I, at the moment, enjoy referring to myself as a Shiva Nata teacher.  I mean, I’m a teacher, that’s what I do, but much in the same way that I, even though I am a teacher of it, am still learning new things about music every day, I’m still learning so much about Shiva Nata.  [...]

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I often tell my piano students that one of the best things they can do for themselves sometimes is to stop practicing.  It seems counter-intuitive, but it is something that comes from my own practice. When you practice a piece of music, you’re inevitably going to make mistakes.  So you go back and play that [...]

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So the last two nights I haven’t had decent nights’ sleep.  Boo on that.  And the past few days I’ve been doing shiva nata during the day. I just got done doing Level 1 Horizontals and Verticals, as well as the Horizontal/Vertical Spiral madness that is step 3 of Level 1.  It’s definitely a crazy [...]

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I had read about some people preferring to do shiva nata in the morning because doing it too late in the day can disrupt their sleeping pattern. I find this interesting because I’ve done shiva nata twice this week, on non-consecutive days, and HOLY COW I have had a hard time falling asleep these last [...]

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The first post is the hardest.  After this it’s going to flow and flow and flow. Which is funny, because last night I wrote, kind of off handedly, that I am so much of a go-with-the-flow person, I pretty much live in the flow. And isn’t shiva nata all about the flow?

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