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How it works and benefits
Facial gymnastics has very ancient origins and remember that all over the face there are many meridians, many energy lines. There are also specific practices in Ayurvedic massage of Indian origin for the head and face. In the West in the twentieth century, the surgeon Reinhold Benz invented a system of exercises that fell into the category of “face-building”. Along with massage and self-massage, facial gymnastics exercises are a wonderful solution for feel your body always toned and active, well supplied with blood and therefore oxygen. Facial gymnastics comes sometimes called face yoga when, together with the positions, “grimaces” are practiced that stimulate and involve all the facial muscles.
The exercises require you to pronounce the vowels or move the mouth and forehead in certain ways. It is a series of techniques that put us in contact with the feeling and with the body. The face becomes harmonious, the cells are reactivated and their structure improves, cheeks tone up and features become beautiful. Gymnastics for the face helps reduce the furrow between the eyebrows and stretch the features of the upper part of the face, as well as improve lips and neck. All facial gymnastics exercises must be performed while maintaining one long, deep, soft and harmonious breathing. It is a very natural way recommended to reduce expression lines, limit signs of fatigue and feel full and soft cheeks. What is important constancy remains: You should practice these exercises on a regular basis even just with 2 or 3 sessions per week of at least 20 minutes perhaps also accompanied with a self-massage in which a moisturizing cream is used.
3 specific exercises
Let’s see together 3 specific exercises that help improve the state of the tissues of the forehead, labial muscles and neck:
Clean and soft forehead
This exercise promotes the tension of the part between the eyebrow arches and goes to release and activate, tone, preventing the formation of expression lines. You start to caress the point between the two eyebrows, giving a lot of relaxation to the whole nervous system. It must be performed with the cervical spine aligned and the muscles of the forehead contract, trying to mobilize the muscles of the scalp as well, as if trying to pull the ears backwards. The whole neck and shoulder area should be relaxed and it suits you work with your hands at the end of the execution, going to relax the entire forehead by tapping it with the fingertips in a very delicate way. Then place the hands in the shape of a fist in the center of the forehead e switch the knuckles in opposite directions, as if wanting to spread it out on both sides.
Strong and beautiful lip muscles
The nasolabial muscles contribute a lot to the beauty of our face and we can tone them with this simple exercise. This exercise represents a real one self-lifting that tones and firms. It improves sagging cheeks and enhances the lips, with which we kiss, talk, express ourselves. In the first phase of the exercise, the vowels UAU, taking care to bring the chin up in the final U. It is repeated for at least 12 times and then massages the area around the lips with the knuckles. In the second part of the exercise, the vowels UAI, pulling the neck muscles well in the final I. This also must be repeated 12 times and then you go to drum the whole area with your fingertips. Exercise has the power to immediately mobilize the entire area of the lips and you will feel a great relief and a sense of blood circulation, therefore of great heat release.
Muscle tone of the neck
The neck muscles should be strengthened to maintain good muscle tone. Very important to consider that the neck accommodates a series of lymphatic stations and glands very important. Massaging it and doing gymnastic exercises allows us to avoid lines, marks and keep all internal structures healthy. This simple isometric exercise can be done even when lying on your stomach. The legs are stretched and joined and you go to press the head on the pillow, and then rest after maintaining the contraction for at least 6 seconds.
Do the same by pressing on the side, after turning on your side, and then doing it on the other side as well. Finally, the same thing turning on your stomach, press your forehead down against the pillow (being careful not to hurt your nose). These pressures allow you to keep your neck healthy, especially if accompanied, once standing, by small movements such as rotations, forward bends or back extensions, supported by excellent breathing.
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