Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein

I love standing in tree pose.

Sometimes I just stand on one leg.

If I'm waiting for an instrument, I just stand on one leg.

Me too.

I do it without thinking.

It's so comfortable to me.

But I have patience.

I'm even teenagers now.

I asked them to stand on one leg and they're wobbling.

That's not good.

So, you know, single leg balance is a really easy thing to practice.

You can brush your teeth standing on one leg and switch, you know, when you switch, I don't know, your top and bottom teeth or whatever.

That's easy to do.

But yeah, I think tree pose is a very easy thing to recommend.

And you can try to do other

things while you're standing on one leg but it's such an easy thing to do if you're waiting in a line you can stand on one leg you can practice you know like bending over and picking something up standing on one leg it's like a little mini single leg deadlift things like that if you have balance issues or inner ear issues or you know you fall frequently like maybe like keep yourself near a wall or something but um so yeah i think it's important to just practice balancing

And agility work is just sort of anything that makes you move your feet kind of quickly.

That's another thing when I recommend it to people who are like, I can't do that.

And you can do less intense forms of agility work.

It's just a matter of helping yourself respond to your external environment so you're less likely to fall.