This past weekend I had the great honor of co-leading a retreat with my long-time friend and meditation teacher, Sharon Salzberg. The retreat group was mixed, ranging from those with advanced yoga asana practices and minor seated practices to strictly meditators who had dabbled in yoga before but did not make it regularly to the mat.
Several in the room had long abandoned their meditation cushions in favor of sitting in a chair to avoid the pain that flared up after only 5 minutes of sitting.
Worse yet, some reported that they had either sat through the pain or cut their practices short to get out of the discomfort in the past.
Has meditation become an occupational hazard of your spiritual practice much like sitting at a desk or commuting long hours?
Watch the video below to find out if you have been making any of the 5 most common alignment mistakes in your meditation posture! Then learn (through yoga alignment) how to sit in ways that make your seated practice more comfortable and last longer.
As always, please leave a comment at the bottom of the blog. I would love, love, love to hear how much more mileage you get on your cushion after watching this!
Want to read more on the topic of meditation and yoga? See my article written for Elephant Journal at the Press Page.
And join us for the month of June over at the 30 Day Yoga Challenge on Facebook, where we will be meditating for 10 minutes minimum a day with a group of 2000 other yogis!