MUSTANG WILDHEART - A 5-DAY 5RHYTHMS® HEARTBEAT RETREAT

A multi day + night dance | embodiment immersion exploring the 5Rhythms emotional map with Anne Marie Hogya

Mustang Wild Heart is a movement retreat. It is a place to explore the terrain of the heart with care, honesty, and aliveness, supported by a beautiful natural setting.

At its core, this work is about loving. Loving ourselves more fully. Loving others with greater presence and choice. Our capacity to love is directly connected to our capacity to feel. When our emotional range narrows, our lives narrow too. When we shut down fear, anger, or sadness, we often dull joy, tenderness, and compassion as well.

This retreat offers an opportunity to gently widen that range again.

In the Year of the Horse, our wild can be about motion and freedom — following instinct rather than habit, and allowing emotions to move as energy rather than becoming stuck as patterns.

Mustang Wild Heart is a learning lab. There is time to move, to reflect, to integrate, and to connect. We practice noticing how we relate to ourselves, how we relate to others, and what changes when we bring more presence and curiosity into those relationships.

The retreat takes place at Stowel Lake Farm on Salt Spring Island in November, when the land is quiet, spacious, and deeply supportive. The farm offers a beautiful container for slowing down, turning inward, and being held by nature. We will move together, rest, eat well, walk the land, and spend time in a small, intentional group.

Come as you are.
Bring your wild heart.
Let curiosity lead.

Let’s ride.

Stowel Lake Farm is a restorative retreat venue and thriving organic farm located on Salt Spring Island, here on BC’s wild West Coast. Only a 30-minute ferry ride from Victoria (airport code YYJ), British Columbia, Canada, the farm features more than 100 acres of mixed forests, fields, rocky outcrops and rolling hills to explore.

• Daily guided 5Rhythms movement | dance sessions with Anne Marie Hogya with teachings focused on the 5Rhythms Heartbeat map
• Fourteen delicious, vegetarian meals hosted in a restored timber farmhouse. Stowel Lake’s talented kitchen team offers seasonally inspired farm-to-table cuisine, featuring their own organic produce. In direct collaboration with their farmers, meals are prepared simply and beautifully to highlight the vitality of fresh whole food ingredients (Dairy-free, gluten-free and vegan choices can be accommodated by request)
• Explore the wintery world of the farm property as the season turns. Salt Spring Island also offers a range of hiking trails, lakes, and ocean beaches to discover
• Full access to all retreat facilities and the scenic Stowel Lake property
• A guided farm tour and nature talk
• Outdoor evening campfire (where seasonally permitted)
• All applicable taxes
• Complementary shuttle pick up from Fulford Harbour Ferry Terminal
• Unstructured time to read, write, rest, and curl up under a duvet or by the wood-burning stove
• Five nights in the accommodation of your choice

November 25, 2026 to November 30, 2026 (Wednesday to Monday)

5 nights | 6 days

Check-in is between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. on November 25. (Dinner at 6:00 p.m.)

Check-out is by 1:00 p.m. on November 30. (Lunch at 12:00 p.m.)

Register by credit card through Eventbrite, or by e-transfer When sending your e-transfer, please include: your full name (first and last), your email address, your full mailing address, and your phone number.

• All pricing is per person in Canadian dollars (CAD) and while supplies last.
• Room selection is on a first come basis.
• *Off-site accommodation requests cannot be accommodated. All participants must be able to stay at Stowel Lake Farm.

1. Private Room (one bed in room with shared bath)

• $2985 CAD until November 5, 2026

2. Shared Deluxe Room (two beds in room with private bathroom)

• $2825 CAD until November 5, 2026

3. Shared Yurts (two beds per yurt with shared bathroom)

• $2495 CAD until November 5, 2026

*Please note that all cancellations will incur a $200 administration fee. Cancellations after September 10, 2026, will receive a 50% refund. Because this is a retreat workshop with individualized meal and accommodation planning, no refunds can be issued for cancellations after November 9, 2026.

8:30am Breakfast

10:00am Morning Session

12:30pm Lunch and Break

3:30pm Afternoon Session (some days unstructured free time)

6:00pm Dinner

7:30pm Evening Session

*Retreat Sessions can include: Dance and Movement exploration (adapted to all levels and abilities) which offers a somatic embodiment journey into ourselves | Instruction in the 5Rhythms Movement Practice Heartbeat Map| Writing | Reflection | Partner and Group Sharing and Connections | Community Evening Gatherings. Any of the sessions can be free time to wander and explore the Farm or Salt Spring Island.

*A wide-ranging selection of phenomenal music is played that encourages your body (and heart) to move.

*About the 5Rhythms™: The 5Rhythms is a dynamic movement practice—a body-based awareness practice—that ignites creativity, connection and community. The 5 Rhythms–Flowing Staccato Chaos Lyrical Stillness®–are states of Being and exploring them can lead us back to our real, vulnerable, wild, passionate and instinctive self. The 5Rhythms practice was created and developed by artist, theatre director and author Gabrielle Roth.

*Anne Marie Hogya is fiercely committed to truth-seeking and to creating workshops that blend grounded practicality with wild, creative exploration. Her teaching is known for clarity, humor, compassion, and courage, offering spaces where people can meet themselves honestly and move with greater freedom. A registered occupational therapist with a master’s degree in Leadership and Adult Learning, Anne Marie brings more than two decades of experience in movement education. Trained directly with 5Rhythms® founder Gabrielle Roth, she is accredited to teach both the Wave and Heartbeat maps. Based in Victoria, Canada, she teaches locally and internationally, creating movement spaces that are alive with possibility.

*This retreat counts 5 days of Heartbeat pre-requisites on the 5Rhythms Teacher Training path.

“This retreat was absolutely amazing and and the location (omg)! Being cared about in community, it was my first time to feel this. Thank you for creating this incredible space.”

"I think it should be mandatory to being a human on earth to be able to experience this work."

“This was an amazing retreat…it was the entire package: farm, people, music, interactions…every exquisite moment.”

“I loved all of it! Loved the music, loved the location, loved my room, loved the food. Sign me up!”

“It was awesome. A lovely group of people. It felt safe, easeful, fun and inclusive.”

“Thanks for being such role model of authenticity. So great to process emotions and also involve the body and cultivate freedom and joy.”

“Huge thanks to the team for a magical, magnificent retreat! I’m feeling so alive and I’m finding the magic in life again. It was awesome!”

“I would ABSOLUTELY come again!”

“It was cathartic, an incredible release. This was such a beautiful and freeing experience. I feel more spacious, free, wild.”

“I’ve never done 5Rhythms before and this seemed like a perfect opportunity to learn a new way of moving my body.”

“It was an unmissable opportunity to get back into my body after years of sedentary rest. I didn't expect it to be transformative and experience the belonging, the connection and release too. I am full of gratitude.”

“The inclusion, acknowledgement and encouragement was so life giving. I realized how isolated and disconnected I had become and the incredible medicine of moving my body. Thank you!”

“I was in awe the full retreat.”

"I feel more balanced and whole than I have felt in a long time. I remembered who I am, what I am, and am back on a good track. Thank you from the deepest place in my soul.”

“Thank you for all your beauty, wildness and skill. My heart is open, tender and pulsing.”

“It was VERY nourishing on many levels. The chance to dance and to rest and to be in such a beautiful place.”

"Thank you so much for this magic! I'm so grateful to be a part of it!!"

“It's been a long time (over 22 years I think) since I've done a retreat and it was a wonderful experience. Dancing sure beats silent meditation retreats; and the biggest takeaway for me is to look for more “movement" opportunities.”

“Thank you for the care you put into crafting these immersive experiences, from planning and logistics to music and dancing, to holding space for all the emotions that come up in so many people.”

“I am so grateful for the retreats - invigorating, cathartic, restful and restorative.”

“5Rhythms, the participants and Stowel Farm created a safe place for me to feel the music in my body. I danced for the first time in 11 years. And I have you to thank for allowing a place for me to explore what my body has to say!”

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