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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Nina Simons

Nina Simons is the co-founder of Bioneers.org and its Chief Relationship Strategist. She translates her own learning to help shed self-limiting patterns, advocate for racial and gender equity and reframe leadership to integrate all our ways of knowing.

Her latest book, Nature, Culture & The Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, launches this June, with discussion guides and embodied practices, after an earlier edition won Nautilus Awards in the categories of women and justice. Previously, she co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart.

Nina is passionate about women’s full-spectrum leadership, Indigenous wisdom, decolonizing our minds and hearts, and co-creating a healthy, peaceful, and equitable world for all of life. Professionally, her experience spans the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship and corporate worlds. She speaks and teaches internationally at schools, conferences, and festivals, and co-facilitates immersive workshops for women that share practices for regenerative leadership through a synthesis of experiential learning and relational mindfulness.

In 2017, Nina received the Goi Peace Award, that honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions toward the realization of a peaceful and harmonious world. Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra.

Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers, is a social entrepreneur, author, philanthropic advisor, and activist. Her purposes include regenerative leadership, women’s leadership, indigenous wisdom and social practices, anti-racism, and healing relationships with ourselves, each other and the earth. Her book, Nature, Culture and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, won two Nautilus awards.

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Nina Simons

Nina Simons is the co-founder of Bioneers.org and its Chief Relationship Strategist. She translates her own learning to help shed self-limiting patterns, advocate for racial and gender equity and reframe leadership to integrate all our ways of knowing.

Her latest book, Nature, Culture & The Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, launches this June, with discussion guides and embodied practices, after an earlier edition won Nautilus Awards in the categories of women and justice. Previously, she co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart.

Nina is passionate about women’s full-spectrum leadership, Indigenous wisdom, decolonizing our minds and hearts, and co-creating a healthy, peaceful, and equitable world for all of life. Professionally, her experience spans the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship and corporate worlds. She speaks and teaches internationally at schools, conferences, and festivals, and co-facilitates immersive workshops for women that share practices for regenerative leadership through a synthesis of experiential learning and relational mindfulness.

In 2017, Nina received the Goi Peace Award, that honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions toward the realization of a peaceful and harmonious world. Past honorees include Bill Gates, James Lovelock, and Deepak Chopra.

Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers, is a social entrepreneur, author, philanthropic advisor, and activist. Her purposes include regenerative leadership, women’s leadership, indigenous wisdom and social practices, anti-racism, and healing relationships with ourselves, each other and the earth. Her book, Nature, Culture and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, won two Nautilus awards.

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