Esther, founding father of EkhartYoga and internationally skilled yoga trainer has been educating Hatha, Vinyasa and Yin yoga for over 20 years. Her data and sensible down-to-earth educating has impressed hundreds of yogis all around the world.
Esther labored for a few years as a therapist and has an enormous fascination with the human psyche. Via her non secular research (together with the Readability Course of) and utility of this data in her every day life, she discovered that outdated conditionings are what maintain us again from experiencing the truth of the current second because it actually is. It’s this studying that Esther brings into all her teachings. She goals to allow her college students to see previous their outdated tales, releasing them as much as expertise the reality – the second as it’s now.
Esther loves educating extra dynamic kinds like Hatha or Vinyasa Circulate, specializing in energy, stability and health, together with slower practices comparable to Yin yoga and Meditation that will let you drop in and get to know your self higher.
Esther is grateful to her early lecturers: Clive Sheridan, who taught her to not take something too critically and Taetske Kleijn, with whom she studied the Readability Course of, and likewise her coaching and work as a therapist.
As an avid pupil Esther is regularly evolving her observe by means of additional coaching and examine. Esther is at all times open to questioning earlier educating strategies (together with her personal) and difficult herself, integrating new studying and insights into her courses.
“All through my life, practising yoga taught me to calm down, learn how to discover a approach out of worries and stress. Yoga confirmed me the thrill of being match and robust. Yoga taught me to self-reflect and to simply accept life because it comes…lastly, yoga and my readability work confirmed me that there was nothing to ‘discover’ and that every part I used to be searching for is ‘proper right here, proper now.’ And all I may ever do was to let go of the bondage that stopped me from experiencing the reality. I’ll at all times be very grateful to the trail of yoga, the Readability course of and the miracle that life is.”
We caught up with Esther to seek out out extra.
Inform us a bit about your self…
I’m Esther, the founder and one of many lecturers on EkhartYoga.com and EstherEkhart.com. I’m deeply keen about sharing the transformative energy of yoga and meditation with others. My journey has been certainly one of discovery, therapeutic, and connection, each inside myself and with the world round me. Via the web platform EkhartYoga.com, I goal to make yoga accessible to everybody, providing an area for development, studying, and connection. Moreover, I train retreats to create a secure area for deepening the inside work.
What does a typical day appear like for you?
My days start with a private meditation and yoga observe to floor myself. I spend my time educating courses, getting ready content material, and connecting with my college students on-line. I additionally make area for nature, studying, and reflection to take care of steadiness.
How did your yoga journey start and what impressed you to change into a yoga trainer?
First, I noticed yoga heal my mom from a lady who was struggling in life and barely maintaining, to somebody with far more energy and presence. This transformation was nothing wanting miraculous in my eyes, displaying me the profound influence yoga may have. It was throughout my very own instances of deep sorrow—shedding my finest buddy to suicide and my mom in a pure catastrophe all in the identical 12 months, —that I turned to yoga and meditation not simply as a observe however as a lifeline.
The profound influence it had on each our lives impressed me to change into a trainer, feeling the decision to share the identical constructive transformation with others.
How have you ever seen yoga profit your college students?
I’ve seen yoga convey unbelievable adjustments to my college students, from improved bodily well being and suppleness to deeper emotional resilience and psychological readability. It’s really rewarding to see them embrace a extra balanced, peaceable, and fulfilled life.
What recommendation would you give to somebody simply beginning out on their yoga journey?
Hearken to your physique, it talks to you. Bear in mind, there’s no such factor as an ideal pose. It doesn’t need to look a sure approach. What’s essential is that the pose feels best for you. I want I had understood this sooner; it could have helped me belief my physique extra and push myself much less. There’s a model of each pose that matches your physique, no matter the way it compares to others round you or what the trainer’s pose seems like. We’re all distinctive, and that’s okay. Much less is extra.
What’s your favourite quote or life motto?
“Your process is to not search for love, however merely to hunt and discover all of the limitations inside your self that you’ve constructed towards it, and love them into therapeutic.” – Rumi
It speaks to the ability of affection and the necessity to transfer in the direction of our limitations and love our limitations (ache, heartbreak, and grief) into therapeutic and never ignore them. It’s a stupendous reminder that therapeutic begins with acceptance and loving kindness in the direction of our personal experiences and feelings.
What’s developing in 2024?
In 2024, I’m excited to show all of the upcoming retreats, which you could find listed on EstherEkhart.com. After all, I’m additionally wanting ahead to persevering with to broaden my on-line teachings for EkhartYoga.com.
