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October 30

Masochism FTW!

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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 [...]

October 24

Level 3 arms bend to my will!

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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 [...]

October 22

Level 3: Comfort, Learning & Dance

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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 [...]

October 12

Don’t get put off by the video

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I first watched the video on Havi’s front page (Note: she has mentioned taking it down, so if it’s gone, I’m sorry – but I’m gonna do one of my own so stay tuned for that hilarity!) on 30 September and was totally freaked out by it.  My eyes couldn’t follow what was happening, it [...]

October 6

Skipping a level – can I do that?!

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I want to skip a level So Level 1 is getting easy for me and I want to up the challenge a bit.  Checked out the theory from Level 2 and had a quick play with the arms – it’s a fairly logical progression up from Level 1 so nothing too frightening there. I always [...]