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Established in 1962 and considered the epicenter of the human potential movement, we are a non-profit offering comfort and space for exploration, transformation, and healing within the wilds of Big Sur’s majestic mountainscape and glittering coastline.
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.
Esalen exists in deep relationship with the forces of nature. From the transfiguring force of a wildfire to the limitlessness of the star-filled night sky, we honor the myriad ways that nature is our source and greatest teacher.
Weekend or week-long stays are the most common way to visit Esalen. Esalen Institute is open! However, Highway 1 to the south is closed — please review the current travel advisory.
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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