Hi Guys - I hope you're well and a warm
welcome back to my channel. My name's
Danielle Collins
and today we're going to be doing some
face yoga techniques
for this area, just at the top of the nose.
So we can be prone to little lines,
little horizontal lines here which are
often called bunny lines
So I'm going to show you a
little bit of massage, a little bit of
facial exercise
and a little bit of acupressure which
are all really good for helping to
prevent lines there, so
even if you're not prone to lines in
that area, do these techniques
anyway or, if you've got existing lines,
they're just going to help to soften
those lines a little bit. With all face yoga
make sure you work to your own level,
always have clean hands and, ideally, have
a clean face and apply a little bit of
Fusion by Danielle Collins
organic serum. It's really going to help
double the benefits of your face yoga.
So let's get going. Our first technique
is an acupressure. You're going to take
your index finger
and come to that area just on the edge
of the nose that, on that little bridge
as it comes down - you'll feel an
indentation there.
If you do have lines in that area, you're
pressing directly
onto those lines. Now close your eyes
for a moment
and you're going to focus on breathing
in through the nose
and out through the nose.
Now as you breathe, really bring all your focus
all your positive energy, to that area.
Just feel that sense of that area relaxing,
feel that sense of any lines or tension
in that area just starting to melt away.
Even that visualisation process
is hugely powerful to help reduce
and prevent lines. Then just doing a little bit of
massage - so we're massaging firstly in
one direction,
using your breath still, keeping the rest
of your face really relaxed, so you're
breathing in through the nose
and you're breathing out through the
nose. As we circle here, we're helping to
boost the blood flow to this area.
It's really going to help to feed and
nourish the skin.
We're also releasing tightness and
tension - so it's often because of
repetitive expressions
and then a gradual breakdown of the
collagen elastin in the skin which
causes these lines here.
So circle the other way now - so if we
can start to
increase the circulation to that area, if
we can do techniques,
massage techniques, which really help to
boost the collagen elastin
and if we help to relax tension there,
it's going to help to reduce
the amount of repetitive expressions we
do in that area and help the skin
have a better bounce back if we do
express a lot in that area.
So as you come off you should see a nice
little bit of redness or pinkness in
your skin now -
just a great sign that you've really
boosted the blood flow in that area.
So we're going to massage now. You’re
going to take one index finger into a
little hook,
just come to the very bottom of that
area where your little horizontal lines may be
and you're going to work all the way up
to the hairline
and lift off. So you're coming up
and lifting off, so really using your breath,
inhaling through the nose and exhaling
through the nose. This is
also very good if you get horizontal lines
if you get, sorry, vertical lines. So this is
really good if you get vertical lines
between the eyebrows. It really helps to
soften and relax those as well, so
all those similar benefits I've just
mentioned with the acupressure
we're getting here with the massage.
So you can do
the acupressure and the massage for one
minute each per day.
The final technique, which is a
little facial exercise, sort of combines
a bit of massage, too.
This is one from my book, Danielle
Collins Face Yoga, which you can get on
Amazon and you just place an index
finger here
and then your middle finger just between
the eyebrows and you're just going to
gently pull the skin slightly away from
each other so you
just start to release the tension. So
you're going there
and you're sliding across - it helps to
just relax
tension in the muscle. So we're starting
off here because often bunny lines are
caused because of overuse of this
procerus muscle, so this muscle that runs up here.
So this is really helping to release
that area, so you do
three times holding for about 10 seconds each
then you're just going to come down to
that little bridge area there,
where the bunny lines can be - and do the
same thing. Press
the fingers into the skin, slide them
away from each other.
So it's a little bit of an exercise, a
little bit of a massage here.
Take a deep breath in, deep breath out
and then just gently relax. So they are
your three techniques to reduce
and prevent bunny lines. If you'd like
more information about face yoga, you can
go to faceyogaexpert.com.
Have a great day. Bye bye.