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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Machiel Klerk

Machiel Klerk is a psychotherapist who specializes in helping people access their divine, inner wisdom. Whether their biggest challenge involves relationships, grief, or mental health issues (including anxiety or trauma), he helps individuals identify the changes they need to make so they can live a more balanced, creative life, fulfilling their divine purpose. 

He is the author of Dream Guidance: Connecting to the Soul Through Dream Incubation (Hay House 2022), in which he guides readers on how to tap into their inner wisdom through dreams, as well as the founder of the Jung Platform, a website that offers online courses on psychological and spiritual perspectives, which, by the way, he created as a result of a dream.

Machiel also gives workshops on Dreaming at retreat centers and in-house at Fortune 500 companies.

Machiel Klerk is author of Dream Guidance: Connecting to the Soul Through Dream Incubation (Hay House). He is founder of the Jung Platform, a website that offers online courses on psychological and spiritual perspectives, which was created as a result of a dream.

Machiel Klerk

Machiel Klerk is a psychotherapist who specializes in helping people access their divine, inner wisdom. Whether their biggest challenge involves relationships, grief, or mental health issues (including anxiety or trauma), he helps individuals identify the changes they need to make so they can live a more balanced, creative life, fulfilling their divine purpose. 

He is the author of Dream Guidance: Connecting to the Soul Through Dream Incubation (Hay House 2022), in which he guides readers on how to tap into their inner wisdom through dreams, as well as the founder of the Jung Platform, a website that offers online courses on psychological and spiritual perspectives, which, by the way, he created as a result of a dream.

Machiel also gives workshops on Dreaming at retreat centers and in-house at Fortune 500 companies.

Machiel Klerk is author of Dream Guidance: Connecting to the Soul Through Dream Incubation (Hay House). He is founder of the Jung Platform, a website that offers online courses on psychological and spiritual perspectives, which was created as a result of a dream.

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