Everywhere, there exists movement with 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 this all, is one thing that makes me rub my sleepy eyes and appear again: groups of women are walking backwards the lane. This: walking backwards, calmly and confidently.
This ancient exercise (yes! It’s an exercise!) is amongst the treasures of Chinese health practice, addressing issues of balance, leg strength, back strength, and posture. It may seem simple, though the explanations why it’s a sound practice are profound. Once you a few:
1. As we age, our concern with falling causes us to be react wrongly. When babies fall backwards, they just plump right down to a sitting position, however, this tendency disappears even as we age. Many falls end up going backward because we arch our backs. Walking backwards rounds that a part of our back that people arch, and encourages ‘forward’ muscle use.
2. Anything that is wrong regarding your posture came from walking forward! Slumping, slouching, rounding, arching…all those bad habits. Walking backwards reverses these habits.
3. From an energetics standpoint, walking backwards actually re-frames consciousness inside our bodies. The easy explanation is that our attention is likely to favor the leading of our own bodies on the exclusion of what’s behind us. Chinese health insurance martial exercises both encourage ‘whole body’ awareness for ‘whole body’ health. Walking backwards results in a ‘sensor’ to integrate the therapy lamp.
4. Walking backwards actually engages very different teams of muscles. This will be relevant especially as we age, because we lose flexibility and our flexibility often diminishes. By using different muscles we exercise aspects of our own bodies that need attention.
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