Yoga for the face: 3 exercises for beauty and youth
Imagine my surprise when many students, to whom I suggested, in addition to practicing ordinary Yoga, to also introduce a set of facial exercises into their daily diet, refused, expressing distrust and “fear of ruining their face.” From completely different people from different social strata I heard the same prejudices: “I’ll press somewhere in the wrong place and stretch the whole skin,” “Some wrinkles will go away, but others, facial ones, will appear,” “I’ll only cause myself irreparable harm!”
To be honest, the initial surprise even gave way to irritation and anger. But then I realized that this resistance to Yoga for the face simply showed all the accumulated unconscious fears that my dear clients harbored, pricking themselves with Botex and heliuronic acid to the point of insanity, inserting fillers into all parts of the face and stitching themselves through with gold threads, like a down jacket.
And then I decided to declare an information war on artificial rejuvenation methods, not only popularizing the method of natural restoration and maintaining a youthful face, but also highlighting all the terrible consequences that invasive interventions by cosmetologists, not to mention plastic surgeons, often lead to.
Story 1
My friend and student moved to Switzerland and decided to get herself in order. She contacted a well-known clinic with a request for lip augmentation. She was advised to insert super modern and completely safe fillers, which were supposed to not only give the lips the necessary charm, but also somehow magically refresh and tone the entire lower third of the face.
However, a few weeks after the procedure, it turned out that my client had an individual intolerance to the substance that was injected into her, and it began to spread throughout her entire face, unpredictably disfiguring the woman who was in shock. The first thing she did was run to that very blade, begging for help somehow. However, an even deeper shock awaited her here. The doctors said that they had never seen her and did not perform any procedure, and she could prove otherwise only through the court, by presenting a paid receipt for this service. My friend, unfortunately, did not save the receipt and realized that she had no one to expect help from in Switzerland.
She returned to Russia, to a well-known specialist in narrow circles who specialized specifically in correcting such errors. As a result, she underwent hours-long surgery to excise the inner surfaces of her lips and cheeks in order to remove the substance that had spread in all directions. In total, about 120 incisions were made, which later turned into scars. Fortunately, outwardly it is almost imperceptible: apart from a slightly slanted grin to the left, it says almost nothing about the trauma he suffered.
In each of these cases, which I encounter in real life, and do not read somewhere in the newspapers or gossip columns, I experience mixed feelings of compassion, resentment, pain and a desire to help women who are ready to do anything for the sake of beauty, except that you need to practice relaxation and proper activation of the facial muscles.
I did not choose this story by chance; all these horrors could have been avoided, and the effect promised by the doctors would have been achieved independently if my client had listened to me and regularly followed the complex proposed below.
A SET OF EXERCISES FOR SIMULATING THE CHEEKS AND LOWER FACE
To achieve maximum effect, it is recommended to perform these exercises in the suggested sequence, but if you don’t have time, you can do them separately.
Exercise 1. “Cobra Hood or Bhujangasana with Tongue”
Open your mouth a little. It should look natural and almost invisible. To begin, relax your tongue, and then activate it by directing the root and middle of the tongue towards the upper palate, while the tip of the tongue remains relatively relaxed and directed downwards. Visualize the shape of your tongue - it’s a cobra’s hood, imagine that you can touch the roof of your mouth with your tongue. Breathe deeply and calmly through your nose.
If you feel your throat tightening during this, this is completely normal, we also work on the appearance of the neck. If at first your tongue does not obey and you cannot create the correct form of the tongue, imagine that you are yawning or even imitate a yawn - you will immediately understand how it works!
Hold for 30 seconds to a minute. After a month of regular daily practice, you can begin to increase the time by 10 seconds per week.
Advice for experienced Yoga practitioners. To enhance the effect of this exercise, it is advisable to use Mulabandha. You can also breathe Ujjayi.
Benefits: formation and strengthening of a clearly defined oval face without a double chin, toning the muscles of the lower third of the face
Exercise 2. “Kiss of Lakshmi”
The mouth is slightly open, check that the upper teeth are clearly above the lower ones. The exercise is performed in several stages.
- Activate your upper and lower lip muscles by imagining that you are pressing your lips towards someone in a kiss. Gradually, really begin to move your lips forward, as if you were about to kiss your lover. It should look completely natural, without exaggerated stretching or protrusion of the lips forward, so that if you do this exercise at work or in any other public place, it will not be noticeable to others. This is more internal muscle work and if you begin to feel a slight tremor in your upper and lower lips, then you are on the right track. Breathing is done through the nose. Execution time 35 seconds. After 2 weeks of regular practice, you can increase it by 5 seconds per week.
- Open your mouth as wide as possible, but try not to tense your throat or jaw muscles. And now, with this jaw position, begin to stretch your lips forward in a kiss, as in the previous exercise. Imagine that you not only want to stretch your lips, but also close them. As actively as possible, move your lips simultaneously forward and towards each other, it’s good if you even get the feeling that the tip of your nose is also starting to pull down. Breathing and execution time as in option 1.
- Advanced option.
Activate the tongue, as in the Cobra Hood exercise, and add forward extension of the lips, as in the first variation of the Lakshmi Kiss. At the same time, visualize the stretching of the facial muscles in different directions: the muscles associated with the root of the tongue stretch back, and the muscles of the mouth stretch forward following the movement of the lips. The more clearly you can not only imagine, but also feel this stretching, the more correctly pumping and toning of the muscles will occur. After 2-3 weeks of practice, add Mulabandha and Ujjayi. Benefits: deep development of the facial muscles of the cheeks, jaw and chin, activation of the orbicularis oris muscle.
Exercise 3 “Come on, take it away!”
Option 1. Purse your lips so that your facial expression resembles that of a deeply offended person - remember the idiom “pouting your lips”, while your teeth remain open. Now imagine that you have a pen between your lips and someone tries to take it away, pulls it hard from your mouth, there is a struggle and you win! At the same time, be careful, you can use a mirror so that your lips do not protrude forward and your upper lip does not wrinkle from effort. The facial expression should be completely natural and no one around you at the moment should, watching you, guess that you are training your facial muscles.
Execution time 35 seconds. After 2 weeks of regular practice, you can increase it by 5 seconds per week.
Option 2. First activate the teres oris muscle, doing everything as in option 1, and then add work with the muscles that raise and lower the corners of the mouth. To do this, keeping your lips closed and not releasing the pen, smile only with the right corner of your mouth, lower it, returning to the neutral position of no smile. Smile only with the left corner of your mouth, lower it, returning to a neutral position. Smile from both corners at the same time.
Repeat this cycle 15 times. After 2 weeks of regular practice, you can start adding 5 cycles per week.
Benefit: strengthening the teres oris muscle and the muscles that raise and lower the corners of the mouth as a prevention of drooping corners of the mouth and the appearance of nasolabial folds.
Elina Ivanova, certified Yoga therapist and instructor of Critical Alignment Yoga, instructor of Anti-Gravity Yoga for the face, has been teaching at the Yoga Class studio since 2012.
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Yoga for the face from Elena Rodicheva
There are several yogic practices for the face that can be found online. Facial yoga with Elena Rodicheva is the most popular. Elena's video lessons are well recorded, and the exercises are easy to perform. Yoga for the face with Elena Rodicheva consists of 12 complexes aimed at working out various muscles: relaxation, meditation. All this gives a boost of energy and a great mood. Elena has good teaching abilities.
Yoga for the face with Elena Rodicheva is divided into three parts:
- Warm up.
- Main part.
- Relax.
All classes begin with techniques for relieving tension in the facial muscles, neck and shoulders. The main part focuses on the tension of the facial muscles. Often people feel tired from basic exercises. The final part is relaxation.
It is necessary to conduct classes at least three times a week and after a month there will be a visible effect.
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