Ep. 100 Estefania Lopez, The Honey Method and yoga for embracing the chaos

Topanga Moon

What do you think of when you hear the word honey? For yoga teacher Estefania, honey represents the sweetness and stickiness in life, the duality that is embraced and what represents The Honey Method, her signature yoga class experience. I am thrilled to have Estefania Lopez on today's podcast episode to share all about her honey method for episode 100! Her wisdom and love for life on and off the mat weaves throughout the interview as we dive into her unconventional journey to discovering yoga, her approach to surrender and using movement to digest life's sticky moments, letting go of a life expected of you to embrace one your soul craves and so much more!

In this beautiful conversation we discuss:

• The duality of living and growing up in Germany but being from Spain. What it’s like being an immigrant. Not being able to express herself in kindergarten because she spoke Spanish.
• Not feeling home in Germany but embracing and creating her home.
• The duality of where do I belong? Which was a struggle she had for so many years, and being someone who loved so many things.
• How yoga found her in an unexpected way. She knew she would wait several years to do the teacher training, because she knew it would change her life.
• She was a Sub-Saharan African specialist, doing her PhD on the topic of Mozambique.
• Expressing herself through movement.
• Talking about how we approach the idea of surrender. How she wasn’t in a rush to become a yoga teacher.
• Letting go of the ego desire to prove yourself in order to follow your path.
• How she created her honey method: the sweet and stickiness.
• Handling and surrendering to the stickiness of life.
• Repetition as the key to the honey method, you are feeling the stickiness everyday until you reach the sweet part - embracing yourself in this exact moment.
• Embracing the chaos. Having so many interests, on the yoga mat she is at peace but outside of the mat there is wildness - chaotic in a positive way.
• The way you move as a picture of your emotions in that moment, a way of getting out of stickiness. Movement is medicine and digesting circumstances to create openness.
• Her ritual of creating a video of the year.
• Her upcoming retreats and connection to Ibiza.

You can connect with Estefania and check our her upcoming retreats and classes here: https://www.estefanialopezyoga.com/

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