How to Get Glowing Skin With Skin Yoga

Face yoga is just one way to get that natural glow to your skin. Face yoga is an easy way to make your skincare practice feel new and different.

Can yoga improve skin?

Skin Yoga can do wonders for your skin as well as your muscles. By detoxifying and reducing cortisol levels, it prevents pimples and acne and gives you that lovely fairy glow. It also increases the skin’s flexibility and helps you get rid of wrinkles.

In the ongoing quest to age gracefully and exude a sense of inner peace, many people are searching for natural, affordable options that will help them look and feel better.

Face yoga involves massage and exercises that stimulate the muscles, skin, and lymphatic system. This technique is designed to soften and relax your face muscles to help alleviate tension, stress, and worry. This may also help you stop making the facial expressions associated with those feelings.  Dermatology research have found that face yoga may be effective in improving the structural appearance of your face by strengthening the muscles of the cheeks and face. Practitioners report a younger appearance as well. Touted as a natural facelift that enhances your overall well-being as well, practitioners say its benefits are immense. Research supporting these benefits is mounting.

Face yoga helps to lift and firm the muscles under the skin, which smooths lines and wrinkles. Massage helps to boost circulation, improve lymphatic drainage, and release tension. Acupressure techniques boost circulation and relieve stress, which can aid in preventing headaches, releasing sinuses, and enhancing the quality of your sleep.

What Face yoga can do to my skin?

• control face muscles
• promote proper nostril breathing
• firm the neckline
• reprogram muscle memory
• make your face more symmetrical
• make your face less rounded
• reduce the appearance of dark underage circles
• improve confidence
• tone face muscles
• correct sagging
• generate positive emotions

7 yoga exercises for your face

Start with clean hands and a clean face. Use an oil, serum, or cleansing balm so your fingers can glide easily over your skin without it being too slippery. Massaging oils or serums into your skin can help the product penetrate your skin for deeper absorption.

Eye circles

This exercise boosts oxygen circulation and alleviates puffiness. Use light, featherweight touches.

1. Place your ring fingers at the inside of your eyebrows.
2. Gently tap your fingers toward the outside of your eyebrows.
3. Press into your temples for a few seconds.
4. Continue to tap above your cheekbones to the inner corner of your eyes.
5. Continue for 30 seconds.

Jaw unlocker

This exercise engages the muscles in your jaw and neck.

1. While seated, make a fist with your left hand and place it on the outside of your jaw with your thumb facing down.
2. Turn your head toward your fist, feeling a stretch on the side of your neck.
3. Don’t allow your hand to move.
4. Then press your jaw toward your hand for a few seconds.
5. Gently release.
6. Repeat on the opposite side.

Face tapping

Tapping promotes relaxation and boosts circulation.

1. Start at your forehead and use your fingertips to rhythmically tap your skin.
2. Continue all along your face toward your jaw.
3. Next, tap the front of your neck and across your shoulders.
4. Then move up along the back of your neck to your head.
5. Finally, rub your palms together to generate heat.
6. Cup your hands over your face and breathe deeply for several breaths.

Neck massage

This exercise boosts lymphatic drainage and alleviates neck tension. It helps to correct sagging skin around your jaw and neck.

1. Tilt your head back slightly.
2. Place your fingers at the top of your neck.
3. Apply gentle pressure as you glide your fingers down to your collarbone.
4. Press into your collarbone for a few seconds before releasing your fingers.
5. Continue for 30 seconds.

Brow smoother

This exercise relaxes the frontalis muscle, which is the large muscle at the front of your forehead. Often this muscle is overused, which can cause stiffness, rigidity, and expressions of stress.

1. Place your fingertips at the center of your forehead, facing inwards.
2. Gently press your fingertips into your forehead as you move your fingers toward your temples.
3. Release your fingers.
4. Continue for 30 seconds.