Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Doorway to Joy, Wisdom, and Wonder

With Mark Coleman and Lori Schwanbeck

May 15 - 17, 2026

Workshop Schedule

Friday
5:00 pm – 5:45 pm*How to Drop into Esalen*
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Saturday
9:30 am – 12:45 pm
3:30 pm – 6:15 pm
Sunday
10:00 am – 12:00 pm

See general schedule information including arrival, departure and meal times.

  • Sleeping Bag Space – $660.00
  • Bunk Bed Space – $840.00
  • Standard Shared Space – $1,030.00
  • Standard Queen Room – $1,330.00
  • Standard Room Two Beds – $2,050.00
  • Premium Queen Room – $1,900.00
  • Premium King Room – $2,032.00
  • Premium Plus King Room – $2,284.00
  • Premium Wooden Yurt – $2,284.00
  • Premium Wooden Yurt Two Beds – $2,284.00
  • Price House Suite – $3,050.00
  • Rolf Suite – $4,276.00
  • Point House – $4,276.00
  • Fritz Point House – $4,276.00
  • South Point House – $5,100.00
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…how easily you can belong to everything simply by listening. — David Whyte

Held by the cliffs, verdant gardens, and vast Pacific horizon, this workshop invites you to slow down, awaken your senses, and rediscover your connection to the living world. 

Listening deeply to the life within us and around us, we are able to access  joy, wisdom, and wonder through the teachings of nature. This is a powerful reset for minds and bodies dulled by our modern life.  

During our time together, you will:

  • Engage in guided outdoor meditations and sensory awareness practices.
  • Learn tools to stay grounded, open-hearted, and calm in everyday life.
  • Experience how stillness in nature awakens insight, renewal, and awe.
  • Reclaim an embodied kinship with all of Life. 

No meditation experience is required — only curiosity and a love of the Earth. Come ready to breathe deeply, listen wholeheartedly, and be nourished by the wisdom that surrounds you.

Recommended reading: Awake in the Wild and A Field Guide to Nature Meditation by Mark Coleman

This workshop includes an additional $100 in faculty tuition. 

About the Leaders

Mark Coleman

Mark Coleman is a Buddhist meditation teacher and has been teaching insight meditation for 20 years. He is author of Awake in the Wild, From Suffering to Peace, and Make Peace with Your Mind and leads nature-based meditation retreats and mindfulness teacher trainings in the U.S. and Europe. www.markcoleman.org www.awakeinthewild.com

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Lori Schwanbeck

Lori Schwanbeck weaves her passion for nature into her work as a mindfulness teacher, retreat leader and Hakomi certified psychotherapist. She is a senior teacher and program developer with the Google born program “Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute”, where she  teaches mindfulness based emotional intelligence programs internationally.  Lori’s current project is called “Re-wilding our Feminine […]

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