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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Micha Merrick

Micha grew up in a family of healers and earth-based celebration. She knew the medicinal wild plants of her forest and meadow from an early age. learning to meditate in wild spaces and revere the larger circles and cycles to which we belong. For the past seven years she's lived off-grid in Big Sur, in a magical mountainside yurt-cabin, living with the land, tending her hillside herb garden, stoking her woodstove, attending births, and offering embodied herbal practices at Esalen. Micha uses sound vibration, vocal enchantment and the beauty of aromatic herbs and flowers to open portals of reverence and healing. She experiences life through authentic relationship with her surroundings.

Micha received direct mentorship in earth-based animism from Thai Buddhist women's healers, Bali Hindu-Tirtan Midwives, Lahu Tribe Shamanic midwives, and New England Wise-Women birthkeepers. She's dedicated to studying herbal embodyment, birth and healing practices from her own Celtic, Nordic and North American ancestral lineages. She walks a red road, learning how to respect this continent directly from  diverse original people. She loves to co-create circles of presence through sound, herbs, intention and belonging to the earth.

Micha grew up in a family of healers and earth-based celebration. For the past seven years she's lived off-grid in Big Sur, in a magical mountainside yurt-cabin, living with the land, tending her hillside herb garden, stoking her woodstove, attending births, and offering embodied herbal practices at Esalen.

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