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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Roksana Badruddoja

Roksana is summoned as a shamanic apprentice and Akashic practitioner in the tradition of the Gomti River as hir cultural inheritance. Hir identifies hidden patterns of generational traumas in family lines to explore how people interact in their relationships and has honed and refined ancient technologies in hundreds of ceremonies, teachings, and workshops  for over fifteen years.

Hir work seeks to render visibility to invisibility and explores structured vulnerabilities that deprive historically disenfranchised folx of safety. Roksana is the author of National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity (Haymarket, 2022), the editor of “New Maternalisms”: Tales of Motherwork (Demeter, 2016), and a contributor of Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian Daughters in Obedience and Rebellion (Aunt Lute, 2016).

Dr. Roksana Badruddoja (pronoun: hir) is a feminine/masculine Woman of Color; an ancestral/intergenerational/inherited family trauma liberation scholar; a tenured full professor of sociology, women and gender studies, critical race and ethnicity studies, Indigenous and decolonial studies, and grief studies; and an interfaith and cross-cultural urban Akashic and Shamanic practitioner.

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Roksana Badruddoja

Roksana is summoned as a shamanic apprentice and Akashic practitioner in the tradition of the Gomti River as hir cultural inheritance. Hir identifies hidden patterns of generational traumas in family lines to explore how people interact in their relationships and has honed and refined ancient technologies in hundreds of ceremonies, teachings, and workshops  for over fifteen years.

Hir work seeks to render visibility to invisibility and explores structured vulnerabilities that deprive historically disenfranchised folx of safety. Roksana is the author of National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity (Haymarket, 2022), the editor of “New Maternalisms”: Tales of Motherwork (Demeter, 2016), and a contributor of Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian Daughters in Obedience and Rebellion (Aunt Lute, 2016).

Dr. Roksana Badruddoja (pronoun: hir) is a feminine/masculine Woman of Color; an ancestral/intergenerational/inherited family trauma liberation scholar; a tenured full professor of sociology, women and gender studies, critical race and ethnicity studies, Indigenous and decolonial studies, and grief studies; and an interfaith and cross-cultural urban Akashic and Shamanic practitioner.

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