Bikram Yoga Challenge: 24/60.
I have been doing Triangle wrong.
Funny enough, though, the way I had been doing it was the way a teacher once told me to do it. And it was always "off" for me. But a newish teacher last year told me to do it that way. (And when a teacher tells me to do something, I do it.)
The teacher told us in class (last year), "When you do Triangle, focus your weight on your bent leg. You should be able to lift your straight leg's foot off the ground and balance almost."
So that is how I did the pose. And since then, I stopped getting compliments on my Triangle. Even though I had always gotten them before in class.
Today, I was corrected. One of the studio directors clarified how the pose should be done, and it made complete sense.
"Your weight should be evenly distributed in both legs," she said. "You should be getting your entire straight leg foot and toes on the ground. You're like a triangle, everything is distributed evenly."
And BAM! My body makes sense of the pose.
"Oh duh!" it says in response to the dialogue. "I get it!"
You can't stop progress.
Only 36 days left to go!
Funny enough, though, the way I had been doing it was the way a teacher once told me to do it. And it was always "off" for me. But a newish teacher last year told me to do it that way. (And when a teacher tells me to do something, I do it.)
The teacher told us in class (last year), "When you do Triangle, focus your weight on your bent leg. You should be able to lift your straight leg's foot off the ground and balance almost."
So that is how I did the pose. And since then, I stopped getting compliments on my Triangle. Even though I had always gotten them before in class.
Today, I was corrected. One of the studio directors clarified how the pose should be done, and it made complete sense.
"Your weight should be evenly distributed in both legs," she said. "You should be getting your entire straight leg foot and toes on the ground. You're like a triangle, everything is distributed evenly."
And BAM! My body makes sense of the pose.
"Oh duh!" it says in response to the dialogue. "I get it!"
You can't stop progress.
Only 36 days left to go!
Comments
Ohhh, isn't it funny how much sense these things make in hindsight?!
Ohhh, isn't it funny how much sense these things make in hindsight?!
Cath: I have the same issue as you. If I drop on hip on the straight leg, I don't seem to go down as far. It's an on-going battle. What my teachers have told me is, "Just continuously keep sinking into that bent knee. Push the knee back with your elbow, and drop your hip on the straight leg forward and down."
Does that help? You're rolling your hip forward and down.
That IS actually why you don't "sink", I think. You've got to get your hips all the way down, right leg upside down L like Linda, and stay down there the whole time, but the more you get down in the legs, the more you stretch up with the arms.
It's complicated!!
It's not called the "pinnacle of the standing series" for nothing!