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.
Claudia Cuentas is a Peruvian psychotherapist (LMFT), artist, researcher, educator, and ceremonialist, passionate about the Art of healing and the decolonization of health. She is the co-founder of Cora Center, a License Psilocybin Service Center (www.coracenter.org) and a certified Psilocybin facilitator living in Portland Oregon. She comes from an Aymara heritage and a strong lineage of artists, social activists and healers in her family.
Claudia is trained in many different modalities all in connection to trauma recovery, restoring health and the arts. Her approach is a combination of 20 years of training in Western Healing modalities, and Indigenous Ways of knowing from the Andes and Jungle in South America. Some of her training includes Somatic Experiencing (SEP), Drama Therapy (CIIS), Expressive Arts Therapy (Tamalpa Institute), MDMA assisted Psychotherapy Training Program (MAPS) and Ketamine Ketamine for trauma recovery (Polaris Insight Center). Claudia also has been ordained by her teachers in Ecuador and Peru, after extensive studies and preparations for almost two decades.
Her focus is on the intersectionality of generational and ancestral trauma, plant medicine science, eco-informed therapy, somatic/nervous system reorganization, Art as healing and indigenous knowledge. Claudia is also a recording musician and a singer songwriter.
Claudia Cuentas is a Peruvian psychotherapist (LMFT), artist, researcher, educator, and ceremonialist, passionate about the art of healing and the decolonization of health. She is the co-founder of Cora Center, a licensed Psilocybin Service Center (www.coracenter.org) and a certified Psilocybin facilitator living in Portland Oregon. She comes from an Aymara heritage and a strong lineage of artists, social activists, and healers in her family.