Massage & Healing Arts

Website program category as of 2022

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 […]

Esalen® Massage and Meditation

With Peggy Horan and Patrick Stockstill

October 13 - 17, 2025

As the splash of summer fades and days shorten, this workshop provides the time and space to quiet down and relax in a spectacular natural setting. Esalen Massage is a moving meditation, a practice in presence and mindfulness, and a loving healing art. When practiced with focused attention, massage comes from a deep, quiet place […]

Fundamentals of Esalen® Massage

With Nora Matten and Whitney Bell

November 28 - 30, 2025

This workshop is a perfect opportunity for you to enjoy the natural beauty of Esalen’s land while gaining a foundation in Esalen® Massage. Senior teachers and staff will guide you in this experience of connection and presence translated to the massage table. Through lecture, demonstration and practice with your fellow students, you  will be introduced […]

Esalen® Massage Enriched With Scents and Essential Oils

With Jessica Fagan and Daniela Urbassek

December 15 - 19, 2025

Brighten the winter solstice season and honor the turning of darkness back toward the light with this healing experience of Esalen® Massage — enhanced by the power of essential oils. In this workshop, two senior massage practitioners come together to share the foundational elements of Esalen Massage — compassionate presence, long, lengthening strokes made effortless […]