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Soma and Soul: Come Home to Self Through Somatic Wisdom and Embodied Relating

With Ash Witham

March 13 - 15, 2026

What if personal power is not harnessed by doing more but reclaimed by coming home to your body? How might your relationships shift if you could speak your truth in the moment? What if your body became your inner compass — a trustworthy guide through life? Somatic research affirms what embodied traditions have long known: […]

The Future We Choose: Human Empowerment in the AI Age

With Sam Stern and Cecilia Callas

March 20 - 22, 2026

What does it mean to remain human in the new age of artificial intelligence? In this immersive weekend workshop, we'll explore this profound question together, journeying from awareness to empowerment to integration as we discover how to shape our relationship with AI while preserving what matters most. Through hands-on AI demonstrations, creative labs, and experiential […]

Intro to Esalen® Massage for Men

With Sam Sebastian and Malachi Stone

May 15 - 17, 2026

Men need supportive spaces to embrace vulnerability and explore presence-based touch. In a culture that often rewards emotional restraint and self-reliance, many men have few opportunities to lower their defenses and explore presence and authentic connection — especially through touch. This immersive workshop offers a space for men to reconnect with themselves and one another […]

Finding Lila Through Yoga and Divine Play

With Jet Eveleth and Alex Halenda

May 18 - 22, 2026

What if what we experience wasn’t always a serious endeavor, but rather an invitation to play, to grow and to learn? Hindu philosophy encapsulates this idea in the Sanskrit word Lila, which means “divine play.” Lila suggests that creation isn’t an obligation but an ongoing, spontaneous, joyful expression of the divine. Perhaps we’re so deeply […]

The Thrill of Groundlessness: Flowing Through Life Without Absolutes

With Ramzi Fawaz

June 1 - 5, 2026

When the ground falls out from underneath us, our instinct is usually to cling fast to the beliefs, stories, relationships, and identities that give us the greatest sense of stability and comfort. But what if we viewed these moments as wondrous opportunities instead of terrifying threats? Could the experience of groundlessness offer an unexpected freedom […]

The Alphabet of Everything: Art, Attention, and the Ineffable

With Corey Pressman

June 15 - 19, 2026

We live in a world richer than description. Language reveals only by leaving out, and when words fall short — when grief overtakes us, when beauty stills us — we do not fall silent. We reach. We shape. We art. This workshop is an invitation into the space beyond language. Guided by The Alphabet of […]

Let Life Lead: An Embodied Journey to Spark Your Truth

With Wendy Haines

June 26 - 28, 2026

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. — Howard Thurman There is a vital force in the universe — the spark of life itself.  It’s in the blade of grass bursting forth from […]

Evolving the Inner Witness: Yoga Practices to Open the Window to the Self

With Annie Carpenter

July 17 - 19, 2026

In the midst of darkness, light persists. — Mahatma Gandhi The practice of yoga takes each of us on an interiorizing journey. Step by step we move from the outer and reactive body-mind towards the inner witnessing light of the Self. Here, we observe without judging or running away from sensations, thoughts or memories. The […]

Moving Beyond Codependency: Honoring the Sovereign Self in Relationship

With Dené Logan

July 31 - August 2, 2026

Longstanding relationship structures are now being questioned in ways that are both liberating and disorienting. As inherited models rooted in codependency, people-pleasing, and rigid roles lose their authority, many of us find ourselves at a threshold, no longer willing to sacrifice sovereignty for belonging, yet unsure how to relate outside of familiar and societal patterns. […]

Recoding the Matrix of Your Reality in the Quantum Age

With Sam Rader

July 31 - August 2, 2026

Through eastern mysticism, quantum physics, psychedelics, and films like The Matrix, we are starting to catch on that "reality" may not be as it seems. In this workshop, you’ll be guided to develop the x-ray vision needed to see beyond the concrete circumstances of your life to peer into the underlying “code” that is responsible […]

Exploring the Mind Through Liminal Dreaming

With Jennifer Dumpert and Adam Haar Horowitz

August 14 - 16, 2026

We’re all natural liminal dreamers. Every 24 hours, in the spaces between waking and sleep, we pass through the zones of liminal dreaming, hypnagogia and hypnopompia, where the mind meanders between daytime awareness and the depths of the dream.  Every one of us possesses the ability to maintain the crisp awareness of the waking mind […]

Expanding the Nature of Your Being: Embodied Consciousness, Intuition, and the Remembering of Human Potential

With Diane Hennacy and Siegmar Gerken

August 21 - 23, 2026

Come with an open mind and an open heart, and allow consciousness to meet you where you are. Across cultures and throughout history, humans have reported subtle perceptual capacities — deep intuition, nonlocal connections, and heightened sensitivity to energy and emotion — that extend beyond ordinary awareness. While such experiences were once considered natural aspects […]

Follow Your Tao: Embodying the Five Spirits Through Qigong and the Elements

With Stephanie Nosco

August 31 - September 4, 2026

This weeklong immersion explores the Five Spirits of Chinese medicine — Shen, Hun, Yi, Po, and Zhi — as a living map of body, emotion, and destiny. Through qigong, meditation, meridian stretching, healing sounds, and reflection, participants are invited to follow the current of their own Tao — the natural unfolding of life within and […]