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This is a special opportunity for people to experience Esalen without taking a workshop.

Following ancient spiritual traditions that value the transformative power of nature, this experiential workshop will be spent meditating outdoors

This is a how-to course for people who want to be more effective at creating climates of trust, building relationships, and dealing with conflict —

This workshop is an invitation to explore and experience current trends in Esalen Massage and Bodywork.

Hanna Somatics is a mind-body technique developed by Thomas Hanna that enables us to move toward greater mind-body integration, ease of movement, a

The words for mind and heart are the same in many cultures.

As we write, we are both describing and deciding the direction that our life is taking.
-Julia Cameron

Eric Maisel’s Deep Writing workshops are simple in structure and powerful in effect.

For more than forty years, the Esalen Farm and Garden has provided a holistic model of food security and sustainability—producing food that sustain

Hanna Somatics is a mind-body technique developed by Thomas Hanna that enables us to move toward greater mind-body integration, ease of movement, a

The words for mind and heart are the same in many cultures.

Step right up, step right in, come and enjoy the trouble you’re in. — Coyote Old Man

Many practitioners, across a broad range of disciplines, carry a sense of impending ecological, economic, and social global crisis.

How can you be open and vulnerable to love your partner, and, at the same time, free to continue to grow as an individual?

This workshop will provide a safe and supportive environment for you to explore and connect, to enhance sensitivity, and to reawaken intimate touch

Cinema can inspire, uplift, and promote positive change in the world.

This retreat invites participants to open to their most elemental relationship, that which exists between the body, mind, and the natural world as

Do you spend a lot of time just going through the motions? Are you frequently bored, anxious, or blue?

For many, writing is a spiritual practice that leads to a profound experience of timelessness and present-moment awareness.

This is a special opportunity for people to experience Esalen without taking a workshop.

“In our previous classes, we’ve focused on teaching the practice of Deep Bodywork for specific segments of the body,” write the leaders.

“At Esalen, we're blessed to be situated in a culinary paradise,” write Esalen chefs Phillip Burrus and Anthony Giacobbe.

The Gestalt model teaches us that we are intensely relational, creative, and meaning-making by our deepest nature.

Activate your imagination, creativity, and spontaneity. Just as muscles can tighten with stress and age, so can notions about ourselves.

Experience the electrifying and liberating art of spoken word (sometimes called slam or performance poetry) — an art form in which powerful persona

Join award-winning painter Jennifer McChristian for a five-day intensive workshop for all levels of artists who want to learn the time-honored joy

Reconnect with your spirit, awaken to your full potential, and renew yourself at the Soul Radiance Retreat with meditation teacher and author Sarah

“We develop relationships with ourselves and others through the physicality of our vision, smell, touch, and movement,” says Michael Clemmens.

During this workshop we’ll explore the commitments and life changes that can usher us into a new way of being alive — as cheerful agents of the goo

What happens when you merge the power of the word with the language of the soul?

It is a wise child that knows his own father. — Homer
It is a wise father that knows his own child. — William Shakespeare

Your body is a tremendous resource. It has been present for every experience and stores the memories of these events.

This course is designed to provide students with knowledge of the therapeutic benefits of an Esalen Massage, emphasizing clarity of intent, proper

“Mothering a daughter is often among the most intensely satisfying and challenging experiences of a woman’s life,” write Renée Schultz.

Each of us has the ability to be a visionary, powerful agent for change.

Since ancient times, solstices and equinoxes have been essential and sacred points in the year to honor the flow of life on earth.

Your 30s and 40s are a transitional time in life.

With the use of experiential exercises, theoretical material, and group discussion, this workshop will explore unique approaches to body cultivatio

For thousands of years, people have been harvesting herbal medicines from their home gardens for basic family needs.

Do you sabotage yourself? Is there something you really need to get done but you just don’t do it?

This workshop opens the gate to a place where you can cultivate and nurture creativity for inspired writing.

Join Tihikpas and Ellen on the longest day of the year to welcome and celebrate summertime on the sacred land of Esalen.

If you and your partner have battled with — and survived — addiction and made your way into recovery, this workshop is for you.

For many of us, it is difficult to simply let go and create. Programmed to fear being judged, we set narrow boundaries on our creativity.

Chinese yoga, known as qigong (or chi kung), changes lives.

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) has been described as a personal practice for clarifying and living one’s values, a guide for interpersonal communic

This is a special opportunity for people to experience Esalen without taking a workshop.

Some of the greatest leaps in personal development come when we stop believing that others have more access to deep wisdom than we do, have superio

This program is designed to integrate the practice of mindful awareness with directed heartfulness to facilitate growth, healing, and change.

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. -Henry David Thoreau

Yoga is not a linear process. It is direct intimacy with life, and it is available to everyone.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Your twenties can be a time of possibility, inspiration, and the discovery of your deepest values and truths.

The desire to write rises from the urge to say something.