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The best shoe that goes with Esther's method
Dear Esther What is the best shoe that goes with your method. That is can you please recommend some brands because it is so difficult to do it myself. Thanks
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There isn't a brand that is great across the board. I've seen good shoes in the following brands: Fit-Flopp, Chaco, Keen, Naot, various sneaker brands, Reef,...Of course, this depends on your feet as well. Sorry I don't have a clear answer.
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Do you know the model names of the shoes you mentioned that have a kidney shape.

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Very partial list: Naot Matai, all Chaco, there is drift within Keen models so cannot say, still exploring FitFlopp, all Reef (not ideal in the arch support, but pretty good, especially if you don't have much inner arch to begin with.) I haven't seen an ideal shoe yet, but by adding arch supports you can make a lot of them work.
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Dear Esther,

Any other brands you have found since your LAST POST.

tHANKS
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Even though it's been a few years since this post, I'm hoping my question gets noticed. I am wondering about Earth Shoes, since they seem to put the emphasis on heel walking with smaller heel, and more height in the front of the shoe. Seems like glide walking would be great with those.  Any opinion on them?  Thank you!

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Hi Doede,

Esther mentioned the Earth shoe "negative heel" on the forum here:

http://gokhalemethod.com/forums/products-implements-stuff-%E2%80%93-navigating-material-world-through-lens-gokhale-method/shoes/573

There may be more info on Earth Shoes in the "shoes" forum. If I unearth anything further I'll get back to you.

Thank you for the question! 

Best,  Margaret Haight

 

 

 

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Doede,

Here Esther discusses Earth shoes more fully:

http://gokhalemethod.com/forums/products-implements-stuff-%E2%80%93-navigating-material-world-through-lens-gokhale-method/shoes/475

Best,  Margaret Haight

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