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Esalen is a non-profit offering workshops, massages, and festivals on human potential, creativity, spirituality, and more. Located in Big Sur, California, it has natural hot springs, an organic farm, and rustic guest suites.
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The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education. The institute played a key role in the Human Potential Movement beginning in the 1960s.
Explore the natural hot springs, the Lodge, the Farm & Garden, the Bookstore, the Pool, the Meditation Hut, the Waters, and the Art Barn at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Learn about the history, the architecture, the food, and the healing arts of this sacred land.
Esalen offers various programs and opportunities to explore self-growth, healing, and community in Big Sur. You can choose from workshops, self-guided explorations, festivals, scholarships, extended education, or day passes.
If you're part of the overstressed silicone rat race crowd and don't mind blowing 2 to 3 grand in a weekend, this may be your artificial relief valve, but true holistic people "play" smartly and won't touch this place with a ten foot pole. And if you decide to come, please, don't bring your kids.
Esalen, Big Sur, California. 78,351 likes · 130 talking about this · 22,993 were here. Exploring human potential since 1962.
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