Archive for November, 2008

November 20

Unexpected benefits of Shiva Nata

Posted by James the Shivanaut
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I realised today, now that I’m doing a slightly longer practice (warm up with fun run throughs of level 1 and/or 2 then challenge myself with level 3), that one of my biggest challenges is keeping focussed for the whole length of time.  If I start to let my mind wonder then I start going [...]

November 20

Level 3 is starting to crack…

Posted by James the Shivanaut
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[Insert joke about how it's really me starting to crack.] [Insert second joke about how I've cracked already.] Right, now that’s got that nonsense out of the way, I come fresh from my kitchen to tell you that today I managed to get all the way through Level 3 arms with simple legs!  Woohoo!  I [...]

November 13

You know you’ve had an epiphany when…

Posted by James the Shivanaut
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You’ve been struggling all day I had a bit of a ‘grey’ day today.  I didn’t really feel like I was getting anywhere with anything.  I am lucky enough to have a group of friends that get together to talk and help each other out on Wednesday evenings and was able to share how I [...]

November 10

Video: Level 1 arms as colours

Posted by James the Shivanaut
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This time I speak! I thought I’d do another, slightly longer (5 minutes) video since I enjoyed doing the last one so much and you guys seemed to like it! This one is of me doing the level 1 horizontal arms, but with a twist!  Totally unedited, so you get to watch me struggle and [...]

November 7

Video: Level 2 arms

Posted by James the Shivanaut
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Shivanaut TV is here! To start with we’re running cheap knock off versions of professional productions.  Though I’m calling it a homage to Havi’s video avoid complicated copyrighting issues! So without further ado, I give you my demonstration of some of the Level 2 arms… I said I would post a vid, so here it [...]