I will be teaching an afternoon shivanauttery workshop in Boulder, Colorado. Ridiculously soon! It’s Thursday, November 10, 2011. 3:00 pm – 5:00pm Selma will be there. The Schmoppet will be there. There will be epiphanies of the hot and buttered variety. It will be grand. And it’s pretty close to full so if there’s a [...]

Normally I don’t teach Shiva Nata classes outside of retreats, rallies and shivanautical trainings. But guess what? On Toozday, July 26 (soon!), my duck and I will be leading 90 delicious minutes of shivanautical fun at my studio — the Playground — in Portland, Oregon. And then there is a 3 part series in August [...]

The upcoming May Rally (Rally!) — aka the Special Silly Punk Rock Shivanauttery Rally — is probably the thing I’m most excited to teach this year, other than the Shiva Nata teacher training. And not just the teaching part but being there and participating in it. Because I need some of this myself. What it [...]

Very exciting news — we now have the dates for the next Shiva Nata teacher training. Yes, the dates people have been asking about since December when the last training filled. Squeeeeeeeeee! September 7–9, 2011 Wednesday, September 7th in the afternoon through Friday, September 9th at noon. In Portland, Oregon. At the Playground (my magical [...]

Saturday May 1st.

4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

The lovely Jackie teaching a Dance of Shiva in Berlin.

She is an absolutely terrific teacher, as well as being a friend and student of mine and a gifted dancer.

Open to all levels.

What if I don’t get any epiphanies?

*delighted laughter*

Ask me that again at the end of the week so we can have a good laugh about it together.

Seriously. If you don’t have at least twenty useful insights including a couple that rock your world, I will give you your money back.

While dancing a jig and eating a hat and pointing at the lovely flying pigs.

“We’ll look at why common suggestions for getting out of a rut (take a walk, play a game, do something else) don’t always work. Then we’ll discuss tools for generating ideas and insights any time you need them.

“And we’ll do Dance of Shiva so all the stuff we talked about gets integrated into your body and your brain. That way you won’t lose it. Plus, there will be Hug Yourself Yoga.”

• She talked about the huge amount of clarity that Dance of Shiva gives her. That sometimes she’ll do a few minutes just to clear out the cobwebs so she can even think about starting painting.
• She talked about being startled by new coordination skills and the way they show up. Whether on the bicycle or maneuvering with bags of groceries or in the studio itself.
• She talked about the quiet and the calm that deepen her meditation practice, and about the power of the chaos and confusion that free her up to try new things.

So … I know this sounds kind of weird but the levels aren’t important at all. Not for these workshops, at least.

I mean, it can take years for people to advance levels, so it would be pretty unfair of me to expect people to master a new level in time for the next workshop.

So I will be mixing levels and doing my best to make sure that everyone is equally confused. And I will be giving extra challenges to those people who are already working with the higher levels.

So I had the time of my life teaching at Jennifer Louden’s Writer’s Retreat in Taos. Getting to do Shiva Nata every single morning was the most awesome thing in the entire world. As was working on the new Shivanaut Manual for the Advanced Kit. You know what else was incredibly great? We worked with [...]