History Main / LevitatingLotusPosition

-->-- '''[=TuMok=]''', ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space''

* In the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/SoulMusic'', the holy man Death visits is portrayed as an Eastern mystic hovering on a cushion. He also appears floating above the crowd when the Band With Rocks In is in their hippie-psychedelia phase.

* In the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Discworld/SoulMusic'', the holy man Death visits is portrayed as an Eastern mystic hovering on a cushion. He also appears floating above the crowd when the Band With Rocks In is in their hippie-psychedelia phase.

* The HermitGuru in the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Discworld/SoulMusic'' is in a levitating lotus (with, strangely, a cushion levitating underneath him). He later appears in the Flower Power pastiche, floating over the crowd. In the book it just says he's sitting under a tree (quite possibly a [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Bodhi tree]]) with his legs crossed.

* [[TheDragon Otani Yoshitsugu]] from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. Granted, he's actually sitting on a palanquin that levitates due to his telepathy. He doesn't do it because he's meditative or zenlike, though; his disease-ridden body is too frail for him to walk or stand.

* [[TheDragon Otani Yoshitsugu]] from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara''. Granted, he's actually sitting on a palanquin that levitates due to his sorcery. He doesn't do it because he's meditative or zenlike, though; his disease-ridden body is too frail for him to walk or stand.

* Ly from ''VideoGame/Rayman2'' does the floating variation of the LotusPosition.

->''"I finally came upon the sage floating cross-legged in the air with no visible means of support, for he had no need of a job."''
-->-- '''[=TuMok=]''', ''[[http://www.tomparisdorm.com/viewstory.php?sid=4084 Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space]]''

* ''Film/TheLastJedi''. Luke Skywalker is shown floating above the rock he's meditating on [[spoiler:when doing AstralProjection. He then collapses onto the rock in exhaustion, then fades into nothingness with his robe blowing away in the wind.]]

* In the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''Sky Pirates!'', there's a scene where the Doctor's companion finds him "sitting in a lotus and... levitating three feet off the deck -- something he swore blind that he could only do occasionally and with concentrated mental effort, but which Benny had lately come to suspect was the result of being so engrossed he simply forgot to stay on the ground." (They're in a pocket universe with weird physics, which may or may not explain it.)

-->-- '''[=TuMok=]''', ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space''

* While practicing buckball in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Snails holds a lotus position while levitating himself on buckets used to catch the actual buckball. He's doing it again in "2, 4, 6, Greaaat", using telekinesis on himself to float while he's blindfolded and doing a (close-approximation-of-because-pony-legs) LotusPosition while teaching the unicorns hoofballers how to empty their minds.

* In the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''Sky Pirates!'', there's a scene where the Doctor's companion finds him "sitting in a lotus and ... levitating three feet off the deck -- something he swore blind that he could only do occasionally and with concentrated mental effort, but which Benny had lately come to suspect was the result of being so engrossed he simply forgot to stay on the ground." (They're in a pocket universe with weird physics, which may or may not explain it.)

* While practicing buckball in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Snips holds a lotus position while levitating himself on buckets used to catch the actual buckball.

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* In a ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' skit, Ren levitates in a lotus position after completing his training... and then the camera zooms out to show him being lifted off by a fan.
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* Kwai Chang Caine does this sometimes while meditating in ''Series/KungFu: The Legend Continues''.

* Phoebe and Paige sometimes did this on ''Series/{{Charmed}}''.

* The member of one of the families of the map that Merlyn kills in ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'' #168 was floating sitting lotus style and meditating when the evil archer approached him.

* Creator/DCComics

* The Franchise/{{DCAU}}'s future Franchise/GreenLantern of the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' time (also in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'') flies around this way.

* Used by ComicBook/DoctorStrange for purposes of study, meditation, and sometimes AstralProjection. (And RuleOfCool, of course.)
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** ComicBook/JeanGrey, being both telepathic and telekinetic, can do the lotus and float. Her adult self, that is. Her teenage self tries it... then gets pins-and-needles after about thirty seconds, to the mild despair of Psylocke, her teacher.
** Her son, Nathan Summers a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Cable}}, prefers to do it ''upside-down''. While casually holding off a grand-scale multinational assault with his telekinesis.

** ComicBook/JeanGrey, being both telepathic and telekinetic, can do the lotus and float.
*** Her adult self, that is. Her teenage self tries it... then gets pins-and-needles after about thirty seconds, to the mild despair of Psylocke, her teacher.
** Her son, Nathan Summers aka ComicBook/{{Cable}}, prefers to do it ''upside-down''. While casually holding off a grand-scale multinational assault with his telekinesis.

** Her son, Nathan Summers aka ComicBook/{{Cable}}, prefers to do it ''upside-down''.

* [[PhysicalGod Lord Vivec]] in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' does it.