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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Laura J. Swan

Laura J. Swan is a transformational coach and healer and a trauma-informed and trained psychotherapist and ceremonialist. With her gentle yet powerful approach to healing, she has been facilitating women’s circles, retreats, and rites of passage for over 22 years since she first discovered her calling at just 16 years old. 

She graduated magna cum laude from Boston University and did her advanced graduate work in Depth and Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute.  

Laura has a private practice working with women, men, couples, and children in her local San Diego area and works virtually with people all over the world. She leads women to Ireland on a sacred pilgrimage to beautiful locations and ancient sites and facilitates transformational events and circles for women and young girls regularly in the San Diego area at her magical Women’s Temple space.

Above all else, Laura’s first and most important job is as a mother to her two children, whom she and her husband live together with on their urban farm in Southern California. She enjoys spending quality time with her family and their crew of various rescue animals while gardening, growing their own food, and tending to their land as much as humanly possible. 

Laura J. Swan is a transformational coach and healer, a trauma-informed and trained psychotherapist and ceremonialist. With her gentle yet powerful approach to healing, she has been facilitating women’s circles, retreats, and rites of passage for over 22 years.

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Laura J. Swan

Laura J. Swan is a transformational coach and healer and a trauma-informed and trained psychotherapist and ceremonialist. With her gentle yet powerful approach to healing, she has been facilitating women’s circles, retreats, and rites of passage for over 22 years since she first discovered her calling at just 16 years old. 

She graduated magna cum laude from Boston University and did her advanced graduate work in Depth and Counseling Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute.  

Laura has a private practice working with women, men, couples, and children in her local San Diego area and works virtually with people all over the world. She leads women to Ireland on a sacred pilgrimage to beautiful locations and ancient sites and facilitates transformational events and circles for women and young girls regularly in the San Diego area at her magical Women’s Temple space.

Above all else, Laura’s first and most important job is as a mother to her two children, whom she and her husband live together with on their urban farm in Southern California. She enjoys spending quality time with her family and their crew of various rescue animals while gardening, growing their own food, and tending to their land as much as humanly possible. 

Laura J. Swan is a transformational coach and healer, a trauma-informed and trained psychotherapist and ceremonialist. With her gentle yet powerful approach to healing, she has been facilitating women’s circles, retreats, and rites of passage for over 22 years.

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