Day Seven Adventure: Twinkle Toes and Mama.
Kiss the earth with your feet, caress her with your toes! #mamalove

Pose of the day: Toe Squat:
Toe Squat is a yin pose, and like most yin poses, it looks easy but is not. Toe Squat can help put us back in touch with our primal human instincts. Now, THAT'S WILD!

How to Toe Squat:
​Stand on your knees, tuck your toes under the balls of your feet and sit back on our heels.  Keep your torso long and your gaze straight.  It can be a challenge to get your weight out of your toes and on to the balls of your feet. Tuck all your toes – including the pinky toe – flat on the mat. Sit for three to five minutes(HA!). It stimulates all six lower-body meridians Crown Chakra.

Today's  challenge is to set your toes free!  Feel the sensation, the energy of your bare feet on the Earth. Try and experience all sorts of surfaces and textures. Grass, moss, leaves, sand, dirt and water. Get out there for at least 30 minutes. Check out some of the benefits I found in Stephanie Slons article: Pretty cool stuff!

1. Clear Your Mind
It’s hard not to pay attention to every step when you’re walking barefoot. You have to be on the lookout  for sharp rocks and thorns. Awareness of what’s in front of you in this moment quiets your inner chatter and clears your mind and helps you focus on the here and now.
2. It’s Free Foot Yoga
Walking barefoot strengthens and stretches the muscles, tendons and ligaments in your feet, ankles and calves. This helps prevent injury, knee strain and back problems. Not only that, but because it works muscles not used when you’re wearing shoes, it strengthens and stretches your core, helping keep your posture upright, and your balance spot on.
3. It’s a Free Reflexology Session.
There are reflex points to every part of your body in your feet. Every little bump and rock in the road helps to stimulate all these little reflex points. If it hurts at first – especially in specific areas, this means your feet need the stimulation they’re getting by being barefoot. Over time, these sensitivities will go away, and the areas the tenderness corresponds to will be rejuvenated, helping decrease the symptoms of whatever it is that ails you.
4. Decrease Anxiety & Depression.
Walking barefoot in the grass can help decrease anxiety and depression by 62 percent, and increases the levels of those feel good endorphins. Awesome!
5. Get a Good Night's Sleep.
The ancients believed that walking barefoot in the grass was the best cure for insomnia, and many people still swear by it today.
6. It’s Grounding. Literally.
Our bodies are made up of about 60 percent water, which is great for conducting electricity. The earth has a negative ionic charge. Going barefoot grounds our bodies to that charge. Negative Ions have been proven to detoxify, calm, reduce inflammation, synchronize your internal clocks, hormonal cycles and physiological rhythms. The best places to get some negative ions through your feet are by the water. Everyone knows how good it feels to be barefoot on the beach – now we know why!
7. Get Back to What Matters.
To be barefoot outside doesn’t just involve your feet – the rest of you has to be outside too. You get to connect with Mother Nature all around. Feel the sunshine on your face; hear the wind in the trees. It’s easier to connect to a higher power when you’re in touch with Nature; it’s easier to put things into perspective.
Who knew something as simple as a barefoot walk could be so good for you – mind, body and soul.
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​WalkAbout Wild journal prompt:
How did this experience make you feel?
Did you feel calmer, more focused?
Which surface did you enjoy? Why?

​Pose of the day: Toe Squat:
Toe Squat is a yin pose, and like most yin poses, it looks easy but is not. Toe Squat can help put us back in touch with our primal human instincts. Now, THAT'S WILD!

How to Toe Squat:
​Stand on your knees, tuck your toes under the balls of your feet and sit back on our heels.  Keep your torso long and your gaze straight.  It can be a challenge to get your weight out of your toes and on to the balls of your feet. Tuck all your toes – including the pinky toe – flat on the mat. Sit for three to five minutes(HA!). It stimulates all six lower-body meridians Crown Chakra.

​"I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel the sky tumbling down."- Carol King

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