Esalen Institute is open! However, Highway 1 to the south is closed — please review the current travel advisory.
Learn More.

Learn more.

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.

Learn more.

Stella Resnick

Stella Resnick earned her PhD from Indiana University and trained with both Fritz Perls and Laura Perls, the founders of Gestalt Therapy. Stella has focused her professional attention on the ability to embrace pleasure in life and the critical role sexuality plays in holistic health, mental and physical well-being, and happiness in intimate relationships. Stella trained in Psychodrama with co-founder Zerka Moreno. For the past 14 years, Stella has been a part of a peer study group with Dr. Allan Schore, a trailblazing theoretician in the field of neurobiology, on the brain-body-mind connection. Stella has written three books. Her latest book, Body-to-Body Intimacy: Transformation Through Love, Sex, and Neurobiology (2019), is the basis for her development of the Embodied Relational Sex Therapy (ERST) training. 

Stella Resnick, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in Los Angeles, CA, who specializes in couples and sex therapy. She studied Gestalt therapy with founders Fritz and Laura Perls and Psychodrama with co-founder Zerka Moreno. She trains and supervises therapists and has created Embodied Relational Sex Therapy (ERST), a sex therapy training that she offers on Zoom. She has written three books. Her latest book is Body-to-Body Intimacy: Transformation Through Love, Sex and Neurobiology.

Upcoming Workshops

Upcoming Workshops Count:

No items found.
No items found.
All Past Workshops
No items found.

Stella Resnick

Stella Resnick earned her PhD from Indiana University and trained with both Fritz Perls and Laura Perls, the founders of Gestalt Therapy. Stella has focused her professional attention on the ability to embrace pleasure in life and the critical role sexuality plays in holistic health, mental and physical well-being, and happiness in intimate relationships. Stella trained in Psychodrama with co-founder Zerka Moreno. For the past 14 years, Stella has been a part of a peer study group with Dr. Allan Schore, a trailblazing theoretician in the field of neurobiology, on the brain-body-mind connection. Stella has written three books. Her latest book, Body-to-Body Intimacy: Transformation Through Love, Sex, and Neurobiology (2019), is the basis for her development of the Embodied Relational Sex Therapy (ERST) training. 

Stella Resnick, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in Los Angeles, CA, who specializes in couples and sex therapy. She studied Gestalt therapy with founders Fritz and Laura Perls and Psychodrama with co-founder Zerka Moreno. She trains and supervises therapists and has created Embodied Relational Sex Therapy (ERST), a sex therapy training that she offers on Zoom. She has written three books. Her latest book is Body-to-Body Intimacy: Transformation Through Love, Sex and Neurobiology.

Website

Upcoming Workshops

No items found.
No upcoming workshops.