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Do I Need to Be Barefoot When I Sungaze?Posted By Lucie (Deventer, Holland) on 05/23/2015
Thank you for this wonderful resource you've created.
I read your page about sun gazing - how to do it.
One thing that I am still uncertain about is whether one has to be barefoot outdoors (toching the earth) while doing the 9 months of incremental gazing. The instructions for the follow up period are clear.
NOTE: This is what I remember reading on some other sites in the past - I think from Hira Ratan Manek, the man who revived the practice in recent decades. This was also the main reason I never did it because I live in a climate where it is too cold to stand or walk outside berefoot in the colder months (that's 3/4 of the year, at least, in Holland :-). It is also considerably wet and can't see the sunrise every day for 9 nine months straight. So I think the only way to benefit from that practice for lifetime is to move to a tropical climate - or perhaps build an indoor space of some sort for daily barefoot walking with one open wall allowing sunlight to shine on the body. I don't know what type of material would block the wind while allowing full spectrum of sunlight...and this of course would be beneficial only of the sungazing worked even on cloudy days? Is this the case?
My other question is: does the 9 month period of sungazing have to be done standing still or can one walk while facing the sun?
Thanks for any guidance you could offer on these points!
Greetings from Holland,
Lucie
Replied by Brighid (Valencia) on 11/27/2015
Your message caught my attention, I hope you don't mind if I say what occured to me. I´m still doing research and haven´t started sungazing yet but I somehow feel that with your question about walking or staying still while sungazing, that you are the person who knows the answer. I think, and of course I might be wrong, that whatever feels most natural to you, whatever you feel like doing while sungazing, be it singing, tai chi, walking, dancing, sitting in the lotus position...will probably be the right way for you to sungaze.
Perhaps its like listening to music. it also energises us and some of us like to listen while lying down best, and others simply have to move their bodies while listening and dance. others never dance but they still recieve the benefit of the music.
You mentioned some rather complicated ways of getting sun and staying warm. if its cold, I wouldnt go barefoot for the sake of it. why not just in the summer, or whenever you can and feel like it?
I go barefoot all the time, and always have done. id never thought about it so intrinsically before but it is true, it is good. it is simply very very good. people always tell me "put on some shoes! " "you´ll catch a cold! " but I love it and it dosent bother me in the slightest if people give me funny looks for being barefoot.
Lots of love, Brige
