Category Archives: Shiva Nata

Have you been violent with your patterns?

This was my Shivanautical epiphany from Sunday, where we had the very third Shiva Nata class in all of New York. I changed up my teaching patterns a little bit and made things much sillier and playful-er. Made things a lot more congruent with my HipGnosis work. Present were my elephant Ollie and my duck…

You never have to jump off any cliffs (and a lesson about wings)

I am the last person to tell you that you have to face your fears. Nor do you ever have to do anything that feels scary or traumatizing.  No, no, no.  The most important quality that I try to cultivate in every aspect of my life and business is safety. Because it’s so essential but counter-cultural. What…

My contribution to the original Starship Shivanautica!

Whee!  Yeah. I started drawing after a looooong hiatus. The drawings you see on the right? Yup. Those, too, are brought to you by an extra-quality session of Shiva Nata. (which means extra-disastrously and 17 times more cluelessly than normal.) And all the normal resistance just washes away. Like this. And I’m left with nothing but…