Walking The Line: A Balancing Wallking Practice

This balancing practice began at least a year ago, when i began jumping up on balancing surfaces as I walked. It blends well into my daily walking as a non-car owner and makes it more interesting. I've always been interested in physical challenges, especially those that involve grace, but have never had much desire to add to my commute, go indoors, and pay a lot of money for a fancy class like aerial acrobatics or pole dancing. I think if I were a driver, I'd take classes like these. So, I'm glad I got into balancing and my practice continued with this class. Here are a couple balancing spots from one of my walks...

Fallen Tree! 

One of my favorite benefits of learning to balance better is being able to walk across rivers on fallen trees when I'm out hiking or exploring rivers. When you're barefoot, the trees are like superfast highways compared to the rocks.

Train Tracks

These are still a challenge for me, because it's been way too hot to walk those tracks in the sun! Also, their curved surface adds challenge. Mostly it's the shoes though. If I remember to wear soft-soled shoes, it works out a lot better. As I was balancing on this train track rail, I noticed that it helped to sort of "float" from step to step, never really letting all of my weight down in a single step. I have a long way to go, but hope to walk across a wire one day!