You’ve been prepared by the Standing Separate Leg Stretching
for the big side ward step, so be
sure to take a huge one. If you don’t, you will have to adjust your stance in
the middle of the pose.
The injunction to keep
your hips level and facing forward and the instruction to lunge down to a
parallel position and/or hold it there will both seem ridiculous to you the
first day. Cheer up. Things will get worse.
Despite my directions, beginners usually do put weight on
their fingers at first to keep from falling over or collapsing. Just try as best you can, though, to bear
all the weight on the bent leg, which will probably be trembling from the
strain. And if you feel like the Tin Man (or Woman) when you try to touch
chin to shoulder, don’ t worry. Oil can is on the way.
The triangle is quite simply a killer for most beginners. Just trying to hold it for ten seconds
will at first preclude pushing stomach and right hip forward and upper body and
left hip backward, not the mention pushing the right knee backward. You’ll
be surprised after a week, though, at the strength you have developed. Then
work on the refinements.
One side is always easier. If you’ re lucky, this may be it!
Soon you’ll begin to
feel like that flower opening to the sun. Just trust the process.
Benefits
The Triangle is the only posture in the world that improves
every muscle, joint, tendon, and internal organ in the body. At the same time,
it revitalizes nerves, veins and tissues. It helps cure lumbago and rheumatism
of the lower spine by flexing and strengthening the last five vertebrae, and it
improves crooked spines. This is the most important pose to increase the strength
and flexibility of the hip joint and of the muscles of the side of the torso.
It also firms upper thighs and hips, slims the waistline, and improves the
deltoid, trapezius, scapula, and latissimus muscles.
Read more
about this poses benefits, pictures, video and tips from here!
Drawings
and info from "Bikram´s Beginning Yoga Class " Book, 1978.
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