Depending upon the way that you practice triangle pose, and for sure there is more than one way to practice it, you may be attempting to laterally tilt your pelvis as you come into the posture in order to keep the top side waist short, the bottom side waist long, and to increase the stretch in the hamstrings. However, if you or your students are turning the pelvis too far to the side it may not be able to laterally tilt very far due to bony compression between the rim of the hip socket and the neck of the femur. In this short video clip, we demonstrate how turning the pelvis toward the front leg before going into the posture allows for significantly more range of motion in the pelvis. Once the pelvis has tilted, you can then place the hand on the leg (or a block or the floor), and use your core abdominal muscles to help rotate the trunk toward the side, allowing the pelvis to follow as much as it might like or need to. Check out the video, experiment and let us know what you think!
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Luphane Bonhomme
7/30/2016 12:10:08 pm
This is a beautiful video demonstration.
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Amada Hernández
8/2/2016 08:20:25 am
Interesting!!
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Amada Hernández
8/2/2016 08:22:44 am
What many yoga teachers neeed!! To modify the asanas and to make them more accesible...
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8/31/2016 10:35:07 am
Hello and thank you for these great clips! Would you also allow the pelvis to tilt in a high lunge twist?? and in revolved half moon??
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Hi Andrea - Thanks for your comment. From your comment, it seems like you might be referring to the "Alignment of the Pelvis in Revolved Triangle Pose" post from 7/18/2016, where we encourage allowing the pelvis to follow the lumbar spine into the twist. If so, then I would say yes... to allow the pelvis to turn a bit toward the front thigh as you work into the twist, while keeping the back thigh lifted for stability. If you are in fact referring to this post about triangle, then I'm not sure what you mean... as the triangle post is referring to a lateral tilt of the pelvis over the front thigh, whereas in the revolved standing poses you would have more of an anterior tilt of the pelvis. But comment back if you want more clarification ;-)
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