Shiva Nata: the Dance of ShivaExcitements! The Shiva Nata app is now live!
Pocket Shiva Nata
So. After six months filled with crazy hard work, our lovely baby — Pocket Shiva Nata — is here and alive and kicking!
As of right now. Hooray!
And there was great rejoicing, but also MAYHEM and HAPPY FLAILING and general brain scramble of the best possible kind. Again: Hooray!
In my brain-scrambled, state, here’s what I can tell you about our shiny new Pocket Shiva Nata baby:
- This app is a practice tool for the first three levels of Shiva Nata – designed to complement our Starter Kit and Andrey’s DVD.
- If you have an iPhone, oh boy! This is very good news, shivanautically speaking!
- Or an iPad. Or an iPod touch. Or something that runs apps from the Apple store (iOS 3.2.2 or later). Yay.
- Familiarity with the eight basic starting positions is assumed.
- If you don’t have the Starter Kit but you’ve taken a class with me, you’ll be fine.
- There is a stylized animated me doing the positions.
- My voice calls the numbers (you can turn that on or off).
- There are animated graphics and large numbers which show each position while it’s happening (you can turn the numbers on and off too).
- You can adjust the speed to your own abilities (from super slow to outrageously fast), and turn on/off audio, visual, and textual cues as you like.
- There’s a reminder function, which means your device (device!) will let you know once a day that it’s flailing time! This might be my favorite part.
- You can pause it whenever you want, or start in the middle of a level or repeat things.
- You can have the numbers be in 1-4 mode, or make it extra-fabulous/hard with 1-8 mode. Unless you studied with me and started off with 1-8, in which case 1-4 might be harder!
- The entire thing (code, graphics, recording) was made in Portland, Oregon, home of the Playground. :)
- Sadly, there will not be a Droid app version of this any time soon. Unless you happen to be a shivanaut Droid app programmer who wants to donate your services for a collaboration on this, but I’m guessing that this is not a likely thing.
- There is no app for the higher levels. If you want to go deeper into the higher levels of the practice, get thee to the awesome Secret Lab!
- We had an amazing programmer working on this, huge support from loving helper mice, and this was a beautiful team effort. I am full of appreciation for everything that went into making this a reality.
- It was a labor of love! One quarter of the price makes it back to us, which in about twenty years should cover the time and effort that went into making this happen. Totally one hundred percent worth it, though, because a world with more Shiva Nata in it is the world I want to live in!
That’s the news….
Happy, happy flailing! Let the crazed zaptastic getting-lost begin!
What I would love right now:
1) Joyous celebration. It’s done! It’s here! It has arrived in the world! My tiny sweet thing that was also a Gwish has become a tangible, beautiful, amazing, real live gift. Yay!
1.5) Confetti! Shaped like stars! Or asparagus. I don’t know. Invent confetti!
2) Love and good wishes for all the amazing people who helped make this possible: Dave (of Fortified Studios), Richard and Casey: you guys are the best!
3) PLEASE PLEASE as many positive reviews as possible in the app store — the sooner the better.
And here’s the link again: The Pocket Shiva Nata app!
Thank you thank you thank you. And ohmygoodness hooray!
Twitter: herchuckness
SO MUCH YAY! I don’t have any sort of iThing to even use this app, but I’m ridiculously happy it exists. Yaaay! :D
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Twitter: KaleenaRivera
Bought it this afternoon, totally spent a few minutes playing. It’s handy even though I recently started messing with Level 4. I just replaced the numbers with nouns or adjectives and messed around with the speed. My only problem is that I need to be willing to put it up REALLY fast, because I have a tendency to want to stop right where I am (we’re talking a good thirty seconds here) in order to figure out exactly what I’m doing before I’m willing to move on.
Oh wait? Could this somehow translate to real life? *Palms On Either Side Of Face* Oh my stars. This couldn’t be one of those “Pattern” thingys, could it? *Stoopid Epiphany*
So the app is rad and I’ll be leaving a glowing review shortly. :)
How about cake shaped like asparagus? :D
http://sweetapolita.com/2011/05/for-the-love-of-fondant-asparagus-and-8-layer-cakes/
Seems like an appropriate celebration! I can’t wait to get a copy. :)
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Twitter: whitneygrayrose
I am super excited about this! Yaaaaay Havi! Yaaaaaay Shiva Nata app team! *throws confetti*
I don’t have a iPad, or iPhone, or other device. But I do have a computer. And my computer does have iTunes. Would the app work for me if I bought it to use on my computer? I’ve done an online class with Rhiannon, so I know the basic positions. And this is a nice little thing that I can maybe buy without my monsters getting all enraged about all the monies!!! (they added all those extra exclamation points.)
Twitter: larisakoehn
Ohmygod. It looks totally GORGEOUS!!! I don’t have an iThing either (thanks Chuck for the iThing term!) but I’ll be letting all my friends/students who *do* know about it. Much celebrating and throwing of various flavors (chocolate, banana, toffee..) of confetti!
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Twitter: hamishmacdonald
Drat! I got rid of my iThing earlier this year so I could be where I was more and not have my nose stuck to a plastic blinker, but from time to time something like this comes along that would be really handy.
More and more iOS apps are being ported to Mac apps — I assume Apple’s providing a toolkit to make this easier — so I’ve got my fingers crossed that this might make its way to the desktop. I’d certainly buy it!
Congratulations on a creating such a handsome product.
Twitter: ouichi
Yay! I am so excited! I downloaded the app and immediately set a reminder for daily practice. Congratulations and best wishes on the launch!
Hugs and sparkle confetti! Xoxo.
Twitter: AmyCreatesStuff
yippee!!
now i have extra motivation to take my old old phone and turn it in for an iphone!
yay! you did it!
asparagus and avocado shaped confetti with stars on top!
xoxox
amy!
Twitter: spiralsongkat
I am soooo happy about this! Sprinkling sparkly prismatic confetti!
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Twitter: rrreba
OHMYGODTHEAWESOMENESS
This is a totally valid reason to buy an iPhone, right?
‘A world with more Shiva Nata in it is the world I want to live in.’ Raising my asparagus-shaped wineglass to that whilst throwing tiny infinity-symbol-shaped confetti and cheering loudly.
Off to spread the word amongst iThingy-heavy friends.
Adorations and more cheering!
x
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Twitter: havi
Yay! Confetti! Thanks, you guys! And yes, fingers crossed for new developments…
And yeah, if you have a friend who has an iThing (!), make them get it and then just borrow theirs occasionally, and then turn them into a happy shivanaut. :)
@Whitney – You’d have to have some sort of device that runs apps from the itunes store (iPhone, iPad or an iTouch) in order to use the app.
xo
I took one class with Josiane (@kimianak) in Montreal and I fell in love with this practice. I love the buzzy feeling in my brain and I love feeling reinvigorated afterwards. I got the app (must confess before getting the starter kit because Josiane’s class was really good and I got the hang of it) and I’m loving it. It’s really well thought. My favorite feature is to be able to turn off the visuals or the sound, today I did about 20 minutes and by the end I was falling off my feet laughing because I wasn’t doing any of the positions correctly. Very cool.
I’m really interested in going deeper into this practice but little by little, I will eventually get the starter kit with the DVD, but for the moment I’m very happy with the app! Congratulations!
Twitter: lizziemcg
I am so excited! Congratulations — I know you’ve been working on this for a long time. Just found out… will go get it ASAP.
Beware, I now may get absolutely nothing done… but it will be totally worth it and I can hardly wait!!!
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Twitter: brianaaldrich
I’ve already flailed THREE times today because there is something completely magical about knowing there are epiphanies INSIDE MY POCKET!
Sorry for all the yelling, I’m just so freaking excited. YAY all of you Pocket Shiva Nata creators. Beautiful, brilliant, love love love!
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Twitter: Qrystal
Yayyyyy~!
Eleven-dimensional confetti for everyone!!! :)
Too bad I know I’ll never get an iThing. Go go Camp Android!
Now I really want to learn to make android apps…! :) Maybe, someday, this gwish will become reality…!
Question: Can you have your iPod function playing music at the same time as the Shiva Nata app is giving you positions? ‘Cause that would be even more awesome.
This can be a totally justification to get an iPhone, right? ‘A world with more Shiva Nata inside it will be the world I wish to live in.’ Raising my asparagus-shaped wineglass to that particular whilst throwing tiny infinity-symbol-shaped confetti and cheering loudly.I have extra motivation to take my old old phone and turn it looking for an apple iphone!
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Twitter: georginaheredia
Is the app currently available? I’ve tried to get it and I just can’t seem to find it, not even with the link provided in this page.
Thank you.