Shivanauts. They’re everywhere.

Lots of great Shiva Nata writing on the web lately.

I love how each one comes from a different — but equally unlikely — angle, and then just nails something that is so completely true.

Some stuff I thought you might like.

Off. Balance.

Casey wrote about being off-balance.

Sometimes when I’m doing the Dance of Shiva in the mirror, I feel like a fucked-up cheerleader. It’s hard to resist the temptation to snap into every position (three years of marching band in high school will do that to you). Most of the time when I start feeling really cheeky and flow-y, I throw myself off balance within moments.

My Stuck Is A Bear

Holly wrote about her stuck being a bear.

But this is important, important enough for me to haul my how-does-it-manage-to-be-both-flabby-AND-flat arse out of bed at this ungoddessly hour and risk the Wrath of Bob, so he’ll just have to put on his big kitty panties & deal with it.

All of that tension and a cacophony of tuning.

Eric wrote about the relationship between internal noise and internal information. And about pain, flailing, tension and listening.

One thing I learned from Tai Chi is that the best way to relax something that is chronically tense is to actually listen to what it is telling you.

All of that tension and a cacophony of tuning before the music begins.

Paper Fireworks.

Lots of great stuff at this paper fireworks tumblr blog that I am madly in love with.

Like this one.

And – when Havi says get lost she means get completely lost, I think, because I was floating on a log in the ocean a million miles from shore with how wrong I was doing it and had the best day afterwards.

She’s an anonymous brand new Shivanaut chronicling her thing and it’s awesome.

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Group Blogging.

Yup. There’s a Shivanata Group Blog.

With so much goodness.

Like this piece from Elizabeth.

Anyway, after the practice, my About me page practically wrote itself into my journal. I have been trying to write this page for months and months – and here it just flowed out.

Even though I didn’t set an intention or anything. Hurrah!

It’ll probably be another many months before it gets posted, but hey, baby steps.

Oh, the epiphanies. They are many.

So.

As some of you know, I just came back from teaching a week-long Destuckification Retreat in California.

We did Shiva Nata every day.

Sometimes twice.

On the beach. To The Clash. With words and sounds and seriousness and silliness and transcendence.

And my mind is boggling at all the incredible things that came from practicing with this amazing group of (extremely brave and tolerant!) people.

So over the next week or so I hope to share with you some of the extremely weird and fantastic things I have realized, discovered, seen, re-seen, understood, processed or been given.

Because ohmygosh. Big big stuff.

Love to all the Shivanauts and the people who are just thinking about maybe eventually being Shivanauts and the people who are resting at a plateau or taking a break, and all my beloved Lurker Mice.

So good to be back. Kiss!