To practice Yoga is to feel your own beauty, your own aliveness, and the inherent beauty of the world as one vivid and visceral experience. Philosophers call this a non-dual understanding of life; nothing is separate from anything else.

We naturally feel this integration when we give birth. The Feminine knowledge and wisdom gained in this rite of passage is invaluable because it reveals the template for all life processes. To give birth is to embrace reality. This embrace is the definition of Yoga.

Thousands of years ago, people took the principles evident in the creation and sustaining of life and applied them consciously in simple practices of breath and movement. In doing so, they deepened their connection to themselves and to each other. We each embody the fusion of the Masculine and Feminine. Tangibly harnessing the polarities within us reveals the heart, the mystery of what we are.

This ancient Yoga is utterly relevant now, perhaps even more so because we have come through two thousand years of civilization deeply embedded in a dualistic frame of mind where denial of the body, the sexual impulse, and woman is seen as necessary to reach what is pure, true and spiritual. How can spirit, the source of life, be absent from its expression as you and me? The actions that come from this irrational idea continue to cause us a tremendous amount of pain, both personally and socially. Cut off from the Feminine, an ongoing sense of alienation and dis-ease is ensured. Woman, and the life she bears, is feared rather than honoured. In this fear, we all suffer.

Ironically, suffering is perpetuated in most Yoga teaching today because its foundation is a dualistic one. Strength alone is destructive. Strength that is receptive is invincible. The technical principles that bring the Masculine and Feminine together and make the beauty of our natural state obvious are missing. Mark Whitwell has restored these principles and offers them to contemporary practice. They merge perfectly with my experience of how life functions.

Applying these principles to the truth of who we are as individuals, each of us does our own Yoga. Movement comes from our breath and deepens the breath, strengthening and softening our body so that life can flow with greater ease. We have the strength to receive life and each other. We are able to love. This is a gentle revolution that offers us our freedom.

Advanced Yoga for Everyone with Crescence Krueger

Your direct connection to Life is the heart of yoga and the point of practice.  Krishnamacharya gave clear, practical directions for how to forge this connection.  In the deep denial of the Feminine that still defines our world, this knowledge is missing from much of Yoga education.  Breath is the means, not any isolated proficiency of physical strength or flexibility, so if you are new to yoga, you will come easily into the practice and if you have been studying for years, you will be challenged to move and breathe within a new paradigm of yoga understanding.  Yoga gives us the strength to receive—ourselves and others—and when we do, our natural state, an unlimited intimacy with all experience, becomes obvious.  Another word for this is ‘love’.

No group classes presently.  Heart of Yoga Teacher Training led by Crescence Krueger is being planned for the new year, 2012! Please contact Crescence for more info or to let her know of your interest!

Contact crescence@heartofbirth.org  

Prenatal Yoga with Crescence Krueger

Yoga understands that you are Mother, the source and force of life.  Connected to your power, you will know in your very bones how to give birth.  Learn the principles of breath and movement that forge this connection.  In the deep denial of the Feminine that still defines our world, this knowledge is missing from much of current Yoga education.  Like a wave in rhythmic flow, breathing, moving, meditation and life are a seamless process.  Through it, you develop the strength to receive life and give birth... in peace and love.

PRIVATE STUDY

Relationship is the heart of Yoga. A personal connection with a teacher is the way Yoga has been transmitted for thousands of years. It works. It is the basis of my training, linking me, and those I work with, in an unbroken thread of life.

Yoga Class, Sundays at 10:00am, 358 Dupont (just west of Dupont subway). 

TEACHER TRAINING

DOULA TRAINING & MENTORSHIP

Crescence is currently mentoring a small number of women.  One-on-one work is combined with small group meetings and workshops and attending births.  Please contact me if you are interested in this unique and in-depth training.

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