Exploring Your Footprint with a Two-Minute DIY Practice

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In this week's Sunset Yoga class we'll be exploring our footprint on the earth. (Our physical one, not our carbon one.) It's a theme inspired by this quote I stumbled upon while shopping for a greeting card last week (hey, inspiration can come from anywhere!)...

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
- Khalil Gibran 

Mmm... isn't that some lovely poetry?

If you want to get started on this week's theme, here's a little two-minute DIY practice you can do while walking through the grocery store, on a hike, or even through the hallways of your office building:

• Start just by noticing how your feet fall when you walk. Do they flop? Do they thud? Do they turn in our out? Which part of your foot lands first? Do you tend to put all your weight on the outside or inside of your sole? Just notice.
• Now begin to incorporate your breath and your brain power for some mindful movement. Inhaling, lift one foot. Exhaling, plant it in front of you mindfully, seeing if you can gently distribute your weight evenly across the sole as you step. Inhaling, lift the other foot. Exhaling, step it in front of you. And so on.

You can choose to use this mindful walking practice for three distinctly fantastic benefits:

• Simply to cultivate a healthy gait, which can support your spine and alleviate much lower back pain.
• As a stress-relief tool, focusing the mind and deepening each breath to calm the central nervous system. 
• As a meditation, exploring the attitude with which you step forward and the impression that you leave.

Take what serves you. Leave what doesn't. It's all good.

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