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January 21, 2008 by Kavit Haria

Facial Yoga – Get rid of your wrinkles faster

A couple of weeks back, I read an article in TIME magazine that discussed a new form of yoga for reducing aging. So much emphasis has been put on anti-aging and the market is huge for providers and practitioners because of today’s boomers.

I wondered if there really was anything new to this kind of yoga or if it really just meant for people to get back to their younger ages and make silly faces and movements with the cheek and face bones so that they are being exercised.

The focus of facial yoga from a marketing perspective is to help boomers reduce their wrinkles so they can look and feel more younger. And as it’s less painful than surgery and cheaper than Botox, it becomes an attractive thing. Also, there’s the huge social element of going to a facial yoga class once or twice a week, making silly faces and movements and then heading back home to daily life – call it a time to get away from the hustle and bustle of life that causes the wrinkles anyway.

Check out some of the facial expressions yourself and try them (it could even be a party game!). New York instructor Annelise Hagen demonstrates them in this UK Daily Mail article. If you can learn this off a book, you could do it anywhere. But do you really need to learn how to make faces from a book? Aren’t these silly faces things you did as you grew up and now you’ve just got to do it again for a health and wellness benefit?

Make of it what you think for yourself. For me, it’s yet another simple service that boomers can buy into for the social aspect of working with others. Aside from that, you could even just practice facial yoga walking down the street.

Watch this video for a quick tip or two:

 

 

 

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Kavit Haria is the founder of Wellness-Junction. He has a keen interest in biology and genetics and put this site to share his views and thoughts on healthy living and prevention as opposed to cure and treatment post-disease.

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  1. Viv ;=) says:

    Hi Kavit,

    Thanks for sharing this video.

    Ahh, guess its time I start this facial exercise :-)

    I’m glad I came by your blog. I love your header too!

    Cheers^^

    January 23, 2008 at 7:03 am

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