7 Facial Yoga Poses for Glowing Skin

Facial Yoga Poses for Glowing Skin as the body's largest organ, the skin requires more than just the application of products. While this is a simple yet important method for healthy skin, a deeper and holistic approach is required to ensure that your skincare nutrients are evenly distributed throughout all layers of the skin, enhancing your inner beauty. This includes eating fresh and seasonal foods, exercising, and leading a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Facial Yoga is a mindful practice to promote this, allowing you to lovingly care for your skin while also reconnecting with your inner self. Let's delve deeper into this practice:

What is Facial Yoga?

Facial exercises and massage have been very beneficial to us since time immemorial. The concept is derived from the ancient texts of Ayurveda – freeing up energy pathways to naturally achieve a sense of improved health and well-being, as well as a radiant appearance. Facial yoga does for your face what yoga does for your body. It relaxes, tones, and naturally refreshes the skin, while also restoring your facial muscles. Its purpose is to stretch the 57 muscles in the face and neck, toning, firming, and promoting blood circulation to create a youthful appearance.

 

How does facial yoga work and what are the benefits of facial yoga?

When you perform facial exercises or engage in a meditation yoga session, your body's muscles feel firm and strong. Similarly, when your facial muscles are exercised with facial yoga, they feel toned and, with regular practice, your face feels naturally lifted.

We recommend these 7 facial yoga exercises or postures for supple and healthy skin:

1. Kiss & Smile

Stretch your lips outward as wide as possible, as if you were about to kiss, and then smile broadly. Repeat at least 15 times a day. This facial exercise works your cheeks and chin simultaneously.

Benefits: When you use these muscles repeatedly and in a specific way, it can improve downward sagging, leading to a youthful jawline and rosy cheeks.

 

2. Puff Your Cheeks 

Inhale through your mouth and spread the breath from one cheek to the other, then exhale.

Benefits: These quick and easy movements will strengthen the cheek muscles and prevent them from becoming hollow. Perform this facial exercise regularly for plump and full cheeks.

3.  Chant ‘Om’ With A Smile

Chanting 'Om' calms the mind and relaxes the facial muscles. This yogic facial exercise is the easiest of all facial yoga postures. Close your eyes and, with a slight smile, imagine the point between your eyebrows as the balance point. Since most people unconsciously furrow their eyebrows, doing so repeatedly can lead to wrinkles.

Benefits: This asana will help reduce these lines and give your skin a glow from within.

 

4. Lift Your Eyebrows

Place the index fingers of both hands half an inch above your eyebrows. Pressing them down with your fingers, try to raise them. Repeat this 10-12 times a day.

Benefits: Since our forehead is the first place to wrinkle, you can tone those muscles, release tension, and reduce wrinkles by doing this specific facial exercise.

5. Make A Fish Face

Pull the inner part of your cheeks inward, almost making a fish face. Keep your eyes wide open and hold for a few seconds. If your eyes start to water, this indicates the length of time you can hold this pose. You can then blink and release the pose.

6. Stretching the eyelids

Look up and simultaneously raise your eyebrows. Then, while looking up, gently close your eyelids.

Benefits: Since our eyelids tend to droop as we age, this stretching exercise can help stabilize them.

 

7. Yogic Breathing Face Exercise

Facial yoga is incomplete without yogic breathing exercises. Respiratory changes affect the skin and body, as well as our mood. For example, shallow breathing can lead to dull complexion. Nowadays, stress constantly disrupts the natural breathing process, leading to a depletion of the life-giving force, prana.

Benefits: To restore this balance, we recommend deep breathing exercises, including abdominal breathing and alternating nostril breathing.

Are facial exercises effective?

If one diligently integrates face yoga into their daily practice, the results on the skin can be observed, just like with any other physical activity. An added benefit is that you can do these exercises anywhere, anytime.

However, whatever you do for skin care, remember to cultivate inner beauty and true health through practices that bring you ultimate joy. We recommend practicing these exercises with your choice of Forest Essentials diffuser oil to create a multi-sensory experience that soothes the mind, body, and soul, making your skin care routine more enjoyable and mindful, and therefore more effective.

As a result, you will find that your face and overall disposition will reflect a sense of satisfaction, along with an external glow. This is the secret to true beauty.