Shiva Nata Playing! Super-extended Level 1

Posted in Shiva Nata | 0 comments I’ve been having a lot of fun with this variation – it’s challenging in a very unique way! It’s pretty simple – rather then just the horizontal or vertical spiral – use both together. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-back-to-1. That’s your new spiral. Now apply the level 1 formula to it – allowing 8 moves to get back to the starting point each time. You can do this...
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An introductory Shiva Nata class!

Posted in Blog, Shiva Nata | 0 comments Yay and hooray! It’s a Shiva Nata intro class for you! Shiva Nata is interesting because technically it needs no introduction. You can approach it and be insanely confused by everything that’s going on – and just by watching, and by the magic of the monkey-brain that really, REALLY likes to solve puzzles – you’d be well and thoroughly on your way to new brain...
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Shiva Nata is…

Posted in Blog, Shiva Nata | 0 comments It’s pretty silly to be teaching something that you can’t define. And I can tell you a whole lot about Shiva Nata – it exists on many levels and there are many ways you could describe it. I frequently go over my “what is Shiva Nata” explanation, and I was pretty excited about this one today… so I recorded it! Basically – Shiva Nata is both a Game and a...
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Learning the Shiva Nata Arm Positions!

Posted in Blog, Shiva Nata | 1 comment Hey! I love noodling about “advanced” Dance of Shiva practices on my blog – and I realized that I don’t have nearly as much that will be helpful for the beginning Shivanaut (= you! if you’re even remotely thinking about flailing sometime in the future). So: In an attempt to be a helpful bear… Here is a video of ALL the arm positions of Dance of Shiva. It is...
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A Gift: An Invocation and Exit for any practice

Posted in Blog, Shiva Nata, Yoga | 0 comments Stepping in requires stepping out. Like all Shivanautical epiphanies – rather stoopid on the surface. In my processing of the 40 day Shiva Nata Expedition (1 more day! I’ve hit a 90% daily practice rate – and a 100% daily thinking-about-practicing rate!), I was noticing that in order to step into the life we want, we are most certainly stepping OUT of the pieces of life that...
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Flail-along! Upper-Level Transquarters – Shiva Nata

Posted in Blog, Shiva Nata | 0 comments Usually when I break up patterns for Shiva Nata variations, it’s a different way of going at the same level, or breaking a main level down. I think I may have hit on a “real” variation though – a continuation of the transquarter patterns Andrey shows in the DVD. The movement in these transquarters happens in level 6 (I haven’t figured out what transquarters would be...
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