6 exercises to free your hips and meditate comfortably

Improve your posture and sit down to meditate without stiffness

Do you want to meditate without stiffness? With these exercises you can

In the West we have stopped throwing ourselves on the ground to carry out activities on it. Since we were little, we sit on chairs and forget the natural way of sitting: on the floor, with legs crossed. Then, when we want to resume it, our limitations no longer allow us.

Spending so many hours in chairs causes the hip to lose mobility and shortens the posterior muscles. Stress, in turn, creates continuous trunk and neck flexion that reduces our ability to extend and straighten.

As adults, these physical limitations and mental rigidity prevent us or make many tasks difficult. Between them, to meditate: we find it almost impossible to start because we can’t sit down.

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Recover your body awareness

To regain your ease, I propose some exercises of body awareness that will reveal your limitations and help you let go.

Start by feeling. As the Zen masters say, “sit and feel.” It starts there, but we will invert the order: first sit down and discover the parts of your body that seem to be made of plaster, the limitations, the pain. Write it down in a notebook and stick to it. Then sit down in different activities of your daily life: walking, standing, sitting in a chair.Where do you put stress? All this will give you information about your shortenings and limitations and where you put unnecessary stress. Because these activities are what make up our structure.It goes to the ground. Now yes, sit down as you can on the floor to meditate and explore what your breathing is like, in which areas you notice it and in which you don’t; check your back, knees, feet, hands, neck. And again, write it down and memorize it so that you can later feel your progression.Breathe and let yourself fall. In that same position, take a deep breath and let yourself fall. Stay there as if you couldn’t anymore, and feel how your whole body is. From there, take another deep breath.Get your best posture. Then return to the best position