So to get to the big question if our products are for you, 

Let us first ask you some questions. 

What's important to you?

Do you prioritize your health?

What's the cost of NOT having healthy feet?

Would you rather be stronger or weaker?

Would you rather be mobile or immobile?

Would you rather have natural posture or artificial posture?

Would you rather be balanced or imbalanced?

Would you rather be free or confined?

Would you rather be aligned or misaligned?

Would you like bunions with that?

If you have had pain and bad feet in the past, it’s not your fault. For decades, we have been misguided to believe that we need narrow, stiff, cushioned, and heel elevated footwear in order to walk. In truth, our beautiful feet have been perfectly engineered since the dawn of time to have sensory receptors to feel the earth and have more than enough strength to walk and explore for miles. 

Let’s be honest, modern comforts have removed the need for us to be as mobile and active as our ancestors were. We have conditioned our bodies to become more sedentary and have disconnected from nature. In life, challenges will stimulate growth. The same applies to muscles as our body requires resistance training and weight bearing movements in order to develop.

While there are moments in the rehab process when we do need to be protective during acute situations, we need to distinguish between babying and growing. Imagine wearing an arm sling for your entire life. The muscles in our arm would never get stronger as we would take away their ability to perform simple everyday tasks such as pushing a door open or lifting up a grocery bag. By intentionally selecting traditional shoes as our everyday footwear, we are choosing to carry out the same act of deprivation for our toes and feet.

Many modern shoes add an incline to the heel so that the heel and toes are not on the same plane. This changes your natural rate of loading and where force is distributed when your foot makes contact. Mainstream marketing advertises this as helping you propel forward faster. In reality, this messes with your natural upright posture. Whether having a neutral arch, high arch or flat arch, standing for an extended period of time on any incline will shorten the posterior muscles leading to tightness in the calves, hamstrings, and low back.

A lot of our clients have vocalized to us that they cannot handle walking barefoot at home due to years of conditioning their feet to heel-elevated, toe-compressing shoe prisons inside and outside of their homes. Years of deprivation of free sensory feedback and feet strengthening opportunities have led our clients to where they are today. Ultimately, this gave us the idea of how we can find middle ground for our clients who cannot go from 0 to 100 overnight. We understand our ancestors from long ago used to be barefoot while hunting and gathering on dirt and grass environments. We also understand that modern day man-made surfaces such as concrete can cause harmful, repetitive stress impact on our joints. We believe our sandals can serve as TRANSITION slides for people who cannot handle walking fully barefoot. By placing our feet in a zero-drop plane with ample toe box space on a flexible, natural rubber outsole, we believe people with weak feet can gradually strengthen their feet over time to be able to restore and return to barefoot walking as nature intended like we did when we were young children.

Like plants needing light, we need to return to nature. Whether stairs, hills, valleys or meadows, the human body wants to explore and overcome obstacles that it faces to see what it is capable of achieving. Our ability to walk often goes unappreciated. Not only do we take it for granted as an underutilized form of exercise, but also as an opportunity to be outdoors. To be outdoors to examine our own thoughts for clarity. To be outdoors to carry out conversations and social interactions with the people we care about. Walking correctly with healthy aligned feet contributes greatly to physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health.