Your Personal Barefoot Path
In my blogpost for the European Rolfing Association I explained how feet that are awake and alert can support coordination and bring effortlessness into our movements.
In this article you will receive suggestions for your personal barefoot path in your living room. That way you can become active with bare feet while it is still cold outside.
A word of caution: Usually, we want and do too much. Please do NOT see the suggestions as a kind of challenge where you have to do everything every day. Rather choose one suggestion at a time and give it your full attention instead of mechanically going through all of them in one go. Listen to your body and see what you would like to do and what would feel good for your feet.
Please also pay attention to the following 3 aspects:
- Do not overdo it. Our body needs time to adapt to new challenges.
- Always have something stable at arm’s reach to hold on to in case you loose your balance.
- Take care to only choose safe materials and to not injure yourself. This holds especially true for people with diabetes or other disorders where sensation in the feet might be impaired.
And: Take time between the stations to stand and then walk for a short while. Sense how this feels. This is an important part of the “exercise”.
Ready to go? You will find instructions for each station by clicking on the respective tile.
Two more suggestions for people with their own garden or where there is a parc nearby that offers this.