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.



Danielle Rubio is a somatic trauma coach, movement facilitator, and mindfulness teacher devoted to helping people return to the wisdom of the body as a path of healing and awakening. Drawing from over 15 years of experience in meditation, yoga, energy healing, somatic practice, and neuroscience, her work integrates nervous system regulation, movement therapeutics, emotional processing, and Tibetan mindfulness into a deeply experiential path of liberation. She is the creator of the SomaLumos Method™, a body-based approach that has guided hundreds of students around the world in moving beyond anxiety, chronic stress, and old survival patterning into greater freedom and steady, powerful inner peace. Danielle is known for creating powerful spaces where participants can feel deeply, move authentically, and remember the grounded wholeness of who they are.
Danielle Rubio is a somatic trauma coach, movement facilitator, and mindfulness teacher. She is the founder of the SomaLumos Method that has helped hundreds of people around the globe move beyond anxiety, chronic stress, and survival mode. It weaves nervous system healing, somatic movement therapy, and Tibetan mindfulness.