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An excellent example:
"Barefoot Park" at the Victory Gate in Munich

A barefoot park for open air events

takes little effort for few people and makes thousands enjoy healthy natural walking!

Here I document my experience in presenting barefoot paths and foot gymnastic games on shool and open-air festivals in southern Germany.

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The principle:

A few High School students helped me to collect natural materials like:

moss and grass; needles, leaves, cones and bark of trees;

straw was fetched at a farm, sand and gravel and stones were from the communal building yard.

The materials were placed on fleece webs (1.5 meters broad). This ensures easy removal after the end of the event

Here the moss is extended --

-- and it feels really good!!!

The fir cones are spread out.

This is easily done with the "hands on the legs"!

Pieces of bark were placed with the rough side upwards.

But later on about thousand feet broke the bark into little pieces :-(

Foot gymnastics

Ideal supplements for the barefoot path are a balancing beam or rope --

and some foot games:

The finished barefoot parks:

What you finally end up with, depends on the number of helpers and the place available.

You can be successful with:

a barefoot park in the center of a city festival

Some more pictures of people who really enjoyed it!