Following diets and regular exercise helps to tighten the body and put its shape in order. But most often, the contours of the face do not feel these changes: puffy cheeks and a double chin just don’t want to go away. Continuing the series of articles on yoga for health , we will talk about this in more detail.
Today, yoga is extremely popular for putting the body in order, but few people know that there is also facial yoga. Sets of exercises give tremendous results after just a month of classes with minimal effort and time. In addition, I would like to note that facial yoga can be practiced not only at home but also at work.
Features of Facial Exercises
Exercises for Lifting the Face
It is better to start getting acquainted with facial yoga with a basic set of exercises. It will help you learn what facial massage is in practice and prepare you for getting acquainted with more complex complexes.
- Start gymnastics with the introductory exercise Buddha’s Face. Correct execution helps to smooth the skin of the face, relax the muscles and prepare for further exercise: close your eyes; feel the point between your eyebrows; imagine a rainbow circle; eyelids are always closed; first do one minute, then increase to two to three minutes.
- Free Tongue - the exercise stimulates blood circulation and trains facial muscles. Tears may appear during execution. This indicates the correct execution: open your mouth very wide; stick out your tongue, the further the better; perform for a minute.
- A simple exercise Surprise Me helps get rid of wrinkles on the forehead and folds in the area of the bridge of the nose: open your eyes wide; don’t wrinkle your forehead; imagine a point in front of you for ten seconds; repeat several times.
- The basic complex also contains training for the eye muscles. Dancer’s Eyes strengthen the corresponding muscle group, prevent and relieve swelling: look to the left; look up; look to the right; look down; the head does not move; repeat for a minute.
- An exercise with an interesting name Smiling Fish is aimed at restoring the tone of the lips, facial contours and getting rid of sagging cheeks: smile; tighten your lips into a bow shape and stretch them forward; pull in your cheeks; try to smile, straining the corners of your mouth; do 5 repetitions of 10 seconds.
- The exercise Trumpeter strengthens and restores the shape of the cheeks. The Trumpeter also helps smooth the skin of the face and refresh its appearance: take in the maximum amount of air into your cheeks; roll the air from one cheek to the other; roll the air from the lower lip to the upper; 3 times in each direction.
- Finish your workouts with the initial exercise Buddha’s Face. It will help relax your face after exercise.
Exercises to Strengthen Facial Muscles
By performing this set of exercises daily, you can see significant changes after just a week. So, the following exercises will help strengthen your facial muscles.
- Hot Ball - this exercise is aimed at preventing and correcting sagging cheeks, it also helps smooth wrinkles in the nasolabial triangle and correct the chin line: take air into your mouth; move this “ball” of air clockwise, then counterclockwise; repeat 5-7 times.
- Movements of the chin in different directions will help to remove the second chin and improve the shape of the lower part of the face: push the chin forward as much as possible and fix it for a few seconds; pull the chin in as much as possible and press it against your chest, fix it for a few seconds; then the movement first to the left, then to the right, with a short fixation in each position; 5-7 repetitions of the cycle.
- Charging for the cheeks in the form of muscle tension with closed lips and teeth improves blood circulation, helps strengthen the neck muscles and correct the oval of the face: on the exhale, clench your lips and teeth, straining your cheek muscles, fix for a few seconds; on the inhale, completely relax; repeat 5-7 times.
- Helps to tighten the cheeks and chin, as well as improve complexion Air Kiss: stretch your lips forward and hold for 10-20 seconds; then relax your muscles; repeat 5-7 times.
- The following exercise will help with bags and bruises under the eyes: False Wink: strain the muscles with which you wink, but while keeping your eye open, fix the position for a short time; repeat 5-7 times with each eye.
Being successful, healthy, and beautiful is a lifestyle that is trending today. Practicing, known since ancient times to Indian ancestors, will help maintain not only the body in good shape but also the face. Regular classes will help restore the contours of the face, remove wrinkles and refresh its color.
Vitaly
I have been practicing Yoga for a long time. My body became toned, but I had problems with my face, as with age there are many wrinkles, it sags a little. I thought I was getting old, but then the trainer gave me a technique for the face. The technique was, as written in the article, the same exercises. And I did them at work and it doesn't take time and brings benefits. I began to feel that the skin is becoming taut. And after two months, there were much fewer wrinkles, the skin does not sag, as if I rejuvenated by 5 years. And I started practicing Facial Yoga constantly.
Lapteva Tatyana Matveevna
A very interesting and useful article, I enjoyed reading it. While reading, I did some facial exercises. Until now, I did not know that there is facial yoga. The exercises are interesting and easy, so doing them is a pleasure. Yes, yoga is a very necessary and useful gymnastics, it helps the body, face, and soul to become more beautiful and better.
Alina
Very interesting exercises, I learned about facial yoga for the first time. Before that, I was only familiar with facial gymnastics. I am sure that with sufficient skin hydration and a balanced diet, facial yoga gives a good effect.