November 13

You know you’ve had an epiphany when…

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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 [...]

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

How to get through a sticky patch – idea 1

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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 [...]

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 [...]