Yoga Position: Beginner triangle

Yoga

Exercise Description:
Yoga Position: Beginner triangle

Classification:
Yoga

Instruction:
Place the right toes facing forward and the left toes at a 45-degree angle. Keep both legs straight. Inhale reach your arms to the side exhale lower the right hand down and lift the left hand up, look up. Lift the right kneecap up, tuck the tailbone under, pull the navel towards the spine and lift the pelvic floor muscles. Keep the weight light on the right hand and keep reaching the left arm up towards the sky opening the chest. Lift the left hip up towards the sky. Lift the right kneecap up to contract the quadricep muscles to protect the knee. Feel as though the shoulders, hips, legs and head were against a wall. Externally rotate both the legs to open the groin muscles. Push evenly down through all four corners of the feet to energize the pose. Feel the body extending in five different directions, down through the feet, reaching out through the arms and extending through the crown.

Side Note:
Massages and tones the pelvic area. Improves flexibility of the hamstrings, quadratus lomborum, hips and back. Increases the strength of the feet, legs, hips and back. Improves the posture, digestion and elimination. Energizes the nervous system and strengthens the neck.