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.
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Falling in Love with Existence: Rewilding at the Edge of the World

February 20–24, 2023

Hannah Muse and Gitanjali Hemp

Join us at the edge of the world as we explore the depths of our wild and playful hearts! Immersed in the powerful container of Esalen lands and held by seasoned guides Gitanjali Hemp and Hannah Muse, you’ll be led through an intentionally curated arc of somatic exploration, energy work, yoga, guided visualization, relational play, and embodied ritual to remember your true nature and rediscover your uninhibited joy.

Bring your curiosity and childlike wonder as we remember how to be free from the conditioning that holds us back. With the new moon, nourishing daily practice, and community connection as our allies, we’ll contact the untamed aliveness at the core of our being.

Hannah will share storytelling, song, yoga (flow, restorative, yin), breathwork, and creative mindfulness-based play that awaken the immediacy of experience and invite us to fall madly in love with life itself.

Gitanjali will share energetic transmission teachings, guided visualizations, creative process, improvisational play, and organic movement. Through these experiences you will be invited to partner with the unseen realms, and to awaken the magical and the mystical in the heart of All.

Our days will follow a nourishing schedule of rich experiential practices balanced with delicious meals, rest, and starlit soaks in Esalen’s healing baths.  

No matter who you are or where you are on your spiritual path, join us in experiencing radical renewal and radiant well-being. Vast possibility awaits you.

Hannah Muse

Deemed the “midwife of possibility,” Hannah is a celebrated teacher of mindfulness, mysticism, and yoga. A mother and devoted student of Buddhism, neuropsychology, and mythology, she’s known for her life-changing, heart-opening teachings inspired by her deep love of the world.

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Gitanjali D'Costa

Gitanjali D'Costa is a master energy healer, mystic, teacher, writer, mother, and the founder of Syntara System, a deeply integrative, evolutionary energy healing and awareness modality. It is her great joy to bring this life and world-changing work to you.

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