Category Archives: Shiva Nata
The Teeniest Tiniest Parade
This week, I’m at Rally. I thought it would be a great thing to do after my 25th birthday. Three days to hold a giant Rhiannonmoot and evaluate a quarter century of being alive! (Though mostly I’ve been napping. Which I’m being told is very important.). And my mysterious, secret project has managed to take [...]
Holding a Rhiannonmoot (on being yourself)
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about a broad topic we’ll call originality*. *Known to my monsters as “you’re a giant copycat.” There are so many facets, from the sociological to the spiritual, but right now I’m focusing on one small part of the personal. Learning so much from one person Specifically, what does it [...]
Life just got bigger
My reactions to living in our gorgeous rental space are kind of mixed. On the one hand, I’m daily delighting in new wonders: “this is how I sleep when it’s not insanely noisy!” “We can walk everywhere!!” On the other hand, there are boxes everywhere, and I’ve completely messed up my tailbone with all the [...]
Crystal Clear Clarity!
Last Saturday I taught a Shiva Nata Renewal Class. It as my first time teaching a class made up entirely of advanced Shivanauts. No beginners* at all. In fact, everyone there was a teacher in their on right. Normally I look forward to these classes all month, but this time I was really nervous. Remember [...]
How to Use Shiva Nata to Answer Any Question
One of the wonderful things about Shiva Nata is that you can use it to answer questions about anything – including questions about Shiva Nata itself. I used it today to answer some questions about the Shiva Nata class I’m teaching tomorrow (there are still spots). First You Do Some Shiva Nata Even just trying [...]
Talking with Shivanauts: Simone Seol of the House of HipGnosis
The second in our series of Interviews with Shivanauts is the incomparable Simone Seol (and sidekick Ollie) of the House of HipGnosis. We discuss life transitions, yoga nidra, how everything is hip gnosis, and why a “regular” Shiva Nata practice is overrated. It’s Simone! Simone! We got to meet at The Great Ducking Out Rally [...]
Shiva Nata Art
On the last day of my Afterschool Shiva Nata class, two of the first-graders got together to draw Shiva Nata pictures. The one on the left is Harry Potter, the other is a self-portrait. Both are labelled. (Positions 4-3 and 1-3, clearly.)
Four Useful Concepts for Life
This is the month of earning money with love! Or rather, the lead up to the month, but money is sticky so we’re easing in. (Learn more about the month’s genesis) We’re working on things from a variety of angles, all of which I just wrote about here. In the Mad Castle (that’s this here [...]
Talking with Shivanauts: Beth Freeman of Fan the Ember
A new thing! I’m inviting Shivanauts to the Mad Castle for drinks, dinner and conversation. With no drinks or dinner. But the conversation is delicious. When I had the idea, I knew I wanted Beth from Fan the Ember, a Shiva Nata and Yoga teacher and astonishingly kind and insightful person, to be the first [...]
Breaking Down a Pattern
In which I complain about coughing Coughing is overwhelming. Guess what else is overwhelming? Everything people do when I start coughing. If I’m having trouble breathing, the last thing I want is ten people to ask if I’m okay. And if I don’t seem okay enough soon enough, they start hitting me. Then I am [...]
