Toronto Canada
Crescence links the understanding of Life that authentic yoga gives us to the understanding of how Birth works. In this reunion of knowledge and wisdom, she offers birthing women a complete container for receiving Life and giving Birth in wholeness, presence and grace.
Teaching yoga as an immersion and integration with Life, Crescence passes on a simple, potent way to be well and whole. Study with Mark Whitwell imbues her work as a mother, doula and yogi. She has taught yoga throughout Toronto and bases herself out of Pure Intent.
Birthing with women from diverse backgrounds over the last fourteen years has firmly rooted Crescence’s trust in the extreme intelligence of the Feminine force. No matter what the situation, every woman can give birth in Love, deepening the intimacy she has with herself, her family and all experience.
Isabel Perez and Crescence have supported each other over the last twelve years, providing back up for births and sharing a faith in Birth, in Life, that Isabel’s mentor, the renowned midwife Ina May Gaskin, lives, writes about and teaches.
Crescence has received a rare depth and breadth of training with master teachers David Smukler (Voice), Judith Koltai (Authentic Movement) and Joanna de Souza (Kathak dance). All teach their art as meditation, a spontaneous union with the Creative force.
Whether you are giving birth to a child, an artistic expression or your own life, Crescence gives you the means to connect to your source.
www.heartofbirth.org crescence@heartofbirth.org 416.483.4690
Yoga is your direct participation
absorption in the given wonder
the extreme intelligence of life
that is of course in every person
every creature
you can do this
it's not a search
it's not to use the mind
it's not to use the body to try to get somewhere
as if you are not "Somewhere"
as if you are not the full blown wonder of life
dependent on a vast process
for your own existence
so there is a right yoga for you
you learn to do that yoga
and then you too can enjoy this direct absorption
participation in the nurturing force that is life already given to you
you are completely loved
completely loved
you are completely cared for
everybody is completely loved
completely cared for
even if the social conditions are suggesting otherwise
even if your mind doesn't recognize it
by doing your yoga practice on a daily basis
actually and naturally
not obsessively
you too can enjoy this direct absorption
in the wonder that is this life
in all conditions of life including the unseen source
which is responsible for all this appearance here
please enjoy your yoga
YOU ARE HERE NOW
This is a simple argument.
It is easier than easy.
So simple, we seldom speak of it and do not grasp it.
But once seen, it is obvious
and we feel the stark reality of our life,
unmediated by the mind of doubt.
The idea of human imperfection
that is deeply ingrained in the social mind,
in old scientific and religious thinking
blinds us to the perfection that is already in us,
as us, as Life itself, as Nature "her"self.
We are not separate;
we cannot be separate from Nature,
which sustains us in a vast interdependence with everything.
The universe comes perfectly
and is awesome in its integration and infinite existence.
It is our natural state.
Our mission and passion
is to provide the spiritual
and healing powers of yoga
to all who recognize the ancient wisdom
and the wisdom of your own body and mind.
Mark's Hridaya Yoga Sutra
describes the spirit of
Yoga of Heart: the Healing Power of Intimate Connection
