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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preface: i am participating in this, the 40 day shiva nata expedition, hosted by Larisa, Casey and Kalyani, some really awesome Shiva chicks.  i plan on nata-ing for 40 days, for at least 5 minutes a day, and i’ll be documenting it all right here.  picking a 40 day, overarching theme is suggested, and mine [...]

Filed under: 40 days, Personal Practice

preface: i am participating in this, the 40 day shiva nata expedition, hosted by Larisa, Casey and Kalyani, some really awesome Shiva chicks.  i plan on nata-ing for 40 days, for at least 5 minutes a day, and i’ll be documenting it all right here.  picking a 40 day, overarching theme is suggested, and mine [...]

Filed under: 40 days, Personal Practice

preface: i am participating in this, the 40 day shiva nata expedition, hosted by Larisa, Casey and Kalyani, some really awesome Shiva chicks.  i plan on nata-ing for 40 days, for at least 5 minutes a day, and i’ll be documenting it all right here.  picking a 40 day, overarching theme is suggested, and mine [...]

Filed under: 40 days, Personal Practice

preface: i am participating in this, the 40 day shiva nata expedition, hosted by Larisa, Casey and Kalyani, some really awesome Shiva chicks.  i plan on nata-ing for 40 days, for at least 5 minutes a day, and i’ll be documenting it all right here.  picking a 40 day, overarching theme is suggested, and mine [...]

Filed under: 40 days, Personal Practice

preface: i am participating in this, the 40 day shiva nata expedition, hosted by Larisa, Casey and Kalyani, some really awesome Shiva chicks.  i plan on nata-ing for 40 days, for at least 5 minutes a day, and i’ll be documenting it all right here.  picking a 40 day, overarching theme is suggested, and mine [...]

Filed under: 40 days, Personal Practice

preface: i am participating in this, the 40 day shiva nata expedition, hosted by Larisa, Casey and Kalyani, some really awesome Shiva chicks.  i plan on nata-ing for 40 days, for at least 5 minutes a day, and i’ll be documenting it all right here.  picking a 40 day, overarching theme is suggested, and mine [...]

Filed under: 40 days, Personal Practice

First of all, I had a hard time getting settled and getting other stuff done to just PRACTICE tonight.  A lot of stuff was going on at home that was just throwing monkey wrenches into the works left and right.  First of all, I was trying to get to the gym, and then I wanted [...]

Tags: interrupted, level 1 horizontals, level 1 verticals
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Earlier today I said to myself, I’m going to make it a goal to cycle through all the Levels – all of Level 1 on one day, all of Level 2 on the next, all of Level 3 on the following.  That is all I can do at the moment, I feel trying to do [...]

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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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