Is there a way to hand-code a reference to a block?, in a .tpl file? Is there a way to hand-code a reference to a specific block?, in a .tpl file?

Specifically what i’m trying to do is this. I have a Drupal commerce site and the shopping cart contents are displayed via a block view. The contents are nicely hidden until the user mouses over a link. 
This is accomplished via the Ajax commerce cart module. 

My global nav is hand-coded via a block-myNav.tpl.php file. 
So within the nav UL the pseudo code might look like

&lt;li&gt;&lt;?php print $my_block_reference here ?&gt;&lt;/li&gt;


is that crazy? is there a way to accomplish this?
I'm guessing the down vote to what probably should be the correct answer to this post is b/c the answer did not have any code.

The way to render a block is:

&lt;?php
  //D7
    $block = module_invoke('module_name', 'block_view', 'block_delta');
    print render($block['content']);
?&gt;


That can be placed in the template file that you want the block to show. See here for information on what the vars are in that snippet of code.