• Notice how you feel as you walk this way. • Continue this walking practice for 5 minutes
2. Second Practice: Kick Up Your Heels • Stand with both feet equally weighted and shoulder width apart • Weight your left foot • Kick up your right heel a few inches off the floor and then place this heel on the ground • Now roll the right foot flat on the ground, shifting your weight into this foot as you do so • Repeat on the other side • Notice how you feel as you walk this way • Continue this walking practice for 5 minutes
3. Third Practice: Walk from Your Belly • Stand with both feet equally weighted and shoulder width apart • Allow the crown of your head to lift up toward the sky, keeping your chin down, and your tailbone to sink down towards the earth.
lighting up a path in front of you • Now begin to walk from your belly, letting your belly lead and guide you. • Notice how you feel as you walk this way. • Continue this walking practice for 5 minutes.
Conclude your walking practice with a minute or two of quiet standing. Practice Tai Chi Walking for 30 minutes every day if you can. If 30 minutes seems too much at first, try doing two walking sessions of 15 minutes each. Enjoy your walking and look for changes in your confidence and stability!
Focus on an imaginary line extending
straight down from the crown of your head to the base of your torso, then extending down into the ground. • Place both hands over the belly button, thumbs and index fingers together forming a triangle. • Drop your attention down into this area, noticing that it expands and contracts as you breathe • This area is your body’s movement center. Imagine that a beam of light is extending out from this belly button area,
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