Esalen Video Shorts

Rod Stryker’s new program, Luminous Coherence: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science, Lasting Freedom, invites you into a state of unified awareness where old patterns soften and the deeper self comes into view. Blending tantric practice with modern neuroscience, this workshop offers a rare chance to rediscover coherence, intuition, and the possibility of real transformation.

The award-winning author, internationally acclaimed speaker, and interspiritual teacher returns to reveal the sacred in the everyday. Mirabai Starr shares thoughts on her upcoming workshop, Ordinary Mysticism: Reclaiming the Landscape of Your Life as Sacred Ground. “Time together at Esalen is an opportunity to refill the cup that has been drained by the fire of suffering,,” says Starr. ”We can be a source of steadiness and nourishment in the world.”

Curious about Hapé, the sacred tobacco medicine used for centuries by Indigenous peoples of the Amazon? Join Glauber April 3–5, 2026 for Sacred Tobacco: Hapé and the Art of Presence, where you’ll learn about its cultural roots, help prepare it by hand, and experience it within a contemplative ceremonial setting designed to deepen presence and awareness.

What does it mean to belong? Coming up in March with Embodied Belonging: Weaving Together Self, Community, and Earth through 5Rhythms and Ecopsychology, Douglas Drummond, Jeanine M. Canty, and guest musicians Sanga of the Valley and Nick Ayers invite you into movement, contemplation, and dialogue that reconnects what modern life so often pulls apart. Through 5Rhythms® moving meditation, ecopsychology teachings, time in nature, and courageous community practice, you’ll explore the deep fulfillment of connection. Come prepared to move, to feel, and to rediscover the long thread of belonging that weaves us back home.

Come ready to experiment, reflect, and discover new pathways of stillness in The Inverted Tree with dhruva (March 9–13, 2026). Through movement, meditation, mantra, and imagination, we’ll explore the spine as an “inverted tree,” rooted in the subtle and branching into the body. Expect pranayama, meditative movement, ancient yogic texts, sound, poetry, and deep somatic inquiry.

Gitanjali D’Costa’s experiential work unfolds through a thoughtfully curated arc of practices that explore the living relationship between Shiva, the principle of pure awareness, and Shakti, the force of creation and form. At Esalen, participants are invited into a deeper intimacy with presence, creativity, and the generative pulse of life.