Retreats in Big Sur

Introduction to Esalen® Massage: The Art of Healing Touch

This workshop offers a summer immersion in Esalen, where you can build foundational skills in this renowned massage modality. Silvia and Lori will guide you through an experience of mindful touch brou...

$560.00

July 25, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Moving Beyond Codependency: Honoring the Sovereign Self in Relationship

Long-held relationship patterns are being re-examined in ways that can feel both freeing and unsettling. As inherited models shaped by codependency, people-pleasing, and fixed roles begin to lose thei...

$560.00

July 31, 2026 19:15

Big Sur, United States

Recoding the Matrix of Your Reality in the Quantum Age

Drawing on eastern mysticism, quantum physics, psychedelics, and cultural touchstones like The Matrix, this workshop explores the idea that reality may be far more fluid than it first appears. Partici...

$560.00

August 1, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Ayurveda and Emotional Wellness

Modern research continues to show just how strongly our emotional experiences shape health and longevity. Even when we understand that connection, knowing how to cultivate emotional wellbeing is not a...

$560.00

August 1, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Heal Yourself with Ayurveda

Healing does not have to be forced. Often, the body needs space for interference to be cleared away and the right conditions to be restored. Many of us are trained to think about health as a series of...

$940.00

August 3, 2026 19:15

Big Sur, United States

Embracing the Divine Feminine: A Mystical Approach

Imagine returning to a part of yourself — the Divine Feminine — that can restore balance and harmony within you and across your relationships. This transformative workshop weaves together social and p...

$940.00

August 4, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Yoga Nidra Retreat: Rest, Restore, and Remember Who You Are

Over five days, this retreat invites you into deep rest, reflection, and renewal through movement, guided meditation, and the transformative practice of Yoga Nidra. Designed to support the body, quiet...

$940.00

August 4, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

From Practice to Freedom: Let Your Inner Lion Roar

Are you ready to hear the call of your courageous heart? This weekend yoga retreat offers an invitation to slow down, soften, and settle into the quiet wisdom within. Held during the astrological mome...

$595.00

August 8, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Metta and the Divine Abodes: Meditation, Yoga, and Wisdom to Live a Better Life

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver The Brahmavihārās, or divine abodes, are deep contemplative practices that invite us to live with greater ease,...

$940.00

August 18, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Encountering the Animate World: Hiking and Animism in the Big Sur Wild

The wild landscapes of Big Sur feel undeniably alive: ancient redwoods shelter a sparkling creek on its way to the sea, birds fill the oak woodlands with song at sunrise, and fog moves across chaparra...

$1,040.00

August 18, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Elements of Desire: An Erotic Lab for Queer Men

Queer men are often experts in reinvention. Many have learned to adapt, read between the lines, seduce with subtlety, protect themselves when necessary, and sometimes disconnect just to get through. I...

$840.00

August 22, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Fluidity in Motion: Presence, Play, and Spontaneous Awareness

Like water in motion, life is always shifting—responsive, interconnected, and full of change. Using the body and the living processes of the Earth as our sacred laboratory, we will explore the dharma....

$560.00

August 22, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Expanding the Nature of Your Being: Embodied Consciousness, Intuition, and the Remembering of Human Potential

Arrive with curiosity and openness, and let consciousness meet you exactly as you are. Across time and cultures, people have described subtle ways of knowing: intuition that seems to arrive from beyon...

$560.00

August 22, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Deep Time: Slowing Down as a Revolutionary Act

“Nature does not hurry, and yet everything is completed.” — Lao Tzu There are moments when time seems to open wide: in deep meditation, on a mountain trail, in the pure play of being with an infant, i...

$940.00

August 25, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

The Heart of Relationship: A Weekend of Gestalt Inquiry for Couples and Friends

Strong, connected relationships are among the greatest influences on the quality of our lives. Building trust and openness with someone you care about — whether a romantic partner or a close friend —....

$610.00

August 29, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Pulse and Presence: A Somatic Rite of Passage to Freedom

Step into the body’s innate intelligence and create space to soften the pressure of everyday life, release long-held stress patterns, and reconnect with the subtle language of sensation, movement, and...

$560.00

September 5, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Into the Field of Possibility: Meeting Your Essence Through Dance

Dance has long served as a profound human ritual of transformation, from whirling dervishes and shamans to the waltz and the rave. Across cultures and eras, movement has been used to seek joy, healing...

$995.00

September 8, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Love Your Body Now: A Therapeutic Yoga Approach to Joyous, Full-Body Awareness as We Age

You deserve to feel ease and joy in your body as you age. Time in nature, movement, breath, quiet reflection, and those illuminating “Aha!” moments can all deepen happiness and delight in daily life.....

$940.00

September 8, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Internal Family Systems and Ancestor Wisdom: Listening When Parts Speak

If trauma can be passed down through generations, so can wisdom. This workshop invites you to consider that your healing may be supported not only by your own inner resources, but also by the insight....

$940.00

September 15, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Pelvic Health Self-Care Retreat: Exploring the Pelvis Through Anatomy, Nutrition, and the Nervous System

“I think it’s the worst thing that we do to each other as women, not share the truth about our bodies and how they work and how they don’t work.” —Michelle Obama The pelvis is a vital center of the bo...

$560.00

September 26, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Being Whole: Ritual, Respect, and Regulation

You are invited into a journey toward wholeness through movement, stillness, and deep rest. Together, we will explore ritual, respect, and regulation as a way to remember and embody a more complete se...

$940.00

September 29, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Vibrant Silence: Qigong, Breath and Meditation

As relaxation deepens, our awareness of energy naturally grows more refined and expansive. Qigong, an ancient Chinese practice often described as cultivating life force, is a movement system that both...

$940.00

September 29, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Role Mate to Soul Mate: The Art and Discipline of Love

Since falling in love may come naturally, sustaining love is a different skill altogether. This workshop is devoted to the art and discipline of keeping love alive, beginning with a simple but powerfu...

$1,896.00

October 3, 2026 05:00

Big Sur, United States

Integrative Gestalt Practice™: Embodied Presence, Connection, and Inner Guidance

At its core, Gestalt is a mindfulness practice. It asks us to stay with what is actually happening in the present moment, and from that grounded awareness, insight, emotional balance, and inner guidan...

$990.00

October 5, 2026 22:00

Big Sur, United States

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