Anti-Aging Miracle: No More Needles or Doctors
February 11, 2008 by Holly
Filed Under Bath & Beauty, Your Style
For many people who are worried about aging, wrinkles or laugh lines, Botox and plastic surgery have been quick and easy fixes for most on the path to looking their best. But now, for those who are petrified of needles (such as myself–it’s a phobia,) don’t like doctors or don’t like the idea of plastic surgery, yoga enthusiasts are now swearing by a new way to not only look younger, but to fee younger and better about your appearance.
Facial Yoga has been deemed the natural Botox and is being used by many yoga enthusiasts as a daily exercise. By making theatrical expressions and stretching and training your face in your daily exercise routine, in your spare time or while doing household tasks, within as little as a few session you can start to see not only the lines on your forehead and under your eyes fading, but you can also see the stress that most people carry in their faces cease.
Annelise Hagen, author of The Yoga Face: Eliminate Wrinkles with the Ultimate Natural Facelift, conducts weekly facial yoga classes and developed her own facial yoga techniques that she teaches to her clients.
Hagen’s facial exercises include the Smiling Fish (purse your lips and smile slightly), the Marilyn (blow kisses while keeping your forehead smooth) and the Satchmo (puff out your face and transfer air from cheek to cheek).
Not only can yoga make you look and feel better about yourself and your appearance, it has also been used to train injured faces to move again after an injury or stroke and is also said to help sharpen your mind by Rose Hong Tran, a yoga instructor in Houston. Above all, it can help bring out that inner child in you that doesn’t get to come out and play very often. Making theatrical and hilarious faces in the mirror can do wonders for your spirit.
Claire on Tue, 12th Feb 2008 5:53 am
facial exercises are a great way to keep your face looking young. More people should do them!
neil strauss on Tue, 12th Feb 2008 5:21 pm
All these celebrities doing botox is not good. If only they did some facial yoga, they could save some money as well as accidental errors.
Cynthia - Editor: Best Registry Cleaner on Wed, 13th Feb 2008 8:20 pm
Wow, facial yoga?? Geez. I’m behind…I was about to start regular yoga.
HappyCamper on Thu, 14th Feb 2008 8:15 pm
Yeah, where have I been?!! THis sounds amazing and I am eager to start. However, I may feel more comfortable practicing facial yoga in the privacy of my own home!
InnovationLuggage on Fri, 15th Feb 2008 1:10 am
I have heard about this new innovative surgery-less way to reduce aging and wrinkles. It’s hard to believe that stretching and training your face could actually reduce aging, but I do know that Face-yoga is rapidly gaining in popularity. All I can say is that it definitely couldn’t hurt to try it and if it means avoiding surgery or Botox, that’s certainly a good thing!
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Actually this is much better than botox for obvious reasons!
Chevy Camaro Girl on Fri, 15th Feb 2008 9:54 pm
I’m skeptic, but I would be surprised if it helps. I mean natural working out of the body is good for your skin, so I guess working out your face must be also good for your skin.
miss wheelchair on Tue, 19th Feb 2008 9:36 pm
Very interesting, facial yoga. I love regular yoga with all the benefits, strength, and relaxation it gives me, but I’ve never heard of Facial Yoga till now. I’ll look into it more. Thanks for sharing.
Arm Kandi on Fri, 29th Feb 2008 11:09 pm
I have heard that exercising the face in an incorrect way does more harm than good and I would be concerned that I wasn’t performing the exercises correctly.
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Jen - cosmetic surgery forum on Sun, 13th Apr 2008 3:41 pm
This is an excellent book and the techniques really do work! Definitely required reading for any woman who wants a little lift/toning without getting work done.
Yvonne - Wrinkle Cream Reviews on Wed, 16th Apr 2008 8:35 am
Hm, I’m quite skeptical about facial exercises. Most dermatologists agree that by moving your face so much you will only create more wrinkles. Although it can indeed decrease sagginess. Just be careful that you don’t do anything that causes strain on the existing wrinkles or lines. Will check out the book though!
PC Speed Up on Thu, 1st May 2008 8:36 pm
My wife is a firm believer in facial exercises. Not that I am biased, but I can see an improvement in the 8 months or so she has been doing it.
Josefin on Thu, 1st May 2008 9:59 pm
I would much rather this over something like botox.
Ralf on Thu, 8th May 2008 5:15 pm
I like Botox, but I will try this technique
Yoga Toes on Fri, 9th May 2008 3:18 am
I was on the swim team in high school and our coach had us perform visualization exercises before meets. This included ‘facial stretches’ which I see is now so fashionably known as ‘facial yoga.’ Who knew?
Fat Loss 4 Idiots on Sun, 11th May 2008 3:13 pm
My wife had similar problems. Botox helped her and the result was fantastic.
Swindon Computer Repair on Wed, 18th Jun 2008 3:24 pm
i always thought moving your face would cause wrinkles, but i guess if you are firming up the muscles underneath the skin that support it then you will end up preventing wrinkles.worth a go!
Vertalen Engels on Thu, 26th Jun 2008 10:18 am
Generally moving your face does cause wrinkles. Can help with sagging though. Some people use Frownies or (the cheaper version) Scotch Tape just to prevent themselves from frowning and thereby prevent wrinkles.
LifeCell on Thu, 31st Jul 2008 12:40 am
I might give facial yoga a try sometime. However, it does not sound like a replacement for a good anti-aging product but rather could be beneficial if used together.
Aging on Wed, 6th Aug 2008 10:44 am
I’d rather see some one do facial yoga than buy a pile of beauty products. Aging is not about being beautiful people.
SkinCareByYou on Wed, 13th Aug 2008 3:56 am
I agree with LifeCell that facial yoga may be more beneficial in conjunction with topical skin care products…attack aging skin from two fronts.
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Top Registry Cleaner Software on Wed, 3rd Sep 2008 4:17 pm
Wouldn’t facial exercises ‘increase’ the creases and stretch marks on your face?
A Mom Fighting Wrinkles on Wed, 24th Sep 2008 3:41 pm
I really don’t like loading my skin up with chemicals, lotions and potions, so this is becoming very appealing to me. Plus, the idea of injecting junk into my face with needles — not soo yummy either.
I’ll probably be the next one to jump on this bandwagon. What’s the worst that can happen?
Donald on Thu, 9th Oct 2008 12:38 pm
Moisture, moisture, moisture. My fiancee, she’s in her late 30’s, has been using one of the Clarins cream and she swears by it. However, she’s still considering botox. Oy!
Anti Aging Solution on Tue, 21st Oct 2008 1:57 pm
I also heard that doing facial exercises would cause more wrinkles. But it does make sense that it would firm up some of the areas, but perhaps, stretch out the skin a bit in the process. What’s worse – the sagging or the lines?
Ohio Doctors on Wed, 29th Oct 2008 9:41 pm
Coming from an actual doctor the comment above about facial excerciese in my professional experience rings very true to form.
Aromatherapy Essential Oils on Thu, 13th Nov 2008 9:04 pm
The principle of yoga can be applied to any muscle groups – essentially stretching muscles invigorates them and makes them more supple, more relaxed / less tight. So naturally your face also becomes more relaxed, less tight, as you do facial exercises.
Save my skin on Tue, 25th Nov 2008 1:33 am
has anyone actually tried these and seen results? I’ve no idea how such exercises could help with wrinkles.
RezV on Wed, 25th Mar 2009 7:20 am
Anyone tried these? I only tried Botox, seemed a little bit painful to me to be honest
Katie on Sat, 11th Apr 2009 9:56 am
Facial exercise can help as an anti aging technique buts it’s not simple and one needs to practice it before seeing the results.
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wow, that sounds interesting. I should abandon my regular yoga classes I think
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I am just 20 years old. So I think I do not need to do facial exercise. But my mum has the problem.I will ask my mum to start facial yoga.
Nusba on Sun, 26th Apr 2009 10:03 am
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Fix Registry Errors on Mon, 18th May 2009 9:00 am
Anything that has the same or better effect without the use of chemicals is surely a good thing and worth trying before thinking about things like botox.
Tom Walsh.
Sun Salutation on Wed, 27th May 2009 9:20 am
Pranayama or breathing exercise are natural anti ageing exercies discovered by Indian yogies thousands years back. Sun Salutation or Surya Namaskar is one of the most popular and useful yoga practices. It’s a combination of twelve asanas, which exercises the whole body in single stretch one by one.
Carlos on Sun, 31st May 2009 12:13 am
Yoga for anti aging is not a new thing, my wife has been doing this for years:
http://productantiaging.com/yoga-for-antiaging-and-immunit/
Tripeptinon on Mon, 1st Jun 2009 8:24 am
Hello everyone. All are worried about their health and fitness and are also worried about their future how they look. To resist the same look, facial is been the one which gives complete relaxation to face. Whereas many of the people apply yoga exercises in their daily routine. That keeps them fit and fine.yoga make you look and feel better about yourself and your appearance, it has also been used to train injured faces to move again after an injury. Hence Yoga should be applied to our day today life.
resveratrol supplements on Thu, 20th Aug 2009 8:34 pm
Sun Salutation or Surya Namaskar is one of the most popular and useful yoga practices.
Betty on Thu, 17th Sep 2009 7:38 pm
What a great article — I have read about the facial exercises, but haven’t tried it yet. You make this a much
simpler task by adding it to the daily work we already do.
Thanks for sharing this with us. I’ll be back to your blog
for more. Keep up the good work.
Botox Shrewsbury on Sun, 11th Oct 2009 11:47 pm
I have a terrible phobia of needles as well. That plus, I don’t really see the point of injecting paralytic bacteria into your face. These excercises sound really cool I hope it works well too.
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Yoga Face? Sounds pretty cool but lots of effort!
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wow, that sounds interesting. I should abandon my regular yoga classes I think
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