Hi! I am Dina Prioste and welcome to Get Exercised.
When I first began practicing yoga, without a doubt one of my favorite poses was the triangle pose. Let us grab a mat, maybe grab a block too and let us stand up on to the Bentley.
Starting in a wide stance here, your right foot is pointing to the front of the mat. Turn your back foot in, a little bit angled in, like you would in a Warrior II pose. Take the arms out wide, both legs straight. Deep inhale, as you exhale, you are going to reach towards the front of the mat. Now your body is going to tell you when you stop reaching. Okay. Actually your hamstrings are going to tell you. So when that stops, just take your right hand down to either the leg, the ankle maybe the floor or you can even take a block to bring the floor up to you. Keep this nice and open.
You are going to take the left arm straight up so the hand is directly over the left shoulder. You can either look up. If your neck is okay with that, you can look to the side or if you have a sore neck you can look down to the floor. Look at me, look at me, I am reaching my floor, I am reaching the floor that is so hot.
When I first started the triangle pose, it was all about reaching the floor. I mean it is like how far can I get down and everything. One thing that is really most important in this pose is to remember it is not how far you are going down or where you are reaching or “Oh! I can reach my toe. Yehey!” No! It does not matter at all. You really just want to stay open a nice and flat. So one of the stock phrases you will hear in a yoga class, teachers always say is imagine you are flattening your body up against the wall behind you. You can even do this. Practice just up against a wall. Keep your chest nice and open and that way you can breathe. And then, I heard about you know the flattening up against the wall and taking my hand higher and all of a sudden like my body opened up and like, my mind opened up.
If your hand is on the floor or on a block, you can either have the hand inside the leg or on the outside. To me it is really potato or potato, it does not matter; whatever feels more comfortable for you. You should be feeling the stretch in your hamstrings, inner thighs and side body. For deeper side stretch, take this top arm; sweep it over like you are reaching towards the front of the mat. Oh! That feels so good and I am smelling my armpit, even so, I use deodorant. It is okay. It is all good. My mind exploded. Oh! And I am definitely a potato girl.
Practice triangle pose and who knows, maybe your mind will explode, too. I hope not, that sounds painful. Next week we are going to work on a standing balance again. It has been forever since I have done that and I hope I will see you then. Thanks for watching, I am Dina Prioste and you have just been exercised. Triangle rock on!
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