Massage & Healing Arts
Website program category as of 2022
Introduction to Esalen Massage®: The Art of Healing Touch
With Char Pias and Silvia Guersenzvaig
This workshop invites you to enjoy Esalen in the springtime as you gain foundational skills in our famed massage modality. Senior teachers 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 with […]
Esalen Massage® and Meditation
With Dean Marson and Brita Ostrom
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 that resides inside each of us. This practice of meditation helps access the parasympathetic nervous system, where healing originates. As we give a massage, this healing […]
Deepening Our Connection to Reiki: Japanese Roots to Modern Practice
With Diane Domondon and Justin Stein, PhD
Misconceptions about Reiki place its origins anywhere from ancient Egypt to Tibet — even from angels and aliens — but we hold the truth in the palms of our hands. In this workshop, we’ll explore the roots of this Japanese practice and discover the transformative power of universal life energy through Reiki meditations and transmissions. […]
Fundamentals of Esalen® Massage
With Daniela Urbassek and Malachi Stone
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 […]
The Space Between: Where Tensegrity Meets the Subtle Body
With Kate Flore and Kevin Dockery
“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. […]
Discovering Childhood Solutions, Enacted in our Adult Body, Preventing Physical and Emotional Healing. Advanced CFR®
With Harriet Goslins, Judy Greenman, Melissa Krikorian and Tomas Prietto
Recent brain research reveals how constant predictions based on old information can run our lives. As we are flooded with current sensory information, our brains compare past and present to identify discrepancies called “prediction errors," updating the old predictions to create a better working model of the world. Inaccurate predictions are often based on unconscious […]
Streams of Energy: Eastern Bodywork and Movement
With Jim Gallas
Together, we will enjoy giving and receiving therapeutic touch, moving in ways that free energetic flow, settling into silence, and laughing and connecting deeply with our healing community. During the Streams of Energy month, you will: Learn to give a full-body Shiatsu session. This form of Shiatsu is done on a massage table with the […]
Esalen® Massage: Couples, Partners & Friends
With Robin Fann-Costanzo and Patrick Stockstill
Come enjoy the beauty of Big Sur during the quiet time as the days shorten and sunsets blaze across the sky. 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 […]