Esalen is open!

Starting Friday May 17 at 6:30 a.m., Highway 1 north of Esalen will reopen with the use of a 24/7 signalized traffic control, providing unrestricted public access with one-way alternating traffic in both the north and southbound directions. Please plan travel accordingly to accommodate a brief delay of up to 10-15 minutes at the traffic control site.

Highway 1 south of Esalen remains closed. Guests traveling from points south of us, please take the alternate route through Monterey.

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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 alternate route directions.

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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Marisa Radha Weppner

Marisa Radha Weppner is a mom, author, DJ, teacher, minister, psychedelic therapist, community organizer, life coach, podcaster, and entrepreneur. She has taught yoga since 2002. Known for her authentic self-expression, humorous yet grounded, she empowers others to embody their soul’s wisdom, bringing a real-world mix of eastern spirituality and western psychology to her students for remembering, empowerment and transformation. 

Her life is dedicated to the study of yoga, specializing in Yoga Psychology, Bhakti Yoga, Yoga History + Philosophy, Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Meditation, and Self-Awakening Yoga. She can be found leading classes on Insight Timer or from her studio Source meditation | space in Boise, ID. She works with the Boise Ketamine Clinic to guide Ketamine Assisted Therapy.

Her online yoga classes and book Vinyasa Yoga Made Simple: 27 days of Self Discovery are available through udaya.com. You can listen to her meditation album “Guidance” on all streaming platforms, or tune into her podcast, Love, Service, Wisdom. All of these offerings are inspired by her own yoga and psychedelic journey, the process of learning to trust her body, her prana,  her connection to the divine and integrating her shadow. As a lover of the wild and free, she has taught at festivals all over the world.

Radha is driven to understand what it means to be human, what is the nature of reality and what is God. Her classes and offerings aim to create a state of union within oneself for a felt sense of the ineffable.

Marisa Radha Weppner

Marisa Radha Weppner is a mom, author, DJ, teacher, minister, psychedelic therapist, community organizer, life coach, podcaster, and entrepreneur. She has taught yoga since 2002. Known for her authentic self-expression, humorous yet grounded, she empowers others to embody their soul’s wisdom, bringing a real-world mix of eastern spirituality and western psychology to her students for remembering, empowerment and transformation. 

Her life is dedicated to the study of yoga, specializing in Yoga Psychology, Bhakti Yoga, Yoga History + Philosophy, Yin Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Meditation, and Self-Awakening Yoga. She can be found leading classes on Insight Timer or from her studio Source meditation | space in Boise, ID. She works with the Boise Ketamine Clinic to guide Ketamine Assisted Therapy.

Her online yoga classes and book Vinyasa Yoga Made Simple: 27 days of Self Discovery are available through udaya.com. You can listen to her meditation album “Guidance” on all streaming platforms, or tune into her podcast, Love, Service, Wisdom. All of these offerings are inspired by her own yoga and psychedelic journey, the process of learning to trust her body, her prana,  her connection to the divine and integrating her shadow. As a lover of the wild and free, she has taught at festivals all over the world.

Radha is driven to understand what it means to be human, what is the nature of reality and what is God. Her classes and offerings aim to create a state of union within oneself for a felt sense of the ineffable.

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