Barefoot and Powerful-Our next guest coming soon...Barefoot Angie Bee

Our Barefoot and Powerful series will continue soon with Barefoot Angie Bee.  Angie has appeared on our blog before as a barefoot runner extraordinaire.

Our Barefoot and Powerful series focuses specifically on women who have found being barefoot to be self-empowering in a constructive way. Angie is many things-a strong woman, a Yoga teacher, a spiritual leader, and of course a barefoot running coach. She's a mother of four, a wife and a role model for many.

We look forward to talking with Angie soon and sharing her story with our readers.

Blessings!

Proof of Barefoot Running benefits British runner with 25 years experience speaks

Barefoot running may see, like a fad to some.

To others, barefoot running may be considered still too new to be credible.

But ask British runner Chris Fielding, and you'll find all the credibility the sport needs in order to prompt you to ditch your shoes.

Runner re-born-Chris Fielding now runs barefoot or in minimalist shoes all the time.

Profile: Chris Fielding

• Country of residence: United Kingdom
• Running experience: Over 25 years

Chris spent 25 years in conventional running shoes before they caught up with him and caused serious injuries. He explains his story in an exert from Barefoot Beginner that was also published on Barefoot Britain, which was founded by Tracy Davenport, who is also the author of the article where Chris tells his story. 

Tracy after the finish of the Brighton Half Marathon 

Tracey, ironically, sells shoes while running mostly barefoot (or shall we say: Almost Barefoot?) Specifically, she sells minimalist shoes that allow your foot to move freely as if it was unshod. She initially hooked Chris up with Xero Shoes-and excellent choice-I know from my own experience, and Chris was then hooked on minimalist (Almost Barefoot) running. He now runs freely without injury. 

Barefoot Britain continues to be an excellent source for runners world-wide, and especially for those British runners who seek up-close and personal advice to improve their barefoot running. Thank you, Chris and Tracy!

Blessings!

The strangest barefoot activity ever....not at all dirty, but disturbingly weird!

The strangest barefoot activity ever....not at all dirty, as far as we can tell, but quite odd and potentially disturbing...but judgement shall be reserved!

Barefoot athletics includes the oldest barefoot athletic discipline, Yoga, but done with horses?

Yes.  Horse Yoga

Just plain weird.   The video is rather popular via the Huffington Post, You Tube and beyond.

Click for video........    conclude as you wish.

I'll just stick to Yoga on my mat, in a regular studio or gym with people, and ordinary barefoot running.

We're not talking about doing Yoga by your horse, like this woman who appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine along with some other people who actually do Yoga poses on horses-we're not talking about that either. Of course, that is worth seeing in Cosmo, so feel free to click and see.  

Have a Nice Day!

Article in Cosmo is by Dara Adeeyo.  

Photos source:  
big-sky-people.com / stoweretreats.com / horsebackyoga.wordpress.com / flickr

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/advice/health/yoga-horses

Get Back Into (Or Start) Barefoot Running

Michael Sandler has shattered both of his femurs. Each time, he almost died.

If he can bounce back from these injuries so strongly, any of us can dare to run a quarter mile with our shoes off (that's Michael's recommended distance for first-time barefooters).

Michael Sandler, barefoot running in the forests of Colorado

Michael has recovered strongly from his last injury in May, 2013, and has created a new

Get Back Into Running promotion your should check out.


The Runbare website also has many great resources for barefoot runners!

Sorry for the long absence-been super busy!!!

Blessings!

Barefooting not just for atheists and rebels or the non-conventional

Barefoot living, and Almost Barefoot living is often associated with rebellion or dis-convention.

Being barefoot doesn't necessarily make someone a unique individual in comparison to one who wears shoes any more than owning a BMW makes a person smarter than someone who drives a Chevy.  Nor does living in a studio apartment make you morally superior to a person who owns a five-bedroom house.

But folks in our culture who choose to go barefoot more often do tend to be more unconventional. Of course, unconventional is a relative term.

Take The Barefoot Hippie Girl who owns the associated website with the same name.

She'll tell you she's actually not a hippie, by society's definition. She is Christian, which many folks would say is conventional by Western standards.

Because she combines conventional and unconventional views into one viewpoint, she really stands out, pardon the pun, as an individual, who lives her life Almost Barefoot!

This isn't her.  To see the REAL Barefoot Hippie Girl, you'll have to go to her site!