Led by Dr. Lorin Roche and Camille Maurine
Join us for an immersion in deep relaxation and refreshment in the luscious natural world of Esalen. We will be playing with a range of natural movement and seated meditations that awaken the senses, nourish the heart, and stretch the mind in wonder and awe.
Nature is wild and serene. So too is your inner nature. In this liberating approach to meditation, you learn to embrace the fullness of your nature — vastness and vulnerability, sensuality, and surging power. Discover that what might seem like obstacles — raw emotion, restlessness, desire — are actually gateways into vitality, renewal, and creativity.
We will be sharing inspirations from The Radiance Sutras. The Sutras describe meditation as a process of savoring the current of life and love flowing through us and riding it inward to commune with our essence. This is an instinctive ability, a way of accessing inner wisdom, and we all can do it.
You will have the freedom to experiment with a wide variety of practices — standing, walking, sitting, lying down, eyes open and eyes closed, using your senses of vision, touch, hearing, taste, balance. We each have our own favorite ways and the key to falling in love with meditation is to customize the practice so that it flows in harmony with your inner nature. Find meditations you love and can take home.
Drawing on fifty years of teaching and 39 years of relationship, Lorin and Camille share this wisdom of Instinctive Meditation with humor and compassion. All levels of experience are welcome.
Recommended reading: The Radiance Sutras by Lorin Roche, Ph.D, Meditation Made Easy by Lorin Roche, Ph.D, and Meditation Secrets for Women by Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche, Ph.D.
About Esalen Institute
Esalen is a place that is one of a kind… 120 acres of fertile land perched between mountain and ocean, with hot mineral springs gushing out of a seaside cliff. The delicate Big Sur air of a late May afternoon, the midnight mist of July, the drenching February rain. There are October nights so clear the Milky Way lights your walk along the darkened garden path. And always, the sound of the sea, reminding you you’re one part of something much bigger.
And then there are the people — the people who live there and love the land. The philosophers and sociologists and theologians and psychologists and artists and dancers and writers who each have something unique to teach us about what it means to be human. And the 750,000 more who have come from all over the world for the inspiration, intellectual freedom, and opportunity to explore the deepest self as part of a community of seekers.
They come to meditate, they come to dance, they come to connect. To create, to question, to reflect. To find clarity. And they leave changed, and ready to change the world.
Faculty Bio
Dr. Lorin Roche began meditating with a classic yoga text, the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, in 1968 as part of scientific research on the physiology of meditation. He fell in love with meditation and has been sharing that delight ever since. He has a PhD from the University of California at Irvine where he studied the correlation of internal experience and measurable physiological effects. He is the author of The Radiance Sutras and Meditation Made Easy.
A teacher of meditation for 54 years, Lorin’s approach centers on how to customize the practices to suit one’s individual nature. www.MeditationTT.com
Camille Maurine is the author of the groundbreaking book, Meditation Secrets for Women: Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner Peace with her husband, Dr. Lorin Roche.
Camille is an intrepid traveler on the path of embodiment, venturing high and low into the world of energy and love. Her work is an intimate fusion of meditation, movement, and expression, with a keen passion for women's spiritual empowerment.
Camille and Dr. Lorin Roche are the co-founders of Instinctive Meditation® - a natural, life-affirming approach to inner practices. They lead a dynamic meditation teacher training and travel widely to give presentations, workshops, and retreats.
