Triangle Pose

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DebinD
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March 7, 2011 at 4:10 pm

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#2066

I’ve seen a few comments about towels and mats being particularly helpful during triangle pose. My studio has us do triangle across the mat/towel so we are on the studio carpet. Is that pretty unusual?

connie36
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March 7, 2011 at 6:28 pm

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#8411

Just googling pictures of triangle pose, I believe the “normal” way is what you are doing. But my studio has mirrors on the left side of the room as well and we don’t have carpet, so we turn. I think it varies place to place – I’m pretty sure my studio with no carpet is also unusual.

DebinD
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March 7, 2011 at 6:34 pm

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#8412

Really? When I googled the pictures I all saw were people with their feet on the mat. It is a bear to do this off the mat IMHO.

connie36
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March 7, 2011 at 6:48 pm

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#8413

Really? When I googled the pictures I all saw were people with their feet on the mat. It is a bear to do this off the mat IMHO.

I should have been more specific – you have to google BIKRAM triangle pose, because regular triangle pose is a whole different thing.

DebinD
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March 7, 2011 at 6:51 pm

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#8414

Thanks! I’m still mostly seeing folks with both feet on their mat – (or rocks ;LOL). I just wonder if I should be doing it that way until I get stronger. Of course then I’d be the only one in the room turned to the side.

bonmar
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March 11, 2011 at 2:21 am

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#8434

Debin – no, I wouldn’t say it’s unusual at all to straddle your mat, it’s just old-fashioned. All the newer studios I’ve been to in the last couple of years have NO carpet and the front of the room is always mirrored, as well as one side. So we turn to the mirrored side to do Separate Leg Stretching pose, Triangle and Separate Leg Head to Knee pose, all the while staying on our mats. That way there’s less mopping up for staff after class ends. 🙂

Gabrielle (The Hot Yoga Doctor)
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March 11, 2011 at 3:24 am

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#8437

Yes Bonnie is right! And what’s more turning on your mat or placing your towel at right angles is one of the ways that will also drastically minimize those terribly persistent locker-room-dirty-socks-unhygienic smells that are prevalent in carpeted studios … in the studios that strangely don’t allow a towel across the mat for the first half of class. Turning to the side (with or without a mirror) is a great way of handling the issue.

Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂
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