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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Jennifer Dumpert

Jennifer Dumpert is a San Francisco-based writer and speaker. She is the author of Liminal Dreaming: Exploring consciousness at the Edges of Sleep and the founder of Oneironauticum, an international organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as means of experimenting with mind. She also teaches the practice of Liminal Dreaming–surfing the edges of consciousness using hypnagogic and hypnopompic dream states.

Jennifer has lectured and led workshops at festivals, conferences, and venues worldwide. She has also authored numerous pieces about various aspects of dream work. You can read selected pieces and watch videos of presentations of Jennifer’s website, www.urbandreamscape.com.

As an active member of the Consciousness Hacking movement, Jennifer has presented at CH SF, CH NYC, and the Transformational Technology conference. She has trained in yoga nidra with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, of the Yoga Nidra Network and with Richard Miller, of iRest Yoga Nidra. She is also a co-organizer of psychedelic sangha.

Jennifer Dumpert is a San Francisco-based writer and speaker. She is the author of Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep and the founder of the Oneironauticum, an international organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of experimenting with mind. She also teaches the practice of Liminal Dreaming–surfing the edges of consciousness using hypnagogic and hypnopompic dream states.

Jennifer Dumpert

Jennifer Dumpert is a San Francisco-based writer and speaker. She is the author of Liminal Dreaming: Exploring consciousness at the Edges of Sleep and the founder of Oneironauticum, an international organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as means of experimenting with mind. She also teaches the practice of Liminal Dreaming–surfing the edges of consciousness using hypnagogic and hypnopompic dream states.

Jennifer has lectured and led workshops at festivals, conferences, and venues worldwide. She has also authored numerous pieces about various aspects of dream work. You can read selected pieces and watch videos of presentations of Jennifer’s website, www.urbandreamscape.com.

As an active member of the Consciousness Hacking movement, Jennifer has presented at CH SF, CH NYC, and the Transformational Technology conference. She has trained in yoga nidra with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, of the Yoga Nidra Network and with Richard Miller, of iRest Yoga Nidra. She is also a co-organizer of psychedelic sangha.

Jennifer Dumpert is a San Francisco-based writer and speaker. She is the author of Liminal Dreaming: Exploring Consciousness at the Edges of Sleep and the founder of the Oneironauticum, an international organization that explores the phenomenological experience of dreams as a means of experimenting with mind. She also teaches the practice of Liminal Dreaming–surfing the edges of consciousness using hypnagogic and hypnopompic dream states.

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