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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Malachi Stone

Malachi Stone is an Esalen-trained massage practitioner and teacher who brings a wealth of knowledge from various modalities of the human potential movement. His other training during his eighteen years at the Institute includes Gestalt awareness practice, Dance, Cranial Sacral Therapy 1, Ayurveda, and Permaculture.  “Presence and patience lie at the core of my work.” As a long-time surfer, the wisdom Malachi gathers from the ocean translates into his practice and teaching.

Malachi Stone is an Esalen-trained massage practitioner and teacher who brings a wealth of knowledge from various modalities of the human potential movement. His other training during his eighteen years at the Institute includes Gestalt awareness practice, Dance, Cranial Sacral Therapy 1, Ayurveda, and Permaculture.

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