Pose Breakdown: Revolved Triangle
PARIVRTTA TRIKONASANA
Pronounced: par-ee-VRIT-tah tree-cone-AHS-an-ah
parivrtta = revolve
tri = three
kona = angle
asana = pose
How To Do Revolved triangle Pose: Step- by- Step
From Pyramid Pose, with your right leg in front, begin to gaze forward and lengthen spine away so that your torso is parallel with the ground and your hands are underneath your shoulders
Continue to press into the outer edge of your back foot, and continue to press through the ball of your front foot
Draw your back left hip forward and draw your front right hip back, working toward squaring the hips
Keep your left fingertips toward the ground, gaze to the right, and begin to reach your right arm up toward the ceiling, rotating through your spine
Actively reach through both hands
Gaze up toward your top hand and take 5-10 breaths
Benefits
Stretches glutes, outer hips, and lateral part of the leg
Strengthens the core and inner thighs
Opens chest and shoulders
Improves mobility through spine
Variations
If you feel discomfort through the top shoulder, keep the top hand at your hip instead of reaching it upward
If you feel discomfort through the spine or back hip, try placing a block underneath your bottom hand
Depending on how your ankles, knees, hips, and legs feel, you may try shortening your stance or even widening your stance
Also, depending on how your back ankle and knee feel, you may choose to find more external rotation in the back hip by turning your back foot outward more
If you are able to hold this position and breathe deeply, then you may opt to progress the rotation of this pose by taking your bottom hand to the outside of the front foot, so that the hand is by the pinky toe edge of that foot
Try a regressed version of this pose from a Half-Splits Position., with your left knee down on the ground and your right leg extended out in front of you. Lengthen your spine as you would in your standing version of Revolved Triangle, and begin to twist by reaching your right arm upward.
try it in class
If you want to continue learning how to do Revolved Triangle, take these classes:
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