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Aug 11

5 ways to use yoga for healthy skin

What does a good complexion look like these days? What defines good skin and a gorgeous face? The American female's standard of beauty seems to be inching towards minimalism (in the makeup department), meaning that women who use yoga for healthy skin could be in luck. A popular Huffington Post article recently addressed this very topic – namely, what it called "natural beauty."

The author, Starre Vartan, noted that the U.S. obsession with body weight and clear skin appears to have hit an all-time high – or low, really – which it compares to "hitting bottom." She argued that it may be time to take advantage of this potential watershed moment to emphasize the beauty of natural skin.

How can you improve your skin without using products? Try yoga for health and healing, of course! Here are five ways to get better skin through yoga:

1. Simply relax. Stress, anxiety and tension can cause acne breakouts, which in turn may lead to – you guessed it – stress and anxiety. Breaking this cycle through yoga may help your face, neck and back clear up on their own.

2. Improve circulation. According to the Times of India, your facial skin's blood vessels are constantly fighting gravity, situated as they are above your heart. By doing some inverted yoga poses, you can increase blood flow to your face, nourishing your skin in seconds.

3. Try face yoga. These simple exercises firm up your face muscles and plump up the skin around them.

4. Breathe deeply. Yahoo!Shine reports that oxygenation is indispensable, since your skin cannot stay healthy without it. Deep breathing exercises are a great way to get more O2 into your bloodstream.

5. Avoid sweating excessively. Though some people push hot yoga for healthy skin, the salt in your sweat can actually dry out your face after a hard workout. Stick to milder yoga regimens.

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Aug 11

Arizona residents try 5 tips focusing on 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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Aug 11

Do people with osteoporosis try yoga for healthy aging?: a Q&A

Q: What is osteoporosis?
A: This condition, which was once thought to be fairly rare or confined solely to women, is actually quite common and affects people of both genders. Osteoporosis is a gradual reduction of bone mass, which weakens the skeleton over time.

Q: What causes osteoporosis?
A: Though many people think of osteoporosis as being an inevitable part of growing old, it isn't. In fact, this condition is a complex disease that stems from getting too little calcium, vitamin D and exercise, as well as having an unhealthy lifestyle or experiencing sudden hormonal changes (menopause being the most common).

Q: I have osteoporosis. What should I do?
A: Only a doctor can officially diagnose you with this skeletal disease. Talk to your physician about pharmaceuticals you can take and lifestyle changes you can make to slow or even reverse some of your bone loss.

Q: Can lifestyle changes reduce the risk of osteoporosis?
A: They certainly can! The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) recommends that people of all ages take vitamin supplements, eat well, get weight-bearing exercise and abstain from alcohol and tobacco.

Q: What about complementary treatments?
A: Numerous studies have shown that people who do yoga for healthy aging may have a lower risk of becoming osteoporotic. Reports appearing in the journal Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation and the European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine associated doing yoga with improvements in bone density and pain levels among adults with osteoporosis.

Q: Are there stretching exercises for seniors that are good for a weakened skeleton?
A: There certainly are. The Yoga Journal reported that plenty of poses are good for those with osteoporosis. Some exercises soothe aching joints and bones, while others put moderate amounts of weight on load-bearing muscles.

Q: How many people have osteoporosis?
A: About 10 million people have been diagnosed with it, according to the NOF, which estimates that another 34 million Americans are at risk of developing osteoporosis.

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Jun 11

Octogenarian delights in yoga, dogs, conversation

Staying healthy and active is important at any age, but especially so for those trying to stay active during the golden years. In this regard, Sonoma, Arizona, resident Howard Costello has most people beat, including plenty of neighbors half his age.

The 87-year-old retiree practices yoga several times a week as a way to stay fit and flexible, according to the Sonoma News. Likewise, he walks the length of a local bicycle path four times a day and rides his stationary bike 21 miles each week.

Costello noted that activity is what keeps him spry. "If you're not out walking at my age, you'll soon not be walking at all," he told the publication.

His yoga sessions help keep him mobile, but not because they bend or twist his body excessively. On the contrary, he told the news source that he prefers gentler, less rigorous forms of the mind-body regimen, warning, "You're not going to make a pretzel out of me."

Besides keeping in good health with yoga, Costello is known around town for chatting with his neighbors and anyone who happens by. The News noted that he leaves a bowl of water near his front porch for dogs to refresh themselves while he banters with their owners.

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