Hi Guys - today we are talking about jowls
and face yoga to naturally reduce jowls.
My name is Danielle Collins, world-
leading face yoga expert and I'm going
to be showing you quick, easy techniques
you can do with clean hands, ideally a
clean face, applying a little bit of your
Fusion by Danielle Collins Moisturising
Serum just to give you that lovely
little bit of glide and, as always,
work to your own level with everything.
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So our first technique, we're just going
to get the energy moving in that area a
little bit and just do some gentle
tapping around the area which you may
find that's affected by jowls. So maybe
you find you've got loose skin around
this area, maybe fat
accumulation, maybe you're noticing lines
and wrinkles here. We're just starting to
improve the energy and boost the blood
circulation a little bit, just waking
everything up. Now all the techniques I'm
going to show you today, if you want to
extend them a little bit longer you can
do them up to one minute but it's fine
just to do as long as I show you on this
video and just follow me in real time,
really just do what you have time for.
Okay now we've warmed up a little bit
let's really start to get into the
muscles and boost that circulation so
we're going to use our hands in little
fists and we're just going to start to
massage around the top of our jawbone.
So all the way along
that really big master muscle
and lift off and, taking that again, really massaging
into that area… We're waking up the
muscle here, we're boosting the blood
circulation, we're bringing all the fresh
blood and oxygen and nutrients up to the
skin surface here. It's also just going
to help to reduce any fluid accumulation
there so if you find that your jowls are
caused by a buildup of excess fluid,
maybe lymph in that area or even
accumulation of fat in that area, maybe
you've found that your fat pads in your
cheek area have dropped a little bit -
they've got a little bit lower down - this
massage is really going to help, just
wake everything up.
Then just take two fingers like this and
we're going to massage
up the jaw area. Now try to bring your
breathing into this as well, so you're
breathing in through the nose, letting
your abdomen rise, and breathing out
through the nose
and just letting your abdomen lower.
Breathing is so important for our
overall well-being, it has so many
benefits for the mind and body and my
method, the Danielle Collins Face Yoga
Method, is very much a holistic method so
we're really looking at ourself as a
whole. We're working with
lifting and rejuvenating the face, we're
also looking at how we can really
balance and rejuvenate mind, body and
soul as well.
So breathing here as much as possible…
Good let's just do a little bit longer
here, it's a really good one. It's great
if you also suffer from tension in the
jaw, helps really sculpt the jaw area and
naturally lifting the muscles as well.
Okay, so gently come down, give your arms
a little shake, just wake up the energy a
little bit in the arms, release any
tension in the shoulders a little bit…
you do a few shoulder rolls there - and
let's do a facial exercise next, so
you're going to make an ‘o’ shape with the mouth
and go from an ‘o’ shape to a smile shape,
still wrapping lips around the teeth and
back again and we're gonna keep this going,
work to your own level and try not to
hold too much tension in the jaw. Think
about exercising these muscles but not
tensing or building up any extra stress there….
just keeping this going. I know it
looks funny, Guys, but keep it going, it
really does work, this one…
Hold there, breathe, place your index
finger onto your chin now and just start
to scoop your jaw backwards….
and again….
one more time….
lift the lip corners up as you do this
and then slowly relax. If you need to
take an exhalation through your mouth
now, you can do - really let go of any
tension in that area….
Okay, let's do another facial exercise. So
we're just going to bring our lips inwards
and our lip corners upwards.
As our lip corners go upwards put your
index fingers here.
The index fingers are just smoothing any
lines which may be created in this area
through the exercise because we never
want to be creating any lines with the
Danielle Collins Face Yoga Method so… holding…. breathing…
Keep lifting those lip corners up all
the time, keep using index fingers to
smooth the skin. Hold there for about
another five seconds…
and releasing… and let's take that one more time….
one more breath…
relax down now. Then take two fingers and
thumb and just gently pinch down to the
muscle with a little twist
all the way around your cheek area,
really just again waking up that area,
releasing any tension there…
Remember the more that you can help that
energy flow, that life force energy - in
yoga, we call it prana, in Chinese
medicine it's called Qi - and that's that
energy that flows around the body and
when we're healthy then it's flowing
effectively. When it's stagnant, when it's
stuck, we find that this can mean,
particularly in our face, we build up
tension, lines, stress, fat accumulation.
So we really want just to release a little
bit of that tension, boost that energy in
that area as much as we can…
Lovely and let's just finish with our
tapping like we did at the beginning.
Take another long deep breath - in through
the nose, abdomen rises
and then out through the nose, abdomen
lowers - and you are all done. If you'd
like any information about how to teach
these beautiful techniques to other
people then you can find out about our
accredited certified teacher training course at
faceyogaexpert.com/teacher training. There's also
information on there as well about my
10 - day course if you really want to deep
dive into face yoga for 10 minutes per
day over 10 days, as well as my two books,
Danielle Collins Face Yoga and The Face
Yoga Journal which you can get on Amazon
and in all good bookshops. Have a lovely day.
Take care, bye-bye.
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