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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Fletcher Tucker

Fletcher Tucker was raised by the foggy redwood ravines and fragrant chaparral bluffs of the Esselen tribal territory now known as Big Sur, California. He is a co-founder of Wildtender, an organization based in Big Sur that cultivates kinship with the natural world, and explores earth-based wisdom traditions. Fletcher is a lifelong student of natural history, an ancestral skills practitioner, an experienced teacher, and a devoted father. As a writer, multidisciplinary artist, and musician, Fletcher’s creative practice engages deeply with place.

Fletcher’s inner work includes ongoing explorations in Buddhist and Taoist practices/philosophy; over a decade of study in the Gestalt lineage of Esalen Institute co-founder Dick Price; and two decades of engagement with the Earth-reverent, spiritual traditions of his own Nordic and Celtic ancestors. 

Fletcher Tucker is a co-founder of Wildtender, an organization based in Big Sur that cultivates kinship with the natural world, and explores earth-based wisdom traditions. Fletcher is also a writer, multidisciplinary artist and musician whose work engages deeply with place.

Fletcher Tucker

Fletcher Tucker was raised by the foggy redwood ravines and fragrant chaparral bluffs of the Esselen tribal territory now known as Big Sur, California. He is a co-founder of Wildtender, an organization based in Big Sur that cultivates kinship with the natural world, and explores earth-based wisdom traditions. Fletcher is a lifelong student of natural history, an ancestral skills practitioner, an experienced teacher, and a devoted father. As a writer, multidisciplinary artist, and musician, Fletcher’s creative practice engages deeply with place.

Fletcher’s inner work includes ongoing explorations in Buddhist and Taoist practices/philosophy; over a decade of study in the Gestalt lineage of Esalen Institute co-founder Dick Price; and two decades of engagement with the Earth-reverent, spiritual traditions of his own Nordic and Celtic ancestors. 

Fletcher Tucker is a co-founder of Wildtender, an organization based in Big Sur that cultivates kinship with the natural world, and explores earth-based wisdom traditions. Fletcher is also a writer, multidisciplinary artist and musician whose work engages deeply with place.

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