If you thought yoga was only for the body then you’re wrong. As a matter of fact yoga provides a complete workout for the entire body. Facial yoga is the new in thing.So if you feel that you need to get rid of wrinkles with a Botox treatment or are worrying about a sagging brow line, facial yoga is here to your rescue.
Here are some simple yoga exercises that will give you youthful looking skin.
Lion Face:Benefit: Stretches facial muscles and releases tension.
- Open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue, squeezing your facial muscles and roar like a lion.
- Repeat 5 times.
Smiling Fish Face:Benefit: Tone and slim the cheeks and lips
- Suck in your cheeks and lips to make it appear like a fish and try smiling.
- Hold for 5-10 seconds.
- Repeat 5 times.
Surprise me:Benefit: Removes wrinkles on the forehead
- Widen your eyes without wrinkling your forehead.
- Concentrate on a point over the horizon
- Hold for 5-10 seconds.
- Repeat 5 times.
Marilyn:Benefit: Strengthens the lips
- Blow kisses keeping your brow straight.
- Repeat 5 times
- Press your index and middle finger to your lips and repeat the exercise.
Puppet face:Benefit: removes lines between the lips and nose
- Smile and press fingers in the crease between the lips and nose.
- Lift the muscles up and press the fingertips on the area for resistance.
- Repeat 20-30 times.
Smiling Buddha-Benefit: Remove lines on the face
- Fold your lips into your mouth so that they are not visible.
- Smile in this position.
- Repeat 10 – 12 times.
The Giraffe-Benefit: Rid the neck of lines and loose skin
Look straight, place the finger on the base of your neck and pull the skin downwards, then tilt the head backwards.
- Bring the head to the chest and repeat the exercise again.
- Jut the lower lip out to pull the corners of the mouth.
- Place the fingers on the collar bone with the chin pointed upwards.
- Hold for 10-15 seconds.
- Repeat 5 times.
The V-Benefit: Reduces drooping eyelids, crow’s feet and eye bags
- Press both index fingers between the eyebrows.
- Then with the index finger apply pressure on the outer end of the eyebrows.
- Look to the ceiling and raise the lower lids to create a squint. Relax.
- Repeat 5 times.
Relax at the end by shutting eyes for 10 seconds.
Chubby face-Benefit: reduce fat on the face
- Inhale air with your mouth
- Transfer air from one side of the cheek to the other
- Repeat 15 times.
Jaw lift-Benefit: Tone and reduce fat on the neck and cheeks
- Look high up to the ceiling, as far as you can.
- Blow air out of your mouth while looking up.
- Repeat 15 times.
Try these simple exercises for just 20 minutes and day and see the difference in 2 weeks. Yoga has proven to show effective and fast results.
So do try the new trend of facial exercise in the form of facial yoga.
Written by: Rasha Ashraf