Past the dip on Level 3 Having made it through Level 3 arms I’m now working on being able to do it with greater speed and fluidity (rather than with lots of pausing and umming!) However, the golden rule of Shiva Nata is “it has to be difficult to work”.  So rather than simply work [...]

My sticky patch I kept getting stuck, and I mean like completely and totally, my brain has frozen, why am I stood here with my arms both in horizontal 1 stuck.  I was trying to work through the Level 3 arms – without the DVD, because that just annoys me by going either too slow [...]

Boo-yah! I finally got all the way through the Level 3 arms without going horribly, inextricably wrong and having to start all over again. I’m starting to see the path that Havi describes where you go from: I’ve no idea what the heck is happening here; to Oh, that seems kind familiar, I can kinda [...]

On the scale of epiphanies it hardly warrants 3 strangers turning up with gifts but for us Shivanauts that’s not the point.  What is the point is that we have learnt something about ourselves. I noticed tonight that when I start to work on something and I start to see that I’m being challenged and [...]

Level 2 was feeling a bit lacklustre I was on twitter recently and found out that maybe I wasn’t pushing myself as hard with Shiva Nata as I really ought to be to get the full benefits.  As I mentioned before, I was wanting to get on with Level 3 but chose to work through [...]