Big Sur, CA, USA
22 upcoming retreats
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
An immersive vocal embodiment retreat using deep sensing, visualisation, somatic exploration and playful vocal exercises to release blocks to expression. Includes physical touch and group embrace as p…
with Odeya Nini
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
A workshop offering meditations, bardo teachings, and discussion groups to help participants prepare for death — their own and that of loved ones. Explores how acknowledging mortality allows us to liv…
with Andrew Holecek
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
An interactive workshop integrating art therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy, using drawing, collage, painting, writing and group dialogue to explore emotions and dysfunctional thought patterns.…
with Pamela Hayes Malkoff
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
A week of daily 4–8 mile hikes through the Big Sur wilds combined with bare-awareness contemplative practice, hot springs soaking and informal evening gatherings. Requires comfort with moderate to vig…
with Steven Harper
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
A creative response lab where participants build a communal "living altar" and move, sing, grieve, dream, draw and rest together. Led by folk-soul duo MaMuse, with threshold-crossing rituals opening e…
with MaMuse
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
Ten hours of experiential somatic practice blending nervous system regulation, intuitive movement, memory reprocessing, dance as ritual and Eastern mindfulness traditions. No prior experience with som…
with Danielle Rubio
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
A practical, evidence-based workshop using shadow work to uncover the hidden forces behind self-limiting patterns. Participants leave with boundaries, accountability and clear action steps toward thei…
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
A five-day retreat combining movement, nature and sound healing to release fear, inhibition and judgment and reconnect body with mind. Includes an additional $55 in faculty tuition.
with Jovinna Chan
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
Therapeutic yoga, qigong, restorative practice and meditation aimed at maintaining ease and grace of movement as the body ages. Suited to anyone with a basic understanding of yoga; modifications given…
with Tracy Lease
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
A Relational Gestalt workshop using dyads, repeating questions and open seat sessions to build awareness of how we communicate. Explores how past patterns interfere with contact available in the here…
with Dorothy Charles
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
Authentic movement and somatic practices grounded in Jungian and depth psychology, exploring the body as a gateway to innate healing currents. Oriented toward therapists; 10 CE credits available for a…
with Barbara Holifield
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
Dr. Shauna Shapiro teaches the brain science of mindfulness and self-compassion alongside science-based practices to ease anxiety and deepen belonging. Includes an additional $390 of faculty tuition;…
with Shauna Shapiro
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
A sex-positive, consent-based somatic workshop exploring shame, grief and erotic aliveness through movement, consensual touch and group interaction. Open to individuals, couples and all gender and rel…
with Victor Warring
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
Mindfulness, guided meditation and experiential exercises drawn from the Internal Family Systems model, combined with ancestral wisdom, to transform personal, cultural and intergenerational trauma. 20…
with Tamala Floyd
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
An interactive workshop weaving samatha, vipassana and metta meditation with neuroscience research and live cello performances of J.S. Bach. No previous experience in meditation, music or brain resear…
with Barbara Bogatin , Nikki Mirghafori , Clifford Saron
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
Daily 4–8 mile hikes on Big Sur's mountain trails woven with simple awareness practices, silence and reflection, returning each day to Esalen's hot springs. Participants should be prepared for invigor…
with Steven Harper
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
Guided outdoor meditation, nature attunement practices and shared inquiry exploring mindfulness with nature rather than merely in it. Includes an additional $100 faculty tuition.
with Mark Coleman , Lori Schwanbeck
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
An integrative retreat blending the movement language of 5Rhythms® with trauma-sensitive mindfulness, including grounding techniques, external anchors and practices for agency and consent. Includes an…
with Lucia Horan , David Treleaven
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
A women's retreat rooted in the RITUAL 13 Moons mystery school, with earth ceremony for the Autumn Equinox and Harvest Full Moon, trance, divination, moon magic, yoga and meditation. Includes sharing…
with Sianna Sherman
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
Dancing Gabrielle Roth's Heartbeat Map through the five stages of healing, integrated with seated meditation on the Brahma viharas. Includes an additional $100 in tuition.
with Lucia Horan
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
Ceremonial work with wisdom carrier Erika Gagnon including a traditional South American healing ceremony, sound healing and water blessing prayer ceremony, exploring ancestral wounds and the origins o…
with Erika Gagnon
Esalen Institute · Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA, USA
An immersion in clowning as a spiritual practice, using improvisation, meditation, altered states and movement to access the authentic, playful self. Primarily nonverbal physical games and rituals; ph…
with Jet Eveleth