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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Chun-mui Miller | Guest Faculty

Chun-mui Miller is a ceremonial artist, herbalist, and professional dancer devoted to Love, Beauty, and Remembrance. A Certified Clinical Herbalist and teacher at the Berkeley Herbal Center, she weaves plant spirit wisdom, rituals for sacred living, and movement as medicine into pathways of healing and reconnection.

As creator of Remembrance Apothecary and a core dancer with Nava Dance Collective (Miriam Peretz), she embodies the Beauty Way—honoring Earth, the feminine, and the sacredness of life through devotional creative arts. Chun-mui designs organizational wellness programs in Oakland, CA, for the Movement Strategy Center and serves on the board of Embrace, building Beloved Community.

Her work invites people to remember who they are, to live intentionally and beautifully, and to keep love’s heart beating through service and creative expression.

Chun-mui Miller is a ceremonial artist, herbalist, and dancer devoted to Love, Beauty, and Remembrance. Founder of Remembrance Apothecary, she weaves plant wisdom, embodiment, and ritual to honor Earth, the feminine, and the creative spirit through movement and ceremony.

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