How you can be seated in a comfortable cross-legged position
This
text describes how you can combine natural positions of your legs, hips and
backbone, small muscular effort and rest to be seated in a beneficial position.
You can also
use the method to be seated in a beneficial position that’s not cross-legged. The text begins with a description of
a rudimentary position of being seated upright on a rug or mat with both legs
extended straight forward. If your legs, hips or backbone are stiff or injured
you might be able to sit comfortably like this. When you use the method of
breathing that’s described you can experience many of the benefits of a
cross-legged position without needing to be seated cross-legged.
1 Chapter 1 is a
complete description of the method
of simple yoga. This chapter
contains enough information for you to begin and progress in simple yoga
without personal help from an instructor. All of the following chapters provide
detailed information about the method.
2 Detailed description
of a beginner’s cross-legged position
3 Experiencing energy, effort, tiring and rest in the muscles that
support your body upright while you remain seated still to benefit from
the position of your body
4 Progress in the development of a
cross-legged position and how to lift your ankle with your hands to
support it on the upper side of your opposite leg
5 Main concerns of simple yoga
6 Information that can
help you to be seated in a beneficial position on a chair
7 How to support a kneeling position
8 Why you need to curve
or lean your position forward slightly and how to verify that the position of your backbone is beneficial
9 Positions, muscular effort and rest of your shoulders, arms, hands and headg
10 A friend can help to verify some features of your
position of yoga
11 The integrating potential of a
beneficial position of your body
12 Diagrams of the architecture of
your legs, hips and backbone when they’re gathered in four progressively more
integrated positions
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