Book now and get CAD $60.00 off regular price. Remaining balance due on or before Jul 22, 2025 to qualify for CAD $60.00 off regular price. This offer valid until Jul 22, 2025. Package prices include room, regular tuition, and meals.
  • Dorm bed (upper) - Participant – CAD $1,085.00
  • Dorm bed (lower) - Participant – CAD $1,085.00
  • Basic Room - Shared - Participant – CAD $1,167.50
  • Basic Room - Private - Participant – CAD $1,385.00
  • Forestview - Shared - Participant – CAD $1,242.50
  • Forestview - Private - Participant – CAD $1,535.00
  • Oceanview Room - Private - Participant – CAD $1,775.00
  • Staying off-premise - Participant – CAD $950.00

Date & Time Details:
Aug 22nd - dinner at 6pm, first session follows at 7:30pm
Aug 25th - finish with lunch at noon

Location: The Haven

Address: 240 Davis Rd, Gabriola, BC

Contact: Haven registrar - register@haven.ca
1-800-222-9211 ext 1

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Women & Sexuality: Stirring your Cauldron

With Elfi Dillon-Shaw

August 22 - 25, 2025

This 3 day program is for women of every age and lifestyle who want to taste the full energetic potential of their erotic body.

Stirring your Cauldron – a somatic exploration of Eros, Sex and Spirit for Women

Sexual energy, when it flows freely through the body, allows for a rich, sensuous erotic life… whether we live solo or in partnerships.  The purpose of lifting this energy up is to strengthen our Life energy – for healing purposes, for erotic autonomy, and just plain fun!

In the “Three Cauldrons” of the body – the pelvic bowl, the heart space, and the expanding mind – lies our ancestral wisdom, nestled deep in the earth, our body.

Inspired by wisdom teachings of east and west, ancient and new, we will liberate our inner landscape so that the creative winds of eros can be freely recognized. With our awakened mind, our vibrating bodies, and our kind hearts we can choose to share our erotic self while staying exquisitely present and grounded.

Let’s come together and support each other to let go of shame and discover joy. In an atmosphere of con-sensuality and confidentiality, women will have the opportunity to experiment with erotic states of being through Psycho physical experimental breath and movement exercises, contemplation and conversation.

Together we co-create a safe space where each woman’s individual choice is respected and given time to reflect.

A circle of women is in itself a cauldron; filled with wisdom, feeling and laughter. Come and join us to celebrate your erotic Self!  You will leave refreshed, encouraged, relaxed and resourced.

What to Bring:

  • A mat – optional, some will be provided
  • Water bottle or hot drink container
  • Journal
  • Snacks to share
  • Comfortable clothes that you can move in

Investment:

Our Earlybird tuition price of $650 is available up to one month prior to the program start.  Full tuition is $710.  Full payment is due one month before the program start date regardless of tuition pricing.

We are offering private and shared room options.

You can find our cancellation policy here

Schedule:

Your program begins with dinner at 6pm and your first session at 7:30pm

Daily schedule:

      • Breakfast 8:00 – 9:00am
      • Morning session 9:15am to noon
      • Lunch noon to 1:00pm
      • Afternoon session 3:00 – 6:00pm
      • Dinner 6:00 – 7:00pm
      • Evening session 7:30 – 9:30pm

Afternoon and evening sessions can vary.  Your program finishes with lunch on the last day

Transportation:

If you are travelling to Gabriola as a foot passenger on the Gabriola Ferry a shuttle to The Haven can be requested.  Information on this option will be included in your pre-arrival email.

 

 

Admission requirements: The student must have the desire and ability to learn.  Must demonstrate a capacity for responsible self care, responsible self organization and sound mental health.  The student must understand and speak English.

This program does not require approval by the registrar of the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training.  As such, the registrar did not review this program. What does this mean? Click here to learn more.

Leader

Elfi Dillon-Shaw
Elfi Emaya Shaw, DipC, has facilitated sexuality retreats for women, all genders, single, and partnered folks for twenty-five years.  She has a “hands-on” practical approach to teaching. Her goal is to help each person open to their own unique erotic nature, to enrich their bodily and spiritual life, deepen their relationship to self, nature and their beloveds and to let go of guilt and shame about their being. She welcomes clients in her private studio on Gabriola Island and along with her partner Gary Kekoa assists Couples to navigate the waters of the erotic in their relationship.   She was a…
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