March 6

A couple of realisations

Posted by James the Shivanaut
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The question of fatigue I recently made public a post from back in December about feeling tired after practicing Shiva Nata.  I even wrote to Havi a while back asking about whether this was normal. Well, it seems to have percolated away in the back of my mind for a while and has now re-appeared, [...]

February 9

Day whatever I’ve stopped counting: taking it to the max

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I’ve thrown the plan out of the window It wasn’t working.  I really needed an epiphany and I was getting nowhere fast.  So it was time to really up the ante.  This evening I did a monster practice as follows: The entire series for Level 3, using 8 different words for the 4 horizontal and [...]

January 7

Spinning my wheels

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It’s been a while since I posted, but my practice has hit a bit of a rut. I’ve been doing level 1, 2, 3 & 4 (ish-maybe) with legs raised but not really getting that <erk> moment that is the so-called Epiphany Generator! So what am I doing wrong? I’m not sure at the moment.  [...]

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 [...]