Doing a handstand for the first time: a challenge for adults. Our author needed courage, quite a lot of muscle tension and above all rest – and was rewarded. An instruction.
Even the writer Hermann Hesse knew that there is magic in every beginning that helps us to live. Unfortunately, with age, there are fewer opportunities to experience that euphoric feeling for the first time. I had to turn my world upside down for this. Because I learned how to do a handstand. Now that may sound unspectacular, but it isn’t. A handstand is a highly complex movement that requires a lot of body control. When done correctly, a handstand improves balance, posture, strength in the arms, shoulders, and core—in other words, it strengthens all sorts of otherwise neglected areas of the body.