Shiva Nata revisited – a year since I started

Plateaus happen. When you’re ready for the practice it will call to you.
Havi Brooks, Dance of Shiva Special Report #1
After a long silence in Insightings-ville, I received a comment on the I Heart Shiva Nata post. Kat wanted to hear my thoughts on Shiva Nata after doing it for more than nine months now. In [...]

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Miscellaneous mid-move Insightings

Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.
Ashleigh Brilliant
It’s Day Three of the Great Move. So far, we’ve managed to get most of the essentials to the new place, but there’s still a lot left to pack at the old apartment.
Even though a move only counts for [...]

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Feedback

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
Ken Blanchard quotes
I found a late Christmas present for myself: a book on The Alexander Technique by Missy Vineyard. Immersed in it all weekend long, I’ve several times felt the need to put down the book and go stand in front of a mirror. Getting the full hang of the [...]

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I heart Shiva Nata

It’s like liquid math. Only you don’t have to understand it to have it work for you.
Havi Brooks
Shiva Nata is a mind-bogglingly difficult system of forms that is based on eight basic arm positions and all the possible combinations and configurations of those positions.
When you’re doing it wrong, you’re doing it right.
When you’re doing it [...]

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The Emotional Storage Unit

Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined.
Tutko, Thomas
I’ve always been a head person more than a body person. I haven’t really enjoyed sports, or been really happy with my body, or generally paid much attention to what goes on below my neck. Most of my existence [...]

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