A basic seated yoga posture often used in the practice of meditation and yogic breathing exercises with marvelous benefits.
Cross legged chair pose.
Stretches the knees strengthens the back calms the mind and opens the hips.
You will need good focus to maintain this pose which can help clear your mind.
It requires flexibility in the back thighs back of the pelvis and inner thighs as well as external rotation of the hip joints.
The subtleties of this may elude the beginner but cross legged poses are still of the utmost importance because they help to open the hips and help correct tensional patterns developed from sitting in chairs driving and walking.
You are stretching your outer hips and gluteal muscles while using the hamstrings quadriceps and gluteus maximus.
Since the pose requires extreme focus it is an effective tool to clear the mind.
As a variation of the chair pose one legged chair pose helps improve balance and strength while opening the hips and strengthening the legs.
Sitting is a basic human action and resting position the body weight is supported primarily by the buttocks in contact with the ground or a horizontal object such as a chair seat the torso is more or less upright.
Sitting cross legged is an important part of yoga practice and is commonly used for breathing and meditation practices.
What areas do i need to work on to be able to sit in simple cross legged position while maintaining an erect spine.
It is considered to be an effective stretch to open the quadriceps gluteus maximus and hamstrings.