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Walking Like a Deer
I Walked on Barefeet Ball-to-Heel, and felt myself walking like a deer. Take the "Barefoot walking test" and see how you walk!
Date: 6/5/2005 5:01:58 PM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 2431 times In my last blog, "Wildman Barefoot Buddha", I posted an e-mail outlining the philosophy of Mick and Sam of the Barefoot Academy.
When I first read it, I cried all the way through it. I read it a second time and cried again. I did the "walking test" Mick recommended--the one where you plug your ears and walk barefoot on a hard surface. If you hear a loud noise when you walk, you're walking heel-to-ball, a form of walking that most of us do but is a dis-connect from the Mother Earth. When I walked, I stomped--yep, very loud stomping.
I tried to walk ball-to-heel, and found it very awkward. Then I tried jogging ball-to-heel and this was much easier--I went around my house jogging this way for a few minutes, and realized that the difference was in the way I usually stand when I walk--very vertical, which puts a lot of pressure on my lower back. When I jogged, I was leaning slightly forward. So I jogged ball-to-heel, then slowed it down to a walk. This worked, and I walked around the house like this; I didn't feel the pressure in my lower back like I usually do.
The walking was very quiet. I felt like a deer walking--the way you always see deer on film, very delicate, balanced, coordinated. I kept on crying, and went out the door into the backyard and walked around in the grass and dirt. I stepped in some mud and started to slip but didn't fall--my balance was better on the balls of my feet. I went around to the front yard and walked in the weed "lawn" and dirt around the trees and bushes. I cried the whole time.
By the time I got back in the house, my ankles were tired, but my feet felt fine--I usually get pain in my feet if I go barefoot on the hard floors in my house (tile, no carpet). Mick wrote me "the pain in your ankles is only the beginning. Your body posture has grown into handling heels, and so your normal support muscles have become weak. But they will grow again, and in this growing, you will be overcoming the old posture."
Wow! When Mick wrote of my being in pain, the physical is but a reflection of what I'm feeling emotionally/mentally. And he is very right, I am in need of walking in places more wild than the local nature center! Mick and Sam have invited me up to Olympia, Washington where they live and where they hold their Barefoot Academy trainings. I will see what I can do to get there.
Love
Liora Leah
Barefoot Mick and Sunshine Sam do not have a website. Please contact them via e-mail at: BarefootAcademy@aol.com
See my other blogs on Mick and Sam, barefoot walking, and reconnecting to Mother Earth through the soles of our feet:
"Warrior Woman of the Shield" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=57
"Barefoot Walking: The Four Disciplines" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=27
"Barefoot Practice" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=33
"Barefoot Walkin' Blues" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=22
"Wildman Barefoot Buddha" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=17
"Deer Animal Totem": http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=20
"Earth Shoes": http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=19
"Earth Heals Pain" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=4
"Barefoot Story" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=5
"Re-connecting with Earth" http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=309&i=6
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