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Healing, rejuvenation, and rebirth are essential for living with vitality and awakening the power of radiant love. In the yoga tradition, there are seven key energy centers called chakras that support transformation in body, mind, and heart. The extraordinary process of alchemy through the chakras helps to turn wounds into wisdom and pain into love.
A weekend workshop designed to help participants cultivate emotional intimacy, deepen their connections, and celebrate their loves. With lots of laughs and transformational depth, you will have the opportunity to compassionately explore the scars and shadows that hold you back from full freedom and authenticity. In the yoga tradition, seven key energy centers called chakras support transformation in the body, mind, and heart. The extraordinary process of alchemy through the chakras helps to turn wounds into wisdom and pain into love.
Together we’ll explore the alchemical practices of:
This retreat is a healing pilgrimage through the body temple with these key practices: asana (physical postures of yoga), pranayama (breathing techniques), mantra (healing sound vibration), mudra (energy seals), meditation (expanded states of awareness), and vichara (self-inquiry).
Alchemy of Love with Sianna Sherman and Masood Ali Khan embodies four thematic journeys with the chakras. Each session includes asana, pranayama, mantra, mudra, meditation, and self-inquiry. Sianna’s nurturing and invigorating style is elevated through her guided storytelling, shadow work, and soul reflection. Masood’s mesmerizing music creates a sonic alchemy for all the practices.
New Moon Radiance — A welcoming, grounding practice with the New Moon energy, focusing on root support, setting the foundation, calling in intentions for healing and rebirth, and soaking in deep rest for full-body restoration. This session focuses on the first two chakras connected with earth and water.
Power to Transform — A more up-tempo practice of core work, functional movement, basic arm balances and backbends, dynamic breathing techniques, and creative patterns of movement that awaken the transformative power of clear vision and love. This session focuses on the chakras connected with fire and air.
Renewal and Rejuvenation — A deep and soulful session that explores hip openers, forward folds, and twists with expanded states of consciousness through mantra and meditation. This session focuses on the three upper chakras with the elements of space, unification, and transcendent energies. There will be a Chakra Radiance dance party with mantra and music to lift up the prayers.
Awaken the Muse — A soulful practice of vinyasa flow, heart fire vision, and celebration of radiance through all seven chakras. This session honors the alchemical journey of the creative energy as the Sun moves into Gemini, awakening the muse in you to bring your magic to the world.
Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Sianna Sherman (she/her) has been a celebrated international yoga teacher for three decades. She is the visionary of the Rasa Yoga Collective, Mythic Yoga Flow®, and RITUAL. As a gifted storyteller, she awakens the imagination through the language of the soul.
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Masood Ali Khan (he/him) is one of the pioneers of the hand pan with a mesmerizing combination of sacred mantras infused with the power of the heart #Bhaktihandpankirtan
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Friday
8:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Saturday
9:30 am – 12:45 pm
3:00 pm – 6:15 pm
Sunday
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Summer Groovers will experience Esalen in a format similar to our Self Guided Explorations workshops. Each Summer Groove week or weekend will open and close with a circle, and be filled with festive, nostalgic activities that harken back to those days of yore.
More activities can be found on our open class schedule.
See general schedule information including arrival, departure and meal times.
Click Register Now to view availability of accommodations and all-inclusive, program-specific tuition. Please note that not all accommodation levels are available for every workshop and additional faculty fees may apply.
We offer scholarship funds for those with financial need. Learn more.
Please note: On Wednesday September 20, online registration may be unavailable for up to 15 minutes while system maintenance is performed. If the 'Register Now' page does not load, please wait about 15 minutes and try again.
Click Register Now to view availability of accommodations and all-inclusive tuition that includes lodging, three meals per day, access to the baths, and all activities on the Summer Groove schedule.
We offer scholarship funds for those with financial need. Learn more.
For this workshop, you will register and pay for accommodations and tuition in two separate steps.
Second, click Book Accommodations from this page and enter the password to complete your reservation to stay at Esalen.
Prices for accommodations include your lodging, meals, open classes, and use of the baths and other facilities. View partner program accommodations pricing.
As of June 30, 2023 we no longer require a negative COVID test at the time of check in. Please read our current COVID safety guidelines for complete details prior to booking your stay.
All guests and faculty must provide proof of negative test results at time of check-in. Please read our current COVID safety guidelines for complete details prior to booking your stay.
In addition to proof of vaccination, all guests and faculty must provide proof of negative test results at time of check-in. Please read our current COVID safety guidelines for complete details prior to booking your stay.
Effective January 7, 2022 in response to the rapid spread of the new Omicron variant, all guests and faculty will provide proof of negative PCR, NAAT, or antigen test results at time of check-in. The test must be taken within 72 hours nd results must come from a laboratory or healthcare provider.Please read our updated COVID safety guidelines prior to booking your stay.
Effective December 15 in accordance with new guidance from Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Health, all guests, students, staff, residents, and faculty are required to wear masks in all indoor public settings, irrespective of vaccine status, for the next four weeks (December 15, 2021 through January 15, 2022). Please read our updated COVID safety guidelines prior to booking your stay.
Effective November 19, 2021, in accordance with new guidance from the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, all guests, students, staff, residents, and faculty are no longer required to wear masks indoors on campus. Please read our updated COVID safety guidelines prior to booking your stay.
Starting November 5, 2021, due to substantial levels of COVID-19 transmission in Monterey County, a mask mandate established by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors will go into effect. Please read our COVID safety guidelines prior to booking your stay.
All guests will be required to provide proof of vaccination upon arrival starting September 3, 2021. Please read our COVID safety guidelines prior to booking your stay.
Masks are no longer mandated indoors or outdoors, except during massage sessions. Guests are not required to provide testing or vaccination verification before arriving on campus. Please read our COVID safety guidelines prior to booking your stay.
Healing, rejuvenation, and rebirth are essential for living with vitality and awakening the power of radiant love. In the yoga tradition, there are seven key energy centers called chakras that support transformation in body, mind, and heart. The extraordinary process of alchemy through the chakras helps to turn wounds into wisdom and pain into love.
A weekend workshop designed to help participants cultivate emotional intimacy, deepen their connections, and celebrate their loves. With lots of laughs and transformational depth, you will have the opportunity to compassionately explore the scars and shadows that hold you back from full freedom and authenticity. In the yoga tradition, seven key energy centers called chakras support transformation in the body, mind, and heart. The extraordinary process of alchemy through the chakras helps to turn wounds into wisdom and pain into love.
Together we’ll explore the alchemical practices of:
This retreat is a healing pilgrimage through the body temple with these key practices: asana (physical postures of yoga), pranayama (breathing techniques), mantra (healing sound vibration), mudra (energy seals), meditation (expanded states of awareness), and vichara (self-inquiry).
Alchemy of Love with Sianna Sherman and Masood Ali Khan embodies four thematic journeys with the chakras. Each session includes asana, pranayama, mantra, mudra, meditation, and self-inquiry. Sianna’s nurturing and invigorating style is elevated through her guided storytelling, shadow work, and soul reflection. Masood’s mesmerizing music creates a sonic alchemy for all the practices.
New Moon Radiance — A welcoming, grounding practice with the New Moon energy, focusing on root support, setting the foundation, calling in intentions for healing and rebirth, and soaking in deep rest for full-body restoration. This session focuses on the first two chakras connected with earth and water.
Power to Transform — A more up-tempo practice of core work, functional movement, basic arm balances and backbends, dynamic breathing techniques, and creative patterns of movement that awaken the transformative power of clear vision and love. This session focuses on the chakras connected with fire and air.
Renewal and Rejuvenation — A deep and soulful session that explores hip openers, forward folds, and twists with expanded states of consciousness through mantra and meditation. This session focuses on the three upper chakras with the elements of space, unification, and transcendent energies. There will be a Chakra Radiance dance party with mantra and music to lift up the prayers.
Awaken the Muse — A soulful practice of vinyasa flow, heart fire vision, and celebration of radiance through all seven chakras. This session honors the alchemical journey of the creative energy as the Sun moves into Gemini, awakening the muse in you to bring your magic to the world.
Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Sianna Sherman (she/her) has been a celebrated international yoga teacher for three decades. She is the visionary of the Rasa Yoga Collective, Mythic Yoga Flow®, and RITUAL. As a gifted storyteller, she awakens the imagination through the language of the soul.
Masood Ali Khan (he/him) is one of the pioneers of the hand pan with a mesmerizing combination of sacred mantras infused with the power of the heart #Bhaktihandpankirtan
May 19–21, 2023
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Healing, rejuvenation, and rebirth are essential for living with vitality and awakening the power of radiant love. In the yoga tradition, there are seven key energy centers called chakras that support transformation in body, mind, and heart. The extraordinary process of alchemy through the chakras helps to turn wounds into wisdom and pain into love.
A weekend workshop designed to help participants cultivate emotional intimacy, deepen their connections, and celebrate their loves. With lots of laughs and transformational depth, you will have the opportunity to compassionately explore the scars and shadows that hold you back from full freedom and authenticity. In the yoga tradition, seven key energy centers called chakras support transformation in the body, mind, and heart. The extraordinary process of alchemy through the chakras helps to turn wounds into wisdom and pain into love.
Together we’ll explore the alchemical practices of:
This retreat is a healing pilgrimage through the body temple with these key practices: asana (physical postures of yoga), pranayama (breathing techniques), mantra (healing sound vibration), mudra (energy seals), meditation (expanded states of awareness), and vichara (self-inquiry).
Alchemy of Love with Sianna Sherman and Masood Ali Khan embodies four thematic journeys with the chakras. Each session includes asana, pranayama, mantra, mudra, meditation, and self-inquiry. Sianna’s nurturing and invigorating style is elevated through her guided storytelling, shadow work, and soul reflection. Masood’s mesmerizing music creates a sonic alchemy for all the practices.
New Moon Radiance — A welcoming, grounding practice with the New Moon energy, focusing on root support, setting the foundation, calling in intentions for healing and rebirth, and soaking in deep rest for full-body restoration. This session focuses on the first two chakras connected with earth and water.
Power to Transform — A more up-tempo practice of core work, functional movement, basic arm balances and backbends, dynamic breathing techniques, and creative patterns of movement that awaken the transformative power of clear vision and love. This session focuses on the chakras connected with fire and air.
Renewal and Rejuvenation — A deep and soulful session that explores hip openers, forward folds, and twists with expanded states of consciousness through mantra and meditation. This session focuses on the three upper chakras with the elements of space, unification, and transcendent energies. There will be a Chakra Radiance dance party with mantra and music to lift up the prayers.
Awaken the Muse — A soulful practice of vinyasa flow, heart fire vision, and celebration of radiance through all seven chakras. This session honors the alchemical journey of the creative energy as the Sun moves into Gemini, awakening the muse in you to bring your magic to the world.
Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Sianna Sherman (she/her) has been a celebrated international yoga teacher for three decades. She is the visionary of the Rasa Yoga Collective, Mythic Yoga Flow®, and RITUAL. As a gifted storyteller, she awakens the imagination through the language of the soul.
Masood Ali Khan (he/him) is one of the pioneers of the hand pan with a mesmerizing combination of sacred mantras infused with the power of the heart #Bhaktihandpankirtan
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