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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East Forest

East Forest is a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and ceremony guide. His work explores living authentically within a modern context by weaving together elements of electro-acoustic live music, nature, technology, brain science, and guided meditation.

His "ceremony-concerts" utilize a skilled mostly instrumental repertoire to create space for an emotive inner journey; the catalog includes over 30 albums, including 2019’s album-length collaboration with spiritual pioneer Ram Dass, the 5-hour-long psilocybin soundtrack "Music for Mushrooms: A Soundtrack for the Psychedelic Practitioner," and collaborations with artists Jon Hopkins, Typhoon, Laraaji, Dead Prez, Nick Mulvey, Peter Broderick, DJ ANNA, and more.

He offers meditations, retreats, a weekly podcast (Ten Laws w/ East Forest), Patreon, and talks. Institutional collaborations range from working with Google and Johns Hopkins neuroaesthetics project, UCSF, Consciousness Hacking, TED, Field Trip Health, Numinus, and he is the co-founder of JourneySpace.com.

East Forest is an internationally known teacher and composer with millions of listeners. His works and collaborations include Ram Dass, Google, Johns Hopkins, TED, UCSF, and the Yale Psychedelic Science Group, among others.

East Forest

East Forest is a multidisciplinary artist, producer, and ceremony guide. His work explores living authentically within a modern context by weaving together elements of electro-acoustic live music, nature, technology, brain science, and guided meditation.

His "ceremony-concerts" utilize a skilled mostly instrumental repertoire to create space for an emotive inner journey; the catalog includes over 30 albums, including 2019’s album-length collaboration with spiritual pioneer Ram Dass, the 5-hour-long psilocybin soundtrack "Music for Mushrooms: A Soundtrack for the Psychedelic Practitioner," and collaborations with artists Jon Hopkins, Typhoon, Laraaji, Dead Prez, Nick Mulvey, Peter Broderick, DJ ANNA, and more.

He offers meditations, retreats, a weekly podcast (Ten Laws w/ East Forest), Patreon, and talks. Institutional collaborations range from working with Google and Johns Hopkins neuroaesthetics project, UCSF, Consciousness Hacking, TED, Field Trip Health, Numinus, and he is the co-founder of JourneySpace.com.

East Forest is an internationally known teacher and composer with millions of listeners. His works and collaborations include Ram Dass, Google, Johns Hopkins, TED, UCSF, and the Yale Psychedelic Science Group, among others.

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