Esalen Institute is open! However, Highway 1 to the south is closed — please review the alternate route directions.
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.
Do you yearn to feel more pleasure, joy, and belonging? Do you long to recover the connection between your mind, body, and spirit?
Come re-learn the strength and wisdom held within and expressed through your body. We will walk a path into your authentic core being, becoming more conscious and reconnecting with our natural essential resources, others, and nature.
In a safe group setting, this workshop will provide time and space to inhabit and discover our bodies more fully. With enhanced awareness, we’ll gain a greater understanding of our internal states, our ability to affect them, and how they impact our relationships.
Each day, we will focus on different developmental rights — the right to see, to speak, to feel, and more — and explore sections of our bodies with breath, sensations, emotions, and thoughts using contemplation, slow body movement, bio-energetic exercises, and group dynamics. We will listen to our inner wisdom through individual and group exercises to awaken the mutual intelligence that promotes collective transformation.
In this workshop, we’ll discover:
These practices are organized according to birthing and developmental stages, exploring the body armoring — physical protective reactions to life experiences — that separate us from our biological origin as a liberated, healthy body.
Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Marlon A. Guarino's unique approach to healing is deeply rooted in the mind-body-spirit-nature connection. He facilitates resolving issues using body-mind-spirit centered (somatic) experiential psychotherapies and integrating contemplative traditions and Indigenous practices.
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From her experience as a psychologist and social activist, Lorenia Parada Ampudia offers different mindful awareness practices as basic tools for learning about our body-mind relationships for self-discovery, self-regulation, and self-leadership. Identifying and finding clarity in understanding the context and dynamics of our own birth, early relationships with caregivers, and our body expression language are of great support for any transformation toward cultivating a healthy mind, healthy sexuality, and embodied harmonious relationships.
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Monday
5:00 pm – 5:45 * How to Drop into Esalen *
7:15 pm – 9:30 pm
Tuesday
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Wednesday
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Thursday
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Friday
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.
Do you yearn to feel more pleasure, joy, and belonging? Do you long to recover the connection between your mind, body, and spirit?
Come re-learn the strength and wisdom held within and expressed through your body. We will walk a path into your authentic core being, becoming more conscious and reconnecting with our natural essential resources, others, and nature.
In a safe group setting, this workshop will provide time and space to inhabit and discover our bodies more fully. With enhanced awareness, we’ll gain a greater understanding of our internal states, our ability to affect them, and how they impact our relationships.
Each day, we will focus on different developmental rights — the right to see, to speak, to feel, and more — and explore sections of our bodies with breath, sensations, emotions, and thoughts using contemplation, slow body movement, bio-energetic exercises, and group dynamics. We will listen to our inner wisdom through individual and group exercises to awaken the mutual intelligence that promotes collective transformation.
In this workshop, we’ll discover:
These practices are organized according to birthing and developmental stages, exploring the body armoring — physical protective reactions to life experiences — that separate us from our biological origin as a liberated, healthy body.
Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Marlon A. Guarino's unique approach to healing is deeply rooted in the mind-body-spirit-nature connection. He facilitates resolving issues using body-mind-spirit centered (somatic) experiential psychotherapies and integrating contemplative traditions and Indigenous practices.
From her experience as a psychologist and social activist, Lorenia Parada Ampudia offers different mindful awareness practices as basic tools for learning about our body-mind relationships for self-discovery, self-regulation, and self-leadership. Identifying and finding clarity in understanding the context and dynamics of our own birth, early relationships with caregivers, and our body expression language are of great support for any transformation toward cultivating a healthy mind, healthy sexuality, and embodied harmonious relationships.
December 18–22, 2023
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Applications are closed.
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Do you yearn to feel more pleasure, joy, and belonging? Do you long to recover the connection between your mind, body, and spirit?
Come re-learn the strength and wisdom held within and expressed through your body. We will walk a path into your authentic core being, becoming more conscious and reconnecting with our natural essential resources, others, and nature.
In a safe group setting, this workshop will provide time and space to inhabit and discover our bodies more fully. With enhanced awareness, we’ll gain a greater understanding of our internal states, our ability to affect them, and how they impact our relationships.
Each day, we will focus on different developmental rights — the right to see, to speak, to feel, and more — and explore sections of our bodies with breath, sensations, emotions, and thoughts using contemplation, slow body movement, bio-energetic exercises, and group dynamics. We will listen to our inner wisdom through individual and group exercises to awaken the mutual intelligence that promotes collective transformation.
In this workshop, we’ll discover:
These practices are organized according to birthing and developmental stages, exploring the body armoring — physical protective reactions to life experiences — that separate us from our biological origin as a liberated, healthy body.
Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Marlon A. Guarino's unique approach to healing is deeply rooted in the mind-body-spirit-nature connection. He facilitates resolving issues using body-mind-spirit centered (somatic) experiential psychotherapies and integrating contemplative traditions and Indigenous practices.
From her experience as a psychologist and social activist, Lorenia Parada Ampudia offers different mindful awareness practices as basic tools for learning about our body-mind relationships for self-discovery, self-regulation, and self-leadership. Identifying and finding clarity in understanding the context and dynamics of our own birth, early relationships with caregivers, and our body expression language are of great support for any transformation toward cultivating a healthy mind, healthy sexuality, and embodied harmonious relationships.
Esalen Institute
55000 Highway 1
Big Sur, CA 93920
US: 1-831-667-3000
info@esalen.org