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.
past workshop

Relational Mindfulness and the Deep Feminine: An Embodied Immersion for Women

August 21–26, 2022

with Deborah Eden Tull and Nina Simons

Consciously or not, most among us have been conditioned to adapt to a world that has biased us toward the masculine. But in truth, the vital energies of the feminine and masculine - the yin and yang, receptive and active - naturally co-exist in dynamic balance together. When they dance in wholeness, the result is thriving health.

Join us for a restorative retreat that explores more compassionate, wise, respectful, and embodied ways of being that can transform how you experience your life, family, work, and the larger world.

Discover how we can enlarge, accelerate, and deepen one another’s learning — while creating the conditions for ongoing flourishing and joy in your own life.

What if relational intelligence, intuition, shared power, and allyship are the most essential qualities for a life of purposeful wholeness?  In this time when everything is in flux, we are all called  to act on behalf of what we love and the future we desire. 

To respond and tend to our wellbeing while caring for what calls us in our outer world, we need to attend first to our inner world. This invites us to nourish the parts of ourselves that - due to conditioning from outmoded social systems  - may have been neglected or undervalued. 

We can restore wholeness within ourselves and our world by balancing  the complementary energies that influence us through our daily lives. The yin and yang; the receptive and expressive aspects of our nature, the lunar and solar -  the deeply elemental feminine and sacred masculine archetypes that live within each one of us. This rebalancing is vital for our own, and our collective, healing and well-being.

This workshop will integrate practices to explore: 

  • relational mindfulness
  • conscious movement and dance
  • emotional intelligence
  • somatic healing
  • ritual, writing, and deep time in nature.

This workshop is for women of all ages, backgrounds and disciplines, at all phases of their life’s journey, who identify as female or as non-binary, including a wide realm of gender expression

Deborah Eden Tull

Deborah Eden Tull, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, is a Zen meditation and mindfulness teacher, author, activist and sustainability educator. She bridges personal awakening with collective transformation. Her latest book is Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown.

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Nina Simons

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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