Moonbar Posted December 10, 2008 Hello all,  Can anyone tell me if being seated in the full lotus position improves our practises or not?  Some say that it essential to progress - can anyone explain how & why this may be so?  & are there any preparotory excercises that might help loosen up the knees as im a 95kg 35yr old male & not exactly supple any more  Any of your opinions will be greatly appreciated Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wudangquan Posted December 10, 2008 I don't have any suggestions other than slow conditioning . . . Â Work on half lotus (left over right) for as long as you can tolerate it. Â When you're sitting at home or at your office, try to condition your legs. Â The funny thing is that once you do it, you may realize that you could have done it all along. Â My personal experience (and not my professional opinion as a non-accredited nobody) is that you can meditate in any posture, but I am better able to clean out my energy channels in full lotus, full lotus set my macro cosmic orbit stronger, and the pain that arises and subsides has a specific function as well ... Â .02 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
joeblast Posted December 10, 2008 /tosses in another .02 Â when doing half, be sure to do both left over right and vice versa, dont want to create an imbalance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wudangquan Posted December 10, 2008 Joe, Â I am not sure if we are talking about the same thing . . . Â For conditioning - I think you are right. Â If you're doing your sitting meditation temporarily in half lotus, until you can do the full lotus, I feel like it's better to only do left over right for a male because you want to increase yin. Same with some of the static hand positions. Â I could totally be wrong, but that's just my own understanding at the moment and what I was taught before I was able to fold both of them. Â Actually I haven't thought about it for some time, and haven't done half lotus for some years really, but maybe will run through it a couple of times since it's an interesting question if I ever decide to teach sometime. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
joeblast Posted December 10, 2008 Well, I'm certainly no authority hehe...I was mainly coming from a conditioning standpoint, I'm not quite that sensitive to be able to tell any subtler differences with left or right Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
thelerner Posted December 10, 2008 We had a long thread on doing full lotus. It had many links on the benefits and stretches used. Here it is: http://www.thetaobums.com/index.php?showto...p;hl=full+lotus  I think that will get you there. I read it and was impressed. I still don't do full lotus, but I've been tightening up my half.   Michael Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Moonbar Posted December 10, 2008 (edited) Ok so its a gradual conditioning process thankyou - something for me to work on.  I wasnt aware of the importance of left over right & vice versa so thankyou once again   Oh thanks Michael i just caught your post - Ill dive into that link tomorrow, looks like its got all the info i need.  Cheers. Edited December 10, 2008 by Moonbar Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
seekeroftruth Posted December 10, 2008 Did you say full lotus? Â I know of someone on this forum who loves the full lotus..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
