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Esalen History Sports Psychology 1972: Michael Murphy, co-founder of Esalen, published Golf in the Kingdom, destined to become one of the classic works on the inner game of sports.
1973: Esalen created the Esalen Sports Center, designed to foster an orientation to sports beyond mere competition and physical activity. Former professional football player David Meggyesy, Bob Kriegel, a group leader and sports coach, and Mike Spino, an innovative running coach, joined with Michael Murphy to build programs that saw sports as vehicles for self-development and avenues to a higher nature. The first weekend program was so successful that Esalen launched a two-week summer program. Prominent faculty: Stewart Brand, Judith Aston, John Brodie, Tim Galway, George Leonard, Stanley Keleman, Dave Meggyesy, Eleanor Metheny, Dan Millman, Robert Nadeau, Mike Murphy, Al Huang, Will Schutz, Jack Scott, Mike and Dyveke Spino.
April 15, 1973: New York Times article on the Esalen Sports Center stated that, "Such is the clout generated by Esalen that the occasion may be to a change in sports what the storming of the Bastille was to the French Revolution."
1975: George Leonard published The Ultimate Athlete, which presented a theoretical framework for the kind of work the Sports Center was fostering.
1976: the Esalen Sports Center began a six-moth program in mind/body development, coordinated by Mike Spino, featuring running, meditation, yoga, and other disciplines.
1978: Michael Murphy and Rhea White published In the Zone: Transcendent Experience in Sports, the most comprehensive scholarly effort to date on metanormal experience in sport.
1993: Esalen hosted a major conference at Stanford University, entitled "Toward the Further Reaches of Sport Psychology," in which prominent coaches, athletes, and sport psychologists from the former Soviet republics and the United States discussed current trends in theoretical and applied sport psychology.
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