10 Yoga Poses To Help You Increase Height Naturally

Are you unhappy with your height? Did you not experience moderate growth spurt during puberty? Is your appearance impacting your confidence level in a negative way? Yoga can be the solution! It is still possible to increase your height even after puberty by practicing certain yoga asanas regularly.

A tall and slim figure is what all women want to have but very few are blessed with. While a slim body is still achievable with so many weight loss methods available around, it is not that easy to increase our height after a certain age. No matter how appealing a long and lean body looks, human height is mostly controlled by genetics, nutrition, exercises, and age. So, no commercial product can actually boost your growth and make you look taller even though it claims to do so. Here comes the importance of yoga. It relaxes the mind and eliminates stress to a large extent, thus stimulating the body to produce more growth hormone. It also detoxifies the body to encourage the growth of healthy cells in it, which results in a height increase. Moreover, yoga enhances our body postures by keeping our back straight and stretching our muscles so that we do not appear shorter than we are.

If you are unaware of it, here are 10 most effective yoga poses to increase height that you should explore:

* Sun Salutation

Originated as a series of prostrations to Hindu Sun God ‘Surya’, the Sun Salutation celebrates the divinity of the sun. This yoga pose has been practiced since ancient times as a complete body workout and increasing height is one of the most common benefits of it. The Sun Salutation is basically a graceful sequence of 12 different ‘asanas’ or postures, which need to be performed as one continuous exercise. It is traditionally practiced at dawn, facing the rising sun. Practicing it daily twice a day – at the sunrise and in the evening – makes the spine and the joints extremely flexible.

How to Practice:

- Pranamasana – Stand straight with your feet together and weight distributed evenly. Bring your hands in front of your chest and keep in the prayer position. Breathe out.

- Hastauttanasana – While breathing in, stretch your arms up and arch back from the waist. Keep your legs straight, relax your neck, and push your hips out.

- Padahastasana – Keep breathing out and bend forward. Press your palms against the floor with your fingertips in line with your toes.

- Ashwa Sanchalanasana – Inhale while taking the left foot back and resting the knee on the floor. Arch back from the waist. Now, look upward and lift your chin.

- Parvatasana – Bring the right leg back and place your weight on your hands and toes. Retain your breath throughout the step.

- Ashtanga Namaskar – Exhale and lower your knees gradually. Also, lower your chest and your forehead respectively. Your hips should be up and your toes should be curled under.

- Bhujangasana – Breathe in and lower your hips with your toes pointing outward. Bend back while keeping your legs together and your shoulders down. Your gaze should be up and back.

- Parvatasana – While breathing out, curl your toes under and push your hips up to form an ‘inverted V’ shape. Meanwhile, push your heels down and keep your shoulders back.

- Ashwa Sanchalanasana – Breathe in and bring your left foot forward to place it between your hands. Your other knee should be on the floor. Look up and lift your chin.

- Padahastasana – Keep breathing out and step forward with the right leg. Bend down from the waist with your palms pressing against the floor and your fingertips in line with your toes.

- Hastauttanasana – Inhale and stretch your arms up gradually. Then, take them back over your headband back slowly from the waist.

- Pranamasana – Exhale and return to the erect position gently. Also, bring your arms down by your sides.

* Hastapadasana

If the upper part of your body is shorter than the lower part, you need to practice this standing forward bend regularly. It is known to work on each and every section of our body by elongating the spine and stretching the hamstring. Hence, you become able to gain more height and look better.

How to Practice:

- Stand straight and tall with your feet together and shoulders rolled back. Make sure that your chest is puffed out. Also, tighten abdominal muscles and suck the belly button in.
- Now, breathe in and stretch your arms straight overhead.
- Breathe out and bend forward slowly in such a way that your head touches your knees and your hands touch your feet.
- Hold the posture for 30 seconds and return to the first position.

* Sukhasana

The Easy Pose, also called ‘Pleasant Pose’ or ‘Decent Pose’, is the basic posture of yoga from which all other postures are developed. By practicing this asana regularly, you can take control over your breathing. It also helps in toning up the lower back as well as the hip region, which eventually boosts your height by decompressing the cartilage.

How to Practice:

- Start by sitting on the floor with your legs extended.
- Bend the left leg inward from the knee and tug it inside the right thigh.
- Then, bend the right leg inward and tug it inside the left thigh.
- Place your hands on your knees and practice Chin mudra or Jnana mudra with your palms.
- Keep your spine spine straight and sit erect.
- Stay relaxed and breathe normally.
- Hold the posture for as long as you are comfortable with it.

* Chakrasana

Chakrasana, also known as Urdhva Dhanurasana, is extremely helpful in increasing height, no matter what your age is. It involves bending over in a backward direction like a ‘chakra’ or ‘wheel’, which requires building up strength and flexibility. As a result, the elasticity of the spinal cord increases a lot and the body becomes highly pliable. Both of these contribute to height significantly. This asana also counteracts the typical sitting posture by opening the chest, shoulders, and hips.

How to Practice:

- Lie on your back with the knees bent and the feet close to the buttocks onto the floor. At the same time, it is important to keep your feet parallel and hips width apart.
- Fold your arms from your elbows and bring the palms underneath your shoulders. Your fingertips should be pointing towards your feet.
- Breathe in and press your palms as well as your feet against the floor while lifting the shoulders and the hips off it. Your elbows should be parallel to each other at this point of time.
- Now, lift your head off the floor while straightening your arms. Keep your feet parallel and your knees in line with them.
- Straighten your legs slowly and hold the posture for 30 second.
- Return to the first position by lowering down your body gently.

* Tadasana

This is one of the easiest yoga postures that you can practice since the early days for increasing your height. Being a foundational pose for all standing yoga posture, it has been found to make the spinal cord and limbs (arms and legs) stronger. It also helps in making the whole body agile, which is really beneficial for gaining height.

How to Practice:

- Stand erect on the floor with your feet slightly apart and your arms at the sides of your body. Your weight must be evenly distributed on your feet.
- Breathing in deeply, stretch your arms straight overhead and interlock your fingers.
- Lift your heels off the floor and come on your toes while keeping the arms upward.
- Feel the stretch in the region from your toes to your fingers and hold the posture for as long as you can. Maintain slow and deep breathing.
- Now, breathe out deeply and return to the first position.

* Vriksasana

When it comes to growing taller with a robust yoga practice, the tree pose is considered as a great option. It requires focus and concentration to practice this steady and grounded stance of a tree. The asana targets the calf muscles as well as the leg muscles and plays a key role in toughening them. As these muscles become stronger, your chance of gaining height also goes up.

How to Practice:

- Start by standing straight on the floor with your feet two-inches apart. Also, fix your eyes on a point in front.
- While breathing out, fold the right leg from the waist and place the foot on the inner side of your left thigh. Ensure that your heel is touching your left perineum.
- Breathe in and stretch your arms upward. Join the palms in the form of prayer.
- Keep inhaling and exhaling deeply while pulling the abdominal muscles in and expanding the spine upwards respectively.
- Hold the posture as long as you are comfortable with it.
- Now, breathe out slowly while bringing the arms down by your sides and the right foot down to rest.
- Repeat the steps by using the other foot.

* Trikonasana

As the name suggests, this pose gives our body a triangular shape. This standing forward bend is highly beneficial for shorter people as it increases body height at a rapid pace. According to experts, trikonasana should always be practiced in the morning on an empty stomach and the eyes should be kept open in order to maintain the balance of the body during the practice.

How to Practice:

- Stand erect on the floor with your feet together, hands at the sides of your body, and head straight.
- While breathing in deeply, move your legs three-four feet apart.
- Stretch your arms straight out to the sides and bring them in line with your shoulders. They should also be parallel to the ground with the palms facing downwards.
- Extend the right foot outward and turn the left foot slightly inward while keeping the knees straight.
- Now, bend the trunk to the right side slowly and steadily without going in the forward direction. The right hand should reach the right ankle with the palm resting on the floor. But do not force it, anyway.
- Extend the left hand vertically and move your head up while looking straight.
- Hold the posture for 30 seconds.
- Return to the upright position gently.

* Parivrtta Trikonasana

It is just the reverse of the previous pose with a spinal twist in which your body gets the shape of an inverted triangle. The asana provides strength to the back as well as the lower back of the body and makes the balancing capacity better. These result in an increased height.

How to Practice:

- Stand upright with your legs 3-4 feet apart and hands at the sides of your body.
- While breathing in deeply, stretch your arms straight out to the sides so that they become in line with your shoulders. Keep your palms facing downward.
- Extend the right foot outward and turn the left for slightly inward while keeping the knees straight.
- Now, bend the trunk to the right side slowly and steadily without going in the forward direction.
- Meanwhile, the left hand should reach the right ankle with the palm resting on the floor (either inside or outside) .
- Extend the right hand vertically and move your head up while looking straight.
- Hold the posture for 30 seconds.
- Return to the upright position gently.

* Adhomukha Svanasana

This asana is also known as the simple ‘dog pose’. It not only stretches out the muscles in the body and makes them stronger but also helps in boosting the circulation of blood throughout the body. Therefore, you can expect a considerable change in your height.

How to Practice:

- Come onto your limbs so that your body takes the shape of a table with the table top being your back.
- While exhaling, raise your hips up and straighten your elbows and your knees gradually. Now, your body looks like an ‘inverted V’.
- Make sure that your palms are resting on the floor shoulder width apart and your feet are hip width apart with the toes pointing forward. The arms and the legs should be parallel to each other.
- Press your palms against the floor. Also, widen through your shoulder blades.
- Touch the ears to the inner arms so that the neck gets lengthened.
- Focus your gaze on your navel and take long deep breaths.
- Hold the posture for 30 seconds.
- Breathe out and return to the original position slowly.

* Marjariasana

Like the dog pose, you can also carry out the cat pose to get an enviable height. During the practice of this asana, the spinal cord gets completely extended in both forward as well as backward directions. It facilitates the expansion of every single cartilage disc present in the spinal column, which ultimately increases height.

How to Practice:

- Start by sitting in vajrasana.
- Now, stand on your knees and lean forward while placing your hands on the floor. Your palms must face down with the fingers pointing forward.
- Bring your hands in line with your knees and keep both your arms and your thighs perpendicular to the ground.
- Then, breathe in deeply and raise your head as you put stress on your spine in the downward direction. This should turn your back concave.
- Try to expand your abdomen as much as possible and fill your lungs with air.
- Breath in and hold it for at least 3 seconds.
- Now, breathe out and lower the head as you stretch the spine upward.
- Contract the abdomen and pull the buttocks in while placing the head between the arms.
- Again, breathe in and hold for 3 seconds.
- Return to the original position and relax.