u/Southern_Team9798

Hi everyone, I have been struggling for a long time with trying to get lotus works, which everyone consider this has the most stable meditation position ever. But as I tried, this pose required extreme flexibility, long exercise session, and also consistency since it can badly damage our knees and ankles without preparation. This alone consumes mental energy that is required for our real program, to meditate.

For that reason, I have came up with a new position that can be as stable as lotus, and requires only our natural flex and a few minutes of warm up. That pose is done as follow:

1. Sit down in a comfortable place, or you can have a yoga mat.

2. Put your left toes (non natural-flexible side of your leg) in the knee pit of your right leg (natural-flexible side).

3. Pull your right leg and put it on your left thigh. You can go higher for more stability (this is what 50%-100% half-lotus means).

4. If you cannot pull your right leg up at 100% half-lotus, that means you have only 3-side stability (front, left, right), while your back is not stable. To fix this, you must add physical support to your back by adding a round incline block. Soft and firm enough placed beneath your buttom to make it higher than the your front and support your back.

This pose solves 2 major problems. First, it stabilizes your side and your back, which helps reduce your mental and physical effort, and make meditation more effective. second, everyone can do it without months of preparation, and require only a little warm up or none.

This pose is an extension to half-lotus, which it adds the left toes (non natural-flexible side of your leg) locked in the right knee pit (natural-flexible side), and a physical support without bare physical stretch and effort.

Hi everyone, I've been practicing meditation for about 2 weeks now but my pose isn't really great. I am often distracted by my spine, and how unstable I am.

I have done some searches and found a really stable pose called full-lotus, but I couldn't get it right: my knee is bent, my ankle is hurt. I tried to do some exercises but I just want to get some tips before getting started, so that I wouldn't do it wrong.