Big Sur >> A major renovation project, in the works for more than 10 years, is underway at Esalen Institute. The $16 million project had a groundbreaking ceremony last weekend at the campus, situated ...

When Michael Murphy and Dick Price founded the Esalen spiritual retreat on a remote cliff in Big Sur 50 years ago, they were dismissed as misfit mystics who did outlandish things like meditate and ...

c. 2012 Religion News Service BIG SUR, Calif. (RNS) Perched atop the rugged splendor of the California coast south of Monterey, the Esalen Institute is the mother church for people who call themselves ...

BIG SUR — Reeling from severe storm damage and crushing expenses, a cathedral to the personal growth movement will reopen next week after its rescue by an ethos far more powerful: community. The ...

Big Sur >> Esalen Institute presented an Orinda couple with the 2016 Esalen Prize last weekend for their collaborative work in the area of longevity and population aging. Ken and Maddy Dychtwald were ...

After nearly a 7-month closure due to the pandemic and then wildfires, the non-profit launches a new five-day program to provide visitors a range of amenities "We are inviting guests to embrace key ...

Before the Esalen Institute, there was Michael Murphy’s family’s property, a choice chunk of gorgeous Big Sur, where, in 1962, Murphy (writer, seeker) and his fellow human potentialist Dick Price ...

BIG SUR – For nearly 60 years, Esalen has welcomed those seeking a higher level of connection with themselves or the world around them. Now the institute is ready to reopen to guests next week with a ...

(RNS) For 50 years, hundreds of thousands of seekers have come to the Esalen Institute, the incubator of East-meets-West spirituality, looking for news ways to bring together body and soul. Now, the ...