Esalen is open!

Starting Friday May 17 at 6:30 a.m., Highway 1 north of Esalen will reopen with the use of a 24/7 signalized traffic control, providing unrestricted public access with one-way alternating traffic in both the north and southbound directions. Please plan travel accordingly to accommodate a brief delay of up to 10-15 minutes at the traffic control site.

Highway 1 south of Esalen remains closed. Guests traveling from points south of us, please take the alternate route through Monterey.

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Due to road closures along Highway 1 to our north and south, Esalen is closed through April 11.
Esalen Institute is open! However, Highway 1 to the south is closed — please review the alternate route directions.

Esalen opens May 3, 2024

Visitors are now able to access Esalen as well as other businesses and trails in northern Big Sur via twice-daily convoys on Highway 1 operated by Caltrans.

Convoys run only at 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. each day. These are the only opportunities to travel into and out of Big Sur, so visitors must plan accordingly.

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Douglas Drummond

Douglas is a leader, husband, and father. He has been involved with the wellness movement for over 20 years. His professional passion is aligning impactful projects with like-minded individuals, supporting them in creating lasting teams that become global ambassadors for the future.   

Douglas has been a conscious movement facilitator for over 12 years. He is a certified 5Rhythms® teacher. Douglas currently serves as the founder & CEO of the Weaving Waters Collective; an organization dedicated to creating healing and reconciliation centers for living beings.

Personally, his greatest passion and inspiration is his love for his family and time spent in pure nature. An avid surfer, diver, forager and play-date for his young daughter, Douglas is at home in the streets of NYC and equally so in his current home-base of Big Sur, California.

Douglas has been a conscious movement facilitator for over 12 years. He is a certified 5Rhythms® teacher. Douglas currently serves as the founder & CEO of the Weaving Waters Collective; an organization dedicated to creating healing and reconciliation centers for living beings.

Douglas Drummond

Douglas is a leader, husband, and father. He has been involved with the wellness movement for over 20 years. His professional passion is aligning impactful projects with like-minded individuals, supporting them in creating lasting teams that become global ambassadors for the future.   

Douglas has been a conscious movement facilitator for over 12 years. He is a certified 5Rhythms® teacher. Douglas currently serves as the founder & CEO of the Weaving Waters Collective; an organization dedicated to creating healing and reconciliation centers for living beings.

Personally, his greatest passion and inspiration is his love for his family and time spent in pure nature. An avid surfer, diver, forager and play-date for his young daughter, Douglas is at home in the streets of NYC and equally so in his current home-base of Big Sur, California.

Douglas has been a conscious movement facilitator for over 12 years. He is a certified 5Rhythms® teacher. Douglas currently serves as the founder & CEO of the Weaving Waters Collective; an organization dedicated to creating healing and reconciliation centers for living beings.

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