Facial Yoga Lifts, Reduces Signs of Aging
Jul 14th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Aging and Longevity, Featured, YogaAre your facial features starting to exhibit a little too much of that lived-in look? Forget the face lifts and botox and stretch into a little facial yoga to both feel better and look younger.
With pose names such as Temple Dancer Eyes, Smiling Fish Face and Buddha Face, facial yoga promises to help increase the flow of blood to the brain, reduce wrinkles and other fine lines in the face, and reduce stress and tension in your jaw, neck and other areas of your head.
Based on the premise that facial muscles, like any other muscle, need exercise to stay toned, enthusiasts of facial yoga say the regular practice of making kissy faces or wagging one’s tongue can reduce worry lines and wrinkles — and even create a little peace within. The face carries a great deal of tension and energy.
Facial yoga classes are becoming very popular amongst women. “I have just enrolled myself in a facial yoga course in my locality. I am yet to see the results,” says 45-year-old housewife Shipa Venkat who is aspiring to achieve a youthful appearance especially after undergoing a weight-reduction program. “Facial stretches and yoga temporarily reduce the neurological impulses associated with stress and the grimaces that lead to the worry lines in your forehead,” agrees Sonal Chib, a yoga teacher based out in Mumbai who specializes in facial yoga.
A routine of these stretches can be done in as little as 15 minutes a day, and its portability (assuming you carry your face around with you) and lack of equipment or props make facial yoga perfect for the office or anywhere else that you don’t really care whether people think you’ve lost it.
Seriously, Smiling Fish Face on a crowded subway? You’ll not only relieve stress, you’ll open up a nice little pocket of personal space for yourself. Win win.
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