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The pose can be uncomfortable for people not used to sitting on the floor, and attempts to force the legs into position can injure the knees. [ 2 ] Shiva , the meditating ascetic God of Hinduism , Gautama Buddha , the founder of Buddhism , and the Tirthankaras in Jainism have been depicted in the lotus position, especially in statues.
Meditative postures or meditation seats are the body positions or asanas, usually sitting but also sometimes standing or reclining, used to facilitate meditation. Best known in the Buddhist and Hindu traditions are the lotus and kneeling positions; other options include sitting on a chair, with the spine upright.
An āsana (Sanskrit: आसन) is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose, [1] and later extended in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, to any type of position, adding reclining, standing, inverted, twisting, and balancing poses.
Sitting kneel: where the thighs are near horizontal and the buttocks sit back on the heels with the upper body vertical - for example as in Seiza, Virasana, and Vajrasana (yoga) Taking a knee: where the upper body is vertical, one knee is touching the ground while the foot of the other leg is placed on the ground in front of the body
It is also named after various plains-dwelling nomads: in American English Indian style, [6] in many European languages "Turkish style", and in Japanese agura (胡座, The sitting style of non-Han ethnics [a]). In yoga it is known as sukhasana, meaning "easy pose."
In the US population, prevalence of sitting watching television or videos at least 2 h/d was high in 2015-2016 (ranging from 59% to 65%); the estimated prevalence of computer use outside school or work for at least 1 h/d increased from 2001 to 2016 (from 43% to 56% for children, from 53% to 57% among adolescents, and from 29% to 50% for adults ...
However in some urban areas of India people are gradually switching to western style sitting toilets. [ 4 ] The Indian Society of Gastroenterology stated that, in the context of constipation, the squatting defecation posture is more physiological (i.e., natural), ideal and relaxed compared to the sitting posture.
The name comes from the Sanskrit words उत्तान uttāna, "intense stretch"; [2] and आसन; āsana, "posture" or "seat". [3]The pose is a modern one, first seen in the 20th century.