Shivanautical realizations + epiphanies: take 2

Oh, odds and ends from my Dance of Shiva practice journal.

More Shivapiphanies. Oh boy! Or gee whiz, if you’re my nephew-in-law.

Report from the front.

So Selma and I taught some Shiva Nata twice this week.

Once at the fabulous Sacramento Biggification Day and once at the yoga teacher training (they’re the ones who flew me out to teach non-icky business concepts to the new yoga teachers).

Things we noticed:

• It’s really fun teaching people who have zero expectations. The yoga teachers had, for the most part, no idea I was going to throw this at them. They just played. They were awesome. It was beautiful.
• Actually, teaching is fun. Period.
• Shiva Nata is soooooo different with music. I played wildly inappropriate things with my biggification mice, and more traditional stuff with the yoga people. But either way, having music changes the experience completely.
• Teaching without a stage (or some kind of raised platform) is ridiculous. I generally remember that but it totally didn’t happen this time.

Found a pattern. Moved the pattern.

This week I was dealing with all these (annoying) systems issues in my business.

Like, certain things happening that I hadn’t prepared for, and then not knowing how to respond.

Then I remembered that all that structural thinking stuff hurts my brain too much if I don’t do my own shivanautical tangling-detangling stuff first.

So my big plan had been to do ten minutes or so of Dance of Shiva on that particular problem yesterday when I got back from California.

But guess what?

It got solved while I was teaching. I’m not sure what happened, but by the time class ended Sunday, I knew exactly how to fix the stuck.

Nice.

Other people’s cool stuff.

There’s all kinds of amazing things in last week’s comments.

Like Bess and her sad hedgehog.

… the hedgehog told me it didn’t want to be smart anymore because being smart keeps people away and it’s lonely – like playing alone at recess.

I got chills.

That’s mostly it.

I’m still processing some other stuff, but it’s not even slightly coherent, so maybe I’ll save some of it for next time.

Lots of ideas buzzing around and I’m just letting them settle. Yay. Settling. With, not for.

Nu?

If you have Shivanautical realizations and epiphanies of your own to share (even tiny ones), you can totally leave them in the comments.

Or — if they’re super personal and you’d like me to post them without using your name — send them to Marissa with first name only.

Unless you have a super-unusual first name like me and then just make one up.

p.s. Teaching Shiva Nata to the Roller Derby girls this weekend. Will report!

p.p.s. Beautiful post from Elizabeth about how doing Shiva Nata helped her see energy. For the second time ever. Very cool.