Hello,

It is true that Lotus pose is a meditative posture. But if you are not comfortable in this pose then you can not even concentrate or meditate right. So first you try with one leg up that is Half Lotus or Ardha Padmasana. This way you change the position of the legs after few seconds or minutes. This pose will help you to increase flexibility of your hip joints. You can practice your meditation in any comfortable sitting posture until then.

Love & best wishes

Yogacharya Tonmoy

www.loknathyoga.com

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It depends on flexibility and varies person to person. If you are comfortable in half lotus then it may take few months to sit in Padmasana comfortably. But don’t worry so much, many Yoga master can not sit in Lotus.

Practice Half Lotus every day for few min and try to increase the time of sitting every week. When you are at home and doing something, try to do that simply sitting on the floor as much time as you can.

Yogacharya Tonmoy

www.loknathyoga.com

I mean you try to develop a sitting habit on the floor. Nowadays, you people don’t have the opportunity to sit on the floor. But in India, we still do many things sitting on the floor in Ashram. Such as: reading books, eating food, even while working with computer. We have small table (1 & ½ feet height) to use study purpose and we need to sit on the floor. When you are at home and doing something, try to do that simply sitting on the floor as much time as you can. That will help you to increase flexibility of hip joints, natural hip opening class. Haha..

Love & blessings

Yogacharya Tonmoy

www.loknathyoga.com

Padmasana (Lotus Pse) is one of the best poses for meditation. It allows the body to be held completely steady for long periods of time. It holds the trunk and head like a pillar with the legs as the firm foundation. As the body is steadied the mind becomes calm. This steadiness and calmness is the fiest step towards real meditation. Padmasana directs the flow of prana from mooladhara chakra in the perineum, to sahasrara chakra in the heaad, heightening the experience of meditation.