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The Esalen Institute and the Human Potential Movement Turn 50

By Debra Ollivier — 2012

In 1962, on a stunning stretch of land bordering the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California, two Stanford graduates named Michael Murphy and Dick Price founded a small retreat and workshop center called The Esalen Institute, otherwise known simply as Esalen.

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Diamond Approach Inquiry: Discovering Inner Freedom

We can temporarily push our ego away or try to rearrange our personality to be happier, freer, or more realized. But ego comes back. And that’s where Diamond Approach inquiry comes in. We all have awareness and inquiry helps us harness awareness to dissolve ego instead of pushing it away.

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Olivia Fermi
2021
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Ask the Teachers: What Does it Mean to Understand Buddhism Through the Body?

Roxanne Dault, Meido Moore, and Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam discuss what it means to understand Buddhism through the body — the heart of the Buddhist path.

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Lopön Charlotte Z. Rotterdam, Meido Moore, Roxanne Dault
2021
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The Inner Ear as Grounding

Opening the ears to careful listening is one of the primary tasks of teachers today. How can we inspire sensitivity so that the visual arts, poetry, music, and inner morality can resound within us.

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Nancy Mellon
2016
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Heal the Mind, Access Through the Body

Mind body connection. Terms we throw around a lot but lets break it down. We hold all our mind’s thoughts in our body. Our body’s experiences of tension and relaxation are influenced by these thoughts.

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Alia Mai
2019
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Judgment Is a Teacher on the Path of Transformation

By acknowledging and honoring any feeling—no matter how “unacceptable” we might have previously judged it to be—we create space for its opposite.

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Shakti Gawain
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7 Practical Ways to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence measures our ability to perceive our own emotions, as well as the emotions of others, and to manage them in a productive and healthy way.

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Hannah Braime
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What Is Your Body?

It’s less than we think. It’s far more than we know. It’s who we are but it’s not. Contemplate the deeper reality of the body with Buddhist teacher Norman Fischer.

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Norman Fischer
2018
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