Celebrating One Year of ‘With Love’ and 500-Hour YTT Graduation

This weekend marks a whole year of my “With Love” project AND is the weekend I celebrate graduating my 500-hour yoga teacher training. 🥳(and yes, it really WAS 500 hours of yoga and learning and classes and teaching and boy did I love every minute!)

As the OG WLE family – I must give a huge thank YOU for witnessing & supporting this evolution. 🥰

Since May of last year things have been taking shape:

💼 registered with Yoga Alliance.

🙏 built a Guided Meditation library on Spotify & YouTube.

🧘 built a Yoga Pose Breakdown catalogue on the website & YouTube.

✨ began offering Custom Mini-Classes for those wanting short & sweet stretches for a specific ailment.

📖 opened the books for 1:1 private clients – the most customized of yoga classes!

As I graduated with my fellow yoga teachers this week, we were prompted to revisit our “why”.

Why did I put in the hundreds of hours to go deeper in my yoga & meditation knowledge? Why am I so certain that the tools of yoga & meditation are needed now more than ever? Why did I walk away from a career built in administration into the unknown?

It’s tough to capture my answer in just words. I would need to show you… show you the moments many years ago, when I went to the bathroom stall at work to cry through a panic attack.

I would need to explain how complex PTSD had my heart, mind & body on red alert for many years… and how the untying of those knots took much time.

I would have to show you how quiet the mind gets after purposeful movement, in which the body and the breath are working united.

 You would need to see a fast forward movie reel of what a meditation practice looks like over many years… and I would need to show you how loud the mind was and how quiet it has become since.

I would have to show you the photo album of my relationship with myself, but the moment I realized that I needed to love who I was, and who I am and who I am becoming wouldn’t be caught on film.

Just like yoga, there is much to the journey that is intangible. It must be felt; experienced for the self.

But the journey itself has allowed me to uncover many tools. And as a compassionate, sharing person – I am determined to share these tools. If any of them can prove helpful to someone else, then it was worth it. 🧰

As much as mental health struggles feel lonely, they really are quite universal. 💞

So that dear friends, is my why.

One more huge THANK YOU for tuning in, and for being here. 🙏

The regularly scheduled content now resumes! 💃

Tune in:

MONDAYS – for a free guided meditation

WEDNESDAYS – for a free yoga pose breakdown

& FRIDAYS – for EITHER a mini-class drop OR a drop-in LIVE class ✨

Excited about the open books?! (me too!)

Book a FREE consultation with me now.

(I’m so excited to chat yoga/meditation with you! 📞)

Oh my gosh, I almost forgot!

My Grad Celebration Giveaway kicked off on Instagram. 🎓

Check out the latest post to enter to win:

• A sun salutation printed Everlast yoga mat
• A WLE tote bag
• Your choice of a WLE custom mini-class OR a live 1:1 yoga class

Wishing you an amazing June weekend ahead 🌻

With Love,

Esta

everything must be done with love