Ground.

Duration

3–10 minutes

Position

Standing, barefoot or in thin-soled shoes

1. Stand quietly. Let weight settle without arranging it.
2. Notice where each foot meets the ground. Whole sole, edges, ball, heel, big toe.
3. Notice the big toe specifically. Does weight pass through it, or around it?
4. Shift weight slowly — side to side, forward and back — and keep noticing.
5. Notice what changes elsewhere when contact changes. Breath. Spine. Jaw. Gaze.

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This is not foot strengthening. It is not arch correction. It is not a protocol.

A practice is mature when it reliably produces observations — not when it explains itself. Ground exists to generate field notes about contact, weight transfer, and what changes elsewhere when contact changes. Do it. Notice. Write down what you noticed.

If something shifted — in gait, breath, standing, sleep, anywhere — write it down before it fades.

Open Field Notes →

No next step yet. Whether Walk, Stand, or Breathe emerges from this practice will be decided by what observations it actually generates — not by the architecture.