June to December 2012 Esalen Catalog

117 Pages·2012·3.13 MB·English

The Esalen Catalog
July–December 2012
Celebrating
Fifty Years
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of Personal & Socia
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“Unique and magical—a rare combination of mind-opening ideas, direct
contact with activists and thought leaders (both presenters and fellow par-
ticipants!), and on top of that, a whale of a good time. We ranged from tears
to hilarity, from sober contemplation to excited dialogue to moments of sheer
raucous fun. Wouldn’t miss it for anything—we came straight home and put
it on our calendar for next year.” — A past participant
Esalen’s 50th Anniversary Benefit Weekend
Honoring the Past, Celebrating the Present, Creating the Future
Special 4-Day Program – October 4-7, 2012
Marianne Williamson, Robert Reich, Byron Katie, Dean Ornish, Michael Krasny,
Anna Halprin, Chungliang Al Huang, Michael Murphy, Ken Dychtwald.
Other presenters and entertainers to be announced—see www.esalen.org/benefit for up-to-date details.
This year Esalen Institute celebrates fifty years as a leader and catalyst in the world of personal and social trans-
formation. Concepts and experiences originating at Esalen have influenced a wide range of areas that are a vital
part of the world stage today: psychology, sustainability, health and healing, lifelong personal growth, citizen diplo-
macy, and our common search for meaning through religion, spirituality, and authentic personal commitments.
We are celebrating Esalen’s 50th Anniversary with a very special 4-day weekend benefit event that offers
what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich has characterized as “a true growth experience…a true pleasure…a
community of people that understands…that personal development and social development go hand in hand.”
Presenters include:
MArIAnnE WIllIAMson, spiritual activist, author, lecturer and founder of
The Peace Alliance and Project Angel Food
roBErT rEIch, leading economist, author, professor at UC Berkeley, and former US Secretary of Labor
Byron KATIE, founder of The Work; author of four best-selling books including, Loving What Is
DEAn ornIsh, founder of Preventive Medicine Research Institute, author,
leading expert on fighting illness with dietary and lifestyle changes
MIchAEl KrAsny, scholar, critic, fiction writer, and host of KQED-FM radio’s award-winning Forum program
AnnA hAlprIn, author, teacher, and for nine decades a seminal figure in the world of dance
chunglIAng Al huAng, philosopher, musician, author, teacher of Tai Ji,
East/West Synthesis and the art of movement meditation
MIchAEl Murphy, Esalen co-founder, author and head of Esalen’s Center for Theory and Research (CTR)
KEn DychTWAlD, (emcee) gerontologist, and the nation’s foremost authority on the
economic and cultural effects of the “age wave”
Additional activities in this extended four-day program include entertainment, music and movement, yoga and
meditation classes, Big Sur nature hike, a silent and live auction featuring Ashley Smith Johnson, an opportunity
to engage with other Friends of Esalen, to have fun, relax, enjoy the baths, meditate and just be…
All speakers are generously donating their time. By participating or sponsoring others to participate, you co-create
this weekend while providing philanthropic support for Esalen Institute.
To register or learn more, please contact Nancy Worcester, [email protected], 831-667-3032 or
www.esalen.org/benefit for current pricing and to reserve your space. See page 63 for more details.
July – December 2012 Volume li, Number 2
contents
Friends of Esalen.......................................2
General Information................................3
Reflections on the Land..........................4
Guide to Workshops................................6
Partner Programs......................................7
Seminar Spotlight.....................................8
G ELLIS Esalen Seminars......................................10
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DO Esalen Birthday Week...........................62
Extended Benefit Weekend.................63
Join Our 50th Year of Expanding Our Sense of Humanity 28-Day Esalen Massage Training........84
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Work Study Program...........................105
ith this catalog seasonEsalen moves toward the climax of our
50th Anniversary Celebration events. Today humankind faces unprecedented Rates and Reservations.......................110
challenges and exciting new opportunities to create a world of sustainability,
Leader Index..........................................113
humanity, and justice — the living promise of our creative human potential. Over the past
50 years Esalen has led the way in developing the new tools and practices that equip us to Continuing Education Programs.....114
address these challenges in ever-new ways, and evolve, adapt, and lead in an ever-shifting,
always open-ended future.
In areas ranging from experiential education, lifelong personal growth and development, contact
sustainability and permaculture, integral leadership and organizational transformation,
relationships and intimacy, citizen diplomacy and social change, this catalog offers building
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blocks for deep shifts in consciousness and windows into your own personal curriculum: Website:
adventure, healing, and new tools for transformation in your life, and in our shared world. [email protected]
E-mail:
This catalog also brings you your special invitation to join us for Esalen’s 50th Birthday Mailing Address:Esalen Institute,
55000 Highway 1, Big Sur, CA 93920
(inside cover, p. 63, and www.esalen.org), a unique 4-day event
Celebratory Benefit Weekend
this year, with an all-star roster of speakers plus the stimulating company of your fellow 831-667-3000
General Information:
celebrants. Don’t miss this one-time milestone extravaganza event! Also check out the four-
9 am–7 pmevery day.
Reservations:
day period leading up to the Birthday itself (p. 62), when Esalen will feature a special series
Preregistration is required for all Esalen
of days in honor and celebration of our remarkable past and our equally amazing present — programs.
and most of all in full embrace of our shared, exciting future.
www.esalen.org/workshops/
Online:
reservations.html
Always remember that the limits of the life we can create and the world we can build
together are set only by the limits of our ideas and our imaginations. Join us this fall and Phone:Toll-free US: 888-8-ESALEN
(888-837-2536)
anytime to nourish yourself and your journey with this rich feast of offerings, adding the
Local US: 831-667-3005
flavor of your unique experience and perspectives to this creative flow. Celebrate, learn,
International: [phone]
and recharge! See you soon at Esalen.
831-667-2724
Fax:
See address above
Mail:
Mail and fax reservations must include a
completed reservation form, available
Gordon Wheeler
online at www.esalen.org.
President
friends of esalen Esalen Institute, 55000 Highway 1
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Esalen’s place in the world. It is through the
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generosity of friends like you that Esalen David Lustig
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can continue its mission of developing human Anisa Mehdi
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potential. Your support not only benefits current
Cofounder & Chair Emeritus:
programs, but also helps secure Esalen’s long-term Name___________________________________________________________________________ Michael Murphy
financial future. Donations are tax-deductible and Program Staff:
Phone___________________________________________________________________________ Cheryl Fraenzl, Director
provide support for sustainability initiatives, intern Jerilyn Hesse, Faculty Coordinator
Address_________________________________________________________________________ Kristin Bellando, Admin. Coordinator
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Park School, special projects, and Esalen’s visionary City___________________________________State___________Zip__________________
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Center for Theory & Research. Stacy Carlson, Editor
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As a way of showing our gratitude, Friends who Please make checks payable to Esalen Institute, in U.S. currency Esalen Staff:
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Doug Ellis, Marketing/Communications
Donors will also receive the Esalen Catalogand a
Amount________________________________________________________________________ Jan Sinclair, Guest Services
triannual Friends of Esalen newsletter for one year, Phillip Burrus, Kitchen
Kathleen Kleinsmith, Reservations
Card No._______________________________________________________________________
and will be eligible to book a Personal Retreat at Shirley Ward, Farm and Garden
Josef London, Housekeeping
Esalen. Many Friends choose to make Esalen a part Exp. Date______________________________________________________________________ Deborah Medow, Healing Arts
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of their long-range plans by including a bequest or
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deferred gift to Esalen in their estate plans. A chari- Signature ______________________________________________________________________ Denise Byrne, Information Services
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table bequest is one of the easiest ways you can make Please complete this form or the inside flap of the envelope insert Eric Erickson, Security
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a lasting difference to the Institute. included in the catalog and return with your gift. Check the box on Carolyn Shearer, Bookstore
the outside of the envelope marked “Friends of Esalen.” Donations can Scott Stillinger, Human Resources
also be made online at www.esalen.org. Thank you for your support.
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Did you know that our Gazebo Park School offers experiential daycare
as a service to visiting parents?
Gazebo offers children ages 1–7 the opportunity for full immersion in the natural
world through a rich, child-centered park environment. Activities include planting,
harvesting, eating, and composting fruits and vegetables, exploring nature, caring
for animals, art projects, cooking, stories, dramatic play, and more!
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general information
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ince1962, The Esalen Institute has been
In addition to its structured Farm and Garden
devoted to the exploration of what Aldous
Esalen’s five-acre farm and garden produces hun-
Huxley called the “human potential,” the
programs, Esalen has many
dreds of varieties of vegetables for the kitchen.
world of unrealized human capacities that lies
In addition to enjoying the farm and garden’s
at the growing edge of consciousness. Esalen is ongoing events and features
bounty during mealtimes, guests may wander
known for its blend of East/West philosophies,
among the fields, enjoy the flowers during
experiential/didactic workshops, a steady influx to enrich your stay.
spring and summer, participate in farm- and
of expert teachers from around the world, and
permaculture-oriented workshops throughout
its breathtaking grounds and natural hot
the year, and volunteer with the farm and garden
springs. Once home to a Native American tribe
Esalen® Massage and Bodywork crew during their stay.
called the Esselen, Esalen is situated on the spec-
Esalen has long been known for its unique mas-
tacular Big Sur coastline with the Santa Lucia
sage and bodywork modalities, developed by
Mountains rising sharply behind.
Children and Families
innovative practitioners at the baths overlooking
the Pacific, and offered to guests during their Esalen welcomes families and offers a selection
stay. Esalen Massage incorporates long flowing of family-oriented workshops and child care.
There are many ways
strokes over the whole body, and helps release the See page 7 for a full listing of family-friendly
to experience Esalen. stresses of everyday life, leaving the receiver feel- workshops. See page 111 for child care options.
ing integrated and deeply relaxed. Other modali-
ties often available at Esalen include Cortical
Accommodations
Field Reeducation®, Craniosacral Work, LaStone®,
Workshops Esalen offers several types of accommodations
Rolfing, Shiatsu, Thai Massage, and Transformational
Weekend, five- and seven-day workshops and including standard shared rooms, premium
Kinesiology. Massage and bodywork reservations
seminars range in subject matter from Gestalt to rooms, and the Point Houses. For full descrip-
must be made and paid for in advance through
visual art. The Guide to Workshops on pages 6–7 tions and pricing, see page 110.
Esalen Reservations. If you are coming to Esalen
provides a list of all programs by subject, and the
for a massage only, or to make an appointment
Seminars section contains full descriptions of
for a massage at Esalen’s Carmel Center, please
Friends of Esalen
weekend, five-, and seven-day programs, listed
call 831-667-3002.
Friends of Esalen are supporters whose dona-
chronologically.
tions of $50 or more will benefit Esalen pro-
grams and help build Esalen’s long-term financial
Hot Springs
Work Study base. Please see page 2 for a description of the
Esalen is the steward of a natural hot springs
Work Study programs provide an intensive many benefits of becoming a Friend.
overlooking the Pacific. The hot springs are a
month-long course of study for those who want
source of relaxation and healing for those who
to make a directed commitment to self-explo-
visit, and you may catch a glimpse into the life
Accreditation and
ration, growth, and the Esalen community for a
of a sea otter, seal, or migratory whale while
Continuing Education
longer period. See page 105 for a full description
you enjoy the baths. Swimsuits are optional,
Many educational institutions recognize Esalen
of the Work Study program.
and nudity common, in the hot springs and
programs as eligible for credit in their curricula;
massage areas.
check with your university or college. Additional
Personal Retreats information can be provided if needed. Esalen
Personal Retreats offer the opportunity to nour- provides continuing education (CE) credit for
Daily Movement Arts Classes
ish body, mind, heart, and soul without partici- psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs, nurses, and body-
Every day, Esalen offers a schedule of free classes
pating in a workshop. Those on Personal Retreat workers. See page 113 for details.
open to everyone. Offerings can include yoga,
structure their time at Esalen themselves, and
chanting, meditation, free-form dance, and did-
can participate in daily yoga and movement
jeridoo meditation at the baths. You will receive
For additional details
classes, enjoy the hot springs, meditate, and
a schedule when you arrive.
explore Esalen’s beautiful land. Esalen Personal
about your stay at Esalen,
Retreats are open only to members of the
Friends of Esalen program, which supports Wednesday Evening Programs
please see page 112.
Esalen’s transformational mission. For additional Esalen hosts visiting scholars and teachers,
benefits of membership, and to join Friends of who interface with the rest of the Esalen com-
Esalen, please see page 2. See page 111 for munity in many ways. Usually there is a Esalen is a center for experimental education.
Personal Retreat fee information. scheduled program on Wednesday evenings We offer neither psychotherapy nor assurances
for visiting scholars, workshop leaders, or of change.
Esalen staff to share their expertise with the
larger Esalen community.
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Community Voices
Reflections on the Land
is a wilderness guide, author, artist, longtime Esalen leader, and is a teacher and ongoing student
Steven Harper Christine Stewart Price
Big Sur resident. His work focuses on wild nature as a vehicle for awakening. of Gestalt Awareness Practice. She was married to Esalen
See pages 13, 32, 49, and 74 for his workshops. co-founder Richard Price. See pages 11, 12, 48, and 78
for her workshops.
Wildness, rich diversity, and the dramatic meeting of edges — both inner
and outer — converge to create the place we call Big Sur. Here the elements Long before any of us fell in love with this place it
meet, greet, and co-create. Fire, Air, Earth, and Water come together in a was home to others, for many generations. In the
manner so clearly on display that we have no choice but to come to our “Institute Era” of the past fifty years, there have been
senses and awaken in our human body. weddings celebrated, often for couples who met on the
property. We have blessed pregnancies, held vigil during births, and
Esalen’s underlying support comes from a constella-
delighted in the babies who arrived. We’ve gathered to mourn our dead
tion of dynamic factors. Well before spoken word
and rejoice in their lives.
and long before people, the elemental dance of cre-
ation has been and is now forming and shaping Within the shelter of the cypresses, fortified by the sound of the ocean, I
this mountain seascape. If we look at Esalen as just have birthed one child here. I’ve said goodbye to my father, my first hus-
the human-inhabited grounds, we miss the deeper band, and another child here. In these very personal ways this property
integral webs that literally ground and connect us to holds my life, my history, and the history of so many of us.
the extended community of things — to the timeless
I am only one of many who have experienced profound moments of
source of everything. From this heartfelt and bodily-felt
their lives within these village gates. This includes what happens within
basis we are supported in allowing ourselves to try on the new and dif-
the bodies, psyches, and souls of those who come here to explore their
ferent, to deepen, to ask the frightening questions, to touch that which
inner landscape. In these moments of deep opening, we bond with this
has not been touched. Nature here is not separate, but inclusive of all,
land, like a newborn turning toward the biggest, nearest, warmest pres-
and it is the primary teacher of those human beings that choose to
ence. From that moment forward, we belong to this place in some way,
inhabit this wild coast.
and it to us.
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was raised on Esalen land. He is a holistic health deeply inform the immersions we offer at Esalen, where
Mackenzie (Mac) Murphy
practitioner and the son of Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy the splendor of the world is experienced in scents of
sea and jasmine, glimpses of otters, Gray whales, and
As an offspring of the land, I find myself interconnected with the ele-
condors, thermal spring baths, and in the bounty of the
ments in motion at Esalen. I feel the rhythms of the ocean in my heart and
gardens and kitchen. Here, all but the toughest ego-identities
the waves coinciding with emotions. All of the elements are represented
crack open in both ecstasy and grief — grief that the human
here: The crisp Big Sur air; the rocky cliffs emerging from
venture has strayed so far from honoring the exquisite
the waters; and the earth-warmed springs, bubbling into
exuberance of life, and ecstasy for the glimmering sense
the bathhouse. The healing culmination of the ele-
that far, far more is possible for each of us, and for our
ments entices the seeker to ground, expand, and to
species.
move into a primordial way of being. The spirit of the
land is powerful, magnetizing travelers from all over
the world. I pray for its continued prosperity — for the The Esalen Grounds Crewconsists of five staff and three workscholars. They
land, the institute, and for the heritage and continuing tend Esalen land day in and day out.
legacy of the Esselen Indians who inhabited this place for We, the grounds crew, are stewards of this land. We have the privilege of
so long. Esalen is a beacon of transformation: in the personal, social, and maintaining the beauty that exists naturally here. We start our days in silent
spiritual domains — as long as we listen to the inherent wisdom that is meditation, giving thanks for all that is provided. Then we make ourselves
intertwined into the DNA of the Esalen land. heard Esalen-wide: singing, laughing, and working until we drop. When you
work in the dirt and breathe in the air this land becomes a part of you — a
offer immersions in Soulcraft and in re- part of us. We try to reflect that love back into the land, and thus better our
Geneen Marie Haugen & Bill Plotkin
wilding our relationships with nature and psyche. See page 103 for their workshop. community. We hope that every person can have a piece of the beauty, love,
and magic that flow in this sacred land, and take it back out into the world.
Esalen is a place where the veil between human dreams and Earth’s
dreams is thin, a place where the psyches of human beings become
porous to our planet’s longings. The land, waters, and sky of Big Sur Visit www.esalen.org for more Reflections on the Land.
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guide
to workshops
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his is a guideto the workshops S THE BODY Aug 19-24 • The Joy of an Open Heart
offered in this catalog. Many of them Aug 24-26 • Embodiment Tools
defy easy categorization and could be Massage Aug 26-31 • Dream Action and Dream Meanings
July 6-8 • Advanced Esalen® Massage
Aug 31-Sept 2 • Claiming Your Voice
cross-referenced across many disciplines; most July 22-27 • Current Trends in Esalen® Massage
Sept 2-7 • Gestalt Awareness Practice
are listed in one or two main subject areas. If Aug 10-12 • Esalen® Massage in Motion
Sept 7-9 • The Work and Future Generations
you have never been to Esalen or taken an Aug 12-17 • Traditional Thai Massage
Sept 9-14 • Eat by Choice, Not by Habit
Esalen workshop, you might consider the Sept 2-7 • Meridian Massage: Touch and Core Energy Sept 14-16 • Presence: The Heart of Connection
Sept 14-16 • Massage Retreat for Couples
“Experiencing Esalen” workshop scheduled Sept 14-16 • The Art of Joyful Living
Sept 16-21 • The Art of Touch: Esalen® Massage
throughout the catalog and listed in the Sept 16-21 • The Courage to Be You
Oct 7-12 • Healing Art of Deep Bodywork
Integral Practices section of this guide. Please Sept 28-30 • The Stories We Tell through Our Bodies
Oct 12-14 • Fundamentals of Esalen® Massage
Oct 14-19 • Healing Traumatized Hearts
call the Esalen office if you have questions Nov 9-11 • Esalen® Massage in the Side-Lying Position
Oct 19-21 • The Art of Leadership
concerning a workshop. Nov 30-Dec 2 • Esalen® Massage for Couples
Oct 19-21 • Integrated Brief Therapy
Dec 2-7 • Deep Tissue Techniques
Oct 21-26 • Living in Gratitude
S ARTS & CREATIVITY Dec 21-23 • Holiday Couples Group Oct 28-Nov 2 • Abandonment to Healing
Dec 23-28 • Esalen® Massage and Presence
Nov 4-9 • Gestalt Awareness Practice
Visual Arts
July 1-6 • The Magic of Metal Somatic Practices / Movement / Sports Nov 9-11 • Butterfly Wisdom
July 1-6 • Introduction to Cortical Field Reeducation® Nov 16-18 • Changes and Transitions: 30s and 40s
July 13-20 • Guiding Lights in Film
July 15-20 • Walking on Clouds: Tai Chi Nov 18-23 • Angels and Traitors
Aug 5-10 • Framing Nature: Photography
Aug 3-5 • Recapturing Your Posture Nov 18-23 • The MAX
Aug 12-17 • Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Aug 19-24 • Core Zero Balancing—Part I Nov 18-23 • Sweet Mischief: Self-Realization
Aug 17-19 • The Passion of Painting
Aug 19-24 • Wild Serenity Nov 25-30 • Reclaiming Your Authentic Self
Sept 9-14 • The Alchemical art of Glass Fusing
Aug 24-26 • Energy Medicine Nov 25-30 • Gestalt Practice and CFR®
Sept 16-21 • Painting the Inner and Outer Landscape
Aug 24-26 • Spinal Awareness (with Humor) Nov 30-Dec 2 • Thriving in Uncertainty
Oct 19-21 • Divinatory Cards: SoulCollage®
Aug 26-31 • Advanced CranioSacral Therapy 1 Dec 2-7 • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Oct 21-26 • SoulCollage® and the New Paradigm
Aug 26-31 • The Gokhale Method™ Dec 2-7 • Total Immersion for Total Transformation
Nov 11-16 • Painting Improvisations
Aug 31-Sept 7 • Gokhale Method® Teacher Training Dec 7-9 • Rest, Rejuvenation and Renewal: Pause
Nov 25-30 • Inspired Art / Inspired Life
Sept 9-14 • Therapeutic Imagery and Diolague 1 Dec 14-16 • Love Yourself and the Rest Will Follow
Dec 2-7 • Awakening the Creative: Painting
Sept 21-23 • Taoist Chi Kung: The Cloud Hands Dec 21-23 • Loving Yourself
Dec 9-14 • Discover Your Soul Mandala
Oct 12-19 • The Future of the Body: Continuum Dec 28-30 • This Year I Will...
Writing Oct 14-19 • The Refined Hakomi Method
July 15-20 • Bone Knowing: Access Intuition Relationship / Sexuality / Gender
Oct 21-26 • CranioSacral Therapy 2
July 13-15 • Getting the Love You Want: Couples
July 22-27 • The Writing Life
Oct 26-28 • Zero Balancing Open Forum
July 15-20 • Becoming Able-Hearted
Aug 5-10 • The Way of Story
Oct 28-Nov 2 • Gateway to Soul: Process Acupressure
July 20-27 • Healing the Pelvic Floor: Power, Sexuality
Oct 7-12 • Straw into Gold: Memoir
Oct 28-Nov 2 • The Spirited Body
July 27-29 • Opening to Relationship: For Gay Men
Oct 12-19 • The Artplane Painting Workshop
Nov 2-4 • Anatomy Trains® and Fascial Fitness
Aug 10-12 • Why We Choose What We Choose
Oct 26-28 • The SunCelebrates Personal Writing
Nov 4-9 • Visceral Manipulation 1
Aug 17-19 • Celebrate Seventy! For Women
Oct 28-Nov 2 • Writing the Wild
Nov 11-16 • Spiritweaves™: Rites of Belonging
Aug 17-19 • Couples’ Communication Retreat
Nov 9-11 • Writing For Our Lives
Nov 18-23 • Feldenkrais® Spinal Awareness
Aug 26-31 • Relational Mindfulness
Nov 18-23 • Deepening the Characters We Create
Nov 25-30 • Essential Practice: Tai Ji
Sept 9-14 • Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving
Dec 23-28 • Crafting Your Journey through Memoir
Dec 2-7 • Brilliant Body: Conquering Injury and Pain
Sept 9-14 • From Isolation to Intimacy
Music / Rhythm / Dance Dec 7-14 • Gokhale Method® Teacher Training Sept 23-28 • The Intimate Couple: IBP
July 1-6 • Soul Motion™: Taking Refuge Dec 14-16 • Luminous Being: Radiance Sutras
Sept 28-30 • The Extraordinary Couples Workshop
July 8-13 • Dance of Oneness®: Dance Your Passion Dec 21-23 • Spinal Awareness (with Humor)
Oct 7-12 • Pleasure, Intimacy and Connectedness
July 29-Aug 3 • Empowering Creativity
Nov 11-16 • Secrets to Lasting Intimacy for Couples
Aug 3-5 • The Ecstasy of Sound: Music and Healing S PSYCHOLOGY & RELATIONSHIP Nov 16-18 • Wild and Precious Life: For Women
Aug 19-24 • Building a Vocal Community
Dec 2-7 • The Second Half of Life: For Women
Aug 31-Sept 2 • 5Rhythms®: Heartbeat Psychological / Transpersonal Process
Dec 14-16 • Traer Calma y Equilibrio a Nuestras Vidas
Sept 16-21 • Songwriting: Catch and Release June 29-July 1 • Strengthening the Heart
Dec 21-23 • Mindful Communication
Sept 21-23 • Soul Motion™: Alone Together June 29-July 1 • Intro to Gestalt Awareness Practice
Sept 23-28 • Soul Motion™: Sanctuary July 1-6 • Gestalt Awareness Practice
Oct 14-19 • Spirit Songs: The Power of Gospel July 1-6 • Leading Your Life S NEUROPSYCHOLOGY / NEURO-
SCIENCE / PARAPSYCHOLOGY
Oct 14-19 • The Dancing Buddha July 8-13 • Not for The Feint of Heart
Oct 21-26 • Songs of the Heart July 8-13 • Intelligent Risk Taking July 6-8 • Brain Integration and Self-Development
Nov 16-18 • Soul Motion™: The Dance of the Master July 15-20 • Families Under Pressure July 13-15 • Words Can Change Your Brain
Nov 25-30 • 5Rhythms®: Heartbeat July 20-22 • Public Speaking Aug 12-17 • Forgiveness: Brain Change Therapy
Dec 23-30 • Soul Motion™: Tenderness July 22-27 • Awakening the Heart Aug 31-Sept 2 • The Neuroscience of Resilience
Dec 30-Jan 4 • The Natural Singer July 22-27 • Meditative Hypnosis Sept 23-28 • Buddha’s Brain
July 29-Aug 3 • Relational Gestalt Process
Creative Expression / Theater Aug 3-5 • Introduction to Radical Aliveness S SOCIAL /POLITICAL ISSUES
Aug 26-31 • Sharing Your Life Story: Page to Stage
Aug 5-10 • The Radically Alive Leader
Oct 12-14 • Everyday Spontaneity Nov 23-25 • Social Entrepreneurship
Aug 10-12 • Open Your Heart, Reclaim Your Health
Nov 23-25 • Improv Inspiration: Wit and Wisdom
Aug 17-19 • Walking an Authentic Path
Dec 23-30 • A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life
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S PROFESSIONAL GROWTH / Sept 23-28 • Experiencing the Farm and Garden Yoga
TRAINING Oct 21-26 • The Nature of Movement June 29-July 1 • Learn to Thrive through Change
Nov 25-Dec 2 • Permaculture Teacher Training July 6-8 • Esalen Embodied Arts Retreat
July 8-13 • Mindfulness with Youth Training
Nov 30-Dec 2 • The Tao of Ecology July 27-29 • Advanced Yoga for Everyone
July 29-Aug 3 • Full Body Presence
Dec 7-9 • Energy Efficiency for Climate Protection July 29-Aug 3 • Advanced Yoga for Everyone Intensive
Aug 12-17 • StoryPlay®: Play Therapy
Dec 21-23 • The Festive Cuisine of the Caribbean Aug 5-10 • 2012 Maya Wisdom and Yoga Retreat
Aug 31-Sept 7 • EMDR (Parts 1 and 2)
Aug 12-17 • Radiant Body Yoga
Sept 16-21 • Tai Chi Easy™
Oct 19-21 • Yoga One on One S SPIRITUALITY Aug 26-31 • Yantra Yoga: Perfect Rhythm of Life
Sept 9-14 • Jivamukti Yoga Immersion
Nov 18-Dec 16 • 28-day Esalen® Massage
Contemplative / Spiritual Studies Sept 16-21 • The Three Faces of Spirit
July 13-15 • Sacred Activism in a Chaotic Time Sept 28-30 • Prime of Life Yoga™: Midlife and Beyond
S PHILOSOPHICAL AND July 15-20 • Music, Spirituality and the Brain Oct 12-14 • Yoga Psychology
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
July 20-22 • Buddhism and the Twelve Steps Oct 14-19 • Yoga Practice: Body, Mind and Spirit
June 29-July 1 • Paradigm Shift Then and Now July 20-27 • Tibetan Buddhism and Continuum Nov 2-4 • Gratitude Retreat
July 1-6 • Knowing the Self, Understanding the Mind Aug 12-17 • The Transformational Enneagram Nov 4-9 • Yoga and Addiction Recovery
July 20-22 • Natural Mind-Brain Change Effortlessly Aug 17-19 • The Embodied Life™ Nov 11-16 • Advanced Yoga for Everyone Intensive
Aug 17-19 • The Energetics of Consciousness Aug 19-24 • Gratitude and Forgiveness Nov 16-18 • Advanced Yoga for Everyone
Aug 19-24 • The Energetics of Consciousness Sept 9-14 • The Shift: Living in the Flow Nov 23-25 • Heart Fire: Tending the Flame
Sept 14-16 • Science Set Free: Dispelling Dogmas Sept 16-21 • Relaxed & Awake: Meditation, Feldenkrais® Nov 25-30 • Awakened Heart, Embodied Mind
Sept 28-30 • Science, Shamanism and the Hidden Self Sept 21-23 • Hidden School, Open Path Dec 14-16 • Kripalu Yoga Immersion
Oct 19-21 • Civilized to Death Sept 28-30 • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Dec 21-23 • Moving into Stillness: Winter Solstice Yoga
Nov 2-4 • What’s Next? Revisioning Our Lives Oct 12-14 • Being Present For Your Life Dec 28-30 • Meditation, Yoga and the New Paradigm
Nov 9-11 • The Holy Fool Oct 21-26 • Awake in the Wild: Meditation in Nature Dec 30-Jan 4 • Shadow Yoga and Buddhist Meditation
Dec 28-30 • Living Deeply: Transformation Nov 9-11 • Falling in Love with the Divine:
Nov 11-16 • Way of the Dreamer: Active Dreaming Myth / Ritual / Shamanism
Sept 14-16 • Chanting, Ritual and Resonance
S NATURE / ECOLOGY / Nov 16-18 • The Heart of Buddhism
Nov 18-23 • Thanksgiving and Gratitude
SUSTAINABILITY Nov 23-25 • Applied Zen
Dec 30-Jan 4 • Re-Wilding the Future
Nov 30-Dec 2 • Partners in Integration
June 29-July 1 • An Ecology of Relationships
Nov 30-Dec 2 • Spiritual Awakening: Meditation
July 1-6 • Simply Wild: Experiencing Nature S CHILDREN / FAMILIES /
Dec 7-14 • “Pointing Out” Way of Tibetan Meditation
July 29-Aug 3 • Summer in the Full Moon Garden EDUCATION
Dec 14-16 • Heartfelt Wisdom
Aug 3-5 • Succulent Design
Dec 14-16 • The Science and Practice of Mindfulness Aug 5-10 • Be Present Family Camp
Aug 5-10 • Big Sur Wilderness Experience
Dec 21-23 • The Power of Mindfulness Aug 10-12 • Magic and Music in the Gardens
Aug 24-26 • Experiencing the Farm and Garden
Dec 23-28 • Entering the Heart of Love Aug 24-26 • Kids Beyond Limits
Sept 2-7 • Belonging to Earth
Dec 30-Jan 4 • New Year’s Meditation Aug 31-Sept 2 • The Magical Family
S ECONOMICS / BUSINESS /
LEADERSHIP
V Check out this season’s Partner Programs July 8-13 • Creating the Work You Love
Aug 3-5 • The Leadership Clinic
Aug 10-12 • SVN’s Succeeding with Your Soul Intact:
Milton H. Erickson Foundation Full Body Presence: Energize Your Life, Aug 10-12 • Speak to Inspire
Promoting and advancing Erickson’s page 18. Aug 17-19 • The Transition Catalyst Intensive
contributions to the health sciences. Full Body Presence: Healthy Boundaries, Nov 2-4 • SVN’s Enlightened Leadership
Brain Integration and Self-Development, page 27. Nov 9-11 • Crafting Careers that Truly Fit
page 14. Advanced CranioSacral Therapy 1, page 44.
Foster Natural Mind-Brain Change, page 23. Therapeutic Imagery and Dialogue 1, S HEALTH / HEALING
Meditative Hypnosis, page 24. page 51. July 6-8 • Practical Intuition: Intuitive Lifestyle
StoryPlay®, page 36. CranioSacral Therapy 2, page 72. July 6-8 • The Alchemy of Abundance
Brain Change Therapy, page 37. Visceral Manipulation 1, page 77. July 13-15 • Full Body Presence
Dream Action, Dream Meanings, page 46. July 27-29 • Your Inner Voice: Power of Intuition
Integrated Brief Therapy, page 71. Aug 19-24 • Healing Your Heart 101
Social Venture Network
Inspiring and supporting innovation and Sept 9-14 • Eat by Choice, Not by Habit
Gokhale Method Institute influential social entrepreneurship. Sept 23-28 • Taoist Chi Kung: Enhancing Vitality
Helping people reclaim pain-free posture and Succeeding with Your Soul Intact, page 33. Oct 12-14 • A Renaissance In Herbal Medicine
movement. Enlightened Leadership in Challenging Oct 19-21 • Living the Anticancer Lifestyle
The Gokhale Method® for a Pain-Free Life, Times, page 33. Oct 21-26 • Alchemical Healing
page 45. Dec 7-14 • Wisdom Healing Qigong™
Gokhale Method® Teacher Training,
Stand and Deliver
pages 47 and 95. Helping leaders achieve exceptional results S INTEGRAL PRACTICES
through powerful communication. Aug 3-5 • Experiencing Esalen
International Alliance of Healthcare Speak to Inspire, page 35. Sept 21-23 • Experiencing Esalen
Sept 28-30 • ITP®: 40 Years of the Esalen Experience
Educators and The Upledger Institute
Offering light-touch therapy training programs,
information, and products.
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n this section, we highlight a few of the programs we
are especially excited about this season, so that you can Kelly McGonigal & Leah Weiss Ekstrom
learn a bit more about our faculty and their specific areas of
expertise. Enjoy!
Nora Bateson & Rex Weyler
Nora Bateson writes, “As a child growing up at Esalen, my
early memories are of scampering up Big Sur hillsides bare-
footed, reaching for stable footing on the crumbly earth. It
was a good metaphor; it taught me to be flexible. If there is
one thing I learned at Esalen, it is that with any luck, and
with a great deal of courage, the process of learning to learn
never stops.
Kelly McGonigal writes, “My passion is bringing together two
seemingly disparate ways of understanding suffering and
how to relieve it: science and Eastern wisdom. I’m trained as a
research scientist and I’m fascinated by new insights about how
the brain works, the mind-body relationship, what makes us
happy, how we find strength, and how people heal. I’m also a
long-time practitioner of Buddhist meditation and yoga, and
have been profoundly moved by these traditions’ understand-
ing of suffering. There is so much wisdom to draw on, from the
idea of deep practice as a path for freedom, to the importance
of supportive community.”
Leah Weiss Ekstrom writes, “Sharing meditation practices
with refugees to heal trauma, and with clinicians to transform
burnout and compassion fatigue, has greatly informed my
“Some may remember my father, Gregory Bateson, lumber-
approach to suffering and its alleviation. My adult life has alter-
ing up from the Esalen baths in the 60s and 70s. His body
nated between clinical social service work and long meditation
showed age, but his mind was incredibly nimble. He liked
retreats. That contemplative practice and service—together—can
to talk about ecology as the totality, or pattern, of relations.
engage personal and social suffering in a meaningful way is at
Now, thirty-two years after his death, Gregory’s ideas are
the heart of my understanding of compassion.”
experiencing a new traction. The world has changed. Now
McGonigal and Ekstrom’s workshop is offered through the
more than ever, his notion of life within dynamic systems
Center for Compassion and Altruism Research (CCARE), an
provides useful tools to expand our frames of perception.
organization based at Stanford University that conducts and
Between and among living things there is only integrated
supports rigorous scientific studies of compassion and
interaction. It is the restless conversation between all
altruistic behavior.
subjects: history, biology, creatures, math, psychology,
anthropology, and you and me. See
Strengthening the Heart with Compassion, June 29–July 1.
“This year, as Esalen celebrates its 50th anniversary, it is an
honor to bring this conversation—that began so many years
ago—to new light. After traveling around the world with the Miguel Angel Vergara & Saul David Raye
film, An Ecology of Mind, I am happy to be coming back to my
Mayan shaman Miguel Angel Vergara writes, “The ancient
childhood home, to play with the ideas, to dangle in uncer-
Mayan teachers said, ‘Everything will be unveiled to humankind
tainty, and to find footing in the rhythms of nature’s patterns.”
in its right time and at the right hour.’ According to the Mayan
See calendar the year 2012 is 12 BAKTUN, 6 AHAU, the ‘time of
An Ecology of Relationships in Science, Art and Life, June
the return of the wise men.’ All of us have been preparing for
29–July1.
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