Dick Price

Richard “Dick” Price (October 12, 1930 – November 25, 1985) -- co-founded Esalen Institute in 1962. Dick 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. Dick Price worked with his awareness, and helped many people work with their own. His memory remains at the core of the Esalen experience. Dick Price was born October 12, 1930, to Herman and Audrey Price in Chicago, Illinois. He died while hiking near Esalen on November 25, 1985, and was...