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 1000’s of yogis everywhere in the world.
Esther labored for a few years as a therapist and has an enormous fascination with the human psyche. By way of her religious research (together with the Readability Course of) and utility of this information in her each day life, she discovered that outdated conditionings are what maintain us again from experiencing the truth of the current second because it actually is.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 She goals to allow her college students to see previous their outdated tales, liberating them as much as expertise the reality – the second as it’s now.
Esther loves educating extra dynamic kinds like Hatha or Vinyasa Stream, specializing in power, stability and health, together with slower practices similar to Yin yoga and Meditation that permit you to drop in and get to know your self higher.
Esther is grateful to her early academics: Clive Sheridan, who taught her to not take something too severely and Taetske Kleijn, with whom she studied the Readability Course of, and likewise her coaching and work as a therapist.
As an avid scholar Esther is regularly evolving her observe by means of additional coaching and research. Esther is all the time open to questioning earlier educating strategies (together with her personal) and difficult herself, integrating new studying and insights into her lessons.
“All through my life, practising yoga taught me to calm down, discover a means out of worries and stress. Yoga confirmed me the thrill of being match and powerful. Yoga taught me to self-reflect and to just accept life because it comes…lastly, yoga and my readability work confirmed me that there was nothing to ‘discover’ and that all the pieces 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 all the time 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 academics on EkhartYoga.com and EstherEkhart.com. I’m deeply obsessed with 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. By way of the web platform EkhartYoga.com, I purpose to make yoga accessible to everybody, providing an area for progress, studying, and connection. Moreover, I educate retreats to create a secure house for deepening the internal 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 lessons, getting ready content material, and connecting with my college students on-line. I additionally make house for nature, studying, and reflection to take care of steadiness.
How did your yoga journey start and what impressed you to turn into a yoga trainer?
First, I noticed yoga heal my mom from a girl who was struggling in life and barely maintaining, to somebody with way more power and presence. This transformation was nothing in need of miraculous in my eyes, displaying me the profound affect yoga may have. It was throughout my very own instances of deep sorrow—dropping my greatest pal 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 affect it had on each our lives impressed me to turn into a trainer, feeling the decision to share the identical optimistic transformation with others.
How have you ever seen yoga profit your college students?
I’ve seen yoga convey unimaginable adjustments to my college students, from improved bodily well being and adaptability to deeper emotional resilience and psychological readability. It’s actually 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 should look a sure means. What’s essential is that the pose feels best for you. I want I had understood this sooner; it will 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 appears to be like like. We’re all distinctive, and that’s okay. Much less is extra.
What’s your favourite quote or life motto?
“Your activity is to not look for love, however merely to hunt and discover all of the obstacles inside your self that you’ve constructed in opposition to it, and love them into therapeutic.” – Rumi
It speaks to the facility of affection and the necessity to transfer in direction of our obstacles and love our obstacles (ache, heartbreak, and grief) into therapeutic and never ignore them. It’s a fantastic reminder that therapeutic begins with acceptance and loving kindness in 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 trying ahead to persevering with to develop my on-line teachings for EkhartYoga.com.
