Hi and a very warm welcome back to my channel.
My name is Danielle Collins,
world-leading face yoga expert and I
love sharing natural holistic techniques,
most of all to make you feel good,
but also they help you to really look
good as well
in a natural and holistic way.
So we're going to work the cheek area today.
So this is really good if you're
starting to notice a little bit of loss
of volume in the cheeks.
Maybe your cheeks look a little bit
saggy, maybe they look a little bit
dull, maybe even find that you have
excess bloating or fat around that area.
All of these techniques are going
to help to improve the skin tone
but they're also going to help to really
tone those muscles under the skin.
So you want to make sure you've got
clean hands, a clean face. If you have a
little bit of Fusion by Danielle Collins
Serum, this is perfect - it gives you
just the right amount of glide for the technique.
So apply that now and then
bring your hands almost into a prayer shape
just over your nose. You're going to then
just bring your hands down
gently and then just move them up so they come
just here to the edge and you're going
to take that again. So you're going to come
down and then move up. So your down
action is quite light here but your up action
has a little bit more force in it.
You always want to work to your own level with
all of these techniques. Be as intuitive
as possible, if anything ever doesn't feel good
then you change it or you stop it
but all of my techniques are designed to
be really gentle
and each of the ones I'm showing you, you
can do about one minute
per day. That's a really nice guide to
how long you do each technique and try
and focus on your breath too.
So try and breathe in through your
nose and out through your nose.
Let your abdomen rise on the in-breath
and fall on the out-breath. So that's just
warmed up the cheeks a little bit.
Then you're going to take two fingers, just
come under your cheekbones here
and then flick all the way along
and then lifting off and take that again,
flicking along,
then lifting off. This is really helping
to boost that circulation.
We're bringing all the fresh blood and
nutrients and oxygen
up to the skin surface. It's going to
help to brighten the skin, it's going to
help with that natural detoxification.
Then you just take your fingers into
little hooks and come
underneath and lift off - and, again, we're
aiming to do each of these for about
one minute each….
really gentle and, again, if you've got a little
bit of the Fusion by Danielle Collins Moisturising Serum,
you'll find that it glides so beautifully here
and also you're helping the product
get a little bit deeper into the skin.
The lovely thing about this serum
is the molecules are small enough to get
right into that
middle layer of skin which is where your
collagen and elastin connective tissue
lie, which is where you want it to get to.
That's how you're
really going to help with that collagen
and elastin production.
So the combination of the serum and the massage is wonderful.
Okay, so let's do a nice
lifting technique to work the muscles
under the skin.
Puff both cheeks out full of air. Bring your hand
here over the lips and use it to smooth
any lines which may be created. So you'll go …….
you take your other hand and you tap,
tap all the way over the cheek area….
and then the other side…..
So we're aiming for about 30 seconds each side.
If you feel easier to do 15 each
and then repeat again, you can.
So keep going whilst I'm talking here -
you can repeat both sides again,
if you like there - and this is really working
with those muscles deep under the skin.
As we strengthen and tone the muscles,
we're really building that firmness in
the muscle that
lift and it's going to help to lift the
whole cheek area.
So then take two fingers and thumb and just pinch
all the way over your cheek area - really nice
for helping to brighten the cheeks. It's really about
circulation but also energy as well.
When the energy is very stagnant
in this area, we notice how the muscles
tend to just sort of tense up a little
bit or even get a little bit weak.
We also notice that we may lose
fat or accumulate a lot of fat in
certain areas so
everything's about energy and circulation
and then just come to that prayer position again.
And we're going to finish off doing a
few of those.
Take those lovely deep breaths again
as you do this and you can do this little routine
every single day. Remember all the
muscles are connected so it's
really good to get in the habit of doing
a full face routine every day if you can
but if you don't have time to do that
and you just want to work
one problem area - maybe it's the cheek
area if you are watching this video -
it's fine to also do that. So a few ways
that you can enjoy face yoga - you can use
my book Danielle Collins’ Face Yoga,
packed full of one-minute techniques for
all areas of the face plus loads of
well-being advice, skin care advice,
yoga advice. You can use my 10-day course
which gives you a full digital copy of my book
and gives you a full face workout 10
minutes a day
over 10 days. You can use one of my apps -
just search Danielle Collins on my App Store
or you can do my lovely teacher training
course if you'd like to teach these
techniques to other people.
Thank you so much - I hope you enjoyed it. Take care.