How to sit in the lotus position

 Lotus position taken as follows. Sit down, pull up the spine, straighten your shoulders and straighten your back. Now bend your right leg, take her and put her foot on the left thigh, and the sole of the right foot should be turned out, that is up. Then take the left leg and place it in the same way on the right. Right knee pressed against the floor, back straight. Many first time does not work. But if a person has mastered the lotus posture, the way he can sit for an unlimited time.

To learn how to sit in the lotus position, it is necessary to strengthen and make more flexible the ankle and knee joints. This will require training. Sit on the floor. Bend the leg and place your right foot on the left reed as high as possible, but so that you feel comfortable with this. Try to keep the knee was pressed against the floor. If still does not work, then gently stretch the leg, trying to reach the knee to the floor. Sit for several minutes, then change legs. This pose is called half lotus.

After some time, your flexibility will increase markedly, then begins to climb the foot as high as possible on the thigh, moving it closer to the groin.

Another exercise is called a butterfly. Sit on the floor, bend your legs and connect their feet. Try to get your knees to the floor. To do this, they help it move up and down, similar to the way a butterfly flaps its wings.

Another exercise: hug hands shin so that the knee was lying on one elbow, and on the other foot. Shake a leg back and forth. Then do the same thing with the other leg.

In general, the ability to sit in the lotus position is already talking about the fact that a person has a good stretch. Therefore, some additional exercises to increase flexibility needed for this position of the joints and ligaments contribute to an overall increase in flexibility.

Sit in a posture as an exercise butterfly. Bring your heel as close to the groin. Then do about it tilts forward, trying to get the person to the floor. Straighten your legs, but connect the foot. Again do about it tilts forward, trying to go down as low as possible to get the person's knees and hands - feet. Spread the legs wide apart and also try to "emerge" as much as possible.

According to the teachings of yoga, padmasana benefits the entire body. It is considered the most suitable for relaxation and calm, as well as the restoration of internal forces, strengthen the back. Lotus posture recommended for meditation, as it contributes to the attainment of the energy balance.