LED BY DR. LORIN ROCHE AND CAMILLE MAURINE
Loving and being loved is intense, a continual stretch of the heart. We all need effective resources to support and inspire this brave adventure.
Join Lorin and Camille for a joyous, liberating journey into Love’s Body — inner practices for those on the path of intimacy. Meditation is, in essence, the practice of intimacy with life itself. Intimacy within ourselves enhances our capacity for intimacy with those we love.
We call upon The Radiance Sutras, a fresh version of a classic tantric text. They invite us to touch the sacred right here in the midst of everyday life. This is a path of wonder, awe, and gratitude, where we learn to combine the passionate flow of our life energies with the serenity that comes from being grounded in rich body awareness — the body of love.
Living in love means joining with the love dance of creation. Embodied practices give us the felt sense, a tangible reality, and ways to dance with emotional energies that inevitably arise. Discover how to access this felt sense as your foundation.
Our activities include sharing Sutras, discussion, exploring a variety of meditation practices including subtle and expressive movement, as well as techniques that allow for profound restfulness. We also wander outside and drench our senses in the natural beauty of Esalen.
Lorin and Camille offer their decades of experience with humor and compassion. They have been living these practices together for 39 years and find them to be thrilling and deeply supportive for staying in love, year after year.
All levels of experience are welcome. The only requirement is curiosity and willingness to explore.
Come on your own or come with a partner. Bring this gift of living in Love’s Body to all aspects of your life, and your lively creative engagement with the world.
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.