The straightway answer is ‘Yoga Cannot Increase the Bone Length’. But the answer to the question is YES.
YES, Yoga can add notable inches to your height.
Confused?
Let us walk through this article to go beyond all the illusions.
Can yoga helps us in gaining inches, if yes, How?
It is not a mystery to be solved rather it is something to be understood. Don’t run to find the truth; just try to understand the concept and let the truth finds its way to you.
In order to understand the way how yoga helps in attaining good height, we first need to understand the connection between height and accurate posture. The bridge between the two can be best understood by going through our detailed article “Improve Posture, Stay Fit & Grow Taller Naturally! – How It Works Even After Puberty?”. This article shows how the right posture promotes 2 to 3 inches height in a very short time. Now, this is the time to be informed that yoga works through postures. In reality yoga is not only the natural but also a fastest and powerful method for increasing our height.
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How does Yoga Work?
Yoga is the best technique for solving our growth related problems because it is safe and natural. Just as the steam, water and ice are the three states – gaseous, liquid and solid – of a single entity, so are the body, mind and spirit are the three states of our selves. These three states are linked and the well-being of one state leads to well-being of the other states too. In other words, if the body is well, the mind and spirit is also well. If the body is in stress, the mind also goes under stress. If the body is free from stress, the mind becomes stress-free. Correct postures help us in making our body stress-free. And a stress-free body and mind boost the release of growth hormones. It is a well-known fact that stress blocks whereas the relaxed state of body and mind helps in releasing the growth hormones. Now, here what we are going to do is to show you the yoga postures for keeping yourselves stress-free and thereby keeping the body mind and spirit calm. This is the way to release the proper amount of growth hormones in the body to boost its height.
Best Yoga Poses to Grow Taller:
To keep our body well aligned, balanced and in correct posture along with stress-free and calm mind, let us practice the various yoga postures daily for a couple of minutes. Following are a few yoga postures that can make a big difference in your life. I love a quote from Jim Rohn “suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret”. Keep the above quote in mind and give Yoga a disciplined try and let it transform your life. People have reported to have gained 3 to 4 inches of height practicing yoga to get taller.
Sun Salutation ‘Surya Namaskar’ – a Magical Yoga Pose
If you are facing a time crunch and searching for a single perfect workout to stay healthy, ‘Sun Salutation’ is the answer. Sun Salutation is a series of 12 powerful yoga postures performed in a single graceful flow. All the 12 postures are coordinated with the breath. A combination stretching and relaxing postures that make the body more flexible and keep it aligned, shaped and balanced. It is a graceful coordination of warm-ups and intense stretching workout. Regular and correct cyclic practice of these 12 postures offers manifold benefits for every part of the body – from top to bottom. The best time to practice Sun Salutation is the early morning while the sun rises with the empty stomach.
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Follow the following steps to practice the 12 graceful postures correctly:
Step #1: Prayer Pose (Pranam-asana): Stand and keep your feet together and balance your weight equally on both the feet. Next, breathe in, expand the chest, and relax the shoulders. As you exhale, lift both arms up from the sides and bring your palms together in front of the chest as in a prayer position.
Step #2: Raised Arms Pose (Hastauttan-asana): Breathing in, raise the arms up and back, be sure that biceps are close to the ears. Performing this pose the effort is to stretch the whole body up from the heels to the tips of the fingers. You may deepen this stretching pose by pushing the pelvis forward a little bit. Make sure that the effort goes in reaching up with the fingers rather than trying to bend backwards.
Step #3: Hand to Foot Pose (Hasta Pad-asana): Breathing out, while keeping the spin erect, bend forward from the waist. As you exhale completely, bring down the hand to the floor besides the feet. You may deepen this stretching pose by bending the knees, if necessary, to bring the palms down to the floor. Now make a gentle effort to straighten the knees. Try to keep the hands fixed in this position and not to move them until you finish the sequence.
Step #4: Equestrian Pose (Ashwa Sanchalan-asana): Breathing in, push your right leg back, as far back as possible. Next, keep the right knee to the floor and look up. You may deepen this stretching pose by ensuring that the left foot is exactly in between the palms.
Step #5: Stick Pose (Dand-asana): Breathing in, take the left leg back then bring the whole body in a straight line. You may also deepen this stretching pose by keeping your arms perpendicular to the floor.
Step #6: Salute With Eight Parts Or Points (Ashtanga Namaskara): Gently take your knees down to the floor and exhale. Now, bring the hips back slightly, then slide forward, and rest your chest and chin on the floor. Raise your posterior a little bit. The two hands, two feet, two knees, chest and chin (eight parts of the body touch the floor).
Step #7: Cobra Pose (Bhujang-asana): Slide forward and raise the chest up into the Cobra posture.You may keep your elbows bent in this pose, the shoulders away from the ears. Look up. You may deepen this stretching pose in the way – as you inhale, make a gentle effort to push the chest forward; as you exhale, make a gentle effort to push the navel down. Tuck the toes under. Make sure that you’re stretching just as much as you can and do not force.
Step #8: Mountain Pose(Parvat-asana): Breathing out, raise the hips and the tail bone up, chest downwards in an ‘inverted V’ (/\) posture. You may deepen this stretching pose by keep the heels on the ground and make a gentle effort to lift the tailbone up. Ensure that while going deeper into the stretch, try only if possible and don’t force and do as much as you can.
Step #9: Equestrian Pose (Ashwa Sanchalan-asana): Breathing in, bring the right foot forward in between the palms, keeping the left knee down to the floor, press the hips down and look up. You may deepen this stretching pose by placing the right foot exactly between the two hands and the right calf perpendicular to the floor. In this position, make a gentle effort to push the hips down towards the floor, to deepen the stretch.
Step #10: Hand to Foot Pose (Hasta Pad-asana): Breathing out, bring the left foot forward. Keep the palms on the floor. You may bend the knees, if necessary. You may deepen this stretching pose by gently straightening the knees and if you can, try and touch your nose to the knees. Keep breathing.
Step #11: Raised Arms Pose (Hastauttan-asana): Breathing in, roll the spine up, hands go up and bend backwards a little bit, pushing the hips slightly outward. You may also deepen this stretching pose by ensuring that your biceps are beside your ears. The idea is to stretch up more rather than stretching backwards.
Step #12: Palm Tree Pose also called Mountain Pose (Tad-asana): Breath out and first straighten the body, then bring the arms down. Relax in this position and observe the sensations in your body.
Sun Salutation, if practiced correctly you will surely achieve the notable benefits throughout the body – from top to bottom. This single powerful mantra has a great impact on all the body organs and also improves blood circulation. It is the best workout to get rid of back and neck pain too. Surely, you will have better spine flexibility.
