當談論身體動作時，腳趾的活動往往被忽略。大部分時間，我們的腳趾都被困於鞋子裡，並且活動受限。對於喜歡穿著高跟鞋和尖頭鞋的女士來說，它更容易引致拇指外翻的問題。腳趾關節變形不僅影響外觀，如果情況惡化，更會另活動和步行疼痛。一個關節的改變，可引致身體其他部分出現代償，因而改變整個下肢的生物力學，結果可影響其他部位，引發膝痛、腰痛甚至頸痛等。
從瑜伽的角度來看，當能量（Prana）可以流到身體的某一部位時，該部份便可以很正常運作；但當出現能量堵塞時，身體運作便會受影響。我們有意識的活動可以將能量帶回受影響的部位，並幫助其調整。
我們雙足每天帶我們四處行走，我們真的需要好好照顧它們。在此有一些簡單的腳趾運動，試試看，動動我們的十隻腳趾，看看我們是否可以好好地控制它們。可能你會發現個別控制每一隻小趾頭亦不是想像中容易。
When talking about body movements, movement of the toes are often ignored. Most of the day, our toes are hiding in our shoes and being limited in movement. For the ladies that love high heels and pointed shoes, it’s more prone to develop bunions. The deformity not only affects the outlook, but may cause pain in movement and walking if condition deteriorates. It also changes the biomechanics of the lower limbs, and causes pain elsewhere in your body, like knee pain, low back pain or even neck pain depending on the compensation of the body. In yogic point of view, when the energy (Prana) can flow to that part of body, the body can function well and move well. When there is blockage of energy, malfunction would happen. Our conscious attention and movement can bring energy back to affected part and help it to recover.
Let take good care of our feet and start bringing awareness back to them.
The videos above are some simple exercises for our toes. Play with it and see whether we can move our toes well or not. Sometimes you will surprise that isolated control of our toes is not so easy as we think.
Have fun!
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