Yoga - Neutralising face wrinkles

Face yoga comprises of a series of toning and strengthening exercises for the muscles of your face. Exercises include rolling the tongue to make vibrating sounds and exaggerated yawns to release the jaw muscles. It also involves laughing a lot out loud and blowing kisses. Relaxing your face is an important part of yoga because the face is an indicator of tension in the rest of the body. 

Inversion

Stand with your legs in a wide stance with toes pointed slightly inward. Bend forward until the crown of your head touches the mat. Gently rest your thumbs on your chin and place your fingers near your cheek. Inversions is recommended for a healthy complexion as the blood pressure in your head rises and the body reacts by lowering your blood pressure level, your heart beats slower and your blood vessels dilate, or relax. 

Lion Face 

Take a slow inhale of breath and constrict every muscle in your body: your toes, your buttocks, your fists everything. On a slow, steady exhale, relax those muscles, stick out your tongue, widen your eyes and open your hands. Repeat three times. On the last repetition, try to hold the exhale position for 30 to 60 seconds to really stretch your tongue. This is an excellent workout for circulation to the face as well as a great way to release tension in the jaw — which tends to lead to wrinkles.

YOGA - Reducing Abdominal Fat - II

Paad-Pashchimottanasan

Reduces abdominal fat. Removes wind from the intestines and increases appetite.

Method: Lie on your back, legs straight, arms overhead, hands together, palms facing up. Sit up, take hands overhead, back straight, then bend forward to hold the big toes, head between arms and touching the knees.

Uddyiana Bandha

• This asana massages and tones up the internal organs in the abdominal area.
• It also massages the heart, making it a stronger, more effective pump.
  
• It relieves constipation, gas, indigestion and liver trouble.
• It tones up the nerves in the solar plexus region.
• It reduces abdominal fat and strengthens the abdominal muscles.
• It helps the correct functioning of the adrenal glands and sex glands.

Method:

First Exercise: While standing with your feet about a foot apart and your knees slightly bent, lean forwards a little from the waist and place your hands just above your knees. Inhale deeply by pushing your abdomen forwards, and then exhale by pushing your stomach in. Don't take another breath; instead, push in your stomach even more, so that it becomes hollow, and hold your breath for about ten seconds.

Second Exercise: Do the same as above but, instead of holding your Stomach in after exhaling, rapidly push your stomach in and out ten times without taking another breath. Stand up straight and resume normal breathing.

Dandayamana-Dhanurasana- Standing Bow Pulling Pose

Strengthens thighs, buttocks, hips, abdomen, and arms, reduces abdominal fat, Helps manage anorexia. Good for posture and natal care. Helps in healing tennis elbow and frozen shoulder.

Method:

• Begin in Tadasana, Mountain Pose
• Inhale the right arm up keeping it rooted in the shoulder socket but extending through the finger tips.
• Bend the left arm so the elbow is close in to the body and the finger tips are away from the body, palm faces the sky.
• Engage the muscles of your right leg as you bend the left leg behind you and catch the inside of your foot with your left hand.
• Draw both knees together while keeping the tailbone tucked.
• Exhale, press your left foot into your hand extending from the left top thigh. As the leg raises begin to hinge at your hips bringing your upper body parallel to the ground.
• Allow the heart to melt as the left hip bone and shoulder softens and surrenders.
• Reach through the ball mounds of your left foot as your upper body reaches forward.
• Find the arch in the spine to be equal through out by extending though the heart and rooting the tailbone down, away from the body.
• To release: Exhale, come back through standing and repeat on the other side.

YOGA - Reducing Abdominal Fat - I

Pavan-Muktasan

Removes gas from the abdomen and reduces abdominal fat. Increases the flexibility of the knees and hips.

Method: Lie down on your back. Breath in. Then fold the left leg from the knees. Hold the fingers together and bring the folded leg to touch the stomach. Lift the head and touch the nose to the knee. The other leg remains straight. Hold the breath. Come to original position and leave the breath. Follow the same for the other leg.

Bhujangasan

Helps in keeping the dorsal spine elastic and strong. Backache due to overstrain can be thus relieved. Helps considerably in reducing abdominal fat.

Method: Lie on your stomach, forehead on the ground, hands under shoulders. Raise your upper body by the strength of the back muscles, head up. Don't take help of the hands, they may remain on the ground or held on the back over the hips.

Dhanurasan- the bow

Reduces abdominal fat. The compressing of the spinal column, pressing the nerves with the scapulae minimizes blood circulation while in the asana. But when the pose is released a greater supply of blood is endured to those very regions increasing spinal flexibility and definitely raising the vitality.

Method: Lie on your stomach. Bend knees, hold the ankles. Pull your hands and push with your legs, knees together, till the trunk forms an arch with only the stomach on the ground. Look up. After releasing the posture lie for a while in Shavasan.

YOGA - Neck & Shoulders

Neck Exercises

While sitting on a chair or in front of the computer, your neck gets affected the most with terrible aching and severe cases, at times leading to spondaylitis . Here is a simple way which can relieve you from the stress caused and prevent you from any kind of aching.

• Keep your hands on your waist and slowly lower your chin so that your neck is relaxed.
• Your entire body should be straight while you are doing this exercise.
• Hold 2/3 breath with you neck lowered.
• Gradually lift up your neck to its neutral position.
• Then lower you right ear to your right shoulder and repeat the same for the left side.
• Finally rotate your entire neck from its right to the central neutral position. Keep 2-3 breaths for areas where you need a relaxation.
• Repeat the same for the left side.

Shoulders Exercises

Shoulder problems often crop up when you sit in the same position for a long period of time. Here is an easy method to keep away your shoulder pains.

• Stretch your hands on both sides up to your ears, while you inhale.
• Drop them down to your sides in their normal position, while you exhale.
• The process should be gradual and raising/dropping of hands should follow your breathing.