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.
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Think Like A Multiverse: A Self-Guided Explorations Series

June 23–27, 2025

Ramzi Fawaz and Teachers in Residence

As part of Esalen’s Self-Guided Explorations this week, participants can engage with Ramzi Fawaz’s offering, Think Like a Multiverse: Pathways to Wonder, Kinship, and Radical Openness— a vibrant, mind-expanding invitation to imagine identity, community, and transformation through the lens of multiplicity. Drawing from speculative fiction, queer theory, and the political imagination of comic books and fantasy literature, Fawaz leads participants into the shimmering possibility of a world where contradiction is generative, and difference is a source of connection. His sessions are equal parts lecture, dialogue, and creative inquiry.

Throughout the week, guests can deepen this intellectual exploration through daily embodiment and movement classes — all included in the Self-Guided Explorations experience — allowing for a full-bodied integration of the themes explored in Ramzi's sessions.

Ramzi Fawaz

Ramzi Fawaz is an award-winning queer cultural critic, educator, and public speaker. He is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of two books, The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics (2016) and Queer Forms (2022), both published by NYU Press. 

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