The myths that built this world — the ones that tell us who belongs, who leads, and who is worthy of care — are losing their hold, and the body knows it. Long before the mind catches up, the body has been carrying the weight of these stories: in the armor we wear, the patterns we embody, and the creativity we withhold.

This workshop is an invitation to go beyond the veil and begin the ancient, necessary work of returning to yourself. Over the course of our time together, you will be guided through a layered journey of the myths that have shaped us and the medicine waiting on the other side.

Join movement educator, author, and activist Kerri Kelly for a week-long immersion or recovering ourselves and re-weaving the story of who we are and what is possible.

October 12 - 16th, 2026

Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA

Esalen Institute has a rich history serving as both sanctuary and crucible for evolving the consciousness of activists, leaders, and healers. Located on the ancestral lands of the Esselen people, Esalen is renowned not just for it’s offerings, but for it’s profound and natural beauty on the cliffs of the pacific coast where three water sources converge: a fresh-water spring (Porter Springs), mineral hot springs, and the Pacific Ocean. I have been many times and can testify: it is a powerful portal for healing and transformation. 

Our journey weaves in four directions:

  • Unlearn — surface the cultural stories embedded in your posture, your patterns, and your pain, and begin to loosen their grip.

  • Transform — reorganize the patterns of control, scarcity, and separation that have run your inner life, and feel what opens when they no longer do.

  • Recover — reclaim the wisdom, histories, and ways of knowing that dominant culture has obscured or erased.

  • Co–create — practice, together, what it actually feels like to move from a different story entirely.

This is the work that makes the other work possible — the foundation beneath every vision, every relationship, every act of courage toward a different future. Designed for those who sense that the world will not change until we do.

October 12 - 16th, 2026

Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA