The benefits of flowing through a few yoga poses during your day to day, are many. Let’s take a look at a few ways yoga can add to your life! All you need is yourself and a yoga mat to start reaping the benefits of a yoga practice. But don’t just take my word forContinue reading “Transform Your Life with Yoga: Reduce Stress, Stiffness, and Insomnia”
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With Love, Esta | The Backstory
Why I named this project what I did and the story behind Esta. Hello. š 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 theContinue reading “With Love, Esta | The Backstory”
5 Tips for Starting a Yoga Practice – Your Complete Guide
To do all those āØ fancy āØ yoga poses ā¦ My yoga practice spans back almost 15 years now. So my lil’ guide here, is not pulled out of thin air! āØI started by watchingĀ @tarastilesĀ and signed up forĀ @adrienelouiseĀ @fwfglifeĀ challenges. I practiced alongsideĀ @larkinyogatvĀ and herĀ #chakrabalancingĀ series. I tried hot yoga classes, studio classes & classes off apps & YouTube.Continue reading “5 Tips for Starting a Yoga Practice – Your Complete Guide”
Deep Breathing Life Hack: Calm Meditation Practice
This super quick #guidedmeditation will have you feeling zen in no time. A super deep inhale, taken into the belly AND the chest followed by an exhale that pretends it is out a straw š„¤ will have you nervous system CHILLIN. š Induce a state of calm with this weekās š guided meditation and please!Continue reading “Deep Breathing Life Hack: Calm Meditation Practice”
Restore Calm: A Three-Minute Guided Meditation with the Physiological Sigh
A physiological sigh is a simple breathing exercise, that is said to lower stress, improve your mood, and restore a feeling of calm. Try the physiological sigh for yourself: take a deep inhale followed by a short second inhalation, and then an extended exhalation. We will try this together in todayās three-minute guided meditation. Listen onContinue reading “Restore Calm: A Three-Minute Guided Meditation with the Physiological Sigh”
Soak in the Moment
A Guided Meditation to Saturate in the Present Moment Happy Meditation Monday to you! Thank you for practicing with me. This week we spend five minutes soaking up the present moment. Relaxing the body and connecting with the breath, we cycle through the senses and witness the current emotion weather. āļøā š¦ļø Remembering this present moment,Continue reading “Soak in the Moment”
Discover the Chinmaya Mudra for Anxiety Reduction | With Love Esta
Take just five minutes to reset your energy. This week we explore our first “mudra” here at WLE. A mudra is a hand gesture or symbol – you could think of them like yoga poses for your hands! The “Chinmaya Mudra” or “mudra of awareness”, is intended to reduce anxiety and bring about a stateContinue reading “Discover the Chinmaya Mudra for Anxiety Reduction | With Love Esta”
Accessible Meditation and Yoga: Anytime, Anywhere Practices
As I hang up my 500 hour Yoga Teacher Certificate this weekend, I am getting crystal clear on why I am here. I offer yoga and meditaiton tools for āØ free āØ because I think they are that important! The weekly freebies drop on Mondays & Wednesdays: Mondays:Ā BREATHE with LoveĀ –Ā freeĀ guided meditations posted onĀ SpotifyĀ &Ā YouTube. Wednesdays:Ā MOVE withContinue reading “Accessible Meditation and Yoga: Anytime, Anywhere Practices”
The Fountain Meditation
Join me for this short and sweet guided meditation. Recorded at a local water fountain in my neighbourhood, this pause and savour the moment meditation is just the mini-break you needed. Deepen and slow the breathing, work the muscle of the imagination and find a pocket of calm in YOUR day. Live on both SpotifyContinue reading “The Fountain Meditation”
Celebrating One Year of ‘With Love’ and 500-Hour YTT Graduation
This weekend marks a whole year of my āWith Loveā project AND is the weekend I celebrate graduating my 500-hour yoga teacher training. š„³(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 ā I must give aContinue reading “Celebrating One Year of ‘With Love’ and 500-Hour YTT Graduation”
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