Voices of Esalen

Booking Overview

An interview show focused on human potential, psychology, spirituality, consciousness, and the changing relationship between technology and human connection, typically featuring authors, teachers, practitioners, and other established thinkers. Credible pitches would include published authors, recognized speakers, psychologists, wellness practitioners, and experts addressing consciousness, belonging, embodied practice, or the human implications of artificial intelligence; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 236

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 8.1k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

voicesofesalen@gmail.com

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Host

Sam Stern - Host and interviewer focusing on psychology, embodiment, spirituality, and human potential through conversations with practitioners and thinkers.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Published authors, recognized speakers, experienced teachers, established practitioners, and experts with substantial work in psychology, spirituality, consciousness, wellness, human connection, or related cultural and technological questions.

Required Achievements:

Published books, Recognized speaking careers, Established teaching or practitioner credentials, Public-facing work in psychology, wellness, spirituality, consciousness, or human connection

Recent Guest Discussions

Ellen Watson - Esalen's History And Practices; Holotropic Breathwork; Gestalt; Movement; Yoga; Massage; Hands-on Healing; Spirituality; Psychedelics; And The Exploration Of Consciousness.

Adam Smiley Poswolsky - Belonging, Loneliness, Friendship, Workplace Culture, Human Connection, Hybrid Work, Artificial Intelligence, And Preserving Distinctly Human Practices In An Increasingly Automated World.

Robert Moor - Wonder, Kinship, Curiosity, Adaptation, Relationships With The Natural World, And Co-flourishing.

Jet Eveleth - Clowning As Spiritual Practice, Play, Improvisation, Embarrassment, Presence, Meditation, Daoism, Acupuncture, And Embodied Learning.

Recent Topics

Wellness, Psychology, Human Potential, Consciousness, Spirituality

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Voices of Esalen

Ellen Watson: My Esalen Was A Graduate School of Universal Consciousness

September 17, 2026

When Ellen Watson first arrived at Esalen in the summer of 1984, she expected to stay for a few months. Instead, she remained onsite for more than two decades, engaging in an immersion in the practices, teachers, and experiments that helped define Esalen during one of its most fertile eras. She has remained associated with Esalen, teaching programs and training bodyworkers and teachers of bodywork. In this episode, Ellen remembers studying Holotropic Breathwork with Stanislav Grof, Gestalt ...

Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky on Belonging, Loneliness, and the Human Advantage

August 18, 2026

Adam “Smiley” Poswolsky is a workplace belonging expert, internationally recognized keynote speaker, and bestselling author whose work explores friendship, loneliness, human connection, and the ways technology is reshaping our relationships with one another. In this conversation, Sam and Smiley trace a line from the early digital-detox movement and Camp Grounded to the present moment of AI, hybrid work, and widespread social disconnection. Smiley speaks about the loneliness crisis, the parti...

How We're Really Using AI, Vol. 3

July 31, 2026

Artificial intelligence has become deeply embedded in everyday life, and way too nuanced to describe as a single phenomenon. In this third installment of How We’re Really Using AI, Sam attempts to create clarity through specificity, speaking with people whose work and lives reveal distinct corners of the emerging AI landscape. Nina and Shoshana, founders of the Aged Intelligence Society, introduce the communal and unexpectedly playful world of AI parties for women of "a certain age," where t...

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