Good Meditation Posture – A New Addition to the Website!

When I was eleven, my mother sent me to charm school, where we learned to apply makeup (I had arrived!), walk with heads held high (books balanced on top), sit in a lady-like way (feet crossed at the ankles) and generally behave like the ladies our mothers hoped we would become.

The term meditation posture can evoke a similar feeling – the idea of a proper but somewhat artificial way of doing things, proscribed by tradition.

In fact, good meditation posture is not about anything artificial at a...