Pose Breakdown: Revolved Triangle

 
How To Do Revolved Triangle Pose
 
 

 

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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