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research (together with the Readability Course of) and utility of this data in her every day life, she discovered that outdated conditionings are what maintain us again from experiencing the fact of the current second because it actually is.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 She goals to allow her college students to see previous their outdated tales, liberating them as much as expertise the reality – the second as it’s now.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 equivalent to Yin yoga and Meditation that assist 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 significantly 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 frequently evolving her observe by means of additional coaching and examine. 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 courses.
“All through my life, practising yoga taught me to chill out, learn how to discover a method out of worries and stress. Yoga confirmed me the thrill of being match and powerful. 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 all the things I used to be on the lookout for is ‘proper right here, proper now.’ And all I might 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 search 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 captivated with sharing the transformative energy of yoga and meditation with others. My journey has been one in every of discovery, therapeutic, and connection, each inside myself and with the world round me. Via the net platform EkhartYoga.com, I purpose to make yoga accessible to everybody, providing an area for development, studying, and connection. Moreover, I educate retreats to create a protected house for deepening the interior work.
What does a typical day seem 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 house for nature, studying, and reflection to take care of stability.
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 wanting miraculous in my eyes, exhibiting me the profound influence yoga might have. It was throughout my very own occasions of deep sorrow—shedding my greatest buddy to suicide and my mom in a pure catastrophe all in the identical yr, —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 turn 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 carry unimaginable adjustments to my college students, from improved bodily well being and adaptability 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. Keep in mind, there’s no such factor as an ideal pose. It doesn’t need to look a sure method. What’s vital 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 job is to not search for love, however merely to hunt and discover all of the limitations inside your self that you’ve got 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 limitations and love our limitations (ache, heartbreak, and grief) into therapeutic and never ignore them. It’s an attractive reminder that therapeutic begins with acceptance and loving kindness in direction of our personal experiences and feelings.
What’s arising in 2024?
In 2024, I’m excited to show all of the upcoming retreats, which yow will discover listed on EstherEkhart.com. After all, I’m additionally wanting ahead to persevering with to broaden my on-line teachings for EkhartYoga.com.
