Why should we stretch our toes?

I often ask the practitioners to focus on their toes and spread them evenly during our yoga classes. We stretch our toes in different poses from standing to sitting, I encourage them to talk to their toes and I really mean it. 😉

It might be painful and discomfort when you come to certain poses to stretch your toes. Maybe try to hold the poses for a short time and slowly increasing the duration, come out from the pose whenever you need to. I really highly recommend to stretch our toes as often as possible. It will only get better if you stretch them regularly. There are a lot benefits of stretching our toes.

Toes need to move through a full range up and down, and independently from each other, for balance, preventing several causes of foot pain, and for quicker, healthier movement ability. Feet are not just blocks to clomp around on.

From stretching your toes regularly, you can avoid toes that curl, hook, hammer, face different directions, or push sideways into bunions. Your toes will feel great and thank you after that!

Tight shoes are not healthy for your toes. Unhealthy shoes are not beautiful maybe. 😉 So why not being barefoot as much as possible? 😉

 

Happy toes! Happy life! 😉

 

Namaste,

Carmen