The yoga triangle pose, known as trikonasana, relaxes and tones the entire spine. It will help prevent or improve back pain.
Body age is often related to the flexibility of the spine. Having difficulty touching the ground, barely bending your knees, or arching backwards laboriously is common in some people.
Lateral flexibility is usually less tested, but it is also important, as it affects, for example, the mobility of the hips or the tension of the scapular area.
But it’s not just body age that reduces flexibility. Also, sedentary lifestyle, lack of exercise, poor postural hygiene and stressful situations cause the back to suffer.
The spine, as its name suggests, fulfills two essential functions: support (spine) and mobilize (thanks to being formed by vertebrae). The first one is the easiest to fulfill, being static, but the second requires above all exercise, practice and patience.
Yoga takes these aspects into account. In fact, the essential function of many postures or asanas is precisely to develop the mobility and harmony of the spine, so that the passage of time does not diminish its functions and thereby limit our abilities.
TRIANGLE POSTURE OR TRIKONASANA
The triangle yoga pose (Trikonasana) is a lateral tilt. It makes the spine more flexible, tones the spinal nerves and decreases back pain, which ensures a balanced action on the whole of the spine.
- Spread your legs about one meter apart and place your hands on your waist.
- Turn the sole of the left foot outwards, 90º, without tilting or moving the hip. Breathe in and extend your arms in a cross at shoulder height.
- Bend the trunk block to the left, exhaling until your left hand touches or holds the instep of the foot. The other arm will rise in a straight line upwards.
- Perform a full breath holding the pose for 20 seconds and repeat the pose with the right side.
You can also try this other back stretch lying on your back, ideal to counteract the effects of sedentary lifestyle