{"id":405,"date":"2009-05-08T11:55:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T11:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/05\/yoga-word-of-the-day-floint.html"},"modified":"2009-05-08T11:55:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T11:55:47","slug":"yoga-word-of-the-day-floint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/05\/yoga-word-of-the-day-floint.html","title":{"rendered":"Yoga Word of the Day: ‘Floint’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"barbiefeet.jpg\"<\/a>A couple of times in yoga class this morning, the teacher told us to “floint” our toes. It took my groggy brain a second to realize she said neither flex nor point, but floint. She explained the hybrid term for basically standing on your toes while your feet are in the air.<\/p>\n

I’ve heard this more commonly referred to as “Barbie feet,” because it’s just like her perma-high heel position (her poor achilles tendons). Another teacher once told me as I was flointing in shouldstand “this is how angels walk.” And I just found a Forrest yoga instructor<\/a> who calls it “sunshine feet.” Sweet. Who knew?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Whatever you call it, my yoga teacher colleague at Beliefnet tells me that it’s an Anusara yoga term and that it helps balance the muscle energy, something-something, and it’s supposed to be good for your feet. Ok, I don’t really understand, but I do know it sounds cool: floint, floint, floint. It also feels nice. Especially when I think I might be imitating angels. <\/p>\n

Here’s a biased, semi-official definition of floint <\/a>(all I could find for you!).<\/p>\n

[Image via: http:\/\/www.imamuseum.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/20\/me-and-barbie\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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