Trikonasana

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#1

Hi,

I am beginner and I am experiencing pain on one spot on the back (the side of the body where the hand is raised). The pain is one particular spot on the lower back. I know I shouldn’t be having a pain there. Can you help me understand what I am doing wrong.

Thanks for your help.

#2

You’d have to give me quite a bit more to work with.
It would be like me telling you I have a mode of transportation and what is wrong with it when it goes “chachunk”. Is it a scooter? A bike? A car? Is it a 4 cylinder? A 6? Is it automatic or manual? Is it 2001 or 1911?

So are you old, young, active, sedentary, tall, short…
Are you learning from a book, a DVD, a friend, the power of the Universe?
Are you practicing ONLY trikonasana or is it done within a sequence? If so what sequence? And finally, how are you doing the pose? Hand on block, shin, floor, nothing? What actions are you doing in the pose?

Can you include a photo?

gordon

#3

Gordon,

I don’t have a photo, I will give a little bit more information, let us see if that helps.

I am in my late 20s. I took yoga class a while back. I wasn’t practising regularly then, now I am starting practise regularly based upon my the instructions I had from the yoga class( I have notes from the instruction) and book “The iyengar way”.

I use hands on book(similar to a block, but a little shorter). This is the sequence I follow

  1. Go in tadasana
  2. Turn the left foot 90 deg to line up with the arch of the right foot. ( I make sure my body is not turned towards the right foot and my knees are straight)
  3. put the left hand on block
  4. raise right hand
  5. I look up
  6. pain is on one spot on the lower back on the right side. (a little away from the side of the body.)

Does this help?