Forward Movements

Confused, Bewildered, Bemused? Allow me to elucidate... But first, if you are new to Dance of Shiva, this is the place to begin, here you can learn the basic movements of the Dance of Shiva. These are the basics. Learn these and you have the tools for all of the other levels. That means you can skip levels if you want. All the levels are for are for organizing the movement combinations so that you can learn them in a logical and organized fashion. But before you do that, start here and learn the basic movements. There are only eight of them. And learn the basic positions. Again, there are only eight.

All the best

Neil

and don't forget the Explanation

Change Plane Movements Forwards Backwards Transquarter
Forward Movements in the Horizontal Plane	Horizontal Plane

Position 1	Forwards, 1 to 2	Position 2
Position 2	Forwards, 2 to 3	Forward, 2 to 3	Position 3
Position 3	Forward, 3 to 4	Forward, 3 to 4	Position 4
Position 4	Forward, 4 to 1	Forward, 4 to 1	Position 1

Change Plane Movements Forwards Backwards Transquarter
Forward Movements in the Vertical Plane	Vertical Plane

Position A	Forwards, A to B	Position B
Position B	Forwards, B to C	Forward, B to C	Position C
Position C	Forward, C to D	Forward, C to D	Position D
Position D	Forward, D to A	Forward, D to A	Position 1

An Explanation for your Elucidation

Any "Movement" in the Dance of Shiva takes the arm from one position to another position without passing any other points. This post shows all the Forward Movements. The forward movements are the same for both the left hand and the right hand. For the sake of space I'm only showing one side.

Each row of pictures above represents one Forward movement. So the movement from Position 1 to Position 2 is one forward movement. The movement from Position 2 to Position 3 is another.

These are all Forward movements in the Horizontal Plane. We can also do Forward movements in the Vertical Plane. Positions in the Vertical Plane are designated with letters as opposed to numbers. So a Forward movement in the Vertical plane can take us from A to B or from B to C etc.

A sequence of 4 forward movements done one after the other in the Horizontal plane will take you from Position 1 to Position 2 to Position 3 to Position 4 and then back to Position 1. Or you can start from Position 2 and after doing 4 movements end up back at Position 2 again.

Likewise 4 sequential forward movements done in the vertical plane starting a Position A take us from there to Position B, to Position C to Position D and back to A again. And we can start from any of the other 3 positions.

I won't show it in this post but using both arms, we can move both arms forwards from position 1-1 (where the left arm and right arm are both in position 1) to 2-2 and then form there to 3-3 etc. We can also start the arms in different positions. So if the left arm is in position 2 and the right arm is in position 3 we can then move forward from Position 2-3 to Position 3-4 etc.