Cancelled | The Deep: An Immersive Esalen Experience
With Sadia Bruce, Jovinna Chan, J.J. Jeffries and Cara Chandler
April 29 - May 5, 2024
Join us for a total reset done the Esalen way: seven powerful days tending to heart, mind, body, and spirit. Reconnect with your sense of purpose and power while immersed in the medicine of our iconic, energized setting within a community of similarly minded seekers.
Not for the faint of heart, this deep retreat experience is a heroic dose of Esalen. You’ll engage daily with our lineage practices (Sensory Awareness, breathwork, intuitive movement, Gestalt process, and more) as never before — intensely, purposefully, and under the close and compassionate care of our world-class resident faculty to usher you toward the most expansive version of yourself yet.
Each morning begins with embodied movement and seated meditation practice, followed by a silent communal breakfast. You’ll spend the first part of your day experiencing Sensory Awareness and Gestalt process. After some integration time and a nourishing lunch, you’ll transition to a yoga-based therapeutic movement session.
Afternoons are devoted to one-on-one, presence-based coaching sessions and bodywork with expert practitioners and gifted energy workers. A communal dinner is followed by either the balancing, down regulating practice of transformational breathwork accompanied by music at the silent baths — an experience reserved for this group — or the sublimely transportive modality of Yoga Nidra.
Prior to arrival, you’ll connect privately with a faculty member to set your intentions for the week. During your time at the Institute, you will experience:
- Daily morning meditation and embodiment practice.
- Therapeutic movement and breathwork each afternoon.
- Small group and one-on-one Gestalt coaching sessions that allow you to metabolize your learnings.
- Opportunities to engage with the healing properties of the water and the land.
- A private ceremonial bathing ritual.
- Two Esalen Massages.
- An alternative healing service (astrology reading, Reiki, energetic cleansing)
- Premium accommodations and communal meals
- Additional only-at-Esalen encounters designed expressly for your cohort
We’ll follow up with you after your experience, and you’ll have the opportunity to join a remote reintegration session and receive guidance to help you stay on the path.
This experience is most appropriate for those in sound health. The activity level, while accessible and adaptive, is high.
This workshop includes an additional $500 tuition fee.
About the Leaders
Sadia Bruce
Sadia Bruce teaches and practices in the tradition of Krishnamacharya as transmitted by Desikachar. She draws on an array of movement modalities to share an understanding of yoga that is integrative and vitalizing.
Learn more about Sadia BruceJovinna Chan
Jovinna Chan, E-RYT 500, YACEP, in recent years co-founded Shakti Initiation Yoga Leadership School and A Wild Life Sanctuary™. She served as the assistant dean, 200-and 500-hour teacher trainer for the Kripalu School of Yoga and is a certified Soul Motion™ and LetYourYogaDance Teacher. Jovinna is a co-founder of Pranotthan School of Yoga and leads transformational programs around the […]
Learn more about Jovinna ChanJ.J. Jeffries
JJ Jeffries is an elder at Esalen — Mentor, Gestalt and Embodied Awareness practitioner, musician, and memory-keeper. Though being is his preferred state, he is intensely curious about all things doing leading to being. JJ created ‘Pathways to Joy’- a body-centered awareness practice which interweaves embodied inquiry modalities, sensory awareness, movement, and music within a […]
Learn more about J.J. JeffriesCara Chandler
Cara is a native Angeleno with a deep love for her roots. She is an alumnus of the LMU School of Film and Television, where she honed her skills in developing meaningful narratives. She quickly rose through the ranks of the TV industry, spending over a decade working with storytellers to find their voice and […]
Learn more about Cara ChandlerCategories : EDGE, Psychology & Self-Awareness, Yoga & Movement