Increase Your Height With The Help of Few Yoga Asana

5 simple yoga asanas for increase height

S.No	Yoga Asana
1.	Tadasana	Mountain Pose
2.	Vriksasana	Tree Pose
3.	Uttanasana	Forward Bending Pose
4.	Adho mukha svanasana	Downward Facing Dog
5.	Trikonasana	Triangle Pose

Tadasana-Step-by-Step Guide

1. Stand on the ground barefoot with your legs and feet joined together. Bend your knees slightly and the straighten them to help loosen your joints.

2. It is also said that you should focus your concentration on a particular spot in front of you to avoid distractions. This is known as drishti. It encourages mental awareness.

3. Firm your thigh muscles and turn them slightly inwards while lifting your knee cap. Keep in mind not to harden your lower belly. Strengthen the inner arches of your ankles while lifting them.

4. Lengthen your tailbone and imagine a line of energy passing through your body.

5. Going up, lift your chest up and out and push your shoulder blades back.  Widen your collarbones.

6. Raise your head, lengthening your neck in the process. Keep breathing deeply. While inhaling, you will feel the breath travelling through your toes, stomach and up to the head. As you exhale, feel your breath going down from the head to the stomach and finally your feet.

7. Breathe in and raise your toes gently and try to balance your body on your heels. Stretch your shoulders, arms and chest upwards while your toes bear your body weight. Feel the stretch in your body from the head to the feet. Hold this pose for about 5 to 10 seconds and then gently exhale. This is a variation to the Tadasana known as the Palm Tree Pose.

"Repeat this asana 2 or 3 times. Gradually try to increase the duration of this asana. After sufficient practice, take 4 steps forward and backward when you are standing on your toes. This will improve your grace while walking," recommends Franny.

Benefits of Tadasan

1. The biggest benefit of tadasana is that it helps in correcting your posture and improves your balance by making your spine more agile.

2. It helps in increasing the flexibility of your ankles, thighs and joints.

3. It can tone your hips and abdomen and helps to gain control over your muscular movements.

4. It is also believed that it may help in increasing your height if practised regularly during formative years.

5. Tadasana strengthens your nervous system and regulates your respiratory and digestive functions.

Vrksasana-Step-by-Step Instructions

1.Take a moment to feel both your feet root into the floor with your weight distributed equally on all four corners of each foot.

2.Begin to shift your weight into your right foot, lifting your left foot off the floor. Keep your right leg straight but don't lock the knee.

3.Bend your left knee and bring the sole of your left foot high onto your inner right thigh.

4.Press your foot into your thigh and your thigh back into your foot with equal pressure. This will help you keep both hips squared toward the front so your right hip doesn't jut out.

5.Focus your gaze (Drishti) on something that doesn't move to help you keep your balance.

6.Take 5 to 10 breaths, then lower your left foot to the floor and do the other side.

Benefits Of Vrksasana

1.Tree Pose strengthens your legs and core while opening your hips and stretching your inner thighs and groin muscles. And also increase Height.

2.One of yoga's biggest benefits is that it helps you build better balance, which helps with any number of other physical activities. It's often touted by professional athletes as the "yoga advantage," and as you age it becomes more of an issue. Good balance and a strong core will go a long way in helping you stay active and healthy.

Uttanasana-Instruction

1. Stand with your feet together. Bend your knees slightly and fold your torso over your legs, moving from the hips, not the lower back.

2. Place your hands next to your feet or on the ground in front of you.

3. Inhale and extend your chest to lengthen your spine. Keep your gaze directed forward.

4. Exhale and gently press both legs toward straight. Lift the kneecaps and gently spiral your upper, inner thighs back. Keep your legs straight without hyperextending.

5. On an exhalation, extend your torso down without rounding your back. Stay long throughout your neck, extending the crown of your head toward the ground. Draw your shoulders down your back.

Benefits of Uttanasana – Standing Forward Bend

1.It rejuvenates your mind and relaxes the nerves

2.It actively stretches your hips, hamstrings, and calves

3.It provides strength to your thighs and knees

4.Regular practice relieves stiffness of your spine, neck, and back

5.By allowing direct blood flow into the head, it creates a fresh influx of blood cells and rejuvenates the mind

6.It activates your abdominal muscles

7.It results in an elongated, flexible, and sturdy spine

8.It improves posture and improves bodily balance and co-ordination

9.It stimulates the kidneys, liver, and spleen, thus giving you a sense of physical relief

10.It is known to enable improved digestion

11.It has the qualities to reduce high blood pressure

12.It can play a major role in treating symptoms of several ailments including menopause, asthma, headaches, and insomnia

13.It alleviates symptoms of stress, anxiety, mild depression, and fatigue of the body and mind

14.It is widely considered therapeutic for infertility, osteoporosis, and sinusitis

Adho Mukha Svanasana-following six Adho Mukha Svanasana steps:

1.For getting into the pose, come into table-top position. This position can be achieved by balancing the body onto your knees and wrists such that the two knees and the two wrists form the leg of a table while the rest of the body is the top.

2.While keeping your toes firm into the ground, gently lift your knees upwards. Do so while exhaling.

3.Stretch your arms forward so that the upper body is tilted towards the front. Keep your palms inward, while maintaining the alignment with respective shoulder.

4.Move deeper into the yoga by lifting the knees as high as the hip can be. Your body should ideally form an inverted V shape. Maintain the curve on your back inwards. It should not protrude outwards at any point while performing the pose. Keep the head and neck aligned while your ears can gently graze either shoulder.

5.Push the tail bone as much as you are comfortable with. This is done to provide ultimate stretch to the body, especially the back and calves. Remain in the position for duration of 15-20 breaths.

6.Reach back into the table top position while gently exhaling and bending back the knees. Repeat the pose up to 8 times.

Benefits

1.Calms the brain and helps relieve stress and mild depression

2.Energizes the body

3.Stretches the shoulders, hamstrings, calves, arches, and hands

4.Strengthens the arms and legs

5.Helps relieve the symptoms of menopause

6.Relieves menstrual discomfort when done with head supported

7.Helps prevent osteoporosis

8.Improves digestion

9.Relieves headache, insomnia, back pain, and fatigue

10.Therapeutic for high blood pressure, asthma, flat feet, sciatica, sinusitis

Trikonasana-Steps to practice Trikonasana (Triangle Pose)

1.Starting Position: Stand upright keeping the spine erect, head straight, feet together with big toes and heels slightly touching each other. Hands to the side of the body. The weight of the body should neither be on the heels nor on the toes but distributed evenly on both of them. Relax and take deep breaths.

2.Move the legs 3-4 feet distance apart. Raise both the arms straight out to the sides, in line with the shoulders and parallel to the floor with the palms facing downwards.

3.Move the right foot to the outside direction. Turn the left foot slightly to the inward direction. The knees must remain straight throughout the practice.

4.Slowly begin to bend the trunk towards the right side. Make sure the body doesn’t go in the forward direction.

5.Once the trunk is completely bent the hand must be close to the right ankle with the fingers slightly touching the floor.

6.Ideally the right palm rest on the floor. Avoid forcing this position as with regular practice it comes easily on the floor.

7.Stretch the left arm vertically. Move the head in the upward direction and look straight.              

8.Hold the position for a minute or half or even lesser in the beginning. Gradually increasing the time as you begin to feel more comfortable.

9.To return, lift the arms first and then slowly move the trunk back in the upright position. Relax the body.

Benefits of Trikonasana (Triangle Pose)

1.Gives strength to the ankles and knees.

2.Tones and massages the pelvic area and the reproductive organs.

3.Alleviates muscle cramps and helps in reducing the back and neck pain.

4.Stretches the back, neck, thighs, legs, arms and shoulders. Helps in reducing waistline fat.

5.Highly beneficial in getting rid of indigestion, constipation, acidity and gastric troubles.