Massage & Healing Arts
Website program category as of 2022
Esalen® Massage: Couples, Partners & Friends
With Sam Sebastian and Ellen Watson
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]