Steven Hickman, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and associate clinical professor in the UC San Diego Department of Family Medicine & Public Health. He is the executive director and director of professional training of the nonprofit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion and the founding director of the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. He has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for 17 years and has trained teachers of MBSR and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Steve is an MSC teacher trainer and leads MSC intensives and workshops around the world.

Steven Harper is a wilderness leader, author, personal and organizational facilitator, and Big Sur resident. A student of meditation since 1972, he weaves Buddhist psychology, mindfulness practices, and neuropsychology into his work. He is a long-time student and facilitator of Gestalt Practice in the tradition of Esalen’s co-founder, Richard Price.

Steven Kotler is a New York Times best-selling author of The Rise of Superman and co-founder and director of research for the Flow Genome Project. His articles have appeared widely, including in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Wired, and Forbes.

Steve Paulson is the executive producer of the award-winning public radio show, To the Best of Our Knowledge. He has reported for NPR and written for Salon, Slate, the Huffington Post, and Nautilus. His book is Atoms and Eden: Conversations on Religion and Science.

Steve Sorkin, PhD, is a psychologist who worked with R.D. Laing and the Philadelphia Association for several years. He has provided a range of clinical services; held several faculty positions; served as a graduate school president and dean, and as associate executive director of the American Psychological Association.

Steve Van Zandt has been a workshop presenter for more than 40 years, a K-6 classroom teacher, and is currently the Principal of San Mateo Outdoor Education. At Esalen, he co-leads a summer family workshop with the Banana Slug String Band.

For over four decades, Stewart Cubley has pioneered a way of integrative and creative living through the practice of process painting. His method is one of respectful questioning, inviting you to extend yourself into new areas of thought and feeling.

Stuart Mangrum is a longtime co-conspirator and writing partner of Burning Man Founder Larry Harvey. Stuart was a pioneer settler of Black Rock City, and has been active in the community for 25 years. He currently serves as Burning Man’s Education Director.

Sunshine Zerda holds numerous RYT certifications, and she has created multiple integrative offerings that combine vinyasa, pilates, high-intensity interval training, bodyweight movements, and sound healing practices.  

Susan Anderson is a psychotherapist with 30 years of research and clinical experience working with the victims of abandonment trauma and loss. Founder of “Abandonment Recovery,” her books include Journey from Abandonment to Healing, Taming Your Outer Child, Black Swan: 12 Lessons of Abandonment Recovery, and Abandonment Recovery Workbook.

Susan Aposhyan has been teaching and practicing meditation for 45 years. She is the author of Natural Intelligence: Body-Mind Integration and Human Development and Body-Mind Psychotherapy. Susan trains professionals in her Body-Mind Psychotherapy, integrating science with healing and meditative experience.

Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN, is a contemplative scientist, a mindfulness teacher, and the author of A Future We Can Love: Effective Approaches to the Climate Crisis that Begin with Us. She is the former president of the Mind & Life Institute.

Susan Bernstein helps people navigate transitions by integrating their embodied intelligence. Her transformational approaches blend left-brain logic honed over 20 years in corporate America with right-brain creative movement gleaned from pioneering research in mind-body psychology.

Susan Burns is a Skoll awardee and co-founder of Global Footprint Network. She is currently leading the U.S. expansion of the Poverty Stoplight, a mobile technology that empowers families to be the architects of their own living conditions.

Susan Collin Marks, Search for Common Ground's Peace Ambassador, is an international peacemaker, teacher, healer, counselor, author, and recipient of multiple honors. She combines fierce pragmatism with a deep sense of our common humanity and spirituality.

Susan Fisher, MA, MBA, is the co-founder, teacher, guide, and speaker of 9 Energies. Since 2012, Susan has worked with thousands of people to identify and deepen the access to each person’s unique activation center. Susan is the author of 9 Energies - Practices for Presence.

Susan Harper has been teaching and contributing to Continuum since 1975. She is the developer of Body of Relating Training, inspired by the teachings of Chris Price's Gestalt Awareness Practice, and she co-developed Portals of Perception with Hubert Godard.

Susan Hauser founded Now Power Yoga, a diverse multi-modality studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. Susan credits yoga with getting her through raising her two sons after her husband passed away from cancer. She shares her passion for yoga through teaching.

Susan Morgan, MSN, RN, CS, is a couples psychotherapist in private practice and a faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. She emphasizes body awareness and empathy in her teaching, and has co-led retreats with William Morgan since 1999.

Susan C. Steiner OTR/L, CST-D, has an undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Rhode Island. She is a 1979 graduate in occupational therapy from the University of Pennsylvania. As an occupational therapist, Susan has worked professionally with school pediatric programs in Rhode Island. She has been affiliated with the Upledger Institute International since 1989 and has been an instructor for CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release II since 1994.

Suzanne Scurlock is the author of Reclaiming Your Body and Full Body Presence, a CranioSacral therapy instructor for the Upledger Institute since 1987, and creator of the Healing From the Core® curriculum. She specializes in conscious awareness and its relationship to the healing process and has taught at Esalen since 1994.

Suze Allen is a writer, editor, and coach. She is the owner of Manuscript Mentor and director of education and resident playwright at 3Girls Theatre. Suze is coauthor of The Time-Starved Woman's Guide to Emotional Wellbeing with SD Shanti.

Suzee Grilley has practiced yoga since 1980. She is a former professional dancer, choreographer, and educator whohas studied many styles of yoga. She teaches the slow, healing, Yin style of yoga that prolonged her career in dance and aids her practice of meditation.

Swirl Jordan Moore, SWIRL LIFE founder and teacher/guide/facilitator at the Vitalist Institute has been leading people through self love to full expression for eight years.

Sybil Krauter teaches Cortical Field Reeducation® and Integrated Awareness® internationally. Her background is in education, clinical hypnosis, and NLP. Her focus is on how we create reality.

Sydney Spears, PhD, LCSW, LSCSW, TCTSY-F, is a licensed clinical social worker, adaptive yoga facilitator, mindfulness instructor, and professor in the Kansas City area. She is passionately committed to advancing social justice efforts through providing and maintaining a non-oppressive, trauma-sensitive, and culturally responsive practice.

Sylvia Boorstein, PhD, a co-founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, has taught internationally since 1991. She is the author of five books on Buddhism and mindfulness practice, most recently Happiness is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life.

Passionate about healing people, the collective, and the world, Sylvie offers powerful tools that help participants access the wellness, wonder, and wisdom that can only be found with nature. She is a certified mindfulness teacher, nature-therapy guide, and Emmy-nominated filmmaker.

Sy Safransky is editor and publisher of The Sun.

Tama Kieves is the best-selling author of A Year Without Fear: 365 days of Magnificence, This Time I Dance!, and Inspired & Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in Your Life’s Work! Featured on Oprah radio, she is a speaker and a leading career/success coach.

Tamala Floyd, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, author, and retreat facilitator. Her latest book, Listening When Parts Speak: A Practical Guide to Healing with Internal Family Systems Therapy and Ancestor Wisdom, offers healing for personal and generational trauma.

Tanya McGinnity is an international facilitator and coach. Her passion is supporting groups and individuals with cutting-edge tools for self-mastery. Originally from Northern Ireland, she now lives in Barcelona. Tanya also runs transformation workshops in Barcelona and online groups. She is a qualified yoga and tai chi instructor.

As the instructors of our daily open classes, Teachers in Residence lead you in a variety of activities that may include yoga and dance-based movement, journaling sessions, breath work, and other pursuits designed to encourage joy and mindfulness.

Teague O’Malley (he/him/tig) is a meditation teacher and contemplative artist, weaving together evidence-based methodology with his creativity and open heart. Teague  is a practitioner of the world’s leading, secular stress reduction and emotional balance meditation programs, bringing modern science together with ancient wisdom and experiential art.

Teddi Dean was led by curiosity from life as a Southern California pro skateboarder to travels as a student of the Buddha. Teddi’s approach to teaching yoga and meditation is clear, practical, and grounding, and he is the Modern Elder Academy mindfulness leader.

Teja Bell has more than 40 years of experience practicing and teaching energy arts and Buddhist meditation. A Rinzai Zen master and teacher of Aikido (6th degree black belt) and qigong, he leads retreats and trainings internationally.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is one of very few masters of the Tibetan Bön Dzogchen tradition living in the West. He founded Ligmincha International, and is known for his ability to make Tibetan practices easily accessible to all students. Rinpoche is the author of nine books, including Wonders of the Natural Mind and the Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep.

Terces Engelhart is co-owner of Café Gratitude. She has coauthored three books with Matthew Engelhart, and when they are not on the road speaking or teaching, she and Matthew live on “Be Love” Organic Farm where they grow food for their seven restaurants.

Terry Hunt is a licensed psychologist, bioenergetic therapist, and longtime Esalen instructor. Specializing in body-centered psychotherapy, he works with individuals, couples, and people struggling with trauma and addictive behaviors. He also consults nationally with families in intergenerational transitions.

Terry Patten is the co-author, with Ken Wilber, of Integral Life Practice. He is a pioneering innovator advancing the evolutionary edge of spirituality and a facilitator of intimate collective awakening. He has a lifelong commitment to social activism.

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The Banana Slug String Band is a group of lovable musicians and educators from the coastal redwoods of Northern California. Since 1985 the Slugs have dedicated themselves to making great music for kids that teaches science and a love of this green earth.

Isaac and Thorald Koren, The Brothers Koren, are transformational artists and facilitators who help people reclaim creativity, emotional freedom, and embodied expression through trauma-aware, voice-positive practices. Creators of The Songwriter’s Journey and founders of the Your Big Voice Foundation.

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Thomas Matus, PhD, has been a monk at New Camaldoli Hermitage since 1962. As a teacher of comparative mysticism, he is the co-author of Yoga and the Jesus Prayer and Belonging to the Universe with Fritjof Capra and Brother David Steindl-Rast.

Thomas Michael Fortel is a long-time yoga practitioner/teacher, influenced by the Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Anusara styles of Hatha yoga, and drawing from his devotional experience in Bhakti yoga. He travels widely, sharing his love for yoga.

Thrity Umrigar is the bestselling author of a memoir, seven novels -- including The Space Between Us and Everybody's Son -- and a children's book, When I Carried You in My Belly. A recipient of the Nieman fellowship to Harvard, she is the Armington Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University.

Tias Little synthesizes classical yoga, Sanskrit, Buddhist studies, anatomy, massage, and trauma healing. He has studied B.K.S Iyengar and Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga systems, and is a long-time student of the meditative arts and Buddhism. He is the author of The Thread of Breath, Meditations on a Dewdrop, and Yoga of the Subtle Body.

Timothy J. Beyer, PhD, is a psychologist and co-founder of the Center for Courageous Living in Beverly Hills, California. In practice for more than 16 years, his passion lies in helping others clarify and achieve their personal goals and realize their best life.

Tino Plank, MA, MSN, RN, is a nurse educator working in end-of-life care with a background in grief counseling. Tino has degrees in nursing and multicultural spirituality, has taught postgraduate nursing courses, and is the co-developer of the Healthy Empathy® program.

Todd Norian, E-RYT 500, is the founder of Ashaya Yoga®. Todd combines precise, therapeutic alignment with heart while holding the intention to awaken others to their true nature – unlimited joy.

Todd Williams has practiced and taught Zero Balancing for nearly two decades under the guidance of Dr. Fritz Smith. He is also a dance artist and movement educator, as well as a lifelong yoga and meditation practitioner.

Tomas Prietto, CFR, CST, is one of the longstanding creative forces in the Cortical Field Re-Education® community. He has spent the past two decades studying a variety of modalities, including Craniosacral Therapy, Visceral Manipulation, Tai Ji, and Integrated Awareness®.

Tom Birmingham is an award-winning artist, writer, photographer, and teacher. In 2009, he and his wife, Erin Lee Gafill, were honored as Champions of the Arts by the Arts Council for Monterey County and the United States Congress for their community arts and education work in Big Sur. He is the founder of 26 Letter Press, a boutique publisher.

Little Bear is the Tribal Chairman of the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County. He is a traditional cultural resource specialist, Tribal Archeology Monitor, and Wildland Consultant. Little Bear has a deep history at the Esalen Institute, a sacred site for the Esselen, and has led a lifetime of retreats centering around initiation, ritual and ceremony between humans and their relationship between each other, land and Spirit. 

Tom Myers directs Anatomy Trains, which runs continuing education classes for manual therapists and movement educators worldwide. He is the author of Anatomy Trains and co-author of Fascial Release for Structural Balance. Tom studied with Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Buckminster Fuller, and has practiced integrative bodywork since 1975.

Tommy Rosen is a Vinyasa and Kundalini yoga teacher who focuses on yoga for addiction recovery. His blogs and articles have appeared in LA Yoga, the Huffington Post, Mind Body Online, and The Daily Love. Tommy’s first book is Recovery 2.0.

Toni Bergins, MEd has helped thousands of people break out of their boxes and move into new stories through embodied practice and emotional empowerment. As the creator of JourneyDance™ transformational movement, Toni leads people back home to their body. As a performer and singer/songwriter, Toni inspires people to find their authentic voice.