Goodbye, funky redwood tubs. Hello, $6-million bathhouse. Esalen Institute, the 40-year-old New Age retreat in Big Sur known for its seminars, massages and hot mineral springs, has reopened its ...
It was 12:45 a.m. when I pulled off the highway in Big Sur, Calif., and joined a half-dozen couples and small groups of friends waiting quietly in rental cars under a twinkling black horizon. Was that ...
THE ESALEN INSTITUTE on California’s rugged Big Sur coast first entered my consciousness as a teenager in the psychedelic ’60s. There it flitted for 30-odd years, an enigmatic place cloaked in ...
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 ...
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