Everywhere, there’s movement in 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 something that produces me rub my sleepy eyes and look again: groups of women are walking backwards inside the lane. This: walking backwards, calmly and confidently.
This ancient exercise (yes! It is an exercise!) is one of the treasures of Chinese health practice, addressing problems with balance, leg strength, back strength, and posture. It may look like simple, but the explanations why it’s a good practice are profound. Once you several:
1. As we get older, our anxiety about falling causes us to be react wrongly. When babies fall backwards, they simply plump into a sitting position, however this tendency disappears even as mature. Many falls turn out going backward because we arch our backs. Walking backwards rounds that section of our back that individuals arch, and encourages ‘forward’ muscle use.
2. Anything that is wrong about your posture came from walking forward! Slumping, slouching, rounding, arching…dozens of bad habits. Walking backwards reverses these habits.
3. From an energetics standpoint, walking backwards actually re-frames consciousness inside our bodies. The straightforward explanation is our attention is likely to favor the leading in our bodies on the exclusion of what is behind us. Chinese health and martial exercises both encourage ‘whole body’ awareness for ‘whole body’ health. Walking backwards results in a ‘sensor’ to integrate the bradenton area.
4. Walking backwards actually engages completely different multiple muscles. This will be significant especially as we grow older, because we lose flexibility and our mobility often diminishes. Through the use of different muscles we exercise parts of the body that need attention.
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