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unusual facts about Esalen Institute



Elsa Gindler

This became one of the bases of body psychotherapy since many of the most influential body psychotherapists studied with her or "Sensory Awareness" with Charlotte Selver at the Esalen Institute around 1962.

Esselen people

The Esalen Institute in Big Sur is named after this tribe as is Boy Scouts of America Monterey Bay Area Council Order of the Arrow Esselen Lodge #531.

Hani Naser

Hani Naser continues to lead these workshops at the Esalen Institute and other institutions and has formed a band with Walfredo Reyes Jr., Armand Sabal-Lecco, and Craig Eastman.

Heinrich Jacoby

The work of Heinrich Jacoby influenced body psychotherapy through the workshops that Charlotte Selver (1901–2003), student of Jacoby and Gindler, gave to major body psychotherapists at the Esalen Institute in the 1960s.

Stanislav Grof

In 1973, he was invited to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, and lived there until 1987 as a scholar-in-residence, developing his ideas.


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