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There is no glory in getting it right. It’s all about taking on the challenge and stepping up to the yeah, I’m ready to shift stuff and it’s kind of going to suck for a while point.
- Havi Brooks
So on the topic of blocks standing between me and Shiva Nata for the past few months: [...]

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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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Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
John Ed Pearce
Somehow, it seems, there is a transition underway. One of the things that reflects that transition is the recurring theme of moving house.
A few months ago, my parents sold my childhood home and moved to a [...]

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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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These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
Walter Benjamin
Thanks to a brilliant blog post by Sonia Simone, I’ve been inspired to expand my journaling habit from just writing a diary every evening.
For the past few days, I’ve taken a few [...]

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