Who is Esperanza?
I am a girl with Malaga roots. Specifically, I was born in Alhaurín el Grande, where after several trips and moves I currently reside. I really like being in contact with people and this led me to study a degree in translation and interpretation at the university, but there was some dissatisfaction in me and when I finished my studies I had to take a break to try to connect with my purpose in life, which he didn't really know what it was.
How and when did yoga come into your life?
I have been practicing yoga for 12 years. It was a salvation. It helped me a lot in life. It started in a very genuine way by accepting a friend's invitation and this naturally paved the way. I changed friends, I deepened my self-knowledge, experimenting and practicing a lot in search of my purpose. When I took that break, I wanted to travel abroad and made several requests to volunteer with NGOs in different countries.
The assigned destination, I realized over time, could not have been other than India. It had a meaning that I later spun. I spent a year there working on projects with children, women, older people and people with disabilities. Within the latter I had a social project on how yoga influenced and contributed to children with autism. I discovered these special beings and it was a very revealing experience.
Being there, in the cradle of yoga, I decided to do a training there and when I returned I didn't think about it, I wanted to share out loud wherever I was that which had done me so much good. That's where I tuned in to the call not of yoga, but of sharing yoga. There is quite a difference between being a yogi or living a yogi life and sharing yoga as a person. And the truth is that I love sharing myself from there and I have been like this for six years.
What does Esperanza feel when she practices yoga? And when you guide him to others?
Calm, introspection, reality, presence, union. It also shows your most needy parts that need compassion, patience and your potential. Practice is like life itself, it is a matter of walking, traveling and observing a lot from neutrality. This is a good key: Observe. It's very different when I practice alone than when I practice with others. Union make force. When we practice many, the energy rises and it is very beautiful to see the connection with everyone, with the Everything. Sharing myself with others is opening myself up. It is devotion, it is a flow of intense love that is also felt in others. It's lovely.
If life were a yoga asana, what would it be? Because?
Shavasana, the dead man's posture, the resting posture. It is a posture of letting go of expectation, of letting go of practice and I think that is very important. It is an asana where you go from doing to being. Is
simply presence and I think that is very important in life.
What world does Esperanza dream of?
Yesterday we started class meditating with the mantra: Lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu
“May all beings be happy and free from suffering.” That is the world I dream of, because as it is inside, so outside and when there is peace within, the suffering stops, the fight stops. There is a lot of internal and therefore external struggle and I think we must connect with that peace. Yoga is a path that helps for this.
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