lotus position
noun
: a cross-legged sitting position used in yoga in which each foot is on the thigh of the opposite leg
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Near it, a woman sat in the lotus position, while a man stretched out on his back across from her.
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David Rabe, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2025
Another shot featured the model topless in the lotus position as a Japanese fortune teller looks down at her erotically.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024
Admitted fan Alison Klayman puts to rest that canard in a profile full of interviews and performances centered around the now 47-year-old artist posed in lotus position reflecting on it all.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2019
Spare and ascetic, Durov occasionally posts photos of himself on Instagram wading in an infinity pool, or seated in lotus position atop a rooftop in Dubai—where Telegram finally opened its headquarters in 2017—his bare, chiseled chest on display.
—Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
This is a type of meditation that can take me to a place that lotus position never can.
—Martin Albert For The Wall Street Journal, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
Eyes closed and sitting in the lotus position, the Buddha underwent weeks of painstaking work at Exoticars in the town of McCandless, north of Pittsburgh.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2021
Several people suggested that the class, which ran more than seven hours, and which featured stretches where Kabat-Zinn simply sat in the lotus position, might not need his recitals of poems by Rumi and Emily Dickinson.
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
Christina Bollino and her yoga students sit in a lotus position in a lavender field under a lavender sky.
—Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2021
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David Rabe, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2025
Another shot featured the model topless in the lotus position as a Japanese fortune teller looks down at her erotically.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 23 Dec. 2024
Admitted fan Alison Klayman puts to rest that canard in a profile full of interviews and performances centered around the now 47-year-old artist posed in lotus position reflecting on it all.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2019
Spare and ascetic, Durov occasionally posts photos of himself on Instagram wading in an infinity pool, or seated in lotus position atop a rooftop in Dubai—where Telegram finally opened its headquarters in 2017—his bare, chiseled chest on display.
—Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
This is a type of meditation that can take me to a place that lotus position never can.
—Martin Albert For The Wall Street Journal, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2022
Eyes closed and sitting in the lotus position, the Buddha underwent weeks of painstaking work at Exoticars in the town of McCandless, north of Pittsburgh.
—Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2021
Several people suggested that the class, which ran more than seven hours, and which featured stretches where Kabat-Zinn simply sat in the lotus position, might not need his recitals of poems by Rumi and Emily Dickinson.
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
Christina Bollino and her yoga students sit in a lotus position in a lavender field under a lavender sky.
—Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2021
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