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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Marysia Miernowska

Marysia Miernowska is an herbalist, teacher, author, earth activist, gardener, and green witch rooted in the Wise Woman tradition of healing. Her work and devotional practices are centered around the mission of supporting a deepening of the love and regenerative relationship between the Earth and people for the mutual healing of both human and plant communities. Marysia is the director of the School of the Sacred Wild and runs a yearly online apprenticeship teaching herbal medicine, regenerative farming practices, Earth magick, holistic healing, and plant spirit communication. A multicultural and multilingual devotee of Mother Earth, Marysia has grown up internationally and traveled extensively, learning different ways of tending to the Earth and sharing regenerative, grassroots Earth medicine. As an activist, she draws on her background of community organizing; she keeps her feet rooted by designing and tending medicinal and sacred gardens using permaculture and biodynamic practices. She consults herbal companies and farms, formulates natural remedies, writes, speaks, and teaches internationally. She has authored the book The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary: Rituals & Recipes for a Year of Earth Magick and Sacred Medicine Making. And is the formulator and cofounder of @sacredrituel, an all-organic regenerative anti-aging skin care line.

Marysia Miernowska is a medicine woman, teacher, author, gardener, green witch, formulator, earth activist, and herbalist rooted in the Wise Woman tradition of healing. She is the director of the School of the Sacred Wild, an online healing journey and course in herbal medicine, plant shamanism, regenerative farming, and Earth magick.

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Marysia Miernowska

Marysia Miernowska is an herbalist, teacher, author, earth activist, gardener, and green witch rooted in the Wise Woman tradition of healing. Her work and devotional practices are centered around the mission of supporting a deepening of the love and regenerative relationship between the Earth and people for the mutual healing of both human and plant communities. Marysia is the director of the School of the Sacred Wild and runs a yearly online apprenticeship teaching herbal medicine, regenerative farming practices, Earth magick, holistic healing, and plant spirit communication. A multicultural and multilingual devotee of Mother Earth, Marysia has grown up internationally and traveled extensively, learning different ways of tending to the Earth and sharing regenerative, grassroots Earth medicine. As an activist, she draws on her background of community organizing; she keeps her feet rooted by designing and tending medicinal and sacred gardens using permaculture and biodynamic practices. She consults herbal companies and farms, formulates natural remedies, writes, speaks, and teaches internationally. She has authored the book The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary: Rituals & Recipes for a Year of Earth Magick and Sacred Medicine Making. And is the formulator and cofounder of @sacredrituel, an all-organic regenerative anti-aging skin care line.

Marysia Miernowska is a medicine woman, teacher, author, gardener, green witch, formulator, earth activist, and herbalist rooted in the Wise Woman tradition of healing. She is the director of the School of the Sacred Wild, an online healing journey and course in herbal medicine, plant shamanism, regenerative farming, and Earth magick.

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