Your belly button and balance

What does your belly button have to do with your balance and what in the heck is belly button training???

One definition of balance is keeping your belly button over your feet whether you're walking or standing still (Dr. Debra Rose, Director Center for Successful Aging, Creator of FallProof).   This is because your belly button is your center of gravity and your feet are your base of support.  Belly button training is learning to keep your belly button over your feet at all times.

Balance, like aging, is different for each of us because we have all lived different lives, made different choices and face different challenges.  Also, we all have different belly buttons!

In my Brains and Balance training classes, I teach belly button training to increase people's awareness of their center of gravity and how to move in such a way to keep their belly button over their feet.  I assign evidence-based Stepping On balance training drills for homework.

The only way to improve your balance is to continuously challenge yourself.  Since everyone starts with different abilities and challenges, there are modification and progressions that everyone needs to know when trying to improve their balance.

Don't wait for an accident, enroll today so you can learn how to keep your belly button over your feet!!!