 Hello Earth citizens. In this video, I'll show you a 10 minute routine that you can do to improve your balance. All right, so very simple exercises, but they can be very difficult if you're not focused on your body. So the key here is you really have to feel and focus on your body to improve your balance. Are you ready? All right, so first one We're gonna check your balance and see if your balance needs help or if you're pretty good. So place your arms next to like this palms facing down and lift your right leg. And try to hold it for 10 seconds. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 and drop. How did you do? Was it easy? Was it difficult? Just check how you did. Okay, just remember how you did. And then now the same position, but lift your left leg. And let's hold it for 10 seconds. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 and drop. Compare the two legs. Which one was easier? Which one was harder? For me, raising my left one was a little harder. All right, so now we're going to go back to the right leg. But this time you're going to close your eyes and you're going to see that it's much harder to balance with your eyes closed. So same position, arms down, arms straight across, lift your right leg and now close your eyes. And see how long you can hold it. Can you hold it for five seconds? 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 return. Was that much more difficult? Let's try the left leg. Lift your left leg, hold the balance, close your eyes. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 and drop. How did you do? Which one was harder? So you'll notice that closing your eyes was much more difficult than keeping your eyes open. So if that's the case for you, then that means that your mind has a tendency to focus on outside things rather than inside of your body. So we're going to build that awareness inside of our body now. Let's do some hip opening while keeping balance at the same time. So first bring your left hand out like this. So it's very centered and straight. Keep your left hand like this, lift your right leg and right arm here. Let's do some hip hip opening rotations while keeping your balance. If this is very difficult for you, then you can keep your arms out like this. But hold your balance, okay? So whether it's this or like this hold your balance for 10 counts. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Great job. And now switch. Right hand at the center, left arm on your left hip, lift your left leg. If this is hard again, out like this is okay. 10 counts. Are you ready? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and that's good. Which one was harder? For me, I think the right leg was a little bit more difficult. All right, so now we're going to do some exercises to ground your energy into your core and we'll compare how your balance does after your mind is in your body and centered on your body. Bring your feet shoulder-width apart and tap your abdomen like this. Keeping your shoulders nice and relaxed. Tap deeply into your abdomen while bouncing your knees gently like this. If you're stiff and just tap this way, it won't be very effective. Relax your body, gentle bounce, tap your core. And when you have this movement down, close your eyes, bring your awareness into your body and focus on your core where you are tapping. Let's tap. So are you ready? I'll count for you. All you have to do is close your eyes and just feel your body. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 7 8 9 20 1 Your fist and another 50 times. Keep your knees slightly bent. Close your eyes when you've got the movement down. Focus on your core. I will count for you. All you have to do is focus on where you are tapping. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 20. Make sure you are breathing comfortably. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 40 Last 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 50 Great job! Now let's do the balancing exercise again and see how we do it. So first one we're going to do, lifting this way, but closing your eyes. So lift your legs, close your eyes and see how much longer you can hold it this time than last time. Let's see if you can do all 10 seconds. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 and drop. Now the other leg, lift your left leg, close your eyes. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 and drop. How did you do? Did you improve even one second more than last time? All right. Let's do the hip rotation on both sides one more time to check our balance there. Left hand, center, right hand on your hip, right leg up, rotate 10 times. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 and drop, switch. Other leg, other hand, 10 seconds. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3 4 How did you do? Improving your balance takes practice. If you keep repeating this sequence again and again and again and practicing, focusing your awareness into your body, you will improve your balance tremendously. To experience a full one-hour brain education based class, please visit a local body and brain yoga studio near you.