Grasp your left foot from the base of your toes with your right hand. Fully engage the fingers through the toes to open up the space between toes. Seperating toes helps to prevent the formation of bunions.
Benefits of foot massage:
❇️Helps to decrease stress
❇️Helps to decrease headache, neck, back and lower back pain related with sitting all day.
❇️Helps to relax fascia and muscles.
❇️Helps to decrease union formation, especially in wonen wearing high heels.
How to Massage Feet?
❇️With circular motion massage the bottom of the feet. Apply pressure to the base of your toes to stimulate the nerve endings.
❇️Make your right hand a fist and apply pressure with your knuckles to the base of the foot. Helps to release fascia and muscles.
❇️Rub your heels clockwise and anti clockwise.
❇️Massage the lower legs, help to relax and increase circulation
❇️Bring your foot on top of your right leg, turn and stretch the foot so the base of foot it looking up and turn toward the floor few times
❇️Make clockwise and anticlockwise circles 5 times around the ankles.
❇️ Extend your feet, close your eyes and take a moment to notice the sensations coming from your feet.
❇️ Repeat the same with the other foot.
📍You can lightly oil (sesame, almond or coconut) your hand with added essential oils go increase relaxation and added benefits
📍Also recommended to soak your feet with cold salty water or water with zeolite to detox your foot.
Information taken from yoga teacher training of Zeynep Aksoy Reset