Ariel Johnson

Upcoming Programs by Ariel Johnson

Wild Pilgrimage: Backpacking Journey to Esalen

Also With Fletcher Tucker

May 2 - 4, 2025

In the mountains east of Esalen, an enchanting, ecologically diverse, and psycho-spiritually fertile wilderness awaits. Over four nights and five days, we will engage in a contemporary form of pilgrimage, backpacking as reverent seekers through these ancestral lands of the Esselen Tribe, now known as the Big Sur backcountry. Our journey will conclude at the […]

Earth-Body: An Eco-Somatic Backpacking Journey & Retreat

Also With Noël Vietor

October 10 - 12, 2025

The Earth holds us, breathes with us, moves through us. Since time immemorial, human beings have lived in deep, reciprocal relationship with landscapes—our movements shaped by terrain, our nervous systems regulated by the rhythms of seasons and tides, our sense of self inseparable from the more-than-human world. Yet, in this modern, frenetic age, we are […]