Sunburns, dryness, itching, freckles, wrinkles and sagging are just some of the problems that occur when skin is exposed to sunlight and hot, dry air for prolonged periods of time. Fortunately, many yoga classes in Arizona offer yoga for healthy skin.
If you live in Arizona, you know that the sun can really do a number on your skin. Sunburns, dryness, itching, freckles, wrinkles and sagging are just some of the problems that occur when skin is exposed to sunlight and hot, dry air for prolonged periods of time. Fortunately, many yoga classes in Arizona offer yoga for healthy skin.
Here are a few professional tips for keeping skin healthy the natural way, using little more than your muscles, skin and sheer determination.
1. Keep your muscles in shape. The process of aging is a holistic one, just like everything else. As you age, your muscles begin to droop, according to Marie-Véronique Nadeau, the author of The Yoga Facelift. This slackening affects the skin around the muscles, as well as the bones underneath. Staying fit, or at least mobile, through the use of yoga can improve wrinkles on the chest, under the arms and on the neck.
2. Limber up your face. Perhaps you've heard of face yoga, a subset of yoga exercises that focuses on loosening up the many muscles that make up your physiognomy. A popular article in the New York Times explained that these routines may look funny – since they get practitioners variously scrunching up their eyes, puckering their lips, protruding their tongues or opening their mouths wide – but that face yoga is serious business. Many alternative health experts recommend doing regular facial exercises as a way to keep skin firm, taut and invigorated.
3. Get the blood flowing to your head. Your body's vascular system carries energy where it needs to go. Unfortunately, the heart must work against gravity to get vital red blood cells up to the lips, nose, cheeks, eyes and forehead. The Yoga Journal suggests trying inverted poses, which leave your head below your center of gravity, allowing nourishing blood to collect in your facial skin.
4. Finally, eat right. Numerous studies have shown that a healthy diet keeps skin plump and firm longer than one packed with sweets and processed foods.
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