About Shiva Nata: the Dance of Shiva

Hot buttered insights: where do I start?

Andrey Lappa’s Dance of Shiva™ — is a unique (and visually stunning), flowing yoga-based movement form that actually restructures neural connections in your brain.

Cool, but why would someone want to do that? Because creating more connections in the brain means you are inviting more light bulb moments into your life. “Light bulb moments”, “hot buttered insights” or “moments of bing” — it doesn’t matter what you call them. You know them when they show up.

Even better, when you practice regularly, you can access these moments whenever you need them. In a safe, systematic and supportive way. My students have big, crazy breakthroughs all the time, almost always within 24 hours after practice. I want you to have them too. Welcome!

Bios are boring, what are ya gonna do?

I’m Havi Brooks. That’s me to the left with my photogenic co-teacher Selma (I’m the one that isn’t a duck).

Together we have taught Dance of Shiva to thousands of people around the world. We are also Boggle fiends. Well, one of us is.

My main interest in life is helping smart, creative people feel safe sharing their wonderful, crazy gifts with the world. That informs the work I do as a coach and writer, and it also explains why I’m so obsessed with the Dance of Shiva — because it’s the perfect tool to help people take apart their old, dusty, stuck patterns and rewrite them.

When it comes to teaching Dance of Shiva, I consider myself an educator rather than a teacher, which means that I care about the how and why of yoga. The fairy dust. The practical applications to real life so that you can change your patterns and live yoga every second of the day.

I also firmly believe that you grow best when you are being intellectually and creatively challenged, which is why I never repeat a class — to make sure that I am challenging myself as vigorously as I am challenging you.

Credentials?

I don’t want to bore you with a one of those awful lists of which certificate came from where. Put it this way: there’s only one person in the entire world who knows more about Shiva Nata than I do, and that’s my teacher, Ukrainian yoga master Andrey Lappa. And he’s off in retreat in a monastery in the Himalayas half the year.

In fact, I am one of only two practitioners in the world to have ever mastered the famed and dreaded Level 7. My Dance of Shiva Starter Kit is the best way to learn the dance, hands down.

And now that my manual “Bring on the Epiphanies” is scheduled for publication, I’ll finally be able to say I wrote the book on it!

But the main thing is that I have personally experienced the ridiculously cool and bizarrely wonderful results of this practice. Not long after beginning to work with the dance — having no idea it could change my brain — I finally managed to stop smoking, change my eating habits, teach myself German and stop biting my nails all in a matter of a couple of months. Now my students have breakthroughs all the time, and I’m still in awe of the process.

I owe so much to Andrey Lappa who has been mentoring me for years ever since I took a year-long teacher training with him in Israel (where I’m from). Andrey has really provided me with a solid intellectual foundation in yoga and beyond, and is a source of endless mental, emotional and spiritual support and guidance.

More?

Feel like you’re up to making some changes? Join our community of yoga practitioners, yoga professionals and yoga-minded or yoga-curious people who are all excited about being engaged in an ongoing self-work process. I sincerely hope that we will meet someday!

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