Facial yoga works wonders. When the actress Marta Drímal Ondráčková was impressed by the exercises, she started making videos about her experiences on social networks and today she organizes her own lessons. “The problem with Western medicine is that it deals with the consequences, not the causes. The right exercises and massages can replace rehabilitation,” explained the lecturer, who will appear on the internet under the hashtag #udrzksicht.
“It started for purely egoistic reasons,” Dřimal Ondráčková admits. “At a time when my main role was in acting, I had the opportunity to play in the premiere of the play Czech Interview. It was about the role of a young actress who was supposed to be 25 years old. ” At the time, she herself was already 30 years old. “At the time, I was playing on a small stage, when the audience is a meter away from you, which means that nothing can be hidden. I looked at myself in the mirror and said I said to myself: ‘Yeah, you’re not going to play twenty-five there, what are you going to do about it?’ said the actress.
The solution to the problem was introduced by a colleague and actress Zdeňka Žadníková, who happened to say that she practices facial yoga. “And so I started with it and after a few weeks I found out that it really works,” said the young woman, adding that she soon began to get more involved in the exercise. .
No plastic, but…
According to the trainer, it is a naive idea to think that only facial exercises will save a person. “If you want to stay in shape, you don’t just do squats or lift weights either. You need to stretch, you should go for massages, in short, take care of your body as a whole. It is exactly the same with the face, but of course we are talking about a smaller area.
Facial muscles are divided into two basic groups. Sleeping muscles need to be strengthened, and overworked ones need to be touched and relaxed. According to the lecturer, a proper massage, including a deep one, can benefit the face in a similar way to the intervention of a plastic surgeon. “These are called sculpting massages, but unlike surgery, you don’t have to make an incision on the skin, it can also change the face,” he explains.
But he does not condemn plastic surgery as such. “Of course, there are situations when even exercise does not help. For example, when a person weighs 220 kilograms and drops to 80, the skin that remains after losing weight does not disappear, ” admitted the actress. “However, when you perform interventions on the face, it is important to understand that surgical intervention is an additional brute load for the muscles. At the same time, the intervention does not eliminate the given problem, but only increases it. to work and atrophy.
Miracle lip fart
The exercises that Marta Drímal Ondráčková uses to achieve similar effects are not complicated at all. The name and the exercise itself may make many laugh, but the results are important. “Among the exercises I don’t allow myself is, for example, ‘farting’ on the lips,” explained the YouTuber. “It works well to relieve spasms and tension in the muscles,” she said. “The same goes for opening the mouth, which strengthens the lower palate,” continues Drímal Ondráčková , saying that it is a simple and uncomplicated exercise that can be performed practically at any time.
However, it is important not to forget the rest of the body when you exercise. “Body position is very important. We often do not realize that we have a loose pelvic floor, a protruding butt, a loose stomach, or that we often stand completely slouched and “Hunting over. This is also ordered in the face. If we do not solve the ‘body situation’, we will not succeed,” says Drímal Ondráčková much as the person has a shell of a scattered body, and then start acting.
Such a moment can happen when we are sitting at the computer. “When information like: ‘Pay attention, you should rise, align your cervical spine, connect your tongue to the upper palate, relax your forehead, clear your expression’ run through your brain, you suddenly see that everything is going much better. For you.” According to the facial yogi, the new technique also affects the face. “You will find your muscles in balance, your eyes will be wide open. And suddenly the perception of the surrounding world is much more pleasant – literally and physically,” concluded Marta Drímal Ondráčková.
