Active Sitting
Yoga: Beginner triangle with block
Yoga
Exercise Description:
Yoga: Beginner triangle with block
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 left hand down and lift the right hand up, look up. Lift the left kneecap up, tuck the tailbone under, pull the navel towards the spine and lift the pelvic floor muscles. Keep the weight light on the left hand and keep reaching the right arm up towards the sky opening the chest. Lift the right hip up towards the sky. Lift the left 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.
