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The Turning Season: Aligning with Autumn's Sacred Rhythmsyoga retreat

The Turning Season: Aligning with Autumn's Sacred Rhythms

This four-day retreat gathers participants to pause and realign with autumn's natural rhythms, honoring the season's invitation to release, reflect, and prepare for renewal. Led by yoga therapist and author Jillian Pransky, the program weaves together slow-flow yoga, somatic movement, restorative practices, and Metta meditation to meet this moment of transition with grounded presence. Each session emphasizes nervous system balance while cultivating both rootedness and openness to change. Participants engage with seasonal rituals, journaling, and practices conducted outdoors to deepen their connection with autumn's elements. Double bassist Garth Stevenson contributes acoustic support, adding resonance to the work of settling and releasing. The retreat invites practitioners to move through fall with intention and ease, creating space for deeper self-nourishment that extends outward to the wider world.

Fri, Oct 9, 2026Esalen Institute, Big Sur
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Gratitude Retreatyoga retreat

Gratitude Retreat

A three-day gathering at Esalen Institute in Big Sur designed around returning to what nourishes the heart and spirit. Led by Vinyasa teacher Janet Stone, participants explore gratitude through the body and mind, moving from dynamic yoga asana and pranayama to seated meditation and yoga nidra. The retreat weaves together group practice with solitude, hot spring bathing with forest walking, and shared meals with moments of reflection. Guest teachers and musicians join the faculty, creating a retreat shaped equally by instruction and community presence. The weekend emphasizes the connective tissue between personal practice and collective remembrance, offering structured sessions on Saturday morning and more intimate opening and closing circles. Professional photography documents the retreat, with images shared among participants afterward.

Fri, Nov 20, 2026Esalen Institute, Big Sur
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Giving Thanks: A Yoga Retreatyoga retreat

Giving Thanks: A Yoga Retreat

Held at Esalen Institute during Thanksgiving week, this retreat explores the practice of gratitude through the lens of sufficiency. Guided by instructor Janet Stone, who has practiced yoga since 1996, participants engage in a carefully sequenced progression of asana, breathwork, meditation, journaling, and yoga nidra. The retreat honors the land and the Esselen people, the indigenous stewards of Big Sur. Rather than dwelling on scarcity, the week offers a structured inquiry into recognizing and appreciating what is already present in one's life. Daily practices build toward a deeper attunement to the natural world and the life force within the body. The retreat culminates in a felt sense of wholeness and the capacity to extend gratitude and generosity into the world beyond the retreat grounds.

Mon, Nov 23, 2026Esalen Institute, Big Sur
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Aligning with Nature: A Winter Solstice Yoga Retreatyoga retreat

Aligning with Nature: A Winter Solstice Yoga Retreat

As the year darkens into winter, this three-day retreat at Esalen Institute invites practitioners to align with the season's natural rhythm. Winter solstice marks a threshold, a moment when the sun appears to pause before returning. The retreat uses this astronomical pivot as a frame for inner work, combining asana practice, seated meditation, and chanting to cultivate presence and renewal. Guided by instructor Sarana Miller, whose teaching draws from Iyengar and Forrest traditions, participants work with the body and breath to build steadiness and brightness before returning home. The practice unfolds in Esalen's clifftop setting overlooking the Pacific, where the natural environment becomes part of the teaching. Rather than treating winter as a time to endure, the retreat positions the darker months as an opportunity for reflection and self-care, encouraging practitioners to slow down and build inner resources for the year ahead. All levels welcome.

Fri, Dec 11, 2026Esalen Institute, Big Sur
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Ground Control: Cultivating Steadiness in Wild Timesyoga retreat

Ground Control: Cultivating Steadiness in Wild Times

This three-day workshop at Esalen addresses the particular strain of modern acceleration on the nervous system. Participants explore how contemporary life's relentless pace accumulates as fragmentation and exhaustion in the body, leaving little room for genuine presence. The workshop proposes steadiness not as escape but as a practical capacity—one that allows for responsive engagement with life's uncertainty and intensity. Through sequenced practices in yoga, breathwork, meditation, and rhythm work, participants investigate the internal mechanics of acceleration: how it shapes breath, posture, attention, and emotional response. Drawing on nervous system science and contemplative tradition, the work approaches groundedness as a trainable skill rather than a fixed state. The faculty guides participants in reconnecting with the body's deeper rhythms, distinct from clock time and productivity metrics. This is practical inquiry into what becomes possible when presence is sustained beyond the retreat space and carried into daily life.

Fri, Dec 25, 2026Esalen Institute, Big Sur
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Wintering Within: Meditation, Music, and Gentle Yoga for the New Yearyoga retreat

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

This five-day retreat at Esalen Institute invites participants to slow down as winter settles in, exploring what Buddhist teacher Chandra Easton calls the art of "wintering" — a deliberate embrace of rest, renewal, and the inward movement this season naturally invites. The program weaves together seated and moving meditation practices, mantra recitation, and therapeutic yoga designed for bodies of all abilities. Meditations are offered both indoors and in open-air settings with views across the Pacific, where participants may observe migrating whales. Central to the offering are teachings in shamatha, or calm-abiding practice, paired with Buddhist-based awareness techniques including mindfulness of breathing. Guest musicians Cassian Rose and Robert James Ryan III of Sorelia contribute immersive soundscapes using violin, percussion, flute, vocals, and looping to deepen contemplative experience. The retreat draws both newcomers and experienced practitioners into a community grounded in accessible practice, spacious accommodations, and the particular gifts of the winter solstice season. All teachings emphasize that this work is fundamentally available to everyone, regardless of prior experience or physical ability.

Mon, Dec 28, 2026Esalen Institute, Big Sur
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