{"id":162,"date":"2013-09-11T17:24:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footpatches.com\/detox\/?p=162"},"modified":"2013-09-08T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T17:26:13","slug":"happy-healthy-feet-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/footpatches.com\/detox\/2013\/09\/11\/happy-healthy-feet-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy &#038; Healthy Feet Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Happy &amp; Healthy Feet Workshop\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tKFeY_bnEEE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to go ahead and get started talking about the feet.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to cover a lot of various topics.\u00a0 Feel free to go ahead and ask questions throughout.\u00a0 I\u2019ll keep everything nice and open and answer your questions.\u00a0 If you need to, afterwards, ask me questions, feel free, or e-mail me.\u00a0 I love, love to take your questions and make sure I\u2019m addressing what you need to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>So, a lot you are having some foot pains.\u00a0 This is very, very common.\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 I mean this is a huge problem in today\u2019s society, foot pain, and who knows really what the causes are?\u00a0 There\u2019s so many things that we can talk about.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got the shoes that are the problem.\u00a0 We\u2019re walking on concrete.\u00a0 We have injuries that occur.\u00a0 We have movement patterns that we\u2019ve picked up through time. We pick up from our parents when we start to walk.\u00a0 It\u2019s very common for people who have foot pain that their parents had foot pain or bunions or these things.\u00a0 Their kids end up having it.\u00a0 A lot of it is because that\u2019s how we learn to move, through how our parents move.\u00a0 We pick up these habits, and a lot of times, we end up with the same pain.<\/p>\n<p>As we are working with the feet, we need to start looking at the structures of our feet.\u00a0 If any of you feel comfortable, I\u2019m going to have you take off your shoes so that you can get dirty with me here, in a sense.\u00a0 I\u2019ll let you get comfortable, but before we start analyzing it, I want to look at why it\u2019s important we\u2019re working the feet, we\u2019re looking at the feet.\u00a0 We\u2019re understanding how the feet are important to the body.<\/p>\n<p>Physically, the feet are the foundation to the house.\u00a0 The feet are the foundation to our body, right?\u00a0 If we have a house and got a foundation and you get a crack, everything up the chain can be having problems.\u00a0 Cracks happen through the system.\u00a0 So, when the feet start to go, it is not uncommon to have knee problems, hip problems, back problems, neck problems, and even shoulder problems, and that can all resonate from the feet.\u00a0 Physically, the feet cause a lot of problems if they start to get cracks in them.<\/p>\n<p>Mentally, what does this do to us if we have cracks in our feet?\u00a0 Well, mentally we don\u2019t feel as grounded.\u00a0 We start to lose our balance, and that makes us start to feel a little more uncomfortable.\u00a0 So, emotionally, now we don\u2019t feel as centered.\u00a0 We don\u2019t feel as stable.\u00a0 We start to have fear in movement, or we stop moving.\u00a0 So, what\u2019s really important?\u00a0 We get our foundation back so we can start living life again.\u00a0 We can have a full life and not be restricted in what we\u2019re doing.\u00a0 That\u2019s where I really have a passion.\u00a0 So, a lot of what I\u2019m going to show is coming from a peace of mind to get you moving, get you out of pain, and get you feeling better about yourself.<\/p>\n<p>If we look at the feet, we\u2019re all going to have various feet.\u00a0 All of us have different structures, and there\u2019s no right or wrong.\u00a0 So, you\u2019re going to hear a lot of people talk about fallen arches or high arches.\u00a0 Let me tell you:\u00a0 That concept, you need to throw out the window.\u00a0 There is no such thing as high arches or fallen arches.\u00a0 All there is is <i>what\u2019s your arch<\/i>?\u00a0 Where is supposed to be the most natural place of your arch?\u00a0 For some people that\u2019s going to be a little bit higher.\u00a0 For other people, that\u2019s going to be flatter.\u00a0 Our goal is not to give you a certain shape of a foot, but it is to find your best foot.\u00a0 That\u2019s where these exercises are going to come in.<\/p>\n<p>What are some problems start to come up when our feet are going for us, when we\u2019re not having our most natural foot?\u00a0\u00a0 Plantar fasciitis, the Achilles tendon problems.\u00a0 People start to get just achy feet, arthritic feelings.\u00a0 We also get bunions.\u00a0 We get callouses, corns.\u00a0 All of these things are representative of what happens when the feet start to go bad.<\/p>\n<p>If we look at a bunion, what really occurs with a bunion is we\u2019re putting pressure unevenly in our feet.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to try and get up here for you guys to see me a little bit better.\u00a0 When we put our feet unevenly and we put uneven pressure, what happens is the foot starts to roll in like this.\u00a0 The toes then start to press out like so.\u00a0 This is a reaction.\u00a0 The body\u2019s always going to react to pull you back into balance because the body always wants to be back in balance.<\/p>\n<p>So, if I go to shift my hip out, notice how my upper body shifts back towards the other side. This is so I don\u2019t fall over.\u00a0 If I shifted everything over this way, I\u2019m going to fall over.\u00a0 The body is really smart.\u00a0 It\u2019s freaking cool how it will readjust to make things happen.\u00a0 Now, when that readjustment happens though, that\u2019s not necessarily good for the body.\u00a0 Overtime, it\u2019s going to start to cause pain, and this starts when you\u2019re a kid.\u00a0 So, any of the problems you\u2019re having now may have started when you were young.\u00a0 The problem is that over 30, 40-some years, it\u2019s now gotten how far out of whack.\u00a0 So, first thing you have to know, you can\u2019t go from here and go back to here.\u00a0 We have to go really slow, all the way back.<\/p>\n<p>Now that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t start making changes fast.\u00a0 It just means you have to work within its range and not try to force it too fast because if you do that, it will just cause this much pain.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk a little about the shoes and how you can prepare yourself as you move into these other ways so that you don\u2019t shift yourself to the other extreme because we don\u2019t want to go to the other extreme, that one to the next.\u00a0 It\u2019s the slow kind of processes.<\/p>\n<p>So, the body reacts whenever we place pressure in imbalanced ways.\u00a0 If you stand up, and we take a look at our feet, there are going to be a couple of things that might happen for you as you stand up here.\u00a0 Some of you might have what a lot of doctors tell you is fallen arches.\u00a0 They\u2019re not fallen arches, but what happens is that pronation happens. \u00a0Pronation is just a fancy word for rolled in.\u00a0 That\u2019s all it is.\u00a0 When you\u2019re rolling in, and I might do a little exaggerated here so that you can take a look at your feet.\u00a0 Just know mine\u2019s exaggerated.\u00a0 If you notice here, now I\u2019m balanced.\u00a0 If I go to roll in and I go to do this pronation, see what happens to my knees.\u00a0 See what happens to my toes, and if you can\u2019t feel free to walk around here a little bit.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to try and do as much as I can to show you.\u00a0 My toes are now starting to come out.\u00a0 My knees are coming in.\u00a0 This is going to put a lot of pressure.\u00a0\u00a0 Now, this happens overtime so remember you\u2019re probably not here yet, but you might slightly be there.\u00a0 You\u2019re already causing these shifts to curve.\u00a0 What that does is that weakens the ankle.\u00a0 Those of who were talking to me about the ankle problem, if you\u2019re rolling in like this, what is happening is not necessarily that your arch is flattening.\u00a0 The entire inner line of your body is falling downward.\u00a0 That\u2019s putting a lot of pressure into that area, which is going to possibly result in knee problems, hip problems, back problems.<\/p>\n<p>So, that\u2019s one thing that tends to happen for people.\u00a0 Another way is people tend to go and roll out like this.\u00a0 You want to look and see if you\u2019re one of these people.\u00a0 Again, this is exaggerated.\u00a0 If you see this, my knees go way.\u00a0 My toes are clinging down to the floor to hold me up because it doesn\u2019t want me to fall over, and as I\u2019m doing that, it makes the bottom of my foot really tight.\u00a0 High arches.\u00a0 Those people that have really tight high arches, this is you.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who are having that inner weakness, the pressure is coming inward, or you\u2019re feeling the pain in the first two toes on this foot area, you\u2019re a pronator.\u00a0 This is a supinator.\u00a0 Fancy word for rolled out, that\u2019s all.\u00a0 Medical terms.\u00a0 Easier if you just say rolled in, rolled out.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, this is affecting the rest of the structure.\u00a0 If you are that rolled in person, the ankle is falling.\u00a0 Now, you\u2019ve got this weakened stability in the ankle.\u00a0 The knee is being pulled down.\u00a0 You\u2019re being overstretched on the outside over here.\u00a0 The body is then going to readjust for this in multiple ways to try and keep you balanced and cause other tightnesses in other poles.\u00a0 If you\u2019re this person who rolls out, it\u2019s in here that we\u2019re getting this tightness in the bottom of the foot. The knees are pressing outside so you\u2019re getting this bow-legged type of look.\u00a0 You\u2019re getting these off of these imbalances in the muscles.\u00a0 Does that make sense?\u00a0 Yeah, yeah.\u00a0 Right in there.<\/p>\n<p>If we look at our feet, look and see that you\u2019re finding that you\u2019re falling down, that ankle\u2019s falling downward or what people call fallen arches, which technically is not necessarily fallen arches, or if you\u2019re a supinator.\u00a0 This is the first place you have to start.\u00a0 You have to know what your foot is doing.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t know what your foot is doing, you don\u2019t know how to correct it.\u00a0 If you feel comfortable with that, you can go ahead and have a seat now.\u00a0 You can also ask me after class.\u00a0 I will analyze your foot with you and let you know what exactly you\u2019re doing and where your pressure points are that\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis and awareness are always key.\u00a0\u00a0 I always say this.\u00a0 You need to become aware before you can make changes.\u00a0 If you do not know what you are doing initially, you cannot make the changes.\u00a0 This is where mindfulness comes in.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to get reconnected to our feet.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to rebuild our pathways from our brain down to the feet and have just as much control of our feet as anything else in out body.\u00a0 As we get that control, we\u2019re going to get more grounded.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to find our feet responding to us, and we\u2019re going to get comfortable on them.\u00a0 There\u2019s going to be a whole lot of things that are going to come along with that.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a gentleman called Dr. Morton, and he wrote a book in the 1920s.\u00a0 He had this radical idea about the foot, which he is considered the founder of podiatry.\u00a0 However, a lot of theories never carried through for some reason.\u00a0 The way that he looked at placement of the foot, when you\u2019re looking at the pressure on the foot, a lot of people thing four corners.\u00a0 Well the four corners is not where you think of pressure on the foot.<\/p>\n<p>Where you need to think of pressure on the foot when you\u2019re standing is that you have to think of it as almost a V.\u00a0 The V pressure points are going to be right through the center of your big into the center of your heel, right through the center of your baby toe right into the center of your heel, and if you drew a line straight through the middle of that V, those are your three points.\u00a0 Does that make sense?\u00a0 So, if I\u2019m a supinator, I\u2019m this rolled out person, I need to get that big toe back down, and as I get that big toe back down, I\u2019m going to find the bottom of my feet spread out more.\u00a0 That\u2019s going to build that flexibility back into the bottom of that foot.<\/p>\n<p>If I\u2019m that rolled in person, I have to find that pressure rolling towards the outside so that lifts my ankle, and I\u2019ll find that it almost lifts my entire body upward because it\u2019s being pulled down, it will lift me up.\u00a0 Does that make sense?\u00a0 Yeah?\u00a0 Okay, just want to make sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re going to go ahead and get started talking about the feet.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to cover a lot of various topics.\u00a0 Feel free to go ahead and ask questions throughout.\u00a0 I\u2019ll keep everything nice and open and answer your questions.\u00a0 If you need to, afterwards, ask me questions, feel free, or e-mail me.\u00a0 I love, 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