Join Tracee Stanley, Elena Brower, Ally Bogard and Crystal Marie Higgins at Esalen in Big Sur, CA.

You are invited into a practice of becoming whole through movement, stillness, and deep rest. Explore ritual, respect, and regulation as our equation for remembering and embodying wholeness within a supportive community.

Each day, our sessions will blend movement, stillness, quietude, nature exploration, and time for silence and reflection. Guided meditations and yoga nidra will help soften patterns of stress and restore clarity. Afternoon sessions will include dharma talks, medicinal wild plant classes with healing herbal remedies, and embodiment practices to reconnect you to your inner cycles and the subtler rhythms of the earth.

Glean accessible ways to craft ritual in your daily life, strengthen resilience through self-regulation, and deepen respect for your body, mind, and environment. Expect to be supported as you expand your sense of trustworthy connection through both personal and communal practices.

You will be invited to expand your perception of, relationship to, and belonging with the living earth through:

• Asana practice and embodiment practices

• Meditation

• Yoga nidra

• Earth wisdom, wild plant and tree medicine, nature walks, and herbal medicine making classes

• Plant allies and sit-spot practice

• Ritual

By the end of our time together, you’ll be invited to carry home a resource of embodied tools and expanded perception to integrate into your everyday life.

Return to balance in moments of challenge and anchor yourself in wholeness even in the midst of change.

Tracee Stanley is devoted to sharing the wisdom of yoga nidra, meditation, nature as a teacher, and ancestor reverence. She is the author of the bestselling books Radiant Rest and The Luminous Self (Shambhala Publications). Her newest book, Living Ritual: Infuse Each Day with Purpose and Spirit (SoundsTrue), will be released in August 2026.

Elena Brower. Mother, mentor, poet, artist, volunteer, bestselling author, and host of the Practice You podcast, Elena Brower is a celebrated international yoga and meditation teacher on Glo, guiding transformative practices since 1999. She is now a candidate for Zen Buddhist chaplaincy.

Ally Bogard is the co-founder of The Twenty Six, a mentor, and the author of The Quiet Teachers: Becoming a Student of Your Life. With over twenty years of teaching immersive group processes, she works at the intersection of somatic and contemplative practice, guiding toward greater clarity, resilience, and self-understanding.

Crystal Marie Higgins is a lineaged Initiated High Priestess in Celtic traditions and an Initiated Witch, as well as a Yoga Teacher, a Folk Herbalist, and an Ethical Marketer. She has been in devotion to earth wisdom, the cycles of the moon, and the seasons since 2012.