Yoga lengthens and stretches your tendons and muscles. It also releases your spine from constriction, especially important if you’ve spent years sitting at a desk or keeping an incorrect posture. In addition to this the practice of yoga balances your whole system. It stabilises the life force energy that flows through your body, which helps your major glands secrete important hormones and other chemicals around your body. You may already know the human body has many glands situated in the groin, kidneys, pancreas, throat and several in our brain. Our life force energy affects the correct functioning of these glands, and it is actually these vital centres that form the Indian Chakra system. Each chakra, or gland-centre either helps or hinders the glands according to its health, and this affects their secretion of vital hormones around the body. This includes the healthy release of growth hormones. Therefore, yoga’s help towards gaining height is not limited to the frame of the body alone, but actually includes a hormonal boost.
The pituitary gland, situated deep at the back of your brain near the top of your head, is associated with growth hormones. By practicing yoga you balance and energise your life force energy system, which in turn balances and improves the correct functioning of your pituitary gland. You can ask your yoga teacher which yogic practices help your pituitary gland work well. With a balanced yoga regime, your pituitary gland will be operating better which means, if you are of the right age, you will grow! The added value is also the lengthening of the spine, tendons and muscles which can add as much as an inch or two to your height!
The pleasing news about yoga’s contribution to growth is one of many areas of wellness support the practice can bring to your life. Yoga is a complementary medicine for your all round wellbeing and it is good to know that it includes so many specific applications too.