Comments on: An amazing Shiva Nata story.

By: Sarah Marie Lacy

Sarah Marie Lacy — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:08:12 +0000

Yep, this pretty much sells me on Shiva Nata. I can make better paintings? Dude. It’s necessary to my artistic development that I do this.

Now I just need to work out my stuck around why I *haven’t* bought it yet.

By: Havi

Havi — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:19:49 +0000

@EmilyRoots - ohmygod. What a terrific story! Whoooo! We'll have to have you guest post on here at some point. Awesome. Rejoicing for you! @Victoria - definitely. Painting, creative dancing, free writing, anything really. I like to do it before writing because that's my thing, but really it goes well with anything. @Alvaro + Willie: Totally! Coming up with ways to make it harder is a great challenge. I've written a few posts on making the practice harder (plus we've talked about it quite a bit on the recordings), so I hope there's some helpful stuff there. There's this post on making it hard and then more on finding the challenge. Hope that helps!

By: ilikered

ilikered — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:08:36 +0000

I think this is telling me I need to move my practice to the evenings before I sit down to work on my art stuff! I have felt like it is a little wasted when I just go to my dreaded office job in the morning…. such a great story! YEA!

By: Victoria Brouhard

Victoria Brouhard — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:03:03 +0000

Love this.

Really makes me want to change up my practice so I can go straight from shavasana into *some* form of creative expression.

By: EmilyRoots

EmilyRoots — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:15:36 +0000

Just wow. That is the coolest story.
I’m more in the into-creative-expression camp, but I can see how the Shiva Nata completely frees up your ability to create from yourself without the blocks you usually put up that come from outside.
I hadn’t painted a thing for the past seven years, and the other day after about 10 minutes or so of Shiva Nata (and I’m just getting started), I went into the attic and dug out all the supplies and a canvas and started one. Because my brain finally stopped comparing my (very novice) work to masters, or even to anyone. And I could finally just let it be me and the paint, without a need to be any “good.”

By: Inge

Inge — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:05:00 +0000

That is a great story!

Reading this, I just got an idea to try with Shiva Nata. I never know how to say what I want to say when I write post cards to people. I love to send cards on happy occasions or for cheering up when one of me mateys is having a hard time, but it isn’t easy to get past the standard messages. So next time, I’ll do some SN first and then see what message will come out.

By: Willie Hewes

Willie Hewes — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:59:07 +0000

Wow, that is impressive. And I am interested in what more you might have to say, too!

Like Alvaro, I struggle with keeping it challenging enough. I’m about to get started on level 2, hopefully that will shake me up. :)

By: Josiane

Josiane — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:54:20 +0000

What an awesome story! Thank you for sharing it. It gives me great pointers about what my routine needs to be for me to make my things happen in the best way.
I’m looking forward to reading what else you have to say about this. In the meantime, I’m letting the image with which you concluded this post sink in. This is inspiring.

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:51:05 +0000

We (say no if you don’t) want to see this pictures!
Both of them.

I’m doing SN each day, and it becomes quite easy since I get the idea of how it work. (In a sesne ther is a pattern in changing the pattern. I’m starting with level2 and with legs.)

So I’m trying to making more hard and is not easy to make it hard.

Maybe a post with a list of ideas to make it hard could help.

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:14:09 +0000

that is fascinating/exciting!

it makes me want to do shiva nata and then take my camera for a walk and see what happens.

thank you for sharing the story.