GAIA Earthing Sandals - all natural with K1 copper plug

What is Earthing you ask? Earthing is the wellness practice of harmonizing your biorhythms and energies to those of the Earth in order to improve your health, longevity, and consciousness. The primary way to practice Earthing is through grounding - establishing a conductive connection between yourself and the Earth - which equalizes your electric potential to the Earth by replenishing your body with free electrons. Free electrons are needed for many reasons, one of the most important being to combat excessive free radical activity. More than just replenishing your bodies store of free electrons, grounding also brings you into resonance with the natural frequencies of the Earth (Schumann resonances, lunar and solar tellurics, geomagnetically induced tellurics) which optimizes all biologic functions. There also appears to be a link between longevity and staying grounded to the Earth, as the longest lived animals (overall or in their class) on Earth are the ones grounded 24/7 like whales, turtles, sharks, and honorary mention to the naked mole rat - who live 10x longer than normal rats (30 yrs vs 3 yrs).

A Special Message from Stefan Burns: When I first heard about the health practice of earthing and the importance of grounding your body, and as I researched into the physics of electromagnetism, I quickly began searching for earthing shoes that were of a high-quality, actually provided a grounding effect, and were true to human biology. What do I mean by true to human biology? Well I wanted a minimalist shoe meaning it had a thin sole, zero heel drop, and a wide toe box, but I also wanted an earthing shoe that didn’t use rubber. See the entire bottom of the foot is highly conductive due to the huge density of nerve endings there. Grounding the body through the K1 meridian point using a copper plug is good, but if only using a K1 copper plug paired with a rubber sole then 99% of the rest of the foot cannot contribute to the harmonizing flow of energy between the Earth and yourself. No matter how you spin it, there is no way around physics. Instead using a thick durable piece of leather for the sole along with the K1 copper plug is the perfect solution! Now the entire foot can engage in the grounding effect as leather still retains conductivity unlike rubber, and as a bonus it subtly molds to your unique foot shape over time slowly working as a “corrective” to your gait and posture if you wear them consistently.

This journey took more than five years, first starting as a consumer before realizing that if I wanted this attention to detail and understanding of physics combined together in an earthing shoe, I’d have to make them myself. These sandals are handmade in Turkey, and I went there twice in 2024 to visit the factory, meet the workers, see the craftsmanship and how each shoe/boot/sandal is made, and to implement the attention-to-detail optimizations that created these GAIA Earthing Sandals. After my first visit we already had a design nailed down for the shoes and boots, but the sandals were an elusive idea. To create a minimalist sandal that’s comfortable and stylish is harder than it may seem! Then while in Greece right before I planned to return to Turkey I spoke with a girl there who was wearing sandals with the same strap design. I trusted her recommendation, and after personally testing it out, we switched the upper straps to elastic to improve the design and fit even further!

Now as a manufacturer of the GAIA Earthing Sandals I am proud to see my vision realized, and not just for myself but for all the world. Being disconnected from Earth’s natural energy fields is very detrimental to our health, wellness, and spirit, and while I will always say that being barefoot is best, now you can also be grounded during all those other moments where it’s most practical or necessary to wear footwear. God bless and I know you’ll love them!