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.
Tony Holmes (aka The Love Warrior) is a transformational guide, somatic facilitator, and creator of Pleasure Alchemy — a sacred body of work that reclaims sensual embodiment as a path to healing, power, and liberation. His work blends sacred sexuality, emotional intelligence, energy work, and shamanic wisdom to support people in returning to the truth of their bodies and the brilliance of their hearts.
Tony is a facilitator on love, intimacy, and sexuality with the Human Awareness Institute (HAI) and leads Emotional Intelligence trainings for Delta Airlines and the State of California, bringing his grounded, trauma-informed presence into both personal and professional development spaces.
As a Black queer mystic, father, and community leader, Tony creates brave, inclusive containers that invite radical self-love, deep connection, and embodied transformation. His work honors pleasure not as indulgence, but as sacred medicine — a revolutionary force for personal and collective healing.
Through Pleasure Alchemy, Tony weaves somatic healing, sacred touch, breathwork, and erotic ritual into potent journeys of remembrance. He invites others to awaken their sensual intelligence, embrace their wholeness, and reclaim pleasure as a divine birthright.
Tony Holmes (aka The Love Warrior) is a transformational guide and creator of Pleasure Alchemy, which blends sacred sexuality, somatic healing, and emotional alchemy to awaken embodied liberation, radical self-love, and the power of pleasure as a path to wholeness.