Dick Price

Who was Dick Price?

Richard “Dick” Price was the co-founder of the Esalen Institute in 1962.

Price was a veteran of the Beat Generation. He ran Esalen in Big Sur for many years, sometimes virtually single-handed. He was an explorer of the Santa Lucia Mountains that define the Big Sur coast. He developed a new form of personal integration and growth that he called Gestalt Practice, partly based upon Gestalt therapy and Buddhist practice.

Price worked with his awareness, and helped many people work with their own. His memory remains at the core of the Esalen experience.