Trikonasan Trikonasan- Benefits and Techniques

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Trikonasana is also called the triangle pose. The name Trikonasana is derived from Sanskrit. Here, Trikon means triangle, Asana means pose.
So, Trikonasana means triangle pose. while practicing this pose, we pose like a triangle. Trikonasana is a foundational pose that strengthens and lengthens the Armstrong. This pose will increase your flexibility. It is a standing pose. this pose will give you deep stretching. The focus of stretching in this pose is thighs, neck, arms, and side waist. This pose will enhance flexibility. It will enhance balance in your body. This pose is great to enhance strength in you. This Asan helps you to stretch muscles in your chest and arms. Trikonasana is generally a warm-up exercise. Practicing this pose will reduce stress. It opens up your chest and hips. This is a great pose to practice to improve mobility in your body. this pose will enhance your metabolism. Practicing this pose before an exercise will reduce the risk of any kind of physical injury. It will prevent you from any further injury in your ankle, neck, knee, arms, and shoulder. This pose is the most important component of yoga.it will help us to practice other yoga with great ease.
This pose will teach us how to extend legs which will later help us in many other poses. This pose will help you to reduce your love handles. It will eliminate the extra fat from your side waist. You can also practice some of the preparatory poses like Dwikonasana and Adho Mukha savasana. This pose is a sideways bending pose hence; one should avoid bending their back.
Benefits:

• Improve digestion: This pose will enhance your digestive system. It will improve your digestion.
• Reduces stress and anxiety: This pose will help you to reduce stress and anxiety. An individual can cure their anxiety and stress by performing this yoga practice.
• Stretch calves, chest, spine, and shoulders: This pose will give a good stretch to your calves, chest, spine, and shoulders. It will enhance flexibility in your spine.
• Lengthens your spine: This pose will lengthen your spine.it will provide strength to the spine.
• Relieves back pain: This pose will reduce back pain in your body. this is a great exercise to reduce back pain. It will reduce stiffness and tension in your back which ultimately reduces the back pain.
• cure flat feet: This pose will help you to get rid of flat feet. Practicing this exercise will cure flat feet.
• Beneficial in osteoporosis: Osteoporosis is the weakening of bone strength in the body. it usually affects the hips, spine, and wrist. This is very common in India. Practicing this yoga will reduce the chances of osteoporosis.
• Neck stiffness: Neck stiffness is though not a big issue but that doesn’t mean we have to live with it. If we can cure this, then we must try. Practicing Trikonasana will help you to cure neck stiffness. This yoga practice can cure several other issues related to neck practices.
• Relief in Sciatica: This pose will offer relief in sciatica. Sciatica is a severe pain that radiates from the back into the hip outer side of the leg caused by compression of the sciatic nerve.
• Increase mental and physical strength: Practicing this pose will help you to increase your mental and physical strength. It will enhance your strength and help you to maintain balance.
• Stimulate abdominal organs: Practicing this pose will enhance your abdomen. It will stimulate the organs. Practicing this pose will help you in maintaining the overall health of your abdomen.
• Strength core: This pose will help you in strengthening the core. It is a great exercise to maintain your core strength. It will enhance your strength and tone up your core.
• Improves blood circulation: This pose will enhance the blood circulation in your body. practicing this pose will help you to circulate oxygenated blood in your body.
• Reduces thighs: This pose will help you in reducing thighs and waist fat. It will eliminate the fat of your body.
• Reduce waist: This pose will help you in reducing the fat from your waist. It gives a good stretch to your waist which will help you in reducing the fat.
• Increases stability: This pose will help you in increasing the stability of your body. it will balance your postures and help you in maintaining the posture of your body.
• It will reduce the gastric problem and improve your digestion.
• It will help you in curing bloating: bloating is one of the most common issues. Practicing this pose will help you in reducing the bloating in your body. it will make you feel healthy.

• Precautions:

• While performing this pose you must avoid bending your knees. This is a side bending pose, so to avoid any kind of injury, avoid bending your knees.
• Avoid practicing this pose if you are pregnant. Pregnant women must not practice pose as they might suffer from a back injury. she must consult her doctor before practicing this pose.
• Consult your doctor if you have just recovered from an accident.
• Ask your doctor before performing this pose if you are suffering from cervical.
• Do not perform this pose if you are suffering from a hernia.
• Don’t practice this pose if you are suffering from any kind of severe back problem.
• Engage your muscles to enhance the benefit of this pose.
• Don’t practice this pose if you’re are suffering from migraine. It may increase the problem.
• Don’t practice this pose if you are suffering from high blood pressure.
• Avoid practicing this pose if you are suffering from low blood pressure.
• Do not practice if you are suffering from diarrhea.
• Don’t roll your chest towards the floor.
• Perform plenty of warm-up exercises before performing this pose.
• Bend your body slowly for better balancing.

• Use yoga brick to support your hand to avoid any kind of injury.
• You can also use a blanket or piles of books to give yourself support to avoid any kind of injury.
• Instead of rolling your chest you can roll your shoulder a little.
• Support a wall if you can’t balance yourself. You need a good balance to perform this pose.
• Perform extended triangle pose along to give yourself a little of a challenge. The extended triangle pose is called utthita Trikonasana. This pose will benefit the hip region. This pose will stretch your ankle, thighs, knee, wrist, hands, and shoulders.