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Journalist Dina Ruiz explores and reflects on the Institute's 60 years of growth, transformation, and healing through the pursuit of human potential.
Travel expert Justin Walter shares his favorite festivals and locations that “feed the soul,” including Esalen Institute, Burning Man, and Lightning in a Bottle.
Post '60s Psychedelics Renaissance: Stan Grof developed the consciousness-altering practice of Holotropic Breathwork while living at Esalen. Stacia Butterfield, a Grof student-turned-Esalen faculty, led an unprecedented experience.
Marques Redd, PhD and Mikael Owunna return to Esalen for a workshop focused on African cosmological traditions using imagery, movement, writing, and rituals to help participants transcend personal blocks and move forward.
Justin Michael Williams on how his workshops help people expand their human potential, which can help increase their productivity and improve their performance.
Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy speaks about the birthplace of the human potential movement, transformational practices, and Soviet-American Citizen Diplomacy with Roger Walsh and John Dupuy of the DEEP Transformation podcast.
Discover how “dreamers in hot tubs” organized the first Soviet-American “space bridge” — the 1980s version of video chat — and brought astronauts, writers, and politicians together to “thaw out” then-frozen international relations.
Pop music’s most unpredictable player chats about the Esalen community, becoming an artist in residence, and The Alchemy of Pop Music, the songwriting course she led during her two-and-a-half-week stint on campus.
Voices of Esalen’s Sam Stern and Stephen Dubner discuss the noted genius and theoretical physicist’s time at the Institute and his 1984 “Tiny Machines” lecture.
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