Revolved TriangleSave PDF
Parivrtta Trikonasana
par-vrit-ah tree-ko-NAH-sah-nah
Stretches hips and spine
Tones abdominal organs
Stimulates nervous system, improves balance
How to perform Revolved Triangle
- Begin standing. Step your right foot about 3 feet back with an exhale. Keeping your heels in one line, point your right foot 45 degrees to the right. Face your torso forward.
- Place your hands on your hips and lengthen your spine.
- Reach your right arm to the sky with an inhale.
- Bend forward with an exhale and bring your right fingertips to the floor outside of your left foot.
- Reach your left arm to the sky with an inhale, opening your chest to the left. Gaze toward your top hand.
- Hold the pose and take slow, deep breaths.
- Untwist with an exhale, then inhale and rise to standing. Change sides.
Alignment cues
- Keep heels in one line
- Draw outer hip away from shoulder
- Anchor back heel to floor
- Lengthen torso
Modification: Gaze toward the floor.
Avoid this pose if you have a back or spinal injury, or low blood pressure.
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Revolved Triangle (Parivrtta Trikonasana in Sanskrit) is a beginner yoga pose that belongs to the balancing and standing and twists categories. This asana targets glutes & hip flexors, hamstrings and spine, and also involves calves, middle back / lats and quadriceps muscles. Revolved triangle tones abdominal organs; stretches hips and spine and also stimulates nervous system, improves balance. Refer to the illustration and instructions above for how to perform this posture correctly. Discover more yoga asanas and yogic breathing exercises in our free yoga pose directory – a visual resource for yoga teacher training students as well as practitioners of all levels. Finally, shop our best-selling Yoga Cards products!
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