Revolved Triangle pose integrates balance, flexibility, and strength while simultaneously aiding digestion from twisting and moving the abdominal organs. The complexity of the pose is eased by first grounding the legs in Ardha Parsvottanasana. Your hands can press into the wall at shoulder height or press into High Blocks set under your shoulders.
Practice the Yoga Actions below before moving on to Parivrtta Trikonasana.
Yoga Action (Annamaya Kosha):
1. In the front body, at the outer edges of the public bone, broaden the psoas muscles. Notice how they release back toward the sacrum while lengthening up along either side of the lumbar spine. This action lengthens and supports the lumbar spine from collapsing into the front body.
2. In the back body, from the outer edges of the sacrum, broaden the piriformis muscles. Continue this broadening action of the piriformis to the greater trochanters.
Yoga Action (Pranamaya Kosha):
INHALE into the centre of your rib cage expanding it front to back, side to side, up and down.
Yoga Action (Manomaya Kosha):
– rest in the pose by silently repeating to yourself “My pelvis is balanced over my feet.”
Once you feel comfortable in Ardha Parsvottanasana, place your left heel into the wall and one of your blocks (high, medium, or low height) on the big or baby-toe side of your right foot. Your left hand rests on the block. Repeat the Annamaya and Pranamaya Kosha’s Yoga Actions and add the following …
Yoga Action (Manomaya Kosha):
1. Take your awareness to the inside of your rib cage and repeat silently “front breast bone turns toward the right side body, right side body turns toward the centre back, centre back turns toward the left side body, and left side body turns toward the breast bone. Stay with this silent repetition until you can rotate your inner rib cage using only your inner awareness.
If you feel space exists in your rib cage and shoulders, raise your right arm stacking it over your left shoulder.
NOTE: It may take more than one pose before you awaken these yoga actions or areas in your body and begin to feel the arising sensations and releases. In that case, apply the yoga actions to the following poses –
ANATASANA
LO & HI LUNGES
UTTHITA TRIKONASANA
ARDHA CHANDRASANA
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