The Simplest Grounding Technique

Happy Tranquility Thursday! Grounding is one of the best things we can do for the nervous system. I love standing in grass or sand barefoot (yes, even in the winter) or a good foot massage and other foot exercises.

But the absolute simplest and easiest grounding technique is to push evenly through your feet, wherever you are standing. I demonstrate here. In yoga this is known as tadasana, or mountain pose, from which all other positions emanate.

The next time you’re standing in line, or at the kitchen sink, or literally anywhere, notice how you’re bearing weight. Are you leaning forward or back? To the right or left?

Then parallel your feet, and push down evenly through the balls of your feet and your heels. Specifically: Press through your big toe mound, inner heel, little toe mound, outer heel.

In addition to the calming benefits of this technique, it’s also therapeutic and can improve your posture.

If your ankles pronate, collapsing your feet inward, press more through the big toe mound and outer heel. If your ankles supinate, collapsing your feet outward, press more through the little toe mound and inner heel. Do this consistently, and you might find your knees and hips feel better.

Coming for our next Movement Monday: a three-in-one shoulder opener.

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