Trikonasana Or Triangle Pose
Tri’ means three in sanskrit and ‘kona’ means angle. Trikonasana or triangle pose can do any beginners. Adding trikonasana to your regular yoga practice helps to strengten the muscles of legs and feet, lengthen and align the spine, increase the space in chest cavity, open the hips. Here we discuss three types of Trikonasana.
How to Perform Trikonasana-1
- Stand straight. Spread your legs apart in accordance with your height (2 – 2 1/2 feet wide).
- Place your palm on either side of your thighs. Fingers should remain straight and the palm unfolded.
- Raise your hands and keep them parallel to your shoulder on either sides. Keep your fingers straight and your hands should be in straight line with each other. Do not relax your elbows. Let the palms of your hands face down.
- Look straight.
- Breath normally twice or thrice, while remaining in this position.
- Take a deep breath. After two seconds move the upper part of your body to left while exhaling. Hands , head, eyes, neck, chest and shoulder should move in tandem. Feet should remain firm on the ground.
- Your gaze shall remain on the finger tips. Head and neck shall turn accordingly.
- Once moved maximum, you must have released your breath completely. Remaining for two seconds in that position return to the former state.
- Now repeat the process on your right hand side.
- Repeat 5 rounds.
Trikonasana-1
Trikonasana-2
How to Perform Trikonasana-2
- Begin with a pose mentioned in Trikonasana-1, where you stand with your hand, raised on either side of your body to the shoulder level.
- Take a deep breath now slowly Now slowly relax your breath and stand the upper part of your body to touch your right heel with the right hand. While doing this your left hand too should move parallel to the right hand.
- Your gaze must be on the raising left finger tips.
- Remain in this position for 2 seconds before returning slowly to the previous state, while breathing in.
- Now do this on your left hand side. Slowly releasing the breath.
- Concentrate on your training.
- While looking at the finger tips of your raised finger, you shall be facing up.
- Do this exercise for five rounds. The movement on to each sides makes a round.
Trikonasana-2
Trikonasana-3
- Begin with the initial position as mentioned in Trikonasana-1, with your raised hands on either side of your body.
- Take a deep breath. Slowly bend your body forward to touch the right hind leg with your left hand.
- While doing this your right hand should move up parallel to your left hand. Like this your gaze should remain on your raised fingered.
- Stand up right taking in your breathe. Repeat the same on your other side of your body.
- Do this for 5 rounds.
Trikonasana-3
Benefits Of Trikonasana
- Trikonasana is good for all the internal and external organs of your body, especially your hands, legs, shoulders, neck, abdoman, chest and eyes.
- Trikonasana is comperatively an easy one among other asanas.
- This helps to reduce the fat accumulated around your abdomen.

