The one thing NOT to do in the Lotus pose

The Lotus pose is one of the poses most identified with yoga.
Some practitioners perform it rather easily, but for most, the external rotation range in the hip joint is not sufficient to get into the pose.
A risky chain reaction starts occurring in the knee when the hip ceases to rotate, and it is the most important thing to be aware of when practicing or teaching this pose in a safe way.
Watch the video to see what it is.
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[@rontaylor5268]

THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT INFORMATION! In 2009 I took a yoga teachers training program. On the last day of the course, the instructor forced my knee and hip in the manner described in your video. My right medial meniscus "popped" out of position with a loud noise, heard by all 12 people in the class. I could see a lump under the skin, and when I straightened my leg the lump slid back into place. Strangely enough this did not hurt...much. Fast forward to 2021, I no longer practice yoga, and I am in the queue for a knee replacement.

[@Summer-lq6xh]

I’m so sorry to hear this :( I would be so upset with “instructor” who did that. I hope you heal quickly and can get your life back.

[@antman8060]

THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH FOR Sharing i will Be Careful Extra Because of YOU💯✊🏿🙌🏿✊🏿

[@yaasikasa17]

So you had a yoga injury from a yoga instructor that made you give up yoga. When the student is ready , the real instructor will appear.

[@blissofkundaliniyoga]

Fully agree, tremendously important information

[@micahrollins8353]

That hurts to read

[@adamdolson2525]

these anatomic representations of the yoga poses are next level knowledge! very important for people not to hurt themselves as well. thanks for making this video.

[@Tio_Nel]

As a meditator who aspires to get to this posture one day, I've never been explained on this physiology aspect. This video was great, thanks a lot!!!

[@samday6621]

I was practicing half lotus for a while but learned I have a torn meniscus (from snowboarding and old age). Yoga has strengthened my knee and I haven’t had surgery. I have stopped doing half lotus and just try to increase mobility carefully in poses like pigeon.

[@davidbardes8233]

Thank you for the video. Please understand that the lotus pose is not appropriate for all yogis. If the hips and femur don't have the necessary rotation and no amount of stretching, even appropriate stretching, will change the nature of the yogis skeleton. Instructors, it is important to understand this about your students!

[@helvete_ingres4717]

but how can you tell whether or not it's a joint issue if your hip muscles are tight? i started out convinced lotus is impossible for me yet after just a few months of stretching I've been able to do half-lotus (with some discomfort at the ankle)

[@davidbardes8233]

My litmus test is if I couldn't do it at 8 years old, I won't be able to get there now. The same goes for Virasana (hero's pose) and Supta Virasana (reclined hero's pose) which were never available for me, and looking at someone who can attain those postures is cringy for me. Also if you are not feeling a stretch but a compression, then your skeleton has reached its limit. I am glad that you were able to make such progress in your practice!

[@helvete_ingres4717]

@@davidbardes8233 Thanks for your comment! your litmus test isn't too useful for me personally as I can't remember how I could or could not sit at 8, unfortunately. I have heard that an actual skeletal or anatomical issue will show up as a distinctly sharp pain (literally of bones scraping together) in practice, haven't experienced that yet. I'm not sure if that's what you mean by 'compression'. I checked out the poses you mentioned, based on images I predicted I could do them easily, and I could. In fact my body often naturally and comfortably goes into that reclining position when I come out of a backbend. It looks like external hip rotation but I felt a stretch in the quads more so than the hips or glutes - do you correlate those poses with lotus? You said you can't do those but it isn't clear to me from your comment about people anatomically capable of entering lotus pose whether you count yourself in that category (which might suggest all of these asanas are anatomically related)

[@davidbardes8233]

@@helvete_ingres4717 Thank you for getting back to me. My first experience with skeletal variability and the limitations of my internal and external hip rotation was with my participation in Tae Kwon Do. I found my limits and my flexibility progress stalled after about two years. As I continued to practice, more and more stress was transferred to the small of my back as the limits of my hip rotation were reached. Those with more generous hips continued to move to more advanced techniques and higher kicks. A KZbin yoga instructor and acupuncturist shares her experiences with her skeletal limitations here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oneWkHiLpaqbpsU&pp=ygUcc2tlbGV0YWwgdmFyaWFiaWxpdHkgaW4geW9nYQ%3D%3D

[@thekarmafarmer608]

I`ve tried to get into padmasana for nearly 40 years and never managed. I have genetically tight ligaments and tendons unfortunately. As a result I suffer very bad lower back pain from the gradual tightening as I get older. I would dearly love to get into this posture and felt great relief just watching the young lady performing the stretching posture at 2:24 here in this video. Thank you for posting this

[@MuscleandMotion]

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[@bertlindsay]

The pigeon pose. Google it

[@Mikasks]

I was able to do this too easily for my first time, and had to check if I was actually doing it correctly. I guess I just had the correct bone structure for it.

[@jakkritphanomchit]

Or you've never done sports and therefore don't have tense muscles around the hip joint

[@artit91]

@@jakkritphanomchiteveryone can do in my family, it is genetics

[@windogendoors7566]

@@jakkritphanomchit or he can have Femoral retroversion

[@sweetchinmusic3]

Namaste 🙏🏼 I am grateful that the ancient wisdom of India and Hinduism (yoga and meditation) is appreciated and adapted all over the world now..

[@helenjohnson7583]

Even Pigeon pose stresses the hip and knee too much. Yoga postures aren’t necessarily a good or perfect thing. They are invented by people. Be smart about what you expect of your body!

[@Summer-lq6xh]

Correct! I pushed myself too hard in a pigeon pose after not doing yoga in awhile and I hurt my hip. Worst pain I’ve ever had and couldn’t walk for a month.

[@mj4ever001]

Yeah, but common sense, should always be used, if a pose is too difficult and too painful, maybe you’re body just can’t bend that way, but usually that’s for a very limited number of poses, the rest can be achieved with practice.

[@Sentientheart]

That is your western assumption. Actually yoga asanas were originally given to yogic brahmin while in deep meditation by God for creating a body able to meditate for long hours. Not invented by people. It's a gift for spiritual practice.

[@drunkmuze]

omg your videos is incredibly good and easy to understand, thank you for that

[@micahbodha6129]

Best explanation ive ever seen. Wish id saw it before my knee popped🙄

[@changemaker4743]

In anicent india this is called as padhmasana

[@gypseali]

I have managed to get into padmasana a few times but sometimes it hurts, great video

[@teardrop720]

Wow, best video on padmasana I have seen to date

[@user-yj9hs9cu5h]

This video explains double lotus well. The info revealed is helpful. Everyone who practices double lotus shall read this.

[@harshkataria5543]

Before trying padmasana you should be able to perform "baddha konasana" fully. It will open any tightness in hip joints. In yoga, it is strictly recommended to be fully trained for baddha konasana before padmasana. 🙂

[@pr455]

I could do this easily when I was younger. I tried recently and hurt my knee.

[@windogendoors7566]

I have Femoral retroversion so this is easy for me to do.

[@Cantetinza17]

I used to be able to do this and now I can't. Its bizarre.

[@eessa1727]

Great information❤

[@youtubecreators.579]

it's right if your muscles, tendor and ligament can not maximum its relax. But this pose can give seater had more base, sit bone and femur bone are combine to extend space touch ground. yes, your knee is not build for action like this, but this state is not an action, it's a lock not a movement.

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

Nice job!

[@LECityLECLEC]

Such a cool video ty!😊

[@helygg8892]

Seeing the muscles in the pelvis in the first few seconds made me instantly realize what im doing wrong lol

[@joejoe-lb6bw]

Westerners are not really used to certain postures, such as 'indian' squat or inverted asanas that put flexion on the neck. Experts have been warning about this for decades. Note: this does not negate yogic stuff, just be smart about it. Since history is always hard to pin down, for all we know the Buddha could have been sitting normally on an Aeron Chair (joke).

[@skinwalker_]

That explains it. Thank you.

[@jom.a.md.s.h.2206]

Many thanks, 🙏🙏🙏

[@omnigeddon]

I also make sure your diet has potassium , K2 and just hydrate.. and the move should be alot faster and safer to hit

[@mehmetgurdal]

I thought I was as rigid as a log. I can do this easily.

[@tanaminogarashi]

Thank you

[@elenajehrlich3796]

Thanks!

[@kalpanaa5605]

I think Padmasana has to do more with hip Movement Do first do a complete ho opening routine and then do the Padmasana

[@shahyfayoumi4602]

What is the difference between the yellow and red ?!

[@arnoldfuture]

Thanks! 👏🏾🇧🇷

[@devindran2021]

Used to do when i was a skinny person decades ago. 😔😔😔

[@infiad1275]

👍

[@J_heterodox]

INCREDIBLE VIDEO

[@MuscleandMotion]

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[@Awareness_With_Dennis]

Bump up this video in algorithm

[@angeloselarja]

In the pigeon pose video you show that the tibia internally rotates whereas in the lotus pose it rotates externally. Aren't the two poses the same thing basically? Why the difference in rotation? 🤔

[@raihantvnetwork8507]

Everyone knows that you need to be flaxible to do padma asana & to be flaxible one have to do flaxibility excersise. You should have told us which are the flaxibility excersies.

[@marshovision]

Haven't tried this in years (decades) used to be able to do this easily, can't get anywhere near now.

[@Jajy6]

Can you show what happens to your tight muscles when you perform myofascia release please? 💪

[@MuscleandMotion]

We already did:) Check out our Posture or Strength Training apps, there are lots of myofascia release exercises. www.muscleandmotion.com/free-trials/

[@snkarbhr]

If perform since childhood then lotus position is easy 😇.

[@LibertyScott-x6i]

Stopped doing yoga last summer and now have to start over with my lotus pose. Ugh.

[@amandam4148]

I pushed the knee down, been in pain four months now 😥 will I ever recover? I'm the first to say 'what we do, we do to ourselves'!! any advice? 🙏

[@sjakals8936]

Go get it checked at a chiropractor

[@minerxb4]

The lotus pose is easy for me

[@wolfgang4368x]

Gut!

[@Thefirstoexist]

I can do it withour my hands and i never practiced

[@gniewomircioek6845]

Now I know!

[@arwinbaladevan1718]

Om namah shivaya

[@truesight91]

I think the double cross leg is over-rated and new age spiritual fluff, it won't make you meditate better I've been perfectly fine all my life with half pose as have many great masters.

[@gearsghoul4500]

self induced heel hook lmao

[@iftikaralam1oOne]

I don't want to break my legs 🗿

[@deemc7756]

😮

[@Letslearntogetheruzh7]

1:16

[@Krishways55]

🧘‍♂️

[@MisterMcoashing]

I don't use it and never look for use it

[@wolfgang4368x]

I can't.

[@wasawaswasawas4277]

This kind of overstretching sports are dangerous. Only do walking and aerobic. It's a lot safer

[@mj4ever001]

Everything is life is dangerous if you’re a fool and don’t use your head, Yoga needs no introduction in terms of its benefits, you just need to practice properly and use your head

[@TSÆHILÆMBAL]

Ерунда это всё!