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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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Restorative Weekend

March 4–6, 2022

with Janet Stone and Manoj Dias

Join Janet in this nourishing weekend designed to replenish the nervous system and adrenals, boost the immune system, and ground into simplicity. We will drop into the body, mind, and spirit to find space between effort and surrender, allowing our systems to release into their great integrative power.

Using slow and fluid movement along with restorative postures, meditation, pranayama (breathwork), and chanting we will create space in our bodies for introspection, move out of the cyclical fight-or-flight response, and cultivate sustainable power, rest, and healing.

We’ll practice:

  • slow yoga to cultivate sustainable power
  • restorative postures to promote regeneration
  • meditation to encourage stillness
  • pranayama to balance hormones and whole being
  • chanting to awaken your heart's longing.

Please bring a bolster, sand bags and eye pillow.

If you are traveling from afar and cannot carry all of these items in your luggage, email connie@janetstoneyoga.com, and we will try to secure some you can borrow.

10 hours CE credit for Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT) available through Yoga Alliance; see leader.

Janet Stone

Janet Stone traveled to India in 1996, where she dedicated herself to a conscious evolution through yoga. Janet blends a wealth of knowledge and yoga experience to create a unique, vigorous yet sumptuous approach to Vinyasa yoga. She teaches in San Francisco and leads retreats internationally.

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Manoj Dias

Manoj Dias is a globally recognized teacher and author celebrated for his transformative approach to meditation and movement. He is the co-founder of Open, a mindfulness studio based in Venice, CA, and previously founded A—SPACE, Australia’s first multi-disciplinary drop-in meditation studio.

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