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31 upcoming events in Big Sur, from $560 to $1,500, November 2026 – January 2027. Most are Retreats, Educational workshop, and Workshops.

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When Spirit Speaks: Personal Evolution Through Spirit Connection

When Spirit Speaks: Personal Evolution Through Spirit Connection

Big Sur, United States

Hear what your Spirit Guides are sharing and step into the conversation. This weeklong retreat is designed to deepen your connection with your spiritual team as a steady, trustworthy source of guidance, clarity, and transformation. The work unfolds through real-time dialogue. You arrive with what is alive in your life, and your Guides respond. From that exchange, what is ready to be seen, addresse...

November 3, 2026$940.00

Breath: The Master Key

Breath: The Master Key

Big Sur, United States

Breathing is one of the rare functions in the human body that is both automatic and voluntary: it continues without effort, yet can also be consciously directed. In yogic traditions, this dual nature gives the breath deep importance, as a bridge between body and mind, conscious and subconscious awareness, the autonomic and non-autonomic nervous systems, and, ultimately, a doorway into meditation a...

November 7, 2026$560.00

Transformative Negotiation: Reimagining Conflict Through Narration and Dream Work

Transformative Negotiation: Reimagining Conflict Through Narration and Dream Work

Big Sur, United States

Conflict is no longer something happening “out there.” It shows up in our conversations, our communities, and often within ourselves, shaping what feels possible and what feels stuck. In a moment of rapid change and growing division, many people find themselves caught in stories that harden perspectives, narrow imagination, and reduce our ability to respond. Learning to negotiate change and transf...

November 7, 2026$560.00

Primordial Qigong: Vibrant Health, Harmony with the Tao

Primordial Qigong: Vibrant Health, Harmony with the Tao

Big Sur, United States

Primordial Qigong offers meditation in motion, bringing together two of the best-known Taoist meditation practices: the Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Energy Circulation. In these forms, solar (yang) and lunar (yin) energies move in harmony, supporting vitality and longevity. You will also learn how to recharge the three dan tians, the body’s main energy “batteries,” helping build a stronger reserve....

November 10, 2026$940.00

The Wild Embrace: A Journey to Vitality

The Wild Embrace: A Journey to Vitality

Big Sur, United States

Have you ever felt the wind as something you could almost touch? Or sensed yourself being held by it? Within all life there is a vitality that is ancient, intuitive, and always available. Like the wind, it is formless yet ever in motion, creating and sustaining life. The body is the doorway through which we meet this living energy. It is alive within us, always changing, and knows its own way. Com...

November 17, 2026$995.00

Holotropic Breathwork®: Expanded States of Consciousness

Holotropic Breathwork®: Expanded States of Consciousness

Big Sur, United States

For thousands of years, cultures around the world have intentionally entered expanded states of consciousness as a path toward transformation and a deeper relationship with self, community, and the natural world. In this workshop, participants will come together in a vibrant community setting for an immersive experience of personal exploration. The week will offer guidance on how to prepare for, m...

November 17, 2026$1,015.00

Gratitude Retreat

Gratitude Retreat

Big Sur, United States

Come together on this powerful land for a weekend devoted to remembering — with body, mind, and spirit — everything there is to be grateful for. In the midst of uncertainty, we gather in community to reconnect with the truth that we are enough בדיוק as we are. Through yoga, meditation, reflection, cliffside baths, and walks across Esalen’s healing land, we return to the heart. We will also be join...

November 21, 2026$660.00

The Wisdom of Not Knowing: Cultivating Presence, Resilience & Wonder in an Uncertain World

The Wisdom of Not Knowing: Cultivating Presence, Resilience & Wonder in an Uncertain World

Big Sur, United States

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." —Alan Watts This Thanksgiving week, you are invited into a living exploration of what it means to be fully and authentically human in a world that remains deeply mysterious. In a season shaped by reflection and gathering, we will step beyond the familiar and into direct experience, meeting life as it...

November 24, 2026$940.00

The Essential Qigong of China: The Energy, the Movement, and the Stories

The Essential Qigong of China: The Energy, the Movement, and the Stories

Big Sur, United States

Master Chungliang “Uncle Al” Huang, a beloved Esalen faculty member, brings more than 50 years of teaching experience to an introduction to China’s ancient qigong tradition. In this workshop, Master Huang will guide participants through the most essential qigong exercises, weaving together movement, storytelling, and subtle energy practices. Designed for those who want to build a steady daily prac...

November 28, 2026$560.00

The Stories Behind the Poses: Mythology in Motion

The Stories Behind the Poses: Mythology in Motion

Big Sur, United States

November 27–29, 2026 Raj Balkaran Every yoga posture carries a story, and every story reveals something about the posture. In this weekend program, the warrior’s steady focus, Hanumān’s powerful leap, and the lotus’s sacred stillness are explored not as abstract ideas, but as living expressions of practice. Each āsana holds a mythic psychology: a map of consciousness, a call to the practitioner, a...

November 28, 2026$560.00

Creative Tai Ji Experience: Change, Transformation, Metamorphosis

Creative Tai Ji Experience: Change, Transformation, Metamorphosis

Big Sur, United States

True creativity begins when we release fixed ideas and allow life to move naturally. In Taoist wisdom, this is Wu Wei: the practice of not forcing, but rather responding to what is already unfolding. Over this weeklong workshop, participants will reimagine Tai Ji forms through ancient rituals, the Five Moving Forces of Nature, and classic Tai Ji motifs. Through exploration, improvisation, and evol...

December 1, 2026$940.00

Awaken Your Extraordinary Potential with Integral Transformative Practice® (ITP)

Awaken Your Extraordinary Potential with Integral Transformative Practice® (ITP)

Big Sur, United States

What kind of positive shift would make the greatest difference in your life right now? This immersive workshop invites you to explore the extraordinary potential already woven into your being. Through the essence of Integral Transformative Practice® (ITP), you’ll encounter a living framework for growth, wellness, and evolution — one that recognizes the deep connection between body, mind, heart, an...

December 5, 2026$560.00

Grof® Breathwork: Homecoming

Grof® Breathwork: Homecoming

Big Sur, United States

Originally developed as “holotropic breathwork” at Esalen in the 1980s by Stanislav and Christina Grof, this powerful practice invites participants into expanded states of consciousness through accelerated breathing, evocative music, and supported somatic release. Working with the breath as a guide, we enter an inner journey that opens to the psyche’s innate intelligence, creating space for emotio...

December 5, 2026$560.00

Elements of Desire: An Erotic Lab for Queer Men

Elements of Desire: An Erotic Lab for Queer Men

Big Sur, United States

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. In that complexity, sexuality can become both a battleground and a place of play. This weekend invites you to explore sexuality as a way of knowing yourself more deeply and feeling your connection to l...

December 12, 2026$840.00

The Seven Flames: Winter Solstice Ritual Retreat

The Seven Flames: Winter Solstice Ritual Retreat

Big Sur, United States

Winter Solstice offers a sacred threshold, a moment when darkness begins to soften and the light slowly returns. As the season turns inward, we are invited to pause, move more gently, and reconnect with the steady flame that lives within. Rooted in the wisdom of the chakra system, this immersive retreat explores the seven chakras as radiant fires and gateways of awakening for our physical, emotion...

December 15, 2026$940.00

Journey Space: Music, Movement and Ceremony

Journey Space: Music, Movement and Ceremony

Big Sur, United States

At a time when steadiness matters more than ever, this four-day experience offers space to strengthen inner resilience and deepen self-resourcing amid a rapidly changing world. From Friday through Monday, participants will be guided into a shared journey of sound, ceremony, and self-discovery, with the heart as the central compass. This intimate and transformational workshop invites you to witness...

December 19, 2026$1,190.00

Soul Motion®: Tenderness at the Heart of the Dance

Soul Motion®: Tenderness at the Heart of the Dance

Big Sur, United States

Soul is movement in constant transformation — a living play of sensation and feeling. It is the way timeless presence meets the finite human body and moves through it. In this workshop, we will return to the body in motion as a doorway into the life unfolding just beneath the surface of everyday forgetting. As a formless dance practice, Soul Motion® makes room for both passionate, expansive moveme...

December 22, 2026$1,500.00

Pleasure Alchemy: Deepening Emotional Intelligence Through Rituals and Sensual Somatics

Pleasure Alchemy: Deepening Emotional Intelligence Through Rituals and Sensual Somatics

Big Sur, United States

What if pleasure is not a luxury, but a doorway to freedom? What if it could serve as prayer, medicine, and personal power? And when was the last time you felt completely alive in your body, without apology? Pleasure Alchemy This somatic journey is designed to awaken, support, and empower participants through the sacred practice of sensual embodiment. By engaging all five senses through touch, mov...

December 22, 2026$940.00

Ground Control: Cultivating Steadiness in Wild Times

Ground Control: Cultivating Steadiness in Wild Times

Big Sur, United States

Modern life asks more of the nervous system than it was ever meant to hold. When urgency, productivity, and constant availability become the norm, it is easy to feel fragmented, depleted, and disconnected from the present moment. This workshop offers a different approach: not escape, but steadiness. In times of uncertainty and rapid change, groundedness becomes a vital inner resource, helping us s...

December 26, 2026$560.00

Wintering Within: Meditation, Music, and Gentle Yoga for the New Year

Wintering Within: Meditation, Music, and Gentle Yoga for the New Year

Big Sur, United States

Welcome the New Year with a restorative week of meditation, music, and gentle yoga, guided by Buddhist teacher and author Lopön Chandra. As winter encourages us to slow down and turn inward, this gathering explores “wintering” as a practice of rest, renewal, and receiving the season’s quiet gifts. Take part in meditation sessions indoors and outdoors, with views across the Pacific Ocean and the po...

December 29, 2026$940.00

Moving Men: An Embodied Inquiry

Moving Men: An Embodied Inquiry

Big Sur, United States

At a moment when many men are reexamining the inherited roles, social expectations, and narratives that have shaped masculinity, this workshop offers a courageous space for exploration. Through movement, honest self-reflection, and the profound learning that emerges when men gather, participants will uncover challenges, witness one another’s vulnerability, and open to new ways of belonging, relati...

November 10, 2026On request

Self-Guided Explorations Weekend of

Self-Guided Explorations Weekend of

Big Sur, United States

3 Days / 2 Nights Enjoy a restorative weekend designed for self-guided exploration, giving you the space to slow down, reflect, and move at your own pace. Over the course of 3 days and 2 nights, this experience offers a simple yet meaningful setting for personal renewal, quiet time, and mindful presence. With no fixed program to follow, you can shape each day according to your own needs—whether th...

November 13, 2026On request

Giving Thanks: A Yoga Retreat

Giving Thanks: A Yoga Retreat

Big Sur, United States

“Enoughness” is where gratitude begins. We start to truly receive the beauty of what is unfolding when we first recognize that we are already enough. Held within Esalen’s transformative setting, this retreat invites us to gather during Thanksgiving week. Together, we will honor the land and the Esselen people, the original stewards of this place, while remembering the wonder of the natural world a...

November 24, 2026On request

Relational Gestalt Practice: Open Seat Intensive

Relational Gestalt Practice: Open Seat Intensive

Big Sur, United States

People are naturally oriented toward healthy, fulfilling relationships. Yet early experiences can leave behind fixed beliefs and old behavior patterns that get in the way of communication, contact, and genuine connection. This workshop uses a Gestalt approach to bring these patterns into greater awareness, including our “unfinished business,” through relationship in a group setting. The environmen...

November 28, 2026On request

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Retreats27 Educational workshop17 Workshops17 Yoga retreat15 Meditation retreat9 Wellness event9 Retreat in nature7 Breathwork retreats5 Health and wellness retreat4 Mindfulness meditation retreat3 Spiritual event3 Yoga class3

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How many events are there in Big Sur?

There are currently 31 upcoming events in Big Sur on RetreatsMap — listings are updated daily.

How much do events in Big Sur cost?

Prices start from €501, and some events and regular classes are free to attend.

When is the next event in Big Sur?

The next upcoming event, “When Spirit Speaks: Personal Evolution Through Spirit Connection”, starts on November 3, 2026. Use the map or the date filter to find dates that suit you.