About Lesson
Simple Balancing
We are nearing the end of our 30 day Foot Challenge. Are you starting to notice your feet more? How you stand, how you distribute the weight across the soles of your feet. How your heels bring weight, stability and structure to your whole body?
For today’s session, let’s take that stability and practice maintaining it in the face of disruption. Let’s try some simple balances.
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Start with one foot in front of the other at about hip distance apart.
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Raise up on to the balls of the feet and extend your arms up over your head.
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Now bring the heels of your feet down, bend your knees slightly and bring your arms down with an exhalation. Bend your elbows as you do this and draw them in to the sides of your body.
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Continue like this for several rounds.
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Now see if you can do the same movements but don’t let your heels come all the way to the floor. If balance is hard, hold on to a chair or the wall. If it feels too much like you are straining, go back to more rounds of the above.
This simple excercise increases balance so that we are better able to stay in equilibrium whenever physical or mental challenges throw us out of alignment.