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Scalp Massage
08 Wednesday Mar 2017
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Massaging your scalp is an important part of the Face Pilates routine.
It releases the skin and relaxes the frown lines!
An added advantage is it stimulates hair growth!
Masajear tu cuero cabelludo es una parte importante de la rutina de Face Pilates.
Esta acción libera la piel y hace que se relajen las líneas del ceño.
¡Y una extra ventaja es que también estimula el crecimiento del cabello!
Hollywood and Face Exercise – Part 2
25 Wednesday Jan 2017
Posted in Face Pilates
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#faceexercises, antiageing, antiaging, beauty, cocochanel, facelift, facepilates, faceyoga, hollywood, longevity, muscles, practicemakesperfect, skincare, vogue, yoelijocuidarme, youth
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Photo courtesy of The New York Times
Coco Channel said, “…at fifty you get the face you deserve.”
The most common age for people to start to practice facial exercises is between the ages of 30 and 50.
What I can tell you is the sooner you start the better the results and the benefits that you will find.
Even if you are a little skeptical about whether Face Pilates can help you to look younger or turn back the clock, give it a try. You have nothing to loose!
Here are 5 reasons you will benefit as you age from practicing Face Pilates:
- Lengthening the facial muscles
When we do Pilates exercises we lengthen the muscles, relax and stretch the body. As we get older our muscles shorten. This is why our posture can change as we get older. Stretching can change this.
The muscles on our face are the same.
If we are tense our facial muscles are shortened because of our ‘facial posture’ and then once we relax they release and this stresses our ligaments and skin tissue.
This is what causes the sagging as we age.
Relaxing the muscles and lengthening them with Face Pilates will allow the ligaments to heal themselves.
- Muscle awareness
Human beings are habitual! Our posture changes because of the way we stand or sit all day. Unless we are taught to be aware of how we can change these habits our bodies become ‘stuck’ in poor positions.
We do the same with our faces. Frowning as we think, squinting our eyes or other repeated expressions form lines and wrinkles on our faces.
Over time our muscles start to anticipate these movements and we do them more often, exactly the same as poor posture.
Practicing facial exercises, just like practicing Pilates, enables you to correct these habits and give you muscle awareness so that you learn to feel when you are making expressions that will create tension, wrinkles and lines.
- Collagen and nutrient production
Doing a Face Pilates class will bring blood flow to the facial and skin tissues. This will increase the supply of nutrients and collagen, the building blocks that allow the body to repair and grow ligaments and tendons.
- Activates regeneration
Like the muscles on our body the muscles of the face will regenerate with stretching and exercise because the body naturally activates it’s defenses against free radicals when the muscle or tissue is stressed or damaged.
- Promotes relaxation
We all know that when we are stressed we look older. This is because of the high levels of stress hormones like cortisol that are being released into our blood stream.
Prolonged stress and elevated levels of these hormones will accelerate ageing.
Taking 10 minutes a day to relax your face and you mind while you do your Face Pilates routine will allow your stress levels to decrease.
References:
http://www.facercise.com/blog/top-celebrities-using-facercise-facial-exercises/
http://cosmeticsandskin.com/bcb/facial-gym.php
http://www.look-younger-naturally.com/facial-exercises-history.html
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/the-reason-madonna-10-years-younger-6920638.html
https://intothegloss.com/2015/07/cindy-crawford-beauty/
http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/beauty/how-to/5-anti-ageing-facial-exercises-you-can-try-at-home-94678
http://www.look-younger-naturally.com/relax-the-face.html
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Who can do Face Pilates?
28 Monday Nov 2016
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#faceexercises, antiageing, antiaging, antienvejecimiento, barcelona, busy, capilar, faceaerobics, facegym, facepilates, faceyoga, fortepharma, fortepharmaes, meditate, natural, naturalbeauty, routine, yoelijocuidarme, yoelijocuidarmeexperience, youthful
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The answer to that question is well, almost everyone!
I think we all should do Face Pilates, however, there are instances where people need to consider the health implications before they choose to try alternative health practices.
The best policy is to always be safe.
When you practice Face Pilates you are working on the pressure points and meridians of your body. This can have an affect on your organs, blood and skin. They are all connected and as you work you are stimulating the same energy pathways that you stimulate when you are doing acupuncture or reflexology. This can sometimes have contraindications for the body.
A contraindication means: Something (such as a symptom or condition) that is a medical reason for not doing or using something (such as a treatment, procedure, or activity).
SO who shouldn’t do Face Pilates?
Here is a list of reasons why people should consult your doctor before you include our routines in your lifestyle:
· You are talking anticoagulants
· Recent injuries to the neck or head
· Recent operations to the head or face
· Cuts, abrasions or bruises to the head or face
· Cancer
· Epilepsy
· Diabetes
· High or low blood pressure
· Migraine
· Recent hemorrhage to the brain
· Asthma
· Skin disorders
· Scalp infections
· Brain infections or meningitis
I have designed the Face Pilates routine with the best intent to improve your health and give you a natural alternative to anti-ageing and longevity, they are not designed to diagnose, treat or cure and illness, disorder or health problems.
Mandy
References:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contraindication
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Ear to Shoulder Stretch
17 Monday Oct 2016
Posted in Daily Face Routine, Face Pilates
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#faceexercises, antiageing, antiaging, beauty, exercise, face, facegym, facelift, facepilates, faceyoga, longevity, musclememory, muscles, necksag, neckstretch, pilatesfacial, stretch, yoelijocuidarme, youthful
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We’re still working on that neck sag!
When we do our full 1 hour Face Pilates routine we always start at the neck and always with the Ear to Shoulder Stretch.
This stretch is a simple but effective way to stretch your neck muscles and warm them up for the complete routine.
It’s important to know that if you have any neck injuries such as compressed discs or herniations or previous neck issues due to illness or accidents you need to be aware of your range of motion with this exercise.
I myself have 4 compressed discs and two protruding in my neck and I am able to do the movement. I’m just careful and only take the stretch as far as I feel comfortable. It doesn’t have to be a big movement and it should not hurt. It is hard work though!
Please if you have any doubts speak to your doctor before you do the routine.
How to do the Ear to Shoulder Stretch:
- Sit or stand straight and as you breathe in lengthen through your neck and bring your right ear to your right shoulder.
- Lift your other ear toward the ceiling and draw your shoulders down.
- Feel the stretch from your chin to your collar bone.
- Hold the tension for 5 counts and return back to centre.
- Breathe in and as you breathe out take your left ear to your left shoulder.
- Keep your shoulder down and hold for five counts.
- Come back to centre.
- Repeat 4 more times.
Coming up….Neck Twist!
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Estiramiento de la oreja al hombro
¡Todavía estamos trabajando con esa piel caída del cuello!
Cuando hacemos nuestra rutina entera de Face Pilates de una hora, siempre empezamos con el cuello y con el Estiramiento de la oreja al hombro.
Este estiramiento es una manera fácil y efectiva de estirar los músculos de tu cuello y calentarlos para la rutina completa.
Es importante saber que si tienes cualquier lesión del cuello como las cervicales comprimidas o herniadas, o algún problema previa debido a una enfermedad o accidente, hay que tener cuidado con tu rango de movilidad en este ejercicio.
Yo misma tengo 4 discos cervicales comprimidos y 2 que sobresalen y puedo hacer este movimiento. Solo lo hago con cuidado y hago el estiramiento hasta donde me siento cómoda. No tiene que ser un movimiento muy grande y no debe provocar ningún daño. ¡Pero sí es mucho trabajo!
Si tienes cualquier duda te rogamos que hables con tu médico antes de hacer la rutina.
Cómo hacer el Estiramiento de la oreja al hombro:
- Siéntate o párate recto, respirando y estirando tu cuello largo. Baja la oreja derecha hacia el hombro derecho.
- Eleva tu oreja hacia el techo y mantén los hombros relajados.
- Sienta el estiramiento desde tu barbilla hasta tu clavícula.
- Mantén la tensión durante 5 segundos y vuelve al centro.
- Toma aire y al exhalar, baja tu oreja izquierda hacia tu hombro izquierdo.
- Mantén tus hombros relajados y quédate allí durante 5 segundos.
- Vuelve al centro.
- Repite 4 veces más.
El próximo ejercicio….¡La rotación del cuello!
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The Goldfish
11 Tuesday Oct 2016
Posted in Daily Face Routine, Face Pilates
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#faceexercises, antiaging, beauty, exercise, face, facegym, facelift, facepilates, faceyoga, goldfish, juventud, longevity, musclememory, muscles, necksag, neckstretch, pilatesfacial, stretch, yoelijocuidarme, youthful
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Oh, the things we do for beauty!
I’d say this is definitely one of the Face Pilates exercises that you won’t want to practice on the bus!
It’s ugly!
Here’s how you do it:
- Open your mouth wide to prepare.
- Push your bottom jaw forward and close your mouth by dragging your bottom teeth over the bottom of your top lip and teeth.
- Like a goldfish gulping!
- Hold for 3 counts.
- Relax and then do it again!
- Repeat 5 times!Told you it was ugly!The next exercise is much more elegant…but don’t be fooled.
La Carpa Dorada
¡Las cosas que hacemos para la belleza!
¡Yo diría que este es uno de los ejercicios de Face Pilates que definitivamente no quieres practicar en el autobús!
¡Es feo!
Aquí te explico cómo hacerlo:
- Abre bien tu boca para prepararte.
- Empuja tu papada inferior adelante y cierra la boca, arrastrando tus dientes inferiores sobre la parte por debajo de tu labio y dientes superiores.
- ¡Como traga una carpa dorada!
- Manténlo durante 3 segundos.
- ¡Relájate y repite!
- Repite 5 veces.¡Te dije que es feo!El próximo ejercicio es mucho más elegante…pero no te dejes engañar.
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