This Week’s Active Alignment

Grab your strap. And let's bring that strap around the ball of your left foot. Lay the legs out long. And then use the strap in your arms to lift the legs so you can pick the leg up. Can walk your hands up a little higher on the strap and roll your elbows in. So you're using the weight of the arms to help encourage the ball of your foot towards your face. And you can feel your heel reaching up, but you're trying to keep your sitting bone reaching down. So you're not letting your whole pelvis tuck in your lower back flatten, but you're trying to keep your pelvis pretty neutral. And now look at your foot and try to line the little toe side of your foot up. You could draw, if you were to put a piece of paper on top of your foot and you were to draw a line from your little toe to your heel, could you make it be a straight line versus a diagonal or an angled line? And now can you take the whole little toe side of your foot and reach it up toward the ceiling. So your heel and the little toe edge of your foot gets closer to the ceiling, but your big toe side of your foot gets closer to the floor. So it's kind of like the the position it would feel like if you were sickling your ankle. Yes. And then just hold, take a few breaths there. If you want to add one last little piece to this, just take it across your body. So you try to keep that position of your foot and your ankle as you take it across your body. Try to keep your tailbone down and then just breathe into that left side. Okay, now you can start to bring your leg back to the center and just relax the ankle and the foot. Go ahead and set your leg down on that left side and take the strap off and just open and close your hands for a moment. Stretch out those fingers. How does your left side, your left leg feel compared to your right right now? Is there a difference? And now let both legs be really heavy on the ground and just support it on the ground and let your leg bones roll out and in. You So just kind of using as little muscular tension as possible and just like letting the bones roll in, roll out, roll in, roll out. Okay, now relax the legs and then maybe bend your knees in just for a moment just to kind of take a break from the legs out long position. And then go ahead and bring them back down. Grab your strap and let's bring it around the ball of your right foot. Where you can lay your legs out long