Thursday, September 3, 2009

YOGA FOR HEIGHT

If you are someone who is wondering how to gain height naturally, you should consider an exercise program that involves yoga.
Yoga is a series of fluid movements that centers your body. The focus is to create flexibility while controlling your breath. This flexibility and control helps you with gaining height on many levels.
Yoga stretches your body, especially your back, through its full range of motion. This helps your body fully decompress from the downward pressure of gravity that causes you to actually shrink.
Once your body is relieved of this strain, the cartilage in your back and joints can start to lengthen and thicken which makes you taller.
Furthermore, the deep inhalation and focus of yoga helps your body relieve the stress that causes tension in your back muscles. This tension would normally hinder growth, but with these height gain exercises you can overcome it.
Additionally, yoga strengthens your spine which improves your posture. If you want to know how to gain height, you should know that it all begins with good posture.
People have the ability to get a height gain of several inches just by having the correct posture. A spine which is aligned is then prepared to grow longer







There are mainly three exercises



SUKHASANA



Procedure


Sit down on the floor or a Yoga Mat.
Cross your legs, placing your feet below your knees.
Clasp your hands around your knees.
Keep your head and body straight.



TRIKONASANA



Procedure


STEP 1: Start with the Downward Facing Dog Pose (Adho Mukha Svanasana).







STEP 2: Move your left foot forward for about 1 meter.


STEP 3: Put your left hand beside your foot and carry your weight with the lower back and on the heels of your foot in front. Raise the upper part of your body until the lower back is straight. You can recognize this by a groove in the middle of the lower back. The right foot (the one at the back) rests on the floor.



STEP 4: Stretch the leg which is in front without bending the back or twisting your body. With your back straight and your right hip stretched backward, look at a point on the ground and breathe in and out quietly. Press your left hand against the heel and twist your chest to the left. Let the twisting motion involve only your upper back while your hip, lower back, legs and head remain stationary. When you cannot twist any further, stretch your right arm upward.



STEP 5: Then twist your head to the left, look upward along your outstretched arm and stretch out your neck. When you stand well aligned in this position, it will feel light. The better you do this exercise, the bigger will be the triangle between your legs, arms and side are.


DOG AND CAT MOVEMENT



Procedure



This is really two poses, one flowing into the other. Begin on your hands and knees. Keep your hands just in front of your shoulders, your legs about hip width apart. As you inhale, tilt the tailbone and pelvis up, and let the spine curve downward, dropping the stomach low, and lift your head up. Stretch gently. As you exhale, move into cat by reversing the spinal bend, tilting the pelvis down, drawing the spine up and pulling the chest and stomach in. Repeat several times, flowing smoothly from dog into cat, and cat back into dog.








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