INFORMATION
© YoPO
2024
Illustrations by MCKIBILLO
Theme – improving your balance
The ability to balance on one leg decreases with age, and the rate of decrease is accelerated by a sedentary lifestyle.
Improving balance has multiple physical benefits which support you in daily activities as well as in your preferred sport and exercise:
Improving balance can also improve mood and cognitive performance – maybe because it works the brain by requiring it to process information from the muscles, joints, eyes, inner ear, and to continually send signals to the body to make micro adjustments to stay upright.
Day 7 practices offer different ways to balance on one leg – a great daily practice.
Time how long you can stand on one leg in one or more of the poses shown with your eyes open and with your eyes closed, note whether timings are different for each side, and then see whether you can improve on these hold times with regular practice.
You may also like to try standing with one foot in front of the other (as if on a tightrope) and walking backwards to challenge your balance in different ways.
Try to add a daily balance practice onto routine activities such as: