Beyond Duality: Healing Wisdom and Ceremony for Personal Health and Well-being

With Erika Gagnon

October 16 - 20, 2023

Workshop Schedule

Monday
5:00 pm – 5:45 pm *How to Drop Into Esalen*
7:15 pm – 9:30 pm
Tuesday
9:45 am – 12:30 pm
3:45 pm – 6:30 pm
Wednesday
9:45 am – 12:30 pm
3:45 pm – 6:30 pm
Thursday
9:45 am – 12:30 pm
3:45 pm – 6:30 pm
Friday
9:30 am – 12:00 pm

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

  • Sleeping Bag Space – $680.00
  • Bunk Bed – $980.00
  • Standard Shared – $1,280.00
  • Standard Queen Room – $1,780.00
  • Standard Room Two Beds – $2,760.00
  • Premium Queen Room – $2,580.00
  • Premium King Room – $2,780.00
  • Premium Plus King Room – $3,180.00
  • Premium Wooden Yurt – $4,180.00
  • Premium Wooden Yurt Two Beds – $4,180.00
  • Price House Suite – $4,160.00
  • Rolf Suite – $6,060.00
  • Point House – $6,060.00
  • Fritz Point House – $7,560.00
  • South Point House – $7,560.00

Join ceremonial leader and wisdom carrier Erika Gagnon on a sacred journey as we gather to look beyond the false duality of a divided self and the destructive concept of “self versus nature” to discover how to live in harmony and balance within ourselves and the world around us.

You are your greatest healer and greatest medicine. This is your opportunity to examine what that means while sharing healing wisdom and practices. This workshop will offer the tools to transform trauma and unhealthy patterns, to realign your body, mind, spirit, and soul, and to honor and heal all you have inherited from your ancestral lineage, along with the social, cultural, racial, religious, and historical energies tangled in your lives. You will learn about the origins of dis-ease in our physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual bodies. 

Learn about the importance of ceremonies, sacred altars, and medicinal plants and participate in a traditional South American healing ceremony, a sound healing and “doctoring” ceremony, and a water blessing prayer ceremony.

You will be invited to reconnect to your authentic wisdom and power with clarity, gratitude, and forgiveness. When you honor and heal your ancestral lineage and connect to the natural and spiritual elements of this planet, you strengthen your connection to the sacred in everyday life.

We are all interconnected in this giant web of life, and every day is a gift in the service of unconditional love for yourself, your community, humanity, and our planet. If you feel the call to be a part of a new humanity that lives in harmony and balance upon this Earth, we invite you to join us in this celebration of life.

Note: Please bring a journal to write in and any sacred items for our altar, including photographs of loved ones and ancestors and sacred objects that have meaning for you.

Special Note on Gift Economy: Esalen will not collect typical leader fees for this workshop. Erika embraces the tradition of reciprocity. Each attendee will determine the leader’s compensation. At the end of the workshop, participants will offer a donation amount that reflects their feelings of gratitude and value and their desire to support Erika and her ongoing work.

Scholarship: Erika has established a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, person of color) scholarship fund for her workshops.  For more information on receiving financial assistance to participate or donating to support, please contact her at ErikaGagnon11@gmail.com

About the Leader

Erika Gagnon

Erika believes that a healer does not heal others but helps others to heal themselves. She is often asked if she is a shaman or a medicine woman, or a wisdom keeper. Her reply? A shaman is a specific healing lineage from Mongolia and Siberia.  “Wisdom carrier” is more appropriate than “keeper,” and the term […]

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