Heaven Found: Yamuna Body Rolling

I recently took a Yamuna Body Rolling class that was fantastic to say the least. If you haven’t heard of the Yamuna Body Rolling system you’ve got to check it out. It’s fitness and massage rolled into one!

Yamuna Body Rolling™ is a revolutionary approach to health and fitness using balls designed exclusively for this practice. It consists of a series of routines using 6 to 10-inch balls. Unlike other ball exercises, YBR goes far beyond random movement and stretch. It allows you to work specific muscles in detail, to create suppleness in tight areas and optimize range of motion.

One of my favorite parts of the class was standing on what are called foot wakers and savers. These half spheres actually re-educate feet. They improve gait, alignment, and muscle tone, stimulate reflexology points, strengthen arches, increase range of motion, and stimulate and elongate the muscles of the calves, thighs, hips, and lower back. Working intensively with Foot Savers, you can rehabilitate foot problems and literally work your body all the way to your head.

The idea is to start with the Foot Wakers and work up to the high intensity Foot Savers. After working this ball up and down my feet I felt like a whole new person. I felt more stable on my feet and walked with more ease and that was only after a half hour working with them!

I plan on buying a pair so I can write at my desk while simultaneously getting an awesome foot massage. The Foot Saver Kit comes with a DVD to show you all the wonderful things you can do with these little guys for only $36 bucks.