About me…

Espi Mansi She/Her

What brought you to the practice of yoga and when? 

I came to yoga at 18 years old when anxiety, panic attacks (and what I now know to be PTSD) left me feeling like I couldn’t catch my breath. It all started with a Pranayama practice that I found in a natural healing book. From there I went on to searching for free resources and practices on the internet, at this time I didn’t have the funds to pay for classes. After 6 years of my own practice, I signed up for a lineage based teacher training. This allowed me to be immersed in the full practice of yoga and understand how important it is to appreciate that yoga is so much more than just asana. 

Why did you decide to start teaching? 

I have my own trauma and yoga helped me to work through that. I decided, after many years of self-study that I wanted to help other people discover how yoga could bring joy and self awareness into their own lives.

In my 10 years of teaching I have been fortunate enough to manage my own studio, teach hundreds of group classes, offer workshops across the country and work with lots of community groups in my local area.

I was recently diagnosed with Lupus (SLE) and have had to alter the way that I live and work.

My focus now is to use my platforms to help educate yoga teachers and students who have long-term conditions to understand the connection between their bodies and minds so that they can live with more ease and joy.

Who has influenced me most significantly? 

I will be eternally grateful for the Late Conrad Paul (my teacher), Prasad Rangnekar, Swami Sivananda, Thich Nhat Hahn and many more.

What can I expect from your teachings?

I seek to offer a connection to the self in all group classes that I teach. Through workshops, talks and courses I look to facilitate discussion among teachers and students about how we can make yoga work for us, as individuals. Respecting the ancient cultural aspects of yoga is very important to me and I hope that I am able to continue serving the community with teachings that respect this ancient practice's origins.