Hi and welcome back to my channel.
My name is Danielle Collins and I’m going
to be showing you
some hands-free face yoga. So this is
perfect to do if you're driving a car,
it's perfect to do if you've got makeup on.
Maybe your hands
aren't clean but you still want to do
some face yoga. Now please do take care,
of course, if you are doing these
whilst driving a car or operating
machinery and, as always, with my face yoga
we're working to our own level.
So the first thing we're going to do is
simply breathe. We're going to breathe in
through the nose - we're about to count to four -
and then we're going to breathe out
through the nose to about a count of six.
So it's a really deep inhalation, letting
the abdomen rise -
a deep exhalation, letting the abdomen lower.
Now this breathing technique has so many benefits.
There must be well over 50 studies,
the benefits of this deep nasal breathing
and one of the things you'll notice
almost straight away is how it
calms the mind, the body and the face.
So it's perfect to do
when maybe you can't do regular yoga or
you can't do facial massage or really
touching the face.
So just doing this breathing now but try
to do it throughout this class.
Then we're going to use our tongue for
the next technique. So we're going to
take our tongue and, obviously, with this,
if you do a bit of mouth breathing, it's fine.
We're going to take the tongue, we're
going to trace it all the way up
from the jaw to the nose and back down again.
So we're going to do
30 that side and then we'll move on to
30 the other side. So let's do this together.
Again, just work to your own level with this….
So we've done 20 so far - take a break
here for a moment.
It's a really strong exercise which
really works your tongue muscles
and, actually, tongue strength and tongue posture.
It's incredibly important for so many things -
for the jaw area, for the teeth health,
for our talking. So many reasons, but also
you should start to feel it
working in the muscle here as well.
We're going to do our ten
others now together….
Well done! - you’ve done your 30 now. Take a break again,
take a couple of deep breaths, in and out
through the nose if you're not already.
Really let that exhalation give you a sense of
letting go of stress, letting go of
tension and then just become aware,
whilst you take this pause, and the
difference between the side you worked on
and the side you haven't worked on.
So really start to become aware of those
facial muscles and the power
of this facial exercise. So we're going
to do the same the other side. Now we're
going to do 20, take a pause and then we'll do ten.
So your tongue might feel a little
bit fatigued here, so just go easy….
So we've done 20 of those now -
we're taking a break.
If you need to just give a little bit of
release through massage for a moment, you can.
That really helps with those nasolabial folds
as well but, of course, if
you're doing hands-free,
keep your hands away and just simply
rest for a moment because, obviously, with that one
you need to make sure you've got clean hands.
So let's do our other ten now….
Well done! So let's give the lower face a
break for a moment. We will go back to the lower face.
Now the next one is perfect if you don't
want to touch your face for whatever
reason but definitely
I wouldn't recommend this one whilst
you're driving. It's going to be some eye movements.
We're really simply just starting off
going one side then the other side -
with our eyes - really working with exercising
those muscles right inside the eyes but
also that lovely ring muscle
that goes all the way around the eyes as well -
orbicularis oculi muscle -
such a strong muscle but often it can
get quite weak. We tend to
express more with our forehead or with
our mouth area.
Really don't use these eye muscles as
much as we should.
People have been using these in yoga for
thousands of years to really improve
eyesight as well
and then you're just looking up and
looking down. So you want to keep that going up
and down - a really nice movement here,
up and down. Now if you are using your
hands you can place a hand onto your forehead
to check the forehead stays still but
please don't do that
if you're wanting to keep your hands off
your face today.
Good, well done - and that's your class
completed for today.
If you'd like more information on face yoga
just head to faceyogaexpert.com.
Have a great day -
Bye bye.