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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.
Within your body lives the intersection of trauma and resilience. It is here we can heal and create the more beautiful world that we know is possible. Our current culture of interlocking systems oppresses and severs our connection to the inherent beauty of belonging on this planet. For each of us to return to being fully human, we need to come home to ourselves. As Frantz Fanon writes, “Superiority? Inferiority? Why not simply touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?” We need to come home to our bodies to heal from lovelessness that perpetuates injustices.
Over the weekend, return to your human mind, body, and breath while reimagining and practicing new ways of being in the world.
In this workshop, we will experience our body as a source of wisdom and a site of empowerment and healing. It is here where lived experiences, memories, breath, and emotions are doorways to embodied ways of knowing. We will learn and experience how rest, play, and pleasure have the potential to create a world where all people have access to well-being. Join this workshop to imagine new ways of being and experience the healing capacity of creative expression, authentic connection, and sacred community.
Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Maddie Lam is a body-based practitioner and somatic activist who focuses on using practices of embodiment as liberation to answer the question: how do we all get free? Using yoga and meditation as pathways to deeper self-exploration, Maddie creates spaces for joy, self-intimacy, and connection to the greater collective.
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Bri Boertman, MEd, 500 E-RYT, has facilitated therapeutic yoga, art, and adventure experiences for nearly 20 years. Bri coaches people from all walks toward transformation and healing through emBodied yoga practices, connection to wild spaces, and creative self-expression.
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Fri 8:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Sat 9:30 am – 12:45 pm
Sat 3:00 pm – 6:15 pm
Sun 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.
Within your body lives the intersection of trauma and resilience. It is here we can heal and create the more beautiful world that we know is possible. Our current culture of interlocking systems oppresses and severs our connection to the inherent beauty of belonging on this planet. For each of us to return to being fully human, we need to come home to ourselves. As Frantz Fanon writes, “Superiority? Inferiority? Why not simply touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?” We need to come home to our bodies to heal from lovelessness that perpetuates injustices.
Over the weekend, return to your human mind, body, and breath while reimagining and practicing new ways of being in the world.
In this workshop, we will experience our body as a source of wisdom and a site of empowerment and healing. It is here where lived experiences, memories, breath, and emotions are doorways to embodied ways of knowing. We will learn and experience how rest, play, and pleasure have the potential to create a world where all people have access to well-being. Join this workshop to imagine new ways of being and experience the healing capacity of creative expression, authentic connection, and sacred community.
Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Maddie Lam is a body-based practitioner and somatic activist who focuses on using practices of embodiment as liberation to answer the question: how do we all get free? Using yoga and meditation as pathways to deeper self-exploration, Maddie creates spaces for joy, self-intimacy, and connection to the greater collective.
Bri Boertman, MEd, 500 E-RYT, has facilitated therapeutic yoga, art, and adventure experiences for nearly 20 years. Bri coaches people from all walks toward transformation and healing through emBodied yoga practices, connection to wild spaces, and creative self-expression.
April 22–24, 2022
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Within your body lives the intersection of trauma and resilience. It is here we can heal and create the more beautiful world that we know is possible. Our current culture of interlocking systems oppresses and severs our connection to the inherent beauty of belonging on this planet. For each of us to return to being fully human, we need to come home to ourselves. As Frantz Fanon writes, “Superiority? Inferiority? Why not simply touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?” We need to come home to our bodies to heal from lovelessness that perpetuates injustices.
Over the weekend, return to your human mind, body, and breath while reimagining and practicing new ways of being in the world.
In this workshop, we will experience our body as a source of wisdom and a site of empowerment and healing. It is here where lived experiences, memories, breath, and emotions are doorways to embodied ways of knowing. We will learn and experience how rest, play, and pleasure have the potential to create a world where all people have access to well-being. Join this workshop to imagine new ways of being and experience the healing capacity of creative expression, authentic connection, and sacred community.
Learn more about the requirements to receive continuing education credit.
Maddie Lam is a body-based practitioner and somatic activist who focuses on using practices of embodiment as liberation to answer the question: how do we all get free? Using yoga and meditation as pathways to deeper self-exploration, Maddie creates spaces for joy, self-intimacy, and connection to the greater collective.
Bri Boertman, MEd, 500 E-RYT, has facilitated therapeutic yoga, art, and adventure experiences for nearly 20 years. Bri coaches people from all walks toward transformation and healing through emBodied yoga practices, connection to wild spaces, and creative self-expression.
Esalen Institute
55000 Highway 1
Big Sur, CA 93920
US: 1-831-667-3000
info@esalen.org