Of course you’re nervous. You SHOULD be. This is some crazy life-changing stuff.

If you’re drawn to it, yeah that’s probably a sign that it’s something you need.

But scared? Absolutely.

Because internal space is infinite.

And since Dance of Shiva is all about the relationship between internal and external space, you’ll get so much good stuff from that practice too. Love it.

So this, of course, feeds right into the huge, huge, huge fear that 90% of my students have. Which is:

Oh no! What if I’m the one it doesn’t work on? What if it helps everybody else and it doesn’t help me?

I wanted to share a bit from an email exchange I had a little while ago.

Because it’s interesting, possibly helpful and also just really sweet.

So please enjoy this charming letter from Nathan in Scotland, who has kindly given me permission to reprint some of our correspondence here, in the hopes that my answer to him may prove useful to others.

And even if not, it will at least teach you something about the art of writing email subject headers:

Shiva Nata, ego pumping, expanding comfort zones and a disabled duck (that’s me)

Now that is a subject header. How can you not love Nathan instantly? I don’t know either.

Just a quickie, for those of you who don’t hang out on my Fluent Self blog.

Today is the first day of Non-Sucky Yoga Month — something I totally made up because I’m spontaneous and dorky that way.

Okay, so admittedly this site doesn’t get anywhere near as much love from me as my main home at The Fluent Self (and I apologize for that), so really I have no right to get annoyed by questions I don’t know how to answer.

Because I could just put up a FAQ or something. And yeah, I will.

Anyway, here’s the question that always baffles me:

“I want to learn Dance of Shiva — what do I do?”

So at least a couple times a month someone sends me an email that says, “What do I need to do to master the Dance of Shiva?”

Or sometimes they just report that they’re trying to master it. Or thinking about trying to master it. Every once in a while they actually apologize to me for not yet having gotten around to mastering it yet.

Okay. I really only have one response to that.