Esalen Institute is open! However, Highway 1 to the south is closed — please review the current travel advisory.
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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 current travel advisory.

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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Adam Clark

Adam Clark is the host of Ecstatic Dance SLO in San Luis Obispo and a creator of somatic workshops that explore prayer, contact improvisation, and emotional intelligence. With certification in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, Adam weaves together his passions for dance, inner child healing, and spirituality to advance justice and liberation locally and abroad.

Committed to creating sacred and inclusive spaces for both individual and collective transformation, Adam embraces ancestral wisdom and spiritual practices as essential threads in community healing. Through radical self-expression and mindful space-holding, he guides individuals and communities toward reclaiming their inherent oneness and true wholeness.

Adam Clark hosts Ecstatic Dance SLO and leads somatic workshops exploring prayer, contact improv, and emotional intelligence. Certified in Dance Movement Psychotherapy, he weaves dance, healing, and spirituality to support liberation, sacred community spaces, and the reclamation of individual and collective oneness.