Everywhere, there is movement on this expanse of trees and grass and temples. All ages–from 9 to 99–are here, practicing Tai Chi and Sword Arts, swinging their arms, rubbing their kidneys, rotating their waists, and hanging from low-hanging tree branches (to stretch their spines).
Amid pretty much everything, is a thing that makes me rub my sleepy eyes and appearance again: categories of women are walking backwards up the lane. This: walking backwards, calmly and confidently.
This ancient exercise (yes! It becomes an exercise!) is one of the treasures of Chinese health practice, addressing issues of balance, leg strength, back strength, and posture. It may look simple, but the main reasons why it’s a good practice are profound. Here are just a number of:
1. As we age, our anxiety about falling makes us react wrongly. When babies fall backwards, they merely plump into a sitting position, however this tendency disappears as we mature. Many falls turn out going backward because we arch our backs. Walking backwards rounds that part of our back that we arch, and encourages ‘forward’ muscle use.
2. Anything that is wrong regarding your posture originated from walking forward! Slumping, slouching, rounding, arching…dozens of undesirable habits. Walking backwards reverses these habits.
3. From an energetics standpoint, walking backwards actually re-frames consciousness in your bodies. Be simple explanation is always that our attention is likely to favor the front individuals bodies on the exclusion of what is behind us. Chinese health insurance martial exercises both encourage ‘whole body’ awareness for ‘whole body’ health. Walking backwards produces a ‘sensor’ to integrate this area.
4. Walking backwards actually engages very different groups of muscles. This is important especially as our bodies age, because we lose flexibility and our flexibility often diminishes. Through the use of different muscles we exercise aspects of our body that require attention.
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