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Explore your potential. Esalen is a holistic retreat and educational institute. Established in 1962 and considered the epicenter of the human potential movement, we are a non-profit offering comfort and space for exploration, transformation, and healing within the wilds of Big Sur’s majestic mountainscape and glittering coastline.
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Esalen Institute is the world's most famous growth center....
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The Esalen Institute, commonly called Esalen, is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education. The institute played a key role in the Human Potential Movement beginning in the 1960s.
- Camille Allen Jeffries CEO, CFO, Ana Gadban, Director of Operations
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