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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Elizabeth Philipose

Elizabeth Philipose has a lifelong passion for transformational arts and the expansion of consciousness. She has pursued this as an academic studying the causes and consequences of violence. Her focus is on healing relations between masculine and feminine, humans and nature, races, and nations. As a spiritual guide, she offers programs in decolonial wellness, spiritual principle, embodiment, meditation, and prayer. Elizabeth has been on her own journey to heal gender/racial traumas, old church wounds, and ancestral grief. She teaches from the experiential insights of this journey and the wisdom of her visionary teachers. 

Elizabeth has a PhD in International Politics and has taught Gender and Women’s Studies for two decades. She has credentials in Spiritual Counseling, Coaching, Reiki, Yoga, Movement Chaplaincy, and Meditation, and has worked as a spiritual guide in private practice for twelve years. She is a seasoned facilitator of workshops and meditation groups, a published author, and a unique combination of intellect, spirit, and decades of transformational teaching and learning.

Elizabeth Philipose has a lifelong passion for evolution and the expansion of consciousness. As an academic, she studies causes and consequences of violence and pathways to peace. As a spiritual therapist, she offers individual counseling and group programs in decolonial wellness.

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Elizabeth Philipose

Elizabeth Philipose has a lifelong passion for transformational arts and the expansion of consciousness. She has pursued this as an academic studying the causes and consequences of violence. Her focus is on healing relations between masculine and feminine, humans and nature, races, and nations. As a spiritual guide, she offers programs in decolonial wellness, spiritual principle, embodiment, meditation, and prayer. Elizabeth has been on her own journey to heal gender/racial traumas, old church wounds, and ancestral grief. She teaches from the experiential insights of this journey and the wisdom of her visionary teachers. 

Elizabeth has a PhD in International Politics and has taught Gender and Women’s Studies for two decades. She has credentials in Spiritual Counseling, Coaching, Reiki, Yoga, Movement Chaplaincy, and Meditation, and has worked as a spiritual guide in private practice for twelve years. She is a seasoned facilitator of workshops and meditation groups, a published author, and a unique combination of intellect, spirit, and decades of transformational teaching and learning.

Elizabeth Philipose has a lifelong passion for evolution and the expansion of consciousness. As an academic, she studies causes and consequences of violence and pathways to peace. As a spiritual therapist, she offers individual counseling and group programs in decolonial wellness.

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