Massage & Healing Arts

Website program category as of 2022

Introduction to Esalen® Massage: The Art of Healing Touch

With Char Pias and Lori Lewis

May 2 - 4, 2025

This workshop invites you to enjoy Esalen in the springtime as you gain foundational skills in our famed massage modality. Char and Lori will guide you in this experience of mindful touch translated to the massage table. Through lectures, brief demonstrations, and supervised practice, they will introduce the basics: quality of touch, rapport, massage skills […]

Contacting the Space Between: Gestalt, Feldenkrais, and the Subtle Body

With Kate Flore and Kevin Dockery

May 12 - 16, 2025

“A brain without a body couldn’t think.” — Moshe Feldenkrais “We want to get you to a place where gravity is your friend, a nourishing force.” — Dr. Ida P. Rolf  Human beings are relational by nature. We are an intricate web of anatomy, energy, space, and time that takes shape through our life experiences. […]

Esalen® Massage: Couples, Partners & Friends

With Sam Sebastian and Ellen Watson

July 4 - 6, 2025

Come enjoy the beauty of Big Sur far from the fireworks. This is a perfect season to awaken touch, our forgotten language. In this introductory massage course, participants will learn to listen to each other, gain the sensory skill of initiating touch, experience the felt sense of touch and muscle release, and close with a […]

Advanced Cortical Field Reeducation®: Five More Powerful Days for Deeper Healing

With Judy Greenman, Melissa Krikorian and Tomas Prietto

August 4 - 8, 2025

This course builds on your previous seven rich days of exploration in CFR® Week One. During that crucial week, you laid the foundation for releasing your childhood survival patterns and moving through life with more ease and presence physically, mentally, and emotionally. You reorganized the stranger you once called “self” to become more objective, compassionate, […]

Esalen® Massage and Energy Work

With Brita Ostrom and Oliver Bailey

August 11 - 15, 2025

Matter is Energy ... Energy is Light ... We are all Light Beings — Albert Einstein Each of us walks around within our own energy halo. When two people touch, they spark an energetic exchange. This felt relationship is the heart and soul of Esalen® Massage. With a spirit of gratitude, we invite you to […]

Introduction to Esalen® Massage: The Art of Healing Touch

With Silvia Guersenzvaig and Jenny Pareno

September 19 - 21, 2025

This workshop invites you to enjoy Esalen in the fall as you gain foundational skills in our famed massage modality. Silvia and Jenny will guide you in this experience of mindful touch translated to the massage table. Through lectures, brief demonstrations, and supervised practice, they will introduce the basics: quality of touch, rapport, massage skills […]