Esther Ekhart

Recently I’ve been reflecting on how compassion can actually be protective — not something soft or passive, but something that helps us stay open without losing clarity.

When we learn to include ourselves with kindness, resilience grows naturally. We don’t have to harden in order to be strong.

This Sunday I’m holding a 90-minute online Monthly Meeting where we’ll explore compassion as a way of living. Grounded, embodied, and real.

🕊 Compassion as a Way of Living
Sunday Feb 15 | 16:00–17:30 CET
Online via Zoom • Donation-based • Replay included

If this speaks to you, you’re warmly welcome to join us.
Link in bio 🤍

What happens when you stop rushing yourself?

Tomorrow, we slow down together.

A 90-minute online Monthly Meeting
to breathe, feel, and listen beneath the noise —
without fixing, performing, or figuring anything out.

✨ No breakout rooms
✨ Donation-based
✨ Recording included (even if you can’t come live)

This is for you if you’ve been moving fast, feeling full, or quietly longing for a little more space.

Come exactly as you are.
Everything is welcome.

🕓 Tomorrow, Jan 10 | 16:00–17:30 CET
🔗 Link in bio for more info and to register

Most of us don’t notice how exhausted we are
until we slow down enough to feel it.

Yin is the practice of stopping.
Of softening the places that have been holding too much.
Of letting your whole system exhale.

If you’re longing for rest, for clarity, for a moment to breathe…
you’re so welcome to join me this Saturday.

🌙 Nothing To Do — A Deep Rest Yin Immersion
🗓 Saturday Dec 14
⏰ 16:00–18:00 CET
💞 Donation-based
🔗 Link in bio to join

Come exactly as you are.

A little pause to return to yourself.

If you want the full weekly version of this practice — a few more minutes of grounding, softening, and presence —

you can subscribe to my Substack through the link in my bio 🤍

Where do you look for trust when everything outside feels uncertain? Tomorrow we’ll explore how to find steadiness beneath fear — through reflection, journaling, and meditation.

🗓 Saturday Aug 23, 16:00 (Amsterdam time)
⏳ 90 min session, donation-based
💻 Recording available for all who register

Join us via the link in bio 🌿

✨ Grateful for this evening
Tonight I sat on the beach with dear friends to celebrate a birthday, and we were given one of those sunsets that makes you pause and breathe a little deeper. The sky reminded me how simple moments — the sand between your fingers, being with people you love, the glow of the sun sinking into the horizon — are more than enough.

In yoga we talk about santosha — contentment. Not the kind that comes from everything being perfect, but the kind that arrives when we notice what’s already here, already whole.

Tonight, I felt that. And I’m grateful. 🌿

We can’t build true trust with ourselves if we’re constantly avoiding what’s uncomfortable.

Take 3 minutes with this:
💭 Close your eyes and ask,
“What emotions or sensations do I tend to avoid or push down?”

No judgment — just noticing. You might be surprised what shows up.

We’ll be exploring this and so much more in my upcoming 90 min zoom session: Unshakeable Trust — Where Even Doubt Is Welcome 🌿 Aug 23rd at 4pm Amsterdam time.

💚 Join us — link in bio
Or use https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unshakeable-trust-where-even-doubt-is-welcome-tickets-1441511462589?aff=oddtdtcreator

On donation and with recording.

“When we stop numbing, something unexpected happens…” 🌿
(From a previous live Zoom gathering)

Yes, pain may surface. Discomfort. Even tears.
But underneath it is the same energy we’ve been pressing down — and it’s our energy. Our aliveness.

On Aug 23, we’ll explore how to meet what we’ve been avoiding, and open the door to living more fully now.

🌀 Unshakeable Trust: Where Even Doubt Is Welcome
✨ Live online | Recording included | Donation-based

🔗 Link in bio