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Our workshops are designed to support you in the challenging work of self exploration, in partnership with some of the leading minds of the day. Join us in discovering the next frontiers of individual and societal transformation.

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Esalen offers scholarships.

You are invited into a practice of becoming whole through movement, stillness, and deep rest. Explore ritual, respect, and regulation as our equation for remembering and embodying wholeness within a supportive community.

Each day, our sessions will blend movement, stillness, quietude, nature exploration, and time for silence and reflection. Guided meditations and yoga nidra will help soften patterns of stress and restore clarity. Afternoon sessions will include dharma talks, medicinal wild plant classes with healing herbal remedies, and embodiment practices to reconnect you to your inner cycles and the subtler rhythms of the earth.

Glean accessible ways to craft ritual in your daily life, strengthen resilience through self-regulation, and deepen respect for your body, mind, and environment. Expect to be supported as you expand your sense of trustworthy connection through both personal and communal practices.

You will be invited to expand your perception of, relationship to, and belonging with the living earth through:

  • Asana practice and embodiment practices
  • Meditation
  • Yoga nidra
  • Earth wisdom, wild plant and tree medicine, nature walks, and herbal medicine making classes
  • Plant allies and sit-spot practice
  • Ritual

By the end of our time together, you’ll be invited to carry home a resource of embodied tools and expanded perception to integrate into your everyday life. Return to balance in moments of challenge and anchor yourself in wholeness even in the midst of change.

Recommended Reading: Hold Nothing by Elena Brower, Living Ritual by Tracee Stanley, and The Quiet Teachers by Ally Bogard

Being Whole: Ritual, Respect, and Regulation
Being Whole: Ritual, Respect, and Regulation
Tracee Stanley and Elena Brower With Guest Faculty Ally Bogard and Crystal Marie Higgins
Being Whole: Ritual, Respect, and Regulation
September 28 – October 2, 2026
September 28 – October 2, 2026
September 28, 2026
September 28 – October 2, 2026