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  • If sitting on a cushion on the floor won't work for you, you might want to consider a meditation bench, also called a seiza bench or yoga seat, like the

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2009

  • If sitting on a cushion on the floor won't work for you, you might want to consider a meditation bench, also called a seiza bench or yoga seat, like the

    Random feeds from Syndic8.com 2009

  • When chanting '' [[Noh theater]] '' drama music, the chorus also all sit in '' seiza ''.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • When chanting '' [[Noh theater]] '' drama music, the chorus also all sit in '' seiza ''.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • There are many rules of how to behave in a tea ceremony; perhaps the most difficult being sitting in 'seiza' with your legs tucked beneath your body.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • Nice place, good teachers, and one of the class rituals in that style was, before class, to sit seiza for a few moments, following along with the teacher in a call-and-response recitation of a bit of wisdom from the style's founder.

    Subtle Humours Steve Perry 2010

  • Eriko sank down in the traditional Japanese seiza position, folding back her lower legs and resting her butt on her heels.

    Crusade Nancy Holder 2010

  • So that night, I went into the basement and sat seiza for an hour.

    After a breakup: Handling sentimental clutter | Unclutterer 2010

  • According to the survey results James presented, End-of-Year and Mid-Year gifts are the hardest to comprehend, followed by restraint and modesty, then sitting seiza, a sort-of kneeling position.

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  • Suspects are also permitted to be held incommunicado for about a month without trial, and the police are not above inflicting mild torture, e.g. making you sit in seiza during your interrogation for an American not used to sitting on his legs, this would probably cut off all circulation to the legs.

    What Maliki is doing is betting that Obama will win. Ann Althouse 2008

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