hi my name's Daniel Collins and I'm the
world leading face yoga expert and in
this video I'm going to be explaining to
you a little bit about how to reduce and
prevents forehead lines without Botox
now something I've said before is
actually I'm very much pro-choice I
don't personally get Botox but if
anybody chooses to do that I'm
completely fine with that I never think
that we should judge about people's
choices so if you've decided that you
want to do Botox alongside doing face
yoga that's absolutely fine maybe you've
come to face yoga as an alternative to
Botox or maybe you have Botox a while
ago and actually you're looking to
elongate the amount of time that you go
with that actually go and having Botox
so it's really up to you what you choose
but this video is for everybody that
wants to help the forehead area to look
a little bit smoother so what we're
going to do to start off with it just
start to understand a little bit about
the muscles in the forehead as we do our
techniques so if you place your hand
onto your forehead you have a big muscle
here called the frontalis muscle now the
frontalis muscle tends to hold a lot
attention it also it tends to be used a
lot for raising our eyebrows up and down
whilst we express now a day-to-day life
we want to try and discourage this
muscle a getting tense but be moving up
and down because this is what creates
those horizontal lines in the forehead
we want to learn to express with our
eyes more so as you place your hands
here I want you to try and open your
eyes as wide as you can
now notice do your eyebrows raise up
here if they do raise up just try and
use some pressure with the hands to keep
the forehead as still as possible so
you're actually just focusing on widen
your eyes and not raising your eyebrows
so just bring your hand down a moment
already your eyes should feel a little
bit more alive a little bit more
energized
maybe you're waking up muscles that you
just don't use an
in your eyes if you are very prone to
raising the forehead area let's have a
go at that again so hands on to that
front teres muscle encourage it first of
all to completely relax remember this is
what Botox is do it's encouraging that
muscle to relax and to not move with
expressions but we can't do this in a
natural way with face yoga then widen
your eyes as much as possible and this
time let's try going side to side so
let's try a little bit of our movement
now I movements are fantastic in
themselves for actually waking up the
eye area
strengthening and toning the muscles
inside the eye and helping to strengthen
the muscle that runs all the way around
the eye as well the orbicularis oculi
muscle but again you don't want your
forehead to move now let's try going up
and down this is often a little bit
trickier particularly the looking up if
you are very prone to moving the
eyebrows up but just keep practicing
this remember you if you do have lines
in the forehead area it's just because
of habit it means that over the years
you've got into the habit of expressing
with the forehead rather than with the
eyes but remember you can reform any
habit you can retrain your muscles now
again your eyes should feel a little bit
more alive here and your forehead area
should feel a little bit more relaxed so
I'd reckon then you practice that every
single day practice widening the eyes
practice looking from side to side
practice looking up and down this is
really going to help to prevent those
lines in that area now if you already
have lines in that area I would really
recommend you integrate some face yoga
massage into your routine it's going to
help to boost the circulation bring the
fresh blood and oxygen and nutrients up
to the skin surface so feeding the skin
it's also going to help again the muscle
to relax so it's going to help to soften
those lines so hands here and just very
gently smoothing across now we often
feel that we have to use a lot of
pressure but remember how thin the skin
in the face
is I've worked with clients now for
about 15 years teaching face yoga
techniques wellness techniques and
something which I have to tell almost
every client is go a little bit gentle
at with your face because naturally we
think if we go heavier if we go quite
hard handed with it
we're going to get better results but
actually by doing this gently you're
helping to boost the blood flow but
you're also encouraging the muscles to
relax and most importantly we're not
dragging the skin here we don't want to
damage the skin we actually want to
improve the skin tone now you can just
make little fists here and smooth across
this works really well if you do use a
little bit of plant-based oil or serum
it just helps the fingers glide a little
bit better all the way across the skin
now you can practice while still doing
this massage widening the eyes keep
going across keep widening in the eye
area as much as possible so that's the
other thing to practice this massage and
this matters again trying to do it every
single day alongside that retraining of
the frontalis muscle so it doesn't move
in day to day life now another place
that people quite frequently get Botox
is between the eyebrows we tend to
consistently put this area in I know I
tend to do it when I'm really
concentrating on something particular
when I'm looking down at my phone so
actually it's so important to get into
the habit of first of all being aware of
this area when do I actually pull this
area in when do I create those lines
throughout the day check in the mirror
have a look are you pulling this area in
are you concentrating on something are
you worried about something
linking the emotion to the actual
expression is really really helpful as
well where nassif you to change then
when you're a little bit aware of that
area we can then start to relax the
muscle firstly and then secondly we can
focus on really boosting the blood flow
in that area improving the skin tone as
much as possible so we're going to just
take the fingers and just glide up this
is really one of my favorite face yoga
techniques it's so gentle I find I tend
to do this quite a few times a day and I
always recommend this one to clients
because even if the client hasn't got
lines in this area by doing this so
actually stimulating the amazing
acupressure point which have been
renowned in Indian medicine in Chinese
medicine for thousands of years for
helping to calm the mind so remember
with facio burro they were working on an
aesthetic point of view we're also
really working with wellness as well now
you can do that really up to about 60
times so work with what suits you again
it's good to have a clean face clean
hands and a little bit of plant-based
oil or serum just to help your fingers
glide a little bit more as well a second
technique which you can do to relax this
muscle between the eyebrows it's called
the pro Souris muscle it's take the
index finger and the middle finger and
place between the eyebrows then very
gently stretch of the skin so it's not a
big stretch we don't want to over
stretch our skin but just very gently
doing that so the muscle underneath
starts to relax and you're going to hold
that position there this is a technique
I explained a lot about in my book which
is called Daniel Collins face yoga as I
recommend it it's one of the best
techniques for reducing lines between
the eyebrow area and I recommend doing
this everyday for about one minute and
what you can do is you can release and
you can come back again so it doesn't
feel too intense and don't worry when
you've finished it if it looks like
you've got a little bit of redness or
pinkness there that's completely normal
when you do a little bit of massage as
long as it never feels painful and as
long as the marks don't last longer than
a couple of minutes afterwards so that's
your key technique now really focus on
doing these everyday remember with face
yoga the more regularly you do it the
better if you do want more information
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