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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Journey Space: Music, Movement, & Ceremony

December 15–18, 2023

East Forest and Marisa Radha Weppner

Now more than ever, it is important we build practices that strengthen our internal resolve and self-resourcing amidst a dynamically shifting society. Together, we will listen to our heart’s wisdom in this rich four-day journey through sound, ceremony, and self-discovery.

In this intimate and transformative workshop, you will have the unique opportunity to experience multiple East Forest ceremony performances. These deeply meditative experiences will include both live and unreleased East Forest recorded music. Additionally, Radha will lead us in embodied movement, based upon the principles of self awakening yoga, somatic experiencing, and yin yoga, to create  an all-levels and accessible doorway to inner insights. Radha will also use her training with Transpersonal Psychology and with Thomas Hubl while working with participants.

We can discover the inner pathways to fortitude and healing through the primacy of our own heart-opening, felt experience, and:

  • Intimate live music performances by East Forest
  • Group co-creative musical process with East Forest
  • Daily morning yoga and meditation practices
  • Awe-inspiring time in nature
  • Dance
  • Group insight exercises
  • Journaling

East Forest and Radha would like to offer a certain amount of scholarship to those in need. Please apply with this form. If further assistance would be helpful, you may also apply for an Esalen scholarship.

Please note: While the retreat space and exercises are conducive to deep inner work, the facilitators and Esalen do not condone the use of or provide substances of any kind.

East Forest

East Forest is an internationally known teacher and composer with millions of listeners. His works and collaborations include Ram Dass, Google, Johns Hopkins, TED, UCSF, and the Yale Psychedelic Science Group, among others.

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Marisa Radha Weppner

Radha is driven to understand what it means to be human, what is the nature of reality and what is God. Her classes and offerings aim to create a state of union within oneself for a felt sense of the ineffable.

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