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Annelise Hagen

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Copyright 2007 by Annelise Hagen

Photography Gene Moz
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hagen, Annelise.
The yoga face: eliminate wrinkles with the ultimate natural facelift
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-1-440-62905-1

1. Facial exercises. 2. Hatha yoga. 3. Beauty, Personal. I. Title.
RA778.H
613.7046dc22

Neither the publisher nor the author is engaged in rendering professional advice or services to the individual reader. The ideas, procedures, and suggestions in this book are not intended as a substitute for consulting with a physician. All matters regarding health require medical supervision. If you have any health problems or medical conditions, consult with your physician before undertaking any of the instructions in this book. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be liable or responsible for any loss or damage allegedly arising from any information or suggestion in this book.

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Introduction

Imagine you are in a busy metropolitan center at rush hour. Everywhere you look, you see athletic bodies, dressed in designer suits and body-hugging oufits. But look above the neckline. Do these fit physiques sport equally firm faces? What you may see instead are wrinkles and bags: the indelible marks of stress and lack of exercise misshaping the canvas of the face.

The Yoga Face operates on a simple principle: The muscles of the face are no different from the muscles in the rest of your body. If you dont exercise the muscles below the neck, they become weak and flabby; the same goes for the muscles of the face. The Yoga Face is a set of exercises and stretches that provides these all-important muscles the same youthful tightening and toning that going to the gym offers below the neck.

When a muscle works, it becomes firmer. When a muscle has something to work against (i.e., resistance), it becomes stronger. A sedentary muscle will gain fat and lose tone, and in the face, this will manifest itself as sagging and drooping. While the facial muscles are smaller, they are still muscles, like any other in your body. They need to lift, expand, and contract, in order to stay healthy, fit, and beautiful. Like the other muscles of the body, they need to receive lots of fresh, life-giving oxygen. And like any other muscle, they can be trained.

I have been teaching yoga for eight years in some of the top fitness clubs and yoga studios in New York City. Over the years, I gradually became aware of something interestingand disconcertingin my classes. My student yogis flowed through intricate sequences with ease. Following my cues, they breathed in perfect unison with their actions. They performed complex asanas (yoga poses) with steadiness and grace. The rooms were filled with youthful and vibrant practitioners.

Yet when I looked at many of their faces, I could see the telltale signs of strain and stress: the young woman with the dancers physique contorted her face into a scowl; the toned fellow across the room furrowed his brow in concentration. Meanwhile, another woman held a pose with clenched jaw and pursed lips. It was almost as if they were taking all the nervous energy the poses were releasing from their bodies and pouring it into their faces. I saw that I had been paying much more attention to the health of the body below the neck than above it. I began telling people to relax their faces, to exhale on a sigh, or to unclench their jaws, and I saw that as they released their faces, they derived more benefit from the poses, and also began to look more youthful!

I began to wonder if the same exercise principles that worked for the body could also work for the facewith some modification. While weights obviously were not practical, why couldnt facial muscles derive the benefits of exercise: performing repetitive motion to burn off fat; flushing the cells, muscles, and tissues with oxygenated blood; and countering habitual emotional tendencies that lead to gripping and clenching, and by extension, wrinkles?

I started experimenting with yoga postures, developing a class that would specifically address anti-aging for the face. I wanted to help transform the faces of my students the way I had seen their bodies transform. In addition, I began an in-depth study of facial anatomy, and also began a regime of exercise for my own facial muscles.

At a yoga studio I was affiliated with, I developed a workshop that focused on yoga poses that were known to be anti-aging and calming. I blended the poses yogis call restorative with some facial toning work I had learned in my vocal training as an actress. These exercises worked with jaw tension and training the lips, tongue, and teeth for expression. They were effective, improving skin and muscle tone in the face, and performing them often left me with a bit of a lactic acid burn like running or lifting weights did in my other body parts. As I practiced them along with the yoga poses, I got excited by the rapid diminishing of signs of aging on my face.

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