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Your movement pattern, is it healthy or not?
When I was young I always put my legs in a cross legged position when sitting by the dining table. My mom, who wanted to raise me to become a decent person, always told me: take your legs down, sit properly, take your legs down! I could not. It was an automatic reflex. I always took them back up to sit cross-legged soon after taking them down, to which I am glad. I have always had flexible hips. Although many things have been hard for me in my asana-practice, lotus position was not. I could easily put my legs in lotus position even when I started practicing yoga. For many people however, lotus position is so hard, they can work years and years on opening their hips. For some people it is literally impossible due to the skeletal structure of their joints, but for others it is purely muscular and still they experience that their hips just do not want to open up.
KayaYogini 