How To Do The Lotus Pose Video

The Lotus Pose is the ultimate move to open your hips. Learn how to do the Lotus Pose in this yoga video clip.

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Come into seated pose
Bring heel to hip bone
Face foot to the sky
Root tailbone down
Lengthen your spine

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Namaste. My name is Cindy Mastry, and in this pose I'm going to be demonstrating the lotus pose. The lotus pose is one of three poses that are listed in Patanjali's yoga sutras, the bible of yoga, so to speak. They're all seated poses because the poses we're originally just for meditation. So to come into lotus pose, which is the premier meditation pose, you have to have very open hips. So if your hips are not open as much, you would like--you would need to be able to just come into easy seated position or lining your heels up in this manner. So we're going to start in seated dandasana, lengthening up through the spine and I'm pressing down through my thighs and pressing down through my calves. I'm going to take my heel and bring it in to my hip bone. You want your feet rotated up to the sky. Then, as long as your hips are open, you may just want to stay right here. This maybe your pose, but if you have open hips, you can bring your other heel right into your hip bone, good, rotating your foot up to the sky, rooting your tailbone down and lengthening up to through the crown of the head. So this is lotus pose. It's used for meditation. It's one of the three poses in Patanjali's yoga sutras. You need to honor your body and make sure that this pose is okay for your hips and knees, and if not, then you should modify the pose.

How to Do the Lotus Pose Video

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