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Get the classic Northern California retreat experience at the Esalen Institute, where you can open your chakras while painting in the ‘Art Barn,’ stretching in a dance-and-movement class, or meditating in a seaside hot spring.

If you’re not willing to book a workshop, you can reserve a ‘personal retreat’, but only a week in advance and only if the resort isn’t sold out. Accommodations are in private rooms or same-sex dorms. They’re nothing fancy, but Esalen isn’t about the rooms, it’s about rejuvenating your spirit, and if that sounds too woo-woo Shirley MacLaine, take your inner child elsewhere.