Esalen Institute is open! However, Highway 1 to the south is closed — please review the current travel advisory.
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Due to road closures along Highway 1 to our north and south, Esalen is closed through April 11.
Esalen Institute is open! However, Highway 1 to the south is closed — please review the current travel advisory.

Esalen opens May 3, 2024

Visitors are now able to access Esalen as well as other businesses and trails in northern Big Sur via twice-daily convoys on Highway 1 operated by Caltrans.

Convoys run only at 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. each day. These are the only opportunities to travel into and out of Big Sur, so visitors must plan accordingly.

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Caverly Morgan

Caverly Morgan is a spiritual teacher, nonprofit founder, speaker, and writer who blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual and relational approach. Her practice began in 1995 and has included eight years of training in a silent Zen monastery. She has been teaching contemplative practice since 2001. Caverly is the author of The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together as well as A Kids Book About Mindfulness.

She is the founder and Lead Contemplative of Peace in Schools, a nonprofit that created the nation’s first for-credit mindfulness class in public high schools.  She is also the founder of Realizing Freedom Together, a nonprofit dedicated to making teachings that lead to liberation for all, accessible to all.

A former monk, Caverly Morgan is a spiritual teacher and nonprofit founder who blends the original spirit of Zen with a modern nondual and relational approach. She is also the author of The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together as well as A Kids Book About Mindfulness.

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