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Who am I? What is my purpose? How do I fully live my life now?

Would you like to find wise inner guidance from all parts of yourself?

Sam Berne teaches that the eyes reveal many of our mind-body patterns related to health.

Take your seat in a circle of songwriters and join us as we delve into the emotional heart of our personal story, and translate those experiences i

NVC is internationally recognized, taught, and implemented as a tool for quality of life.

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

“We gather at Esalen for a weekend to remember — with our bodies, minds, and spirits — all that we have to be grateful for,” Janet Stone writes.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities
While in the expert's mind there are few. -Suzuki

The word Prajna means insight and understanding from within.

How do we cultivate and sustain fulfilling intimate relationships?

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

The "desire path to enlightenment" elevates the unconscious passion of the body to the radical understanding of mind, providing a truly integral ps

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

Feminism is an unfinished project.

The human brain is the most complex object in the known universe, and the study of its structure and function is one of the most rapidly developing

Prime of Life Yoga reflects adaptations recommended for the majority of the US population, which is now in midlife or beyond.

Today, the fear of losing our eyesight is escalating because of an increase in many deteriorating visual conditions.

Periodically, we need to review and revision our lives. Every decade of the life-cycle brings new challenges, goals, pleasures, and horizons.

Come Alive is an opportunity to revitalize your life, discover and activate your resources, and realize your full potential in your personal and pr

In this high adventure in Active Dreaming, you’ll be encouraged to remember and live the deeper story of your life.

Belonging is a powerful theme that is directly related to the capacity for intimacy that is in every human being.

Activate the creative right brain and discover what lies waiting in your subconscious. How well do you really know yourself?

All too often, the words we express create walls when we were hoping for connection or understanding.

“Shapeshift into the healing force of the Earth to awaken fresh possibilities for living,” write Llyn Roberts and Mick Dodge.

Do you want to feel musical and spiritual freedom in every cell of your body?

Life is uncertain. As much as we try to create stability and predictability, each moment brings its own surprise and its own unique offering.

"The philosophy behind this workshop experience," writes Ellen Bass, "is best expressed by Martha Graham, who said, 'There is a vitality, a life-fo

This course is designed for those already certified in the practice of massage who wish to add the Esalen approach to their professional repertoire

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

The practice of painting is healing and meditative.

In this course, you will be introduced to the models and concepts of functional biomechanics as viewed from Jean-Pierre Barral's Visceral Manipulat

In this retreat Lama Drimed and Susan Harper open a multi-dimensional inquiry into our spiritual, somatic, and creative human capacity.

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

Buddhism is a path to freedom from suffering.

We live our lives in motion.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began. –Mary Oliver
Start over: The resilient brain is always starting over.

In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance. - Rumi

Energy moves in waves. Waves move in rhythms. Rhythms move in patterns. Patterns move in cycles. A human being is just that. Nothing more.

Spinal awareness is a combination of the Feldenkrais Method®, Taoist energetic science, and the Esalen experience.

Communications from the mind are as profound as they are utterly appropriate to our circumstances, for while the scope of the mind is pervasive, it

Our emotions can be hugely important in determining the quality of our lives.

For more than twenty years, THE MAX has held an honored status among the Esalen staff and is considered by many to be an essential rite of passage

Each of us is born with an inherent drive for aliveness and self-expression and belonging.

During an Esalen Massage, we experience a remarkable web of interdependence: a listening touch, a deepening breath, our nervous system soothed in c

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. -Rumi

This workshop is an adventure in releasing programmed patterns and discovering the delight of spontaneous creation.

Many of us long to do something that will have a positive impact on the world.