What have a bunch of Arm Movements to do with Being More Conscious?

How do they exercise the mind and the body?
What other benefits are there?
Dance of Shiva is a little bit like Tai Ji in that each movement has a specific intent. If we can feel our body as we do the movement we can feel whether we are doing the desired movement or not. Moving the arm Forwards in a Horizontal Spiral we can sense if we are keeping our palm facing up. If not we can correct it.
Doing with an intent to guide us, an idea of what we are trying to do, we can become present in the act of doing. We sense our body and we respond to what we sense. As we get better at sensing our body and controlling it we can get better at using it. Read more...

Simple, Efficient and Effective

Basic Principles for Life

Ultimate Simplicity and Efficiency is about a set of Basic Principles that can be applied to any aspect of life so that we can simplify it and get on with living it. These principles can be applied to any aspect of life whether leading, teaching, learning or working as part of a team or company or being a part of a family. They can be applied when doing something physical whether it is riding a bike, doing yoga, running or whether doing something more cerebral such as writing a book. They can also be applied to enjoying life. They can be used to help us to balance our lives as well as get things done. They can also be used to help us to do things well.These are simple ideas for the things we do and the problems we have to solve. They are also efficient. Rather than wasting life we can live life and experience it. Learn more...

Exercising Consciousness

Spirals, Transquarters and Change

Spirals, Transquarters and Changes are the three basic categories of movement in the Dance of Shiva. There are two types of Spirals movements and four types of Changes. In this book we learn four of these movements and how they can be put together to form 14 different movement combinations. We also learn how all 64 movement combinations of the dance of shiva are derived from two simple spiral movements.
Focusing on these basic moves we learn how it is possible to exercise possibility by sensing limits and moving within them. We also see how it is possible to create the limits that we wish to move within. The movements learned in this book can form the foundation for more advanced Dance of Shiva practices as well as a foundation for living more consciously. Learn more...

Practicing Possibility

Formulae for Freedom

In Formulae for Freedom we work with the basic movement combinations of the Dance of Shiva, showing you how they can be combined to create movement algorithms made up of four, eight, sixteen moves or more. Using movement algorithms, we have a mental challenge as well as a physical one.
To make the process of learning easier, we learn smaller algorithms first. We then put these smaller algorithms together to form the longer algorithms of eight and sixteen moves, each of which repeat four times. It is also possible to create an algorithm of 32 moves from these smaller elements. The interesting thing is that even in this 32 movement algorithm, very few of the moves repeat. Thus we have a chance to practice nearly half of all the movements of the Dance of Shiva in one little package. Learn more...