Triangle Pose

Triangle pose is a great way to stretch the ribs or intercostal and latissimus muscles. It also opens your chest to allow deep and healing breaths, which clear the lungs of stagnation.

Stand with your legs 3-4 feet apart. Your arms are out, at your sides, at shoulder level.

Turn your right foot/leg 90 degrees, and your back foot/leg 35-45 degrees. Between the front foot and the back foot, try to create a heal to arch alignment.

Just breath deep and slow.

Inhaling, stretch your right arm out, over the top of the right foot/leg. Place your hand someplace comfortable, like your thigh, or your shin, or maybe even the floor. (The front and back legs do not bend.)

You can keep your left hand on your left hip for balance, or you can raise it upwards, towards the sky.

Turn the left hip skywards, then lift the ribcage, then the shoulder. You can look down, straight ahead (horizontal with the earth), or upwards.

Breath deep and slow. If you experience pain, then back-up and adjust. You may experience intensity, but thats alright .. its only pain that you back away from.

Try to stay in Triangle Pose for three breaths, then slow come out and try the otherside.