233: Happy Feet: How to Heal Your Messed Up Toes
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Do your feet hurt? Do you have hammer toe, overlapping toes, corns, or bunions? Without even realizing it, most people wear footwear that leads to poor posture, muscle imbalances, and chronic foot problems.
Yoga can help, but you need to fix your footwear too.
On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet a podiatrist-slash-yoga-teacher, Michele Colon, who will share with you her experiences in the clinic and on the mat working with all walks of life to correct foot problems. Most people assume that foot problems are just cosmetic when in reality, your feet are foundational for your posture and can impact your knees, hips and back. Proper posture starts at the ground, and healthy feet will improve your walking and running gate as well as your balance very quickly.
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What You´ll Learn:
- How yoga can help your feet, Achilles tendon and leg muscles
- How walking barefoot can actually change the muscular development of a child
- Why orthotic inserts might be necessary short term—but are not a "forever" solution
- How to quickly analyze your feet (or someone else's)
- How Lucas went from a size 10 to a size 12 shoe (and why that matters)
- How your squished up toes could be affecting your balance in yoga
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr. Michele S. Colon has a Bachelor's degree in Physiology, a Master's degree in Biomedical Sciences, and a Doctorate degree in Podiatry with a specialty in Foot & Ankle Surgery. Dr. Michele is also certified in Yoga, Reiki, Reflexology, and Laser Therapy.
Dr. Michele specializes in Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, and Therapeutic Yoga to provide the most healing, relaxation, and rejuvenation to her patients and clients. Dr. Michele has studied Ayurveda extensively and has worked with some of the best practitioners throughout California to bring Ayurveda to the forefront of medicine.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the things that drove me crazy when I first started doing yoga is that people would burn incense. |
| 0:05.1 | Yoga teachers would burn incense. In fact, I used to burn incense. |
| 0:08.0 | It's just a terrible idea when my students came up to me once and said, |
| 0:10.4 | listen, can you just stop burning things you're telling us to |
| 0:13.0 | breathe deeply throughout class and you're burning some weird toxic flavored oil |
| 0:17.4 | stuff doesn't matter where your incense comes from it's pretty toxic and |
| 0:21.2 | gross and someone a long time ago was probably 11 years ago |
| 0:24.9 | introduced me to diffusers. Diffusers are these little miniature humidifiers |
| 0:29.5 | that you add water and essential oil to and they make your room smell really great. |
| 0:35.8 | Now aside from just making your room smell great, there's very well researched medical and health benefits and mood changingchanging mood-altering benefits to some oil. |
| 0:45.0 | So for example, lavender is one that you'll see in lots and lots of different spas and |
| 0:50.0 | meditation centers and yoga studios. |
| 0:53.0 | Lavender is a great one. |
| 0:54.0 | I really like Mandarin as well. |
| 0:55.9 | Lemongrass is something I use on a regular basis |
| 0:58.7 | and Rosemary. |
| 0:59.4 | Those are probably my four go-to oils at the moment. And so instead of burning incense and making your |
| 1:04.6 | studio or your home or your bathroom smell like a campfire and filling with |
| 1:09.3 | toxic smoke, what you can do instead is use essential oils. They smell much more fresh, totally |
| 1:14.8 | healthy and you can impact your mood in a pretty dramatic way too. So if you like to check |
| 1:19.8 | out what we're doing, we built these for our studio so they're very very strong and |
| 1:23.3 | they're also beautiful. They're made of wood. Most of the essential oil |
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