Method of Simple Yoga

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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Chapter 1