th YOGA Facelift Marie-VERONIQUE NADEAU Creator of Marie-Véronique Skin Therapy CaPTake years off your face naturally. You don't need Botox, dangerous (and obvious) plastic surgeries, or expensive collagen treatments to look younger and bring back your glow. Master aesthetician Marie- Veronique Nadeau’s yoga-based program just forthe face is designed to eradicate chicken neck, erase frown lines, and do away with those extra chins. Exercise for just five or ten minutes every day—at your desk, while stuck in traffic, or watching TV—and you will see results in two weeks or less. Reclaim your face with The Yoga Facelift—an exercise, energetics, and meditation program specifically designed for the muscles of the face and neck. There is a plethora of exercise programs to tone our torsos, backs, and biceps, but none to exercise and maintain the most hard-working set of muscles in ‘our entire body—the face. “These exercises can make a huge difference in how you look and feel, If you're looking for gain with no strain, search no further than The Yoga Facelift.” Sally Jessy Raphael, host of Sel Open House ‘love this book and started on the exercises immediately —they'te so easily added into anyone's daly lie. There are over 90 muscles in the face and this isa great way to tone them and relax. Along with healthy eating and meditation, I now have the recipe for looking ageless!” —uleFster-MeGarry, author of Bethe Change You Wont to See inthe Word “More than skin deep, The Yooa Facelift is a truly holistic way to keep your face ageless utilizing the universal energetic principles found in yoga. It transforms your spirit and erases lines and wrinkles, This program works and its author is the living testament to its efficacy.” -—lige Mace Calin, author o hore Toni "You can plump your tips, smooth your brow, and send the crows feet flying away with Mari secrets. The Yoga Facelif’s ‘Three Minute Lift’ is nothing short of miraculous!” -—Deborah Kester, author of The Healing Secret of Food and Enghteed Det‘As Coco Chanel famously said, “Nature gives you the face you ave at twenty; it is up to you ‘to merit the face you have at fifi." Now, Marie- ‘Véronique Nadeau's revolutionary approach shows how we can all take charge and have 4 fabulous-looking face and sensational skin ALANY age with The Yoga Facelift Filled with helpful charts, instructive photo- graphs, and simple, effective techniques, ‘The Yoga Facelifis like a trip to the spa. Marie-Véronique Nadeau has devised a holistic method to repair wrinkles, reshape, and redefine your face. This alternative beauty program is available to anyone, anywhere, and anytime and will help you enhance your inner and outer beauty with rejuvenating and easy exercises that turn back the clock Better than Botox? Much better, as Botox does not address sagging tissue. A good facial ‘exercise program is the only way to firm up drooping foreheads, eyes, mouths, chins, cheeks, and necks. In fact, facial exercise is highly recommended for people who have hhad Botox injections, to retrain muscles and to.ensure that facial muscles do not atrophy. Start the program 2-3 months after Botox treatments. Better than plastic surgery? You bet, Plastic surgery cuts away “excess” skin and pulls it tight over the same old flabby musculature. Only exercise will give you lasting, as well as beautiful, results. Marie-Véronique Nadeau's restorative yoga will help you enhance your inner and outer beauty with rejuvenation and easy-to-do exercises.Put your best face forward, Muxe- Gadel Marie-Véronique Nadeau, author of The Yopa Facelifi isa chemist and a licensed aesthetician who is dedicated to providing people with healthy alternatives to natural beauty. She hosts Youa Facelift classes at Elephant Pharmacy, and euns her own cosmetics company. She also operates a hheavly-trafficked website (m-vskintherapy.com) and has a highly successful Yoga Facelift practice She resides in Berkeley, CA. “Litle did know that while 1 was inventing anew kkind of pharmacy, Marie was inventing anew type ‘of Yoga. This is definitely an idea whose time has come—and best of l,i works!” —Stuatt Skorman, founder of Blephant Pharmacy “Marie Nadeau’s exercises to restore the face toa _more youthful age really work! Finally someone has pat together a program that gets results. Mi of women ...and men. .. can now look and fel younger. more vital, and more atractive withowt the unnecessary risks, costs, and suffering, of surgery” —Dr. Shandor Weiss, ND, LAC People in Eastern and Western Europe have long ‘been aware of the benefits of facial exercise, nd book isthe best—really easy exercises from 3 Yous perspective. My monn says The Yoga Facelift keeps hher more toned than anything she's ever tried, and she's tried them al. I can see the facial workout — doing wonders for her and it even gives youthful radiant glow, Mother knows best!” Angelina Moysou, singer/songwiter, Persephone’s Bees “love yoga, and now I love yoga for my face. Hook: more rested and energized with the exercises—at 1 can do ther anytime, anywhere, even at my ora stoplight. A great book, and easy to use!” —Sondra Kornblatt, author of 365 EnergyThe Yoga Faceliftthe YOSA FaceliftFist plished in 2007 by Corari Pes, an imprint of ed hee eter. ke With offices at: 500 Third Stet, Suite 230 San Francisco, C8 94107 ver redheelneser.com Conyight © 2007 by Mave-Wroigue Nadeau, All ght reserved No pata this publeation may be reproduced oc transitted in any for or by any mens, eletone oF echnical, ‘ncuting photcopying recording, or by ay information storage ard retievalssten, without emission in writing from Red Wheel/Weser, We Reviewers may quote brie passages 150-30 1-57326-278-0, 101: 978-1-57924-278-5. Libary of Congress Ctalagog-n-Pudtication Data Nadeau, Maie-Veronique The yoo fei / Morie-Verongue Medes. p. em. 1880 1-57526-2780 (alk paper) 1. Facial eva 2 Hath yoo. 2 Beaty Personal. I, Tite Rar78.N28 2007 2006027002 Cover an bok design by Yoshie Matsumoto Typeset nT On Sans, Aldus, and FF Scale Photogaps by Joshua Abeyts Prine in Hong Korg ss woss7ssasztContents Introduction Chapter One: How the Yoga Facelift Works Chapter Two: Getting Started Group One: Warm ups and Stretches Breathers Stand and Breathe Bend and Breathe Spine Stretchers Spine Stretcher/Energizer The Turtle ‘Arms and Shoulders Cow Face Posture Shoulders Back Group Two: Improving Circulation Head and Face—Upside Down The Lion Modified Head Stand Group Three: The Weck Neck Massage Chin Lift Head Rott Neck I Neck I Head Twist Keep Your Chin Up Cow Face for the Neck and Chin Neck Stretch and Back Bend Group Four: The Jawline Jawline Definer Jawline Sculptor 12 22 24 26 26 32 34Jawline Massage Jawline Shaper Chapter Three: Exercises for Specific Areas e Group Five: Cheeks 64 Cheekbone Creator For Droopy Cheeks Erasing Marionette Lines Group Six: Lips and Mouth or Upper Lip Line Eraser Upper Lip Smoothie The Carp Curt The Carp Curl—Advanced Group Seven: Eyes 70 Paliming Lower Eye Upper Eye For Crows Feet and Puffy Eyes For Upper Eyelids Eye Socket Massage and Crows Feet Extinguisher For Droopy Eyes Group Eight: Forehead and Scalp 7B Tension Banisher Scalp Tingler Counteracting Horizontal Lines Scowl Banisher Chapter Four: The Facelift Series 84 Group Nine: Facelifts 86 Facelift I Facelift IE Facelift IITChapter Five: Relaxation and Rejuvenation Group Ten: Relaxation and Rejuvenation Relaxation Rejuvenation Chapter Six: Adding the Power of Belief The Power of Belief The Yoga Facelift Week One Weeks Two and Beyond Chapter Seven: The Quick Lift Step One: Focus Step Two: Wake Up Step Three: Tighten Step Four: Relax Chapter Eight: The Aging Process Cutting Under the Skin Changes as We Age An Alternative Beauty Program Chapter Nine: Beauty Remedies Nutrition: Inside and Outside Alternative Remedies for Common Skin Problems Other Remedies Chapter Ten: Marie-Véronique Skin Therapy Appendix Further Resources About the Author Acknowledgments 92 94 98 100 101 108 116 116 122 126 126 128 132 141 144 152 155 159