Hi Guys and a warm welcome back to my channel.
My name's Danielle Collins
and I'm going to show you some face yoga
to help the eye area.
So if you find that your eyes
are starting to look a little bit
sunken, maybe a little bit tired, then
these techniques are great.
Now often our sunken eyes or deep set
eyes can be genetic. I've naturally got
quite deep set eyes
and there's nothing we can do about that
but what we can do is we can strength and tone
this orbicularis oculi muscle that
runs around the eye.
We can also help to retrain our face so
we can open our eyes
up wider and we help to soften this area.
So all of these things can help our eyes
to appear wider,
brighter and more energised overall.
So, as always, work to your own level with
the techniques and have nice clean hands.
So we're going to get started just by
using this part of both of our hands.
We're going to come on to the edge of
our eyebrows now
and we're just going to very gently pull the eyebrows
upwards and outwards, not a huge amount,
just so you feel a slight
lift there. Then focus on one point in front of you and
widen your eyes as much as you possibly can
and just hold there and count to ten -
release, and we're going to take that
again -
release. Let's do one more time -
and bring your hands gently down.
So there, we're working with strengthening
around the muscle, we're helping to lift
the eyebrow area. So when we lift the
edge of the eyebrows a little bit
and use it against the resistance of our
hands and of against the resistance
of using that muscle, we help to lift the
edge of the eyebrows and that's great
for helping the eye area
to really open out. So that's one
technique you can do and I recommend you
do that for about one minute per day and
you can do it about twice a day.
Then you can practice traditional eye
exercises so, if you're used to my
channel or used to my face yoga techniques,
you'll very much know that I’m a big fan
of eye exercises. They've been using yoga for
thousands of years and they're fantastic
for the muscles inside the eye
but also the muscles that surround the
eye as well. So great from a well-being
point of view but also from an aesthetic point of view as well.
So we're going to just place two hands at the
edge of the eyebrows here, so it's super
important when we do it, in terms of
trying to widen the eyes, that we keep
this area nice and still.
So keep it still with the two hands and
then widen the eyes and
focus on a point in front of you.
Hold there for a count of ten -
then look up, hold for ten -
look down, hold for ten -
then focus back in front of you, hold for
ten - really keep that forehead still -
and then gently bring your hands down.
Hope you've enjoyed today's video.
If you'd like more information about face yoga
you can go to faceyogaexpert.com.
Lots of information on there about my
book, Danielle Collins Face Yoga,
about becoming one of our certified
teachers of the Danielle Collins Face
Yoga Method
and all the different facial products
I recommend too. And if you'd like one of
my apps, I've got two face yoga apps,
just search Danielle Collins on your App
Store. Have a great day. Take care.