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Try yoga for a natural facelift
Photos By Jay Calderon, The Desert Sun
Jen Jivani demonstrates the "Fish Face," a yoga technique designed to exercise facial muscles.

Face exercises
To get started on a natural face lift, try these exercises:

Warm up: Slack jawRelease the lower jaw from the upper so that the teeth are parted and then let the tip of the tongue rest behind the lower teeth. Center your head at the top of the spine, let the eyes relax in their sockets and relax your face. Place the fingertips on the lower jaw to facilitate the release.
Crow, Crow Go Away Start by smiling, then place the index fingers by the crease of the eyelid and pulse the lower eyelid muscles against the resistance of the fingertips' pressure. Do 20 repetitions and work up to 40.
Lion faceInhale through the nose; make fists of your hands: and squeeze the face muscles like you're sucking on a really lemony lemon. The exhale loudly through your mouth while sticking your tongue as far out as it will go and roll the eyes up in their sockets and open the hands. Do it three times.

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Judith Salkin
The Desert Sun
July 12, 2007

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The questions started when a copy of "The Yoga Face: Eliminate Wrinkles With The Ultimate Natural Facelift" by Annelise Hagen arrived in our office.
Yoga's benefits for the body are well-known. Those who embrace this ancient integration of body-mind-breath postures and philosophy seem to be eternally supple and smooth faced.

But what is a natural facelift? Rather than undergoing the knife, it's a matter of exercise, and Hagen's book, which hits stores Aug. 16, tells and shows you how to work out your facial muscles.

Just don't crack up as you watch yourself in the mirror.

Yoga - along with a good diet, plenty of water and sleep, no smoking and being careful of what makeup products you use on you face - can change the way you look, Palm Desert massage therapist Trisha Monroe said.

"Do you know why men usually look more distinguished than women? It's because they shave. Have you watched a man shave and the way he moves his face? Women don't shave and it shows in their faces."

Monroe was initially turned on to exercising her face by a friend. Monroe took the series of exercises and what she learned from nearly 30 years of doing yoga and came up with a program that "only takes one to three minutes a day and gets better results." It's on a DVD she hopes to market next year.

In the studio

Jen Jivani (her spiritual name) teaches classes at Urban Yoga Center in Palm Springs. At 35 she could easily pass for someone much younger, which she attributes to yoga.
In some classes, Jivani leads students through a series of asanas (postures) that work the head, neck and shoulders, all of which exercise the face.


Eye exercises, like around-the-clock, for instance, where you roll the eyes slowly around as though you are stopping at each number on a clock, help loosen up that area of the face.
"Yoga is the union of body, mind and breath," Jivani said. "The exercises or postures help to integrate all three. When you oxygenate the body, every part of it opens up and relaxes."

It's during the relaxation, when breath and circulation to the entire body, including the face, has been achieved that you can see the changes, said Urban Yoga owner Kristin Olson.

You would never look at Carol Wiley of Palm Springs and think she was 73. From her posture, clear eyes and peaches-and-cream complexion, she looks decades younger.

"I was a child model. Every day I used to have to do a series of facial exercises," she said, breaking into a series of grimaces.

Many of the movements echo asanas such as the lion face with the eyes crossed and the tongue pushed as far out of the mouth as possible. "I believe that's why I look the way I do."

The lion face "opens up the throat and helps to detoxify the body by allowing the escape of carbon dioxide," Jivani said.

Legs-against-the-wall is a milder version of a shoulder stand which relaxes the shoulders and, according to Hagen's book, reverses sagging skin and brings a luminous quality to skin and eyes, while removing eye rings and hollows.