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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Nancy Winston

Nancy Winston, L.C.S.W., has been practicing psychotherapy for over 40 years in New York City, Connecticut, Vermont, and Florida. She has extensive training with Milton Erickson in hypnosis and psychotherapy, years of study in sensory awareness with Charlotte Selver, and using cybernetic principles in group and family therapy. Winston has developed a unique approach to psychotherapy working with conscious and unconscious communication, blending the principles of hypnosis with the practices of sensory awareness, neuroscience, and linguistics.

Nancy has led workshops and trained therapists in hypnosis and other forms of transformational practice worldwide. She has worked with performers, actors, musicians and professional athletes and was a long-time workshop leader at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. 

Nancy is a member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association; a Founding Member of the Forum for Psychotherapy Cybernetics; and an Instructor for trainees in clinical hypnosis. She has also been an invited faculty member and supervisor at numerous institutes and medical centers in Europe, Canada and throughout the United States, including Mt. Sinai Medical Center’s Dept. of Psychiatry in NYC.


Nancy Winston, L.C.S.W., has been practicing psychotherapy for over 40 years in New York City, Connecticut, Vermont and Florida. She has extensive training with Milton Erickson in hypnosis and psychotherapy, years of study in sensory awareness with Charlotte Selver, and using cybernetic principles in group and family therapy. Winston has developed a unique approach to psychotherapy working with conscious and unconscious communication, blending the principles of hypnosis with the practices of sensory awareness, neuroscience, and linguistics. 

Nancy has led workshops and trained therapists in hypnosis and other forms of transformational practice worldwide. She has worked with performers, actors, musicians and professional athletes and was a long-time workshop leader at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. 

Nancy is a member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association; a Founding Member of the Forum for Psychotherapy Cybernetics; and an Instructor for trainees in clinical hypnosis. She has also been an invited faculty member and supervisor at numerous institutes and medical centers in Europe, Canada and throughout the United States, including Mt. Sinai Medical Center’s Dept. of Psychiatry in NYC.


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Nancy Winston

Nancy Winston, L.C.S.W., has been practicing psychotherapy for over 40 years in New York City, Connecticut, Vermont, and Florida. She has extensive training with Milton Erickson in hypnosis and psychotherapy, years of study in sensory awareness with Charlotte Selver, and using cybernetic principles in group and family therapy. Winston has developed a unique approach to psychotherapy working with conscious and unconscious communication, blending the principles of hypnosis with the practices of sensory awareness, neuroscience, and linguistics.

Nancy has led workshops and trained therapists in hypnosis and other forms of transformational practice worldwide. She has worked with performers, actors, musicians and professional athletes and was a long-time workshop leader at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. 

Nancy is a member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association; a Founding Member of the Forum for Psychotherapy Cybernetics; and an Instructor for trainees in clinical hypnosis. She has also been an invited faculty member and supervisor at numerous institutes and medical centers in Europe, Canada and throughout the United States, including Mt. Sinai Medical Center’s Dept. of Psychiatry in NYC.


Nancy Winston, L.C.S.W., has been practicing psychotherapy for over 40 years in New York City, Connecticut, Vermont and Florida. She has extensive training with Milton Erickson in hypnosis and psychotherapy, years of study in sensory awareness with Charlotte Selver, and using cybernetic principles in group and family therapy. Winston has developed a unique approach to psychotherapy working with conscious and unconscious communication, blending the principles of hypnosis with the practices of sensory awareness, neuroscience, and linguistics. 

Nancy has led workshops and trained therapists in hypnosis and other forms of transformational practice worldwide. She has worked with performers, actors, musicians and professional athletes and was a long-time workshop leader at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA. 

Nancy is a member of the American Group Psychotherapy Association; a Founding Member of the Forum for Psychotherapy Cybernetics; and an Instructor for trainees in clinical hypnosis. She has also been an invited faculty member and supervisor at numerous institutes and medical centers in Europe, Canada and throughout the United States, including Mt. Sinai Medical Center’s Dept. of Psychiatry in NYC.


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