Yoga - The new way to get a facelift (Credit: markmaclean) Yoga is catching on big time all over the world. You want to lose weight – slip into a comfortable pair of pajamas and a T-shirt and enroll yourself in a yoga class. If you want to shed all that stress, then do a few breathing exercises and yoga asana to charge yourself with positive energy. There is a brand of yoga even for pets.
Well, the latest in yoga is a facelift. We’ve been doing yoga for the body and mind; now this one’s for the face. A yoga facelift may just be an alternative to cosmetic surgery, a way to appear younger without going under the knife.
NBC11\'s Vicky Nguyen learned about the procedure from Marie-Veronique Nadeau, author of the book \'The Yoga Facelift\' and a chemist and a licensed aesthetician. She learnt that if you do facial yoga with a straight face, you’re not doing it right.
Facial yoga requires a sense of humor and an open mind. It\'s exercise that focuses on tiny muscles that most people don\'t ever think of working out. We’ve got 190 muscles in the face and neck, so why not exercise them.
Some people are wondering if all the exercises and stretches could actually create more wrinkles. But that\'s not the case. Since you’re not pushing your face or stretching skin and just making the muscles work, this is going to save your from all those wrinkles.
Facelift yoga takes a few weeks before you can see any results and while it can\'t provide the drastic change associated with cosmetic surgery, practitioners swear they see and feel a difference.
Nadeau said that facial yoga is beginning to catch on with men, although they only make up about 5 percent of her classes.