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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Lorenia Parada Ampudia

Lorenia had a main role in co-founding four important university organizations and networks in her path toward supporting people in cultivating a healthy mind, healthy sexuality, and embodied relationships. In her mentoring, she blends a passion for discovering and learning with the urgency for social change to work towards more equitable and healing relationships between people, living beings, and the earth.

As a psychologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she focused on the study of sexuality, consciousness, gender, body language, and wisdom. Being an Awaken Mind practitioner in brain wave reading biofeedback and MBSR facilitator supported her understanding of the power of body-mind training through mindful awareness practices and meditation, establishing this practice as her own resource for more than 25 years in her personal life, as well as in her coaching, mediating, and mentoring approaches. 

Within other resources, she has explored, studied, and practiced different approaches that recognize the body-mind holds internalized beliefs and thought patterns that have become unconscious and greatly impact our intra-connectedness. These include the Hakomi Method, interpersonal neurobiology, the integration of non-ordinary experiences, NeuroAffective Touch, breathwork, and more.

More information at www.loreniapa.com

From her experience as a psychologist and social activist, Lorenia Parada Ampudia offers different mindful awareness practices as basic tools for learning about our body-mind relationships for self-discovery, self-regulation, and self-leadership. Identifying and finding clarity in understanding the context and dynamics of our own birth, early relationships with caregivers, and our body expression language are of great support for any transformation toward cultivating a healthy mind, healthy sexuality, and embodied harmonious relationships.

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Lorenia Parada Ampudia

Lorenia had a main role in co-founding four important university organizations and networks in her path toward supporting people in cultivating a healthy mind, healthy sexuality, and embodied relationships. In her mentoring, she blends a passion for discovering and learning with the urgency for social change to work towards more equitable and healing relationships between people, living beings, and the earth.

As a psychologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she focused on the study of sexuality, consciousness, gender, body language, and wisdom. Being an Awaken Mind practitioner in brain wave reading biofeedback and MBSR facilitator supported her understanding of the power of body-mind training through mindful awareness practices and meditation, establishing this practice as her own resource for more than 25 years in her personal life, as well as in her coaching, mediating, and mentoring approaches. 

Within other resources, she has explored, studied, and practiced different approaches that recognize the body-mind holds internalized beliefs and thought patterns that have become unconscious and greatly impact our intra-connectedness. These include the Hakomi Method, interpersonal neurobiology, the integration of non-ordinary experiences, NeuroAffective Touch, breathwork, and more.

More information at www.loreniapa.com

From her experience as a psychologist and social activist, Lorenia Parada Ampudia offers different mindful awareness practices as basic tools for learning about our body-mind relationships for self-discovery, self-regulation, and self-leadership. Identifying and finding clarity in understanding the context and dynamics of our own birth, early relationships with caregivers, and our body expression language are of great support for any transformation toward cultivating a healthy mind, healthy sexuality, and embodied harmonious relationships.

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