The Arched Foot Breathing Exercise
slowly and deeply hook your left foot round the back of your right foot with the toes pressing against the ankle of your right foot. At the same time rise up on the toes of your right foot and remain balanced in this position while you complete your inhalation, and hold your breath for as long as you can. When the impulse to exhale appears do so and at the same time slowly lower your right heel to the floor and unhook your left foot. Both heels should reach the floor at the same time. Repeat this exercise with the legs reversed. The Arched Foot Breathing Exercise taxes your sense of balance but as in all such exercises it can be used as a valuable exercise in concentration. You will wobble about at first but steadily you would be able to remain balanced on the toes of one foot with your hands on your hips, and remain so for as long as your breath allows you. The practice of this exercise will not only improve your balance but fine down calves and ankles that may be a little too heavy for your liking. Any exercise which tones and stretches the leg muscles and the sciatic nerve will bring respite from aching legs and so do not omit from your everyday practice itinerary the exercises described in the following chapter on lumbago and sciatica. And if you suffer from that the bulk distressing and average complaint, varicose veins, nothing could be more useful than the habitual practice of the Shoulderstand which I described in chapter four. Also do not omit the simple, leg stretching exercise described in chapter two. Remember the fundamental principle regarding the respite of aching legs and feet. Put them up higher than your head for in this position your legs are not liable to the downward pull of gravity and are therefore being rested. As you lie there with your feet higher than your head try to calm your mind and still your ideas so that this period of rest becomes a powerful exercise in mind control and mental stillness. As a normal rule people who study and practice Yoga do not worry overmuch about their looks, in fact they have a natural beauty of face and figure which comes from pure living and mental serenity. But if you suffer from bad feet and aching legs, as your condition gives technique under Yoga’s gentle persuasion, you will find that your appearance will improve in a surprising way. Those wrinkles of pain, tiredness and discomfort are soon ironed away from your brow and around your eyes and your normal well-being cannot but be affected by the improvement of your means of getting about from place to place. It is a constant source of concern to me that so a lot people neglect their legs and feet yet spend dollars and valuable time on their hair and their clothes. If you want all to be well with your world obtain to work now on those bad feet of yours and bear in mind the old and wise saying,.”A man’s temper is only as wonderful as his feet’! CHAPTER SEVEN Lumbago and sciatica IN the previous chapter I discussed backache and aching legs due to bad posture and long hours of standing. The antidote was based on limbering up the spine and keeping it supple, bending it this technique and that to relieve exhausted muscles, and putting the feet up above the head to combat the pull and downward drag of gravity. The antidote in this chapter is based on toning up the sciatic nerve and the muscles of the lower back to relieve the pain of sciatica and lumbago. The first Yoga asana I would like you to try combines the two processes. I warn you it's not one of the easier ones but because of its value you should persevere and try to master it. Yoga is a perpetual challenge for thinking people. Anything easily gained is lightly prized, so when you have mastered |
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