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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Laurel Parnell, PhD

As a psychologist, teacher, and author with over forty years’ experience as a meditator and spiritual practitioner, Laurel Parnell has been actively integrating psychological and spiritual work throughout her career. She is the executive director of the Parnell Institute for Attachment-Focused EMDR and co-director of the non-profit Trauma Assistance Program International (TAP-IN). One of the world’s leading experts on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), she is the originator of the EMDR-related therapies Attachment-Focused EMDR and Resource Tapping. An innovator and expert in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) she has trained thousands of clinicians in the United States and abroad. She is the author of several books and videos on EMDR, including, Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma, A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR, Rewiring the Addicted Brain with EMDR-Based Treatment, and Tapping In.  

Dr. Parnell brings a client-centered attachment-focused approach to the work and emphasizes the importance of a compassionate, safe, therapeutic relationship. 

She sees the adaptation of protocols and procedures according to the psychological, emotional, cultural, and developmental needs of the individual client as essential.  Dr. Parnell uses a holistic approach to healing trauma that focuses on the integration of body, mind, and spirit. Learn more about Laurel Parnell at www.parnellemdr.com.

As a psychologist, teacher, and author with over forty years’ experience as a meditator and spiritual practitioner, Laurel Parnell, has been actively integrating psychological and spiritual work throughout her career. She is the executive director of the Parnell Institute for Attachment-Focused EMDR and the author of several books and videos on EMDR, including, Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma and A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR.

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Laurel Parnell, PhD

As a psychologist, teacher, and author with over forty years’ experience as a meditator and spiritual practitioner, Laurel Parnell has been actively integrating psychological and spiritual work throughout her career. She is the executive director of the Parnell Institute for Attachment-Focused EMDR and co-director of the non-profit Trauma Assistance Program International (TAP-IN). One of the world’s leading experts on Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), she is the originator of the EMDR-related therapies Attachment-Focused EMDR and Resource Tapping. An innovator and expert in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) she has trained thousands of clinicians in the United States and abroad. She is the author of several books and videos on EMDR, including, Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma, A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR, Rewiring the Addicted Brain with EMDR-Based Treatment, and Tapping In.  

Dr. Parnell brings a client-centered attachment-focused approach to the work and emphasizes the importance of a compassionate, safe, therapeutic relationship. 

She sees the adaptation of protocols and procedures according to the psychological, emotional, cultural, and developmental needs of the individual client as essential.  Dr. Parnell uses a holistic approach to healing trauma that focuses on the integration of body, mind, and spirit. Learn more about Laurel Parnell at www.parnellemdr.com.

As a psychologist, teacher, and author with over forty years’ experience as a meditator and spiritual practitioner, Laurel Parnell, has been actively integrating psychological and spiritual work throughout her career. She is the executive director of the Parnell Institute for Attachment-Focused EMDR and the author of several books and videos on EMDR, including, Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma and A Therapist’s Guide to EMDR.

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