🧘

Person in Lotus Position Emoji 🧘

Cross-legged, eyes closed, hands resting on the knees — the pose is straight out of a yoga class. It's shorthand for meditation, calm, and finding inner peace, dropped whenever someone needs to signal they're taking a breath, staying zen, or just really needs a minute.

What 🧘 means

A person drawn with no particular gender, seen head to toe, sitting in a lotus posture with closed eyes, a meditative face and an unmistakably calm mood.

The 🧘 Person in Lotus Position emoji refers to a person either meditating or beginning a session of yoga irrespective of gender and sex. This emoji can also signify a state of mental peace, introspection, and relaxation.

It is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you're posting about your daily yoga or meditation routine, you can use 🧘 in the post caption or even within that tweet. This emoji can also be used while posting a picture you doing a yoga pose or even while posting a yogic video as a tutorial.
You can also use 🧘 while reposting or retweeting an inspiring video or picture about yoga, meditation, and/or inner peace.
If you're trying to respond with a calm composure or a peaceful expression in any conversation, use 🧘. For example, if you're bestie texted you about something trivial that he/she is super stressed out about, you can give all the advice you want and tag 🧘 , as a way of saying "It'll all work out, chill out 🧘".
If you're sharing posts related to meditation and yoga, use 🧘. It can be the benefits of meditation, or 'how to keep a yoga routine', or yoga for beginners, any such informative content related to these themes.
If you love yoga, or you're a really relaxed human or you're in love with the inner peace that you've found, you can use 🧘 in your social media profile name.

Other Names

🧘 Gender-Neutral Yogi
🧘 Practicing Yoga
🧘 Meditation
🧘 Relaxation
🧘 Pilates
🧘 Meditative Exercise
🧘 Lotus-Position Discipline
🧘 Physical Education
🧘 Yoga Pose
🧘 Padmasana

🧘 in real conversations

What does 🧘 mean from a girl?

Staying calm, centered, or actively meditating — the go-to emoji for 'not letting this stress me out.' 'Exam tomorrow 🧘' is a deliberate attempt at zen, not necessarily actual serenity in the moment.

What does 🧘 mean in texting?

Meditation, mindfulness, or a pointed reminder to breathe. It shows up sincerely, from people who genuinely meditate, and jokingly, sent to a friend who's clearly spiraling: '🧘 it's just a text message.'

Does 🧘 always mean literal meditation?

Not always — plenty of use is just shorthand for staying calm under pressure, no cushion or incense required. Sent to someone mid-meltdown, it means 'chill out' more than 'go meditate right now.'

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-resting
Codepoints: U+1F9D8
Emoji version: Emoji 5.0
Shortcodes: :lotus_position: GitHub:person_in_lotus_position: Slack · Discord
Keywords: cross, legged, legs, lotus, meditation, peace, person, position, relax, serenity, yoga, yogi, zen

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.