whether we are headed toward a more sustainable future or moving toward our own demise is yet unclear…. we all have a choice of whether or not we want to take an active part in creating the conditions that allow life to thrive, regardless of the outcome. Rebecca Solnit (2016) reminds us that ‘the future is dark, with a darkness as much of the womb as the grave.’”

(Steffi Bednarek, Climate, Psychology, and Change: Reimagining Psychotherapy in an Era of Global Disruption and Climate Anxiety).