- 1). Place the yoga pad to one end of your mat.
- 2). Come down on your pad with only your buttocks resting on its surface and your legs hanging off and extending them completely straight out in front of you. Make sure that you lengthen through the spine from your neck down to your tailbone and let your arms rest comfortably at your sides.
- 3). Draw your right foot into you, bending your right leg at the knee, and position it on top of your left thigh so the heel of your right foot is pointing to your waistline. Adjust this foot into you by taking hold of your right ankle and lightly pulling it until it is snug to your belly.
- 4). Draw your left foot into you, much like you just did with your right, by bending your left leg at the knee and positioning your left foot on top of your right thigh until the heel of this foot is also pointing to your waistline. Again, adjust the foot into you until this heel is snug to your belly.
- 5). Press both of your feet into your groins—left foot into right groin and right foot into left groin—as you raise your sternum. This should bring your knees, if they aren’t already, into contact with the floor and your body into proper position. The pad on which you sit has elevated your hips, making it easier and more comfortable for your body to come fully into the pose and allowing your knees to come into better alignment for lotus.
- 6). Rest your hands on your knees and hold this pose. The pad should also allow you to maintain lotus for longer periods of time, another advantage of using this sort of prop.
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