by Havi Brooks | Jul 15, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
I wrote yesterday about how hugely important it is when we exit the middle. The short version: Beginners don’t need to be given challenges because everything is challenging. In an advanced practice, you find challenges, because you have a conscious, intentional...
by Havi Brooks | Jul 13, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
When I was a yoga teacher in Tel Aviv, there was a class I liked to attend that was just incredibly slow. The simplest, most basic poses. Transitioning in and out of them at an extraordinarily slow, almost ritualistic pace. It was, technically speaking, what you could...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 22, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
Background: The thing with Shiva Nata: it makes/strengthens neural connections which let you see your patterns, and all the different ways they can be taken apart and put together. When you do it right (by doing it wrong), you can end up in that cop show detective...
by Havi Brooks | Jun 14, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
Sovereignty. Oh, it’s a tricky thing to define. Also to feel. I’ve described it here as: “the spiritual quality of not giving a shit.” “the state of not giving a damn what people think because you are the king or queen of your...
by Havi Brooks | May 6, 2010 | biggification, stucknesses & stuckification
Asking the name to reveal itself. So I was talking to Hiro about my upcoming program-without-a-name that I’m so looking forward to teaching. And learned all sorts of interesting things. Hiro said it needed a name. But then it wouldn’t tell us what it was....
by Havi Brooks | Apr 22, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification
Yesterday was full of iguanas and other things I didn’t feel like doing. It was also full of doubt and discouragement. Serious discouragement. And too much of it. Overwhelmed by the post-vacation catch-up game. A weird and unexpected case of writer’s...
