Inside the Face Yoga Method: Small Movements, Big Lift with Fumiko Takatsu

This episode is brimming with love. Fumiko Takatsu, shares her inspiring journey from personal transformation to international teacher. Fumiko reveals how mindful facial movement can do more than lift and tone, it reconnects you to your body, your confidence, and your natural vitality.

She explains the science behind face yoga, from lymphatic drainage and muscle activation to the importance of consistency and gentle movement. You’ll learn how different face types benefit from specific exercises, why self-care must come from self-love rather than correction, and how integrating just a few mindful moments each day can make a visible and emotional difference.

This episode reframes beauty and aging as a practice of self-awareness, one that honors your face as a reflection of your inner well-being.

Key Takeaways:

• Aging is a privilege to be embraced, not resisted.
• True self-care begins with self-respect and self-love.
• Face yoga is a lifestyle of awareness, not just a set of exercises.
• Understanding facial anatomy and lymphatic flow amplifies results.
• Gentle, consistent practice creates long-term change.
• Tailoring exercises to your face type enhances effectiveness.
• Activating cheek muscles can help maintain youthful volume.
• Beauty and vitality are rediscovered through mindful movement and joy.

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You've probably seen her videos for Miko to Katsu, the Radiant Creator and Face Behind the Face yoga method joins me today. She's sharing real practical advice, plus simple exercises that lift, plump and tone your face using small, intentional movements. This is one episode you might want to watch on YouTube, and a special treat for the age like a badass mother. Listeners for Miko is offering her 28 day transformation program with lifetime access for just $28. You guys, it's normally $198. After the show, go to face Yoga method.com/podcasts for this special. And if you're enjoying age like a badass mother, please take a moment to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts. It makes a huge difference and helps us grow. All right, let's dive in. Hi friend, are you looking to age healthfully, confidently and vibrantly? Then this podcast is for you. Smart, slightly salty, irreverent, and thought provoking. I'm Lauren Bernick and this is age. Like a badass mother. For over two decades, for Mika to call Sue's face yoga method has used her proven combination of breath, mindset and face yoga poses to revolutionize the way women treat the aging process. Recognized as the best in the industry for Mieko has certified over 1000 students in her method and successfully built her female led brand around the world. Additionally, she has published five books, two ebooks, a skincare line, blog, and multiple online face yoga programs to help people embrace their natural beauty and aging. Please welcome for Mieko. I'm so glad to have you. Hey, Laura, and thank you so much for having me here. I'm so excited to talk with you. I'm excited to talk with you. And I think that, my listeners are really going to be excited. I'm sure they have seen. Yes, I'm sure that our listeners have seen, you on the internet, on Instagram and so forth, but I just want to before we get started, I just really want to say that I, I just did your summit about a month ago. It was like a three day summit. And then you could purchase like the last day. And I was so impressed because I think we all know, like you do, a summit, and the whole time it feels like they're just trying to sell you a membership or upgrade. And it was not like that at all. It was full days of real information, real, you know, things that you could take away and start using. And it was just I just felt the generosity and it was so positive. You just kept. And your team is so positive. So thank you. Oh thank you, thank you. I'm so glad to hear that because for us it's a give away like a giving thanks to people who've been following us for so many years. And I just love to empower women. I love to give. I can't help myself. I think let's start that way because I started my journey. I don't know if you know this story, but 22 years ago, I had a near fatal car accident and I could be dead right there on the spot. So when I survived, I feel like there's something I can do with my experience. And the first I started doing the face exercises, I created this poses just for myself. Why? What happened to your face in the accident? Because it was a hit. We were hit. I was in a passenger seat and it was from the side. So my body went out like out of alignment and as a result, my face became asymmetrical. On top of that, headaches and of course, I was mid-thirties. I was 30, 35. So I started seeing sign of premature aging. And I wanted to do something. And when the face became asymmetrical, I started getting panics like, oh my gosh, I'm getting old. Why old? And then I want to do something. And I started doing all the facials and buying expensive creams, and they didn't work. And I started feeling like, do I have to pay this much money for the rest of my life, not seeing that result? So that's how I started. And I wasn't planning to make a business out of it. But people start noticing. And especially when my mother, my mom said, did you do something? I never done anything but like, did you do something? You look different. So that's when I thought, oh, this is working. And yeah, I decided to take this as a full time job. Before that, I was teach get teaching at one of the oldest women's universities in Japan. So I was pretty happy. But when this opportunity came, I just feel like this is my calling because really combined beauty, women and empowerment. So yeah, I've been doing it over 22 years. Yeah. I mean, well, what did you teach at the university? I was teaching at like English, but also teaching, international communication. So cultural was really fun. Yeah. That's great. I yeah, I mean, it really, it set you on your trajectory. So what, did you just start researching it, or how did you come up with this? I you just started exercising your face. Yeah. Because I, I well, I've been practicing yoga since I was ten, so I love you knew it how the body mind connects and respond to your thought and then you know, when you turn your body, when you exercise your body, it shows on your body. So I was thinking one day I was about to actually go to the gym and I looking at my body like, oh, it's I'm pretty fit. But a face was like, you. I just can't look at myself. I just cannot even imagine. There's no. But I was Lauren. I was very asymmetrical. Like, I was like, this. So people look at me when I talk to people, they don't look up my eye. They look at my mouth like. So you kind of made me look like you had a stroke or. Something or something. And I was very, very self-conscious. So, I thought, wow, this is a muscle, so why not exercise of muscles of your face? No. I'm sorry. The body has a muscle. Face is a muscle, so why not exercise your face muscles, and then you can create the, you know, the desired look, but also, I'm a cultural anthropologist. I went to graduate school. So I understand that when you use different language, you use different muscle. So when is when I speak Japanese, I use different muscle. And when I speak English I use different muscles. So I cannot pronounce certain words. Even after living in us for a long time, because I have a muscle memory from Japan. So my pronunciation cannot be perfect because I have a Japanese trained facial muscle. So yeah, it sounds pretty perfect to me, says someone who could never imagine being able to speak Japanese. I mean, that's just how even you know, I was born in New York. I haven't lived there since I was ten years old. But people are always like, oh, are you from New York? And I'm like, no, I live in Texas. I mean, I live in Austin, Texas. It's just how it is, right? But, you know, the other thing that I love about this is that for me, I like to try to address the root cause and do things from the inside out rather than the outside in, you know, and this that's why this is so appealing to me. And, you know, people can spend a lot on Botox and fillers and that's fine if they do that. I mean, I don't want to judge anybody for what they do, but for me, at least I would want to give this a thorough investigation and really try this out before. And like I said, I've been doing it for about a month. Actually, I bought your book, a booklet, online book about five years ago, and it sits on my desktop and occasionally I pull it out and I do some exercises. But I have to say the, the summit really was helpful because it was video and it was, you know, people talking you through it. And I'm sure as soon as you looked at me, you know, where my problems lie and what I've been working on. And, you know, I have I know I have the volume loss and the sagging. And I will tell you, I feel like in a month I've, I've made some progress. I know, especially with the volume loss, it takes a long time to replace it. But let me tell you just the thing that you did where like you put your, I guess, your index and your middle fingers in the corners of your eyes and at the side of your eyes, and you try to lift up your cheeks to smile. Yeah. And I couldn't do that at first. I really couldn't do that because of the sagging and, you know, after, like, a few times, I really could feel the apple of my cheek between the V in my my fingers. So like that I see you definitely that feel. Yeah. You wake it up, your lazy muscles like. Come on, I'm waking up my lazy muscles. Yeah, they're. Very super active muscles. We giving them a little break, right? Yeah. Calm down. Don't do it too much. And then it's a balance. But I love that, Laura. And I'm so I'm so honored to hear that too. Because the body mind connection. What is the root cause? I often say face yoga is a lifestyle, but also why it's so important a good posture. Because let's try this one too. I think I did this, I think I did this during a summit too. But let's open your arms up. Palms up. Yep. And and forget. Don't forget that a lot of people are listening instead of watching. So. That's right. And you describe what you're doing. Yeah okay. So then look up slight. We're we're lifting our arms. Arms. Hey palms up to the sky. Chin up slightly little smile on your face and think something positive. Happy moments. Whatever you feel so happy. And then try to create 11 lines, a frown line. Can you do that? Little smile. Think something happy. And 11 line. Okay, come out. How is it? Yeah. It's harder. It's harder to frown when you're smiling. And when you're thinking something happy, it do. And what do you mean a connection? Yes. Yeah. And everybody, you know, I think people know by now there is a huge mind body connection. Can you, can you. I want to do more of the exercises with you, but can you give us some of the science behind it so that we can understand a little. Yes. So what happened is the first thing is when I started teaching or creating the poses, of course, I wanted to know because I saw the result. My mom saw the result. But what is it exactly happened? Yes, that was a big question and I took my exercises to a research institute in Japan and they took a demographic image. I had a 20, I think over 22 people participants for this research, and we did one pose. It's called a big oh, one of my signature poses, which is very easy. We can do. It every day. Yeah, sure. Let's do it. So just drop very naturally. Don't overdo it. Just drop your jaw as if you're yawning. Right. This is it. And then with your gaze. Only don't wrinkly or forehead very slowly move your gaze to the ceiling. If you wrinkly your forehead, you can put the palm on your forehead and then hold this for ten, nine, eight. Keep breathing. Seven, 54321 and come out. I think I missed six, but anyway, would you. Okay. We know how to count times. Yeah. Two ones. That means 30s you get massive blood circulation, your face and the neck. And every single person who participate this research get the same result. So 30s, it's not three minutes. It's not 30 minutes. So what does this mean? So this means that you're creating a lot of circulation, more nutrient, more oxygen to the skin as a result your skin gets supple, your skin gets more, hydration. And so many beautiful things happen without even touching it. So that's a first reason or scientific, you know, background. Why this face? So the method works because we all know the benefit of massage, right? Like we love to get a massage facial, but why not just do it without even touching your face. And everybody can do this one. Even the busiest person on this planet can do it because we have a time or when you go to bathroom, just look at yourself, the facial, relax your forehead and then hold for 10s and three sets. Yeah. So Lauren, I want you to drop your job a little bit more, but not too much. Just drop as if you're unique. Beautiful. Yes. That's it. Just enough? Yeah. Just enough. And then very slowly move your gaze up. Yeah. That's it. And don't hold your breath. Oh, I think I've been overdoing it. Yeah. Oh, yes. People. Yeah. That's, That's what I've been doing. Yeah. Okay. Yeah okay. That's good to know. Okay. I know it's really it's and I think that was another thing I learned is that it's a little easy to overdo it. Okay. But I just want to go back to the science for a minute because I'm really fascinated by it. And I've seen those thermal thermographic pictures that you're talking about. That's amazing. But what's the connection between facial movement and collagen production and lymphatic drainage? I know that that's a big one, too. And I can tell you, I know I have a ton of, lymphatic fluid because I can feel it back here, behind my ears. And my job. And I've been shaking it loose and then trying to drain it, you know, as as you've told us to do your fingers gently down your neck, past your collarbones. But you were talking about yoga. I go to yoga all the time, and I usually have excellent balance. I've been doing it for 30 years, and now that I'm shaking this fluid loose in my head, I can feel that my balance is off. Isn't that interesting? Interesting? Yeah, very, because I'm shaking it loose. But yeah. Can you explain a little more about the collagen production in the lymphatic drainage? Okay. So let's start with the lymphatic system too, because it's such an important part of our health, not just the face to but for body too. So lymphatic system, they don't have a pump. You know, pump like a heart. So you have to move your body. You have to move your muscle. That helps. The lymphatic fluid moves smoothly. And in many times, I think because of a lifestyle, especially the form, people look down, so much so that we create the tightness and the stops or kind of stop the healthy lymphatic flow and not only that, as we age, our neck gets tighter and shorter. So when you combine the aging plus lifestyle, which is lots of time, we look down, everything is getting kind of stacked, or let's say, almost like a traffic jam happening. Yeah, especially the neck area. And then when you have that stagnation, what traffic jam things does not move. Things do not move smoothly. So the first thing when you do face yoga of course, posture and a breathing. But really important thing is you need to release, release tension, release the tightness, release any spot that you are holding that you know, even the thoughts. Because when you stress out, when you focus, we often hold the breath and tighten the shoulder. You don't see people who are so focused and then, what do you call that stressed out and have a chest open, heart open looking? No. You see the people who are driving the car so stressed out. So when you release attention, you feel opening up all the lymphatic knots. And then sometimes, even after one session, people feel very light and their face gets so much more circulation, so brighter compression. And then you can see the changes very quickly, your face and my face, because we tend to lose volume. Right? I called it volume loss type. We need to rebuild the muscle after we get rid of all the lymphatic excess lymphatic fluid. So it might take longer. But the people who tend to store lots of fluid lymphatic fluid, they can see wonderful result them very quickly. So you and I have to be a little bit patient, but we get to the place that we feel very comfortable, happy with our face. So that's the main fighting system. So get rid of the things we don't need anymore. Yeah. And and the. Well, before we go on, how old are you? I think I know the answer to this and I'm going to be aggravated. I just turned. 52 57th October. Me two. Oh in October. Yeah, I turned 57 in August. Okay. That's so aggravating. Okay, I don't want to say anything bad about myself, but I mean, you know, you've been you've been at this longer and you really look so youthful. So no Botox, no fillers. This is all. This is all facial natural. Yeah, I, I have I. Mean, your face is like 35. Thank you. No it is. Thank you, thank you. I think my personality, you know, my, mental age is maybe 18 because I moved. Yeah. So many things. So like curiosity. Yeah. But let's go back to the collagen. We lose collagen production of collagen as we age, and we try to, you know, do lots of things. But really, the good thing to do is activate our muscles like a user. Muscles get little things we don't need. And will we speed up the, what you call that, that production of. No. When we speed up the turnover of skin turnover, which used to be 28 when we are younger, but as. We 28 days. Yeah, 28 days. But now our age maybe takes 50 days to get everything you know turnover. So collagen production elastin production also slows down. But when we activate the muscles use the muscles. This is a key point. Right way to use the muscles it creates. It helps the collagen production because more is coming in. More oxygen is coming in and and getting rid of at the same time, things no longer we need. So speeding up everything, which I think we need that as we get older, more, more what do you call that? More support? We give our face and our body and also mind to lots of things we create in our head, clean up, create a new things, and then we start seeing the changes the skin to. Because my skin condition is actually better than, ever. And I didn't have a confidence on my skin until mid 40s. I didn't like my skin. I had a lot of skin. Is gorgeous. Really. You had acne. Your skin is glowing, plump and beautiful. Oh, beautiful. Can can you, talk about the three face types? Yes. And then some exercises for them. Okay. So the first type is like of course all of us have a combination type. But if I just, you know, categorize simply, the first one is a stress. Like a stress hold tension like a tension face type, which is really holding a tension, especially between the eyebrows clenching a TS the shoulder. So this type of people, I encourage them to release emotional stress because it's. Because you're usually like a driven person, right. Exactly. Yeah. So I started going over, you know what? No longer serving you get rid of it. How we do it, we do tapping. We can do tapping to tapping is okay. Yeah. Let's do let's do that too. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to ask you lowering your stress level I don't think you have much stress, but for the audience just think about your stress. Level ten you're stressed out. One is not stressed out. Just think about the number. How about you? I mean. I, I don't have a lot of stress. I am good at managing it. And also I'm very fortunate with a lovely life. But I would say three, you know, it's not it's not high. Okay. Three four you know. No, no it's great. Yeah. So the people who are listening to this just think about the number. Don't overthink okay. Now let's do top thing. So start from the top of the head using me. Just tapping on her. Yeah. Crown. Yeah. Crown of your head. Shoulder. Relax. Just open a little. Smile on your face and then move your fingers to the side of your head. Temporal muscles. This is where we carry lots of tension. If you crunch your teeth, grind your teeth at night. This is I, I think I do that you do okay at night? Yeah, sometimes. And then back to the top. The crown of your head. And now back of your head. We had neck and head meet. Well, this is also the place many people carry stress and tightness. Okay. Now tap the center of your forehead. Keep breathing. You can tap like a raindrop or playing the piano. Whatever makes you feel good and tap on your eyebrows between the eyebrows. Now under the eyes, center to outer. Get the space between your nose and upper lip. Beautiful little smile. Think something happy. Positive. Tap your chin. Tap your jawline on the side of your mat. Side of you. Shoulders and the back of your shoulders where you feel a little tension or tightness. Keep smiling. Good. Armpit. One side good. Is that your lymphatic? Yes. Yeah. Very gentle. Don't go too hard. Just gently the side of your body. Yeah. Helping lymphatic system get rid of things we don't need anymore. Other side. Beautiful. Get the side of your body and palms up. Take a deep breath. And breathe out from your mouth one more time. Breathe in from my nose and breathe out through your mouth. Last one. Breathe in. And a hold for three. Two. One, two. Breathe out and stick your tongue out. See how. I breathe out completely while I'm param on your heart. Another one on your lower belly. Find your heartbeat. Your heart is beating for you. You don't need to earn it. It just give into you. And as long as your heart beat. You are here. Send your love, send appreciation and say it loud or in your heart. I hear you, I feel you, I see you. When you're ready, open your eyes and come out. How do you feel? I feel so relaxed. Maybe too relaxed to be a podcast host. Yeah. So this is very beautiful. Thank you. So what we did is, we tap the meridians, the energy pathway. But also we are changing the posture by just lifting the chin slightly, but improving the, what you call that lymphatic circulation system. So we are doing lots of things. And by just putting the hand palm on your heart and lower belly itself really, really sustainable. So when I asked the student, so Laura, what's your stress level you cut it for? How do you feel right now? 3 or 4 000I feel great. I mean, honestly, I feel so relaxed. Thank you. Yeah. So that's what happened. And for the people who had this tension of holding tight, like really just slow down, take a deep breath and tap the spot. You feel tightness. But the way I guide you helps you because, it's, energy, what I call the pathway so that you feel much more centered. So I highly recommend this one. And then for the second type, people, meaty, meaty type face people so they think their face is fat, but it's not many times it's a retention. It's just an excess fluid stored in a face in a neck area, too. I had a so many students say, oh, I'm so fat, my face is so fat. And I look at the person's face like, I know you just stored lots of fluid. So for those who had that tension or not tension, that stored fluid, I highly recommend release. It's almost like a balloon when you have a balloon, and then you try to massage and get rid of the air, you can't do it. You have to release it a little bit, right? You have to get the air out. So that's what you can do. And let's do the pose. This is really helpful to, to release the tension and then beads and to get rid of that excess fluid. So make a fist. We seal both palms of both hands and the middle finger knuckles right next your nostrils right here. We tend to store lots of tension right here too. And the shoulder relax. Chest open, heart open, and you can change the angle of your knuckles. What I do not want people do is push too hard. Creates wrinkles under your eyes. So push enough so that you feel that pressure, but not creating anything extra. Yeah. So you want to go a little bit lower right here we are. Needs a level full. And who knows me. Yeah that's it. That's it. Yeah. Don't push up. Yeah. Push and push up. Good good good. Yeah okay. And a beat in beat out. Breathing beat out. And now move your knuckles to the center of your cheek. Under your cheekbone. Right there. Yeah. Same thing. Don't push up. Just push in. You can wiggle if you want. Yeah. And then front of your ears wiggle up. Push. Yeah. Good. And on the chin you can place palms toward you or out. Whatever works for you. Push. And then along your jaw line. Kind of your muscles under the corner of your mask. This is also many people hold tension right here. Yeah. Good good. Wiggle slide or move under the ears. That's where I feel it. And feel okay. So that might be clenching or holding the tension. Yeah. Just good. And now slide your knuckles along the neck. Beautiful wonderful wonderful. Good. Let's do one more time right next to your nostrils. And a wiggle or push in. Good, good. And then along a cheekbone. Yeah. And then push a wiggle. Yep. How do you feel right here. It's not too bad. So more jaw. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And by my ears. Oh okay. That's one. So that means lots of rotation of the fluid fluid. That's I'm telling you I can feel the pain right. Yeah. Let's go to the chin. You can slide or I like to go very slowly. But when I find the tight spot it's treasure I call it treasure. Like, ooh, they just spot. Yeah. So many people have that. The excess fluid and, money. That line. This is the. So. Yeah. Right there the corner of your mouth. And to go down that, that's where you can. So if you have the marionette lines. It's usually this. Tension right here and right there, left corner of your mouth. Yep. And then under the ears this is a spot many people rotation. And interestingly this change is always like when you have stress or when you slept certain way or when you have cold infections. And this is a spot you want to release in a slide. Your knuckles and then you can. Even do your neck goes down your. Neck. Yeah. Yeah, we're doing it now to the neck. And this is. Getting rid of the. Lymphatic. Just beautiful. Let's do a couple times. But gentle soft touch. Don't force it because in the fighting system is this very sharp or not sharp shallow surface level. So when you do too much you're not really supporting the lymphatic system. So you want to go very gentle, as if you're touching the baby's face. Good. Let's do the upper face. Make a fist again. So now middle finger knuckles right next your nostrils where the nasal labial fold and nose meet and shoulder relax, chest open. Take a deep breath in and breathe out and up. Push along your nose. If you have a sinus issue or congestion, this may feel so good. Or maybe a little pain pain, but you can just do if you feel scared. And now we're going to move barnacles to the center of the forehead shoulder. Relax. Just open one more time breathing and a slide your knuckles to the side. Your face, your temples, and then push up. Beautiful. Good. Let's do one more time. Push along your nose, using your knuckles along your knuckles. Push, push, push your knuckles in the center of your forehead. Slide your knuckles to the side. Yes, to the temples and up. Push up. Beautiful, beautiful. All right, let's do the last one. Now I can feel fluid in. My target right there too. Wow. Yeah. You want to get rid of that sort of fluid? Lots of fluid. So let's do that one more time. So, knuckles along your nose. Do you feel anything right here, too, or not? Here. Oh, I know a little bit. Okay, so now the palms open your palms and up very gently swipe your fingers to the side of your face and then slide your palms along the face and the side of your neck, side of your chest, this side of your body. So what we did was pushing the tight spot and releasing a tension and opening the pathway so that you can get rid of excess fluid. And for those who have fatty face, they think it's a fat face. This is really, really good. Yeah, yeah, it's counterintuitive in a way, because you're kind of taking your fingers and sliding them down your face. And I think that we've always been taught don't know it, but you're not pulling your face. It's very gentle motion, but it seems counterintuitive to everything we've heard. Right. Don't do you pull your face up. You don't pull it down. Exactly. But that's why you have to go slowly. Like to activate the muscles. You want to go up. Right? The way we get rid of the, lymphatic fluid. You want to open a spot congested or tight spot, and then very slowly, as if you're touching, baby's face. Go slow and gentle and this is also good because you're sending a message to yourself like I love you. Yeah. It's not forcing you. I love, I love you. It's gentle, gentle. Yeah. We don't touch our dog. You have a dog, right? You have a dog? Yes. We don't dress up so strong. No. Yeah. Pressure. You're very gentle, so that helps a lot. And also, Really, relaxes your nervous system. So when you have lots of tension. This is a good tip. But this helps people. Who has who think they have a lot of fat in the face. Yeah. So this is that. Should I go a third time? That's your face and my face. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Okay. We need to rebuild a muscle because everything goes down. This is like sagging volume. Yes, yes. And then fat patch gets smaller, everything gets like, And what we can do is we waking up the. I called it lazy muscles very often the cheek muscles because we tend to use lower part of the face, the muscles around the mouth and a chain. That's why everything go down. So we can activate the cheek muscles. So let's do the exercise first. And I want people see and the feel where they are using the muscles. So ring fingers right next your nostrils and then middle finger toward the corner of your outer corner of your eye. Yeah. So you're kind of like making a V around your. Yes. Sort of like so your ring is for people who are just listening, your ring fingers in the corner of your eye, along the side of your nostril, and your middle fingers out the outside of your eye, and you have like a V open V in it. Thank you. Beautiful. And then touch your face completely with your palms so you feel your skin. Okay. And with this position, just smile as if you were just smiling. Naturally I smile right? Where do you feel the muscle movement? Where do you feel the most movement of the muscles? I think then yeah. I was going to say this is the one that I couldn't do. I was feeling it at the bottom of my palm, and now I feel it like between my fingers, because I figured out how to use that muscle. Okay, this was a big deal for me, right? So the people who tend to have a volume loss type use the lower part of the face. So when they ask them to smile, they feel most of the movement on the palm, like the lower part of the palm. The lower part of your palm. Yeah. Yes. So that means that using the corner of the mouth going down in a chin and everything going there. So what we do is yeah, you can come out. So what we do is we are going to activate the cheek muscles, which is very you have to retrain. But what we can do is place your fingers lower part of your face. So let's say how do you how do you say this one? It's like your fingers on the side of your mouth. Yeah. Under your mouth and smile. And the side of your mouth. Yeah. So, like, your middle finger should be kind of where your corners of are, and then your pinkies are touching on your chin. Chin. Yeah. Yep. And then, Yep. Okay. So is this. Try not to move these muscles. We're going to stop these muscles and then use only cheek muscles to smile. Can you move it. Can you activate. Yeah. Yes. You're getting it. Yes. Yep. One. Good. Good to three. Four. Do you feel a little difference? Let's do this. One. Two thumbs on the, On the chin I do. Yes. Yeah. And then your index finger on the peak of your cheek. Apple. Yeah. Okay. Do you find this spot? Hey. And then I want you to use your index finger. Don't push too much, but tap a couple times here. Hello. Hello. This is where I want to wake up. And then pull slightly. Pull your cheek slightly, but chin relaxed the corner of your mouth up. Yeah. Good good good. And let one finger go. Good. Beautiful. Another one. Go good. Okay. And hold this for five, 4321. Tap the lower part of your mouth. Yep. Good. Because I want this part relaxed more. Now make a ring with your thumb and index. So we're going to actually create the ring circles. This circle. Yes. And place this thumb along your neck Olivia. Hold. Yes okay. And then cover your cheek with your index and thumb. Good. Good. Chin relaxed shoulder relaxed. And then can you use your cheek muscles. Or you can even assist your cheeks by moving your cheek slightly. Yeah, a little bit more chin. Relax, chin. Relax. Yes, yes. Okay. Don't forget to breathe. Breathe. Keep breathing and open your eyes. Good. Don't wrinkly forehead and hold for five, four, three, two, one. And tap your chin and that. Keep the smiles. How is it? It's a heart. So many things to remember. Don't wrinkle your forehead, right? Right. It's just so easy to do. Wrinkle it. Yeah, but that's great. Come on, come on. How do you feel, cheeks? Who do you feel? A little burning sensation. Yeah. So what we did was that. The over waking up. Yeah. Right here we stop by moving the fingers and then activate that cheek. Yeah. And then when you are able to isolate these muscles, you can even. Oh, wow. Okay, you guys, she's just moving her cheek muscles. Like, I can't even describe it like a disco. They're just go this go. Let's go. Right. So really? Wow. Oh my gosh, look at you. You got strong face muscles. No kidding. Yeah yeah. About right. It is a workout. That's the whole point. Yeah I really recommend you put the fingers so that, the lower part of your face so they don't move too much. But use your cheek muscles and your face shape will change. But also you retrain your muscles. Overreacting muscles calm down, which is often right here. The lower part for people who have bony face or body loss and then activate cheek muscles so that you really change the shape of your face, but also lazy muscles. Your cheek muscles get much more, much bigger. Yeah. Oh, that's so good. Is this something you could do on your arms and knees? Like people get saggy arms and saggy knees. Can you. Do that? Yeah, there's a really good one, too. It's very simple. Okay. I can use, wall, wall or any place, but this is the easy I want. You rotate, but the key. Has your arms out to your sides. Out your side. Okay. All to yourself. A little bit so you can see. Oh, I got a sweater. Yeah. Okay. So like here. So palms. Are out to your side and you're twisting one. Palm. The other one is facing down and then rotate. So almost like a, what do you call that ringing that. Oh. Like wringing out a washcloth. So like, you have one palm up, one palm down, and then you're just switching, then your arms are straight out from your shoulders. You have one palm up, one palm down, and then you just switch the other way up. The other one switch. Yeah. The key is relax your shoulder because when you're tightening your shoulder you are blocking lymphatic systems. Chest open, heart open. And then go very simple. You can do anywhere. Oh, that's a good one. Right. You feel that. Do you feel that? Yeah. Oh, I totally feel it now. Already did weights this morning, So that could be wonderful for the arm. Yeah, that's a good one. Oh, gosh. You know, and. Oh, well, here's a good question for you, I guess. Okay, so I had this lady on Debbie Adler, and she was saying her one secrets. She does is she shaves her face instead of, like, you know, dermaplaning or whatever. She just flat out gets a razor like a man who shaves her face. So I hope my husband doesn't listen to this, but I've been doing that. And I just want to know, like, what direction is it okay to shave your neck down and your. Oh yeah, it's interesting, but when you think about the shaving, I don't I don't shave my face, I don't shave my neck. But shaving you have to go very gentle. Right, right. You don't want to go deep. Of course you don't. Right yourself. So when you think about that and lymphatic system, how you want to do is before you shave, I want you open that lymphatic knots under the ears. Well, that. So like tapping. Tapping. First, tapping on your ears, your collarbone. Because. Yeah, center of the collarbone. So that almost like, being fluid and ready to move. And then when you shave, you go along. So center to outer center. Okay. And then so. Like your nose to your ear. Yes. Yeah. And then down your neck, like you would getting to the point. Okay. That you're almost doing it two things at once. And now how do you really get. Yeah. Yeah I think that is a good one. And then the other thing that I love about, you know, what you were teaching us is that in the, in their program is that you teach us how to incorporate it so that you can do this all day long because you know, I've have all these experts on and they're like, you got to do this. You get so like, you know, I had this lady on so you don't pee on yourself. You got to exercise your vagina. The vagina coach. You got to exercise your facial. You got it. Now you got to exercise your face. You got to meditate. You got to do yoga. You got to do it like you don't have to. Time for one more thing. And I love that you teach us how to incorporate it into your daily life. So can you tell like, a few things that we could do, like, and when we can do them? Yeah, of course, because I totally understand. I have a lots of routine. And when I started piling them like, oh my goodness, I needed two hours for self-care. That's a stress. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So face yoga, the beauty of facial guy guys that, like I said, it's not just the exercises. It's more like a lifestyle combined with a mindset to first thing I tell people is you can do it anywhere, including the first thing I do is in that I'm still half awake, half asleep. I start tapping, I start doing a release like we just did for the second phase. So I touch and I do the acupressure so that I know, like, oh, why I have a on this slide, but you don't need to think too much. Like, okay, this is side to side to side. So I'm going to do a little bit more. So I pay a little bit attention. And then I might even do that a little bit of let's say breathing like take a deep breath in my nose and I breathe out. And even though when we did the arm, I might even do the arm in bed so that the five minutes I'm still in bed, half asleep, half awake, I'm doing a face yoga because face yoga is not. It's not exercise, it's lifestyle. It's a mindset. Now when I go bathroom buddy, gold bathroom, this is what I tell people, please don't say I'm too busy. I didn't go bathroom. Everybody goes bathroom. Yeah, so why not do that one exercise. When you go bathroom, it can be. I called it, you know, like the big girl we did. Drop your show and lock up and then hold for 10s. And then three sets. You improve circulation massively. So instead of going bathroom and then sit, do nothing, why not just do the one pose? And when you look at yourself in the mirror instead of just like, oh, I got wrinkles, I have a spot, you can do one face yoga pose because there's a mirror. It won't take long, maybe 10s. So throughout the day you're just editing one pose. Whenever you have a time and the end of the day you have maybe did ten poses, maybe five poses. But what's important is you started noticing how you carry your attention, how you hold your face or how you have, let it go. That the 11 lines and the forehead. Yeah. And how you can release that. So combination of self awareness and add it into your life. It's not hard. And also I recommend people do a face and a time face flush which is just flush water. How many times it sounds like oh my gosh 100 times it's a lot. I don't use soap in the morning. I just flush my face with lukewarm water hand at times and then save the water for my plants. I have lots of fun. Do you are you using, Or are you, bending over the sink like, is it okay? Because I think you say don't bend over, like in your phone, but like, you just if you have your shoulders back and. Yeah. How do you do that? So I wash your face. I bet my knees and then I don't look I don't because I don't you. Don't crunch up right. You don't round your shoulders. Yeah. You just straight bend from your looks like your back is straight. So you bend from your knees to bend. But you also bend from your waist. Yes. Like and then use okay. And then splash your face. 100 times with lukewarm water. This change your skin condition dramatically. I from my. What does it do? It clears your pores. You know you cannot, reduce the poor number of pores like everybody born with certain number of pores. Now, face. But what it does is a couple things. It does. Mild simulation of the skin because you're water splashing. And the second thing is, is clearing your pores in circulation. Yeah. And then I don't know why a hundred times you can do 80 times, but when you do that you also stimulating the vagus nerve. So you parasympathetic nerves are getting so much activity now you feel so much more calm centered. So that's what I do that that's really something like. That's a good way to start the day. Yeah. Yeah. And then you can finish with cold water colder than body temperature. You can do 80 times lukewarm water last 20 times cold water like boom okay. It gives you wonderful glow. Yeah. Oh man. That's good. Good advice. So it's hard. Yeah. It's yeah I mean you could do a little bit at a time like I've been starting to do it, in bed. Open up my shoulders, tap on my collarbone. All those things tap all over my face, I do that, then I like, the skincare routine when I put on my products, I start, you know, I do my knuckles on my forehead. Yeah. I mean, I'm just I'm trying to. I'm incorporating it into my life. And, Yeah, I like the way that that goes. So you're not taking another 30 minutes to sit there and try to do something? It's crazy. You can't. You just can't fit all those things into your life. So it's good that like you say, it's a lifestyle. Is there any other things that we didn't cover that you think are important, that we should know them? I think there is one one thing I want to add to why I called it face yoga method. Why mind body connection? Because people often think, oh, face exercise, face yoga. And now there's lots of, you know, people doing face yoga or teaching face yoga. But what I want people realize is that it's a journey. It's not just a quick fix. An aging is a privilege. I lost a couple of my friends already. They were in early 40s and the 50s. I recently lost my friend. She was 49 and not everyone can actually experience the aging. So instead of focusing how to fix the things and how to use a new things or like, oh, if I get this, get rid of this, I'm going to be happier. No, let's accept you know who we are. Like self-care should not like another things to do, but self-care should come from self-love and self-respect so that it becomes very natural. It's not the things you have to do. And then when you combine that, the impact of whatever you're doing, even reading a book will give you so much more wisdom. And that's what I want to tell people. So with that, can I do one more post together? Because this course everybody and the combined, the philosophy I always want to share. So this called in some picked me up why I named this Einstein picked me up. There's many reasons. It picks up your energy, picks up your mood easily because physically we lift our chin up, open chest, open heart and lift a forehead and then slide down the fingers. So a feeling good. And then the physically we are opening up a chest and a moving and lymphatic flow. So that helps to get rid of extra toxins from the face and a body. And another one is at the end of this is to pick me up. I always encourage people to add some affirmations if they have, or I guide them with affirmation. And like I said, a goes bathroom. So when they go off and when you go bathroom, when you put sunscreen or skincare, whatever you put, just finish with this pose and you feel so good, it's almost impossible to feel bad after this pose. So okay, should we do that? Let's do it. Yeah. Okay, so thumbs on top of the head. Crown of your head. Shoulder relax. Chest open, heart open. This is important. And then with the rest of your fingers, lift your forehead. Up. So let me just describe it for people who are listening. So your thumbs are on top of your head and your fingers are on your eyebrows. Eyebrows. Yeah. And then okay, relax. Shoulders are down. Yeah I know always want to go up. Yeah. And the chest open. Beautiful and little smile on your face. Good and in very slowly move the fingers up to the hairline. Your thumbs are still on top of the hair. Breathe in and in and beautiful and beautiful. And then when you cannot breathe in anymore, put the palms on the side of your face very slowly. Now slide them very slowly. And now slide your fingers, the face and the side of your neck. We are moving. Lymphatic system and and the chest is side of the body. Slide them down very gently, slowly. And let's do one more time. I'm gonna add a little affirmation this time. Thumbs on top of your head and the crown of your head. Rest of your fingers on your eyebrows. Shoulder. Relax. Chest open, heart open. Breathe in and the fingers up to the hairline so you're smoothing your forehead to a beautiful little smile on your face. Chin up. Think something beautiful. Wonderful. Keep smiling in the fingers this side of your head and say it loud or in your heart. I'm beautiful. My life is wonderful. You're sliding your fingers side of your neck. I love myself. Fingers sliding this side of your chest. And I'm sexy. And close your eyes, palms up and little smile on your face. Take a deep breath. In and out. Do you feel. Delicious? Relax. Oh, delicious thing that is. Yeah. This show is so good. Yes. Yeah, because we often see something negative with something not happy about ourselves, but by saying it or changing the posture itself, it instantly makes you feel good. Yeah. I love it and I appreciate all your self-love that you instill in others. You know what I feel like you've already given us, but you have just one best piece of advice or best piece of advice for aging. Well. Yes. Maybe because of a near-fatal car accident and maybe because, At this age 57, I really feel so fortunate and, grateful that I'm at this age. So I tell people, you know, we are here for a short visit. Might as well enjoy it. Just true to yourself. It doesn't matter how old, how young you are in a fully enjoy your life. I think that's what I want to say. Because when we, you know, the end of our day, we don't say, oh, I wish I had less wrinkled my face. We don't say it right. We just literally, yeah, live our life to the fullest. So that's what I want to say. And for those who want to explore, these are lots of, lots of poses you can practice with. Facial. Yeah. The how how can people, find you? Yeah. Well, first let me ask one. Do you, do you have a favorite health or beauty product. Beauty. Products aside from face yoga and. Oh, don't you have a skincare line too? I do, I do have a skincare line, that I actually also created the collagen powder. I it took me two years to make a collagen powder because I added it. Not just a collagen, a hydronic acid and apple. Pure powder. And then saying on cinnamon and all the things, goop things. So, you know, you can try that too. Where is where do we find that? Face yoga method.com? And there's a shop link. I think it's on the bottom, so you can go there too. But also we put together something special just for this podcast. Lauren. So, yeah, people can try. It's okay. Her face yoga programs for $28. And these are usually normally sell $498 each. Oh my gosh, I do. Because people want, you know, I want people to experience the power of face yoga and the the breaks down to less than $1 per day. So yeah, 28 days. Yeah. Okay. Tell you actually what exactly it's a complete 28 day transformation program. And every single day you get the new 15 minutes or so, a video routine that, like, builds on what you did the day before. And 28 does forever access to your 28 day transformation program. Oh my gosh, that might be good luck. You and wow. And, I'll put it in the show notes, but do you know how we access or or will I just get the information for the show? Yeah, there's a link. Okay. I'll have the link in the show notes and, Okay. Perfect. And I pre-record, an intro. So by the time this runs, people will already know about it at the beginning of the the program. So I'll put it in there. How they can do it. Thank you for doing that. For our customer or for our listeners. My pleasure. Because I think everybody should be able to practice face yoga and also everybody's so beautiful. But we just need to re discover our passion of a beauty. And every beauty is different. Like why we have a standard beauty. I don't believe that. And by doing the exercises, what I want people to understand is connect with your inner self and rediscover who they are. And a passion, no matter how young or old they are. And yeah. Yeah, that's really honestly one of the things that just really struck me as I can I can feel your love. You're like me. You just want to help people and you want them to feel good. And, you know, and I really it really comes across and I really appreciate that. But thank you so much for Mico for for being here and for sharing everything and being so generous and kind. Lauren. Yeah. Take care. Bye bye, guys. Thanks for listening, friend. From my heart to yours. Be well. Until we meet again.