Why I named this project what I did and the story behind Esta.
Hello. 👋
With some new faces around and a shifting of my own website and projects – I wanted to re-introduce myself.
You can call me Esta!
This was a nickname I picked up in high school, and I always loved the little modern twist it gave to my rather old fashioned name.
It’s also the name of my alter-ego. More on that in a minute…
You see, my natural state is quite anxious – due to some complex PTSD. (Haha… nice.) And yet, I have been able to tap into a calmness and peace that I never knew before… with the tools of yoga and meditation.
As I dove deep into the ancient 8 limbs of yoga, I learned that the self was my only saviour. Furthermore: the self is our own true source of love.
I think we all have things to “heal from”.
Sometimes it’s not that deep, but sometimes… we stumble across the thorns in life and find ourselves extra stuck.
It’s in these moments of stuck-ness that I have learned I need to treat myself with extra care. I talk alot about self-love, and it’s not because I am naturally good at it. In fact, it’s taken years of cultivating, and undoing the pathways of how I used to talk to myself. (Critical, unforgiving, void of grace for the self.)
So I have taken this new approach in life: “with love”.
Everything must be done with love.
With love, great transformation can take place.
With love, obstacles melt in defeat.
Breathing with love, moving with love, teaching with love, learning with love.
“With Love, Esta” – started off as my outro in guided meditations.
But then I positioned it as my business name… because all of this project is made with love.
The yoga poses, the guided meditations, the classes, the one to one offerings… all come from a deep well of love.
In hopes that these tools will help you find the deep well within yourself,
that deep well of love that we all have within.
Ah yes, and the alter-ego… Esta is the yogi within me. She is calm, she is compassionate, she is motherly and full of child-like wonder all at once. She is the version of me that I wished to become, so I did. ✨
A couple years ago, as part of my yoga teacher training, I journalled on what the ideal version of me would look like. A year or so later, I recorded an affirmation track, written in present tense, that rewrote my mental script on myself & my life. I still listen to that track almost every day. 🎧
When you book with me, you are greeted by Esta. She knows there is love and light in you, and meets you where you’re at with a compassionate heart.
The tools of yoga and meditation extend far beyond the yoga mat, and I can’t wait to work with you to show you how. 🙏
Keep an eye out for a new project made with love… coming soon! 💕
Thank you for tuning in for some thoughts of mine.
With Love,
Esta
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