Erotic Ecology: Awakening the Senses and Returning to Nature
Esalen Institute January 18-22, 2027
We have become numb to the Earth's touch. But the Earth is calling us home.
Are you yearning for the analog, messy, and real? Do you desire to return to your body and shed the phantasms of the overculture?
This week-long workshop offers an immersive, slow, and sensual experience in the erotic ecology pathway. A space to reawaken our sensory, pleasurable, and nourishing connection to two landscapes: our bodies and nature.
Erotic ecology is a life philosophy that honors aliveness as the compass. Vitality for self, other and the Earth. If the living world is a tapestry of intimacy, then life is only possible through honoring the desire, pleasure, and sensuous experience of life itself.
Through embodied exploration, contemplative practice, and nature rituals, you can rediscover your birthright: an intimate relationship with the natural world. This kinship reminds us that, at our essence, we are not separate from the Earth. We are the Earth.
You are invited to expand
- Learn and practice the eight stages of interoceptive awareness, our body’s portal to sensing the Earth.
- Reconnect with your body’s innate wisdom and capacity for vitality.
- Remember, feel, and embody your own aliveness.
- Practice attuned and consensual touch.
- Attune to the pace of nature and move at the rhythm of our surroundings.
- Awaken a felt sense of kinship with the natural world.
- Learn how to speak the language of the Earth.
- Taste the deepest wellspring of rest and nourishment that is nature’s baseline.
- Savor the nourishment of surrendering to the Earth’s embrace and seduction.
- Expand in playful connection to nature through art, poetry, mandala-making, ritual, and dance.
- Connect your own erotic vitality to collective liberation and ecological justice.
When
Monday 18 –
Friday 22 January 2027
Where
Esalen Institute
Big Sur, California
Return home with the kindled flame of a love affair with the Earth.
Register at Esalen