It’s all about the bing.
The moment of bing is that magical lucid instant where you’re suddenly closer to knowing something.
Lightbulbs all over the place. Bing! Or maybe it’s more of a click. Or a zap. Click-zap!
Your cells start to buzz. Sparks flash in your brain. Pure undiluted possibility.
Of course it’s way better when these moments are coming to you instead of waiting for them to show up.
That’s what Shiva Nata is for.
Shiva Nata — the modern version of the ancient Dance of Shiva — is a powerful body-mind practice that systematically delivers these moments when you need them.
It’s liquid math. It’s patterns within patterns growing ever more complex. It’s dancing algorithms. And pure flow.
Take 45 seconds to watch a demo and get a sense of how insane/beautiful this practice is.
What it is.
Shiva Nata is a unique, visually stunning, flowing movement form that restructures neural connections in your brain.
Creating new connections while simultaneously strengthening existing networks of connections means more light bulb moments.
When you practice regularly, these moments of bing generally show up within 24 hours after practice.* They get kind of addictive, which means that you have to keep raising the bar and making things more challenging. That’s part of the fun.
* As long as you’re challenging yourself. As soon as you start practicing what you know or sort-of-know, the lightbulb moments disappear. That’s why we aim to get lost. We celebrate the mad, confused flailing of doom! :)
Why we do it.
Well, I do it for the hot buttered epiphanies.
But there’s lots of other things you can use it for, among them:
Clearing the brain-fog. Getting focused. Getting energized.
Being more productive and efficient.
Getting faster and stronger. Able to react to anything speedily and gracefully.
Physical, mental and emotional coordination. Also life coordination. Flow state.
Connecting to your body. Calming down when things get messy. Finding unlikely solutions when things get hard.
Seeing the patterns. Understanding the patterns. Realizations, insights and epiphanies about what you’re going to do about them.
About me.
I’m Havi Brooks. That’s my photogenic co-teacher Selma (she’s a duck).
I have been teaching Shiva Nata since 2004, and together we’ve taught thousands of people around the world.
We run a Shiva Nata center in Portland, Oregon where we hold classes, programs and Shiva Nata teacher trainings.
I’ve studied with my teacher and mentor Andrey Lappa for many years, and with his help and support I continue to challenge myself and discover/invent new aspects and permutations of this incredible practice.
Shiva Nata is how I quit smoking, taught myself German, stopped the emotional-eating cycle and did all sorts of other difficult and unlikely things.
It’s how I became a business savant. And it’s how I continue to work on my patterns and habits, my relationships with myself and with others. Shiva Nata is by far the most powerful form of body-mind work that I know of.
If you want to learn Shiva Nata.
My duck and I have produced a Dance of Shiva Starter Kit that makes learning the practice a lot easier, and way more fun.
And if you own the Starter Kit, you’ll love the Pocket Shiva Nata iPhone app.
To take the practice deeper, we have the Secret Lab, a place for exploring the higher levels and interacting with other Shivanauts around the world.
And whether you think you might eventually like to teach or are not even slightly interested in teaching, coming to a teacher training intensive is an amazing way to make huge progress with the practice and have epiphanies like crazy.
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