The benefits of Walking Back to Health

Everywhere, there is 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 area that makes me rub my sleepy eyes and appear again: teams of women are walking backwards the lane. Exactly that: walking backwards, calmly and confidently.

This ancient exercise (yes! It becomes an exercise!) is one of the treasures of Chinese health practice, addressing issues of balance, leg strength, back strength, and posture. It may look like simple, however the reasons why it is a good practice are profound. Read about a few:

1. As we age, our anxiety about falling causes us to react wrongly. When babies fall backwards, they just plump right down to a sitting position, however this tendency disappears once we get older. Many falls turn out going backward because we arch our backs. Walking backwards rounds that part of our back we arch, and encourages ‘forward’ muscle use.

2. Precisely what 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 in your bodies. The easy explanation is that our attention will favor the leading of our own bodies to the exclusion of what is behind us. Chinese health insurance and martial exercises both encourage ‘whole body’ awareness for ‘whole body’ health. Walking backwards results in a ‘sensor’ to integrate el born area.

4. Walking backwards actually engages different groups of muscles. This is important especially as we age, since we lose flexibility and our mobility often diminishes. By using different muscles we exercise aspects of our body that need attention.

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