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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Jacob Towery, MD, is a person. He went to various schools and did some cool stuff. He has many flaws but also a handful of strengths. His current favorite colors are blue, red, and canary yellow. He reserves the right to change his favorite colors at any time, without apology. Jacob enjoys silliness, seriousness, illeism, reading fantasy novels while soaking in the same tub for hours, alone time, time with people, and gratuitously long lists.

Jacob Towery, MD, serves on the Voluntary Faculty at Stanford and is an author. As an adolescent and adult therapist, he teaches skills to clients struggling with social anxiety and helps them make tremendous progress quickly while also enjoying the process.

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