Your getting sleepy...very sleepy

Having trouble sleeping?  According to reports people who stretched  15 to 30 minutes a day helped cut back on sleep problems by 30%.  The stretching helps to relieve stress and muscle aches making it easier for you to drift off to sleep. 

I guess Stretch Armstrong was in a perpetual state of coma given his line of work.

Happy dreams.

Savasana or Corpse Pose

This is my favorite pose in yoga.  I find myself doing it all the time at home......


except I'm usually on the couch with a remote in my hand.

Namaste

Bend it like Gumby

Photo by Ron Sombilon Gallery on Flickr

I would like to say this is me at my yoga class but it isn’t.  I couldn’t get into that yoga outfit much less the pose.

 Do you have any idea the amount of upper arm strength she has?! I’m just hoping one day to be able to do push-ups in plank pose. 

The price of beauty

Image: Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net


While standing in line at the bank yesterday, the bank manager came up to me.


“Excuse me ma’me, are you OK?” he asked with concern in his voice.


“Yes, why?”

“Well your face was contorted in such a way I thought you were about to be sick”, he said sheepishly.


I could feel my face burning bright red. Embarrassed I replied. “Oh no everything is fine. I was just doing my face yoga.”


Thankfully the next teller became available and I scurried off as quickly as possible to hide my shame. Then it dawned on me.  They video tape everyone in the bank don't they?! CRAP! Sometimes I forget I live in the world with other people.

Wrinkle me this

There are about 57 muscles in your face and just like the ones in your body, these will start to sag and droop over time. As my birthday approaches I can start to see the cracks, crevices and JOWLS! Oh my!

So what's a girl to do? Surgery? That's a little too expensive for me now and it probably hurts. Botox? Shooting poison in my head doesn't appeal to me and plus I'm sure it doesn't work on the jowls.

Well here's something that is not so new but its beginning to take the medical community and yoga studios by storm. Facial Yoga. For only 20 minutes a day by contorting your face into weird shapes and goofy looks you can transform yourself into a younger looking you. Some experts say that if you do these exercises everyday for 20 minutes you will begin to notice a difference in two to four weeks.

This isn't fast but its cheap and natural, not to mention natural looking. Do some research and check it out on the web. See if your local yoga studio offers classes or get the exercises off the web. You can even get an App for it.

Maybe by this time next year I will look younger than I did this year!