Fix Your Feet with Awesome Toes!®

Finally, a safe and natural way to reverse years of damage to your feet caused by wearing modern footwear. Awesome Toes!®’ multiuse design allows you to stretch and restructure your feet without invasive surgery, medications, or any awkward footwear. This yoga teacher-developed, podiatrist-approved device delivers immediate relief, as well as lasting changes to your feet, by lengthening your connective tissues.

ILLUSTRATION: The above images show a very common pattern of foot deformation. To see this
in real life, simply compare the feet of young children (under 5) with the feet of their parents.

Many podiatrists offer surgery, anti-inflammatory drugs, or shoe insoles as treatment, but these measures often fail in the long term—if you don’t fix the underlying problem, it’s very likely to return, no matter what treatment option you choose. The harsh reality is that your feet have become deformed, and your footwear and lifestyle are keeping them that way. This needs to change.

What Type of Feet Do You Have?

Above are five common foot shapes, and while there are many more, chances are your foot shape falls into one of these categories.

Is there anything wrong with having a second toe that’s longer than the rest? No. Is there anything wrong with having the same length toes all the way across? Again, no. Your ideal foot is unique to you and there are many different looking feet that are healthy and highly functional.

No matter what your foot shape, everyone wants to avoid overlapping toes, bunions, hammertoes, or toes that are unable to articulate properly. Our feet are not as dexterous as our hands, but they should be able to move freely and dynamically. The purpose of Awesome Toes!® Corrective Spacers is to bring your foot back to its natural shape, with strong, flexible, and useful toes that can help you balance, run, jump, lift, and support your weight to keep your body moving functionally for many years to come.

My Story

– Lucas Rockwood, YOGABODY Founder

I was born with huge arches in my feet, and at age 10, a well-meaning doctor told me that I needed to get arch-supportive shoes and wear insoles for the rest of my life. An arch, as a structure, is one of the strongest in the world. You don’t see arched bridges with supports in the middle of them, but I didn’t know that then, so I followed my doctor’s orders.

Fast forward a few years. My feet were completely deformed and the first of my problems began. I grew up in a family of runners, but by the time I reached my teens, shin splints and tendonitis kept me off the road most days. My tendonitis pain was so bad, I was lucky to get five runs in a month. I must have started and stopped running dozens of times throughout my life, and each time it was the same: no matter what surface I ran on, how short or how long I ran, I’d always end up with some injury.

My deformed feet could not handle the load of the impact as I ran, and my high-tech shoes just made things worse by encouraging poor running posture. This seems obvious today, but it honestly never crossed my mind when I was younger.

Enter yoga.

At age 24, I discovered yoga and became an overnight addict. I loved the way I felt, and I learned to transform my body and posture very quickly. With yoga in my life, I concluded that running was simply not in the cards for me and completely quit to focus on my yoga practice.

Initially, I was terrible at yoga; I was stiff as a board and couldn’t balance at all. A typical yoga class consists of 50 percent standing poses and 50 percent seated poses. On the floor, I was OK, but any one-legged standing pose was impossible. Even the simplest balancing pose was very difficult for me, and I later learned many people experience the same frustration.

After class one day, I was complaining about my balance to a fellow student, and she shared with me a trick she’d been using at home. After years of wearing high heels to work, her feet were even worse than mine, and she’d been trying to fix them.

She said, ‘Wear foam toe spacers to bed!’

She was talking about the foam devices (usually pink with hearts or flowers on the top) used in nail salons to keep your toes separated while your nail polish dries. They are flimsy and look silly, but I was intrigued enough to give it a try.

That night, I got a pair of the foam toe separators and put them on just before bed. Fifteen minutes later, I woke up in excruciating pain and had to take them off. They were really stretching my feet! The next morning, I did 20 minutes of yoga at home, and the difference in my balance was remarkable. Just by using those simple toe spacers the night before, my balance improved and I realized that my toes were the big problem.

Being the nerdy yoga student I am, I started wearing those foam toe spacers every night. The pain was unbearable at first, but my feet were stretching out quickly and I could wear them for one hour, then two hours, and eventually up to four hours at a time.

But there were still issues.

The foam spacers were poorly made, uncomfortable, and wore out every three days. They aren’t designed to be worn for long periods of time, so they fall off when you try to do anything active, and they look downright ridiculous. Last but not least, the foam itself gets squished and they stop being effective.

Despite all these drawbacks, I kept buying them and using them, and the results speak for themselves. Over the course of a couple years, I went from a size 10 to a size 12 shoe, and I’m now nearly a size 13. My balance and posture improved, and eventually I was even able to start running again.

Introducing Awesome Toes!®

My team and I spent nine months in product research and development for Awesome Toes!® We consulted with yoga teachers, podiatrists, sports doctors, and more than 30 students who suffered from squished toes. The result? We created what I believe to be the best corrective toe spacers on the market. Awesome Toes!® are soft, yet durable, comfortable, and can be worn with flip flops, inside wide-toed athletic shoes, and even during yoga practice. I’m happy to report they’re everything I wanted and more.

How to Use Awesome Toes!®

How to Use Awesome Toes!® :

• Good: While walking around the house, before/after work
• Better: During yoga practice and stretching
• Best: While running, walking, or hiking (inside your wide-toed footwear)

NOTE: When you first start using Awesome Toes!®, take it slow. We recommend wearing them for no more than one hour initially, but you’ll be able to work up to 4+ hours of continuous use. Awesome Toes!® is a big stretch for your feet and you should give your body time to ease into it.