
Everyone desires for glowing skin and attractive facial complexion, especially the women is quite crazy about it. Different people are using different means to improve one’s facial outlook. However, if it is being done through yoga, it not only makes your skin glow, in fact, makes the skin complexion live, supple, young and elastic. There are yoga asanas, which work wonder for youthful and healthy skin. These yoga poses give you better look naturally and without any side effects.
10 Yoga postures for glowing skin
- Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation): Sun salutation is quite effective to eliminate waste products from the body through the skin as the process involves profuse sweating. Surya namaskara results in increased perspiration and thereby encourages the elimination of toxins from the body, helping to prevent skin ailments. This is an excellent method of acquiring a fresh complexion, and its importance increases for skin health if one takes a bath after surya namaskara.
- Sarvangasana: Sarvangasana being an inverted yoga pose helps to improve the functioning of the eyes and ears under certain circumstances, especially where the blood circulation is insufficient. It helps to prevent falling hair and improve the skin complexion of the face by improving the blood supply.
- Sirsasana: Sirsasana is an excellent yoga pose for healthier and glowing skin. Pimples and wrinkles are often caused by inadequate removal of waste materials and insufficient nourishment from the blood. Sirshasana directs an oxygen-rich flow of blood to the facial skin thereby improving the complexion.
- Bhastrika pranayama: This breathing exercise helps to remove physical impurities by increasing the metabolic rate and increasing blood circulation. Bhastrika is therefore a first-rate technique for purifying the blood, improving skin complexion, and removing boils, pimples, etc.
- Mayurasana: Mayurasana tends to expel impurities in the body very quickly. It helps to remove body toxins thereby improving the facial complexion.
- Shankhaprakshalana: This process helps to purify the whole body. There is no medicine or method (apart from a prolonged fast) that can clean the small and large intestines so thoroughly as this practice. Many diseases are directly or indirectly caused by the accumulation of toxic waste matter in the intestines. This practice expels all impurities from the digestive tract and thereby helps to purify the blood system. This can result in a wonderful and noticeable improvement in the treatment of diabetes, hyperacidity, constipation, dysentery, and many other ailments connected with impure blood such as bad complexion and excessive occurrence of boils or pimples.
- Manduki Mudra (Frog attitude): By the practice of this mudra, the ida, pingala and sushumna become united; this leads to freedom. The body becomes like a corpse. At this stage, inhalation should be re-continued. This practice bestows many siddhis (psychic powers), prevents old age, removes wrinkles, and prevents white hair.
- Shatkarm (Cleansing yogic process): Due to faulty lifestyle and improper food habits led to develop toxins and impurities in the body tissues and thereby imbalance the body functions. Shatkarma like Basti, Kunjal, and Kapalbhati make one highly powerful and very lustrous; increases gastric fire; destroys glandular enlargement, diseases of the spleen and dropsy and enhances the facial complexion and happiness.
- Kapalabhati: Kapalabhati is one of the important yogic exercises, which generally impacts all the body system. Practicing this yoga pose on regular basis helps to prevent many diseases and disorders and simultaneously good for a better facial complexion. It rejuvenates the skull (head) and the mental functions. It invigorates the entire brain and awakens the dormant centers which are responsible for subtle perception. Besides the ENT region, it stimulates nerves in the abdominal region; massages abdominal organs; and improves digestion.
- Nadi Shodhana Pranayama: Nadi Shodhana Pranayama is in fact the life of a biological being. The pranayama opens the energy channels; removes blockages from them and facilitates the free flow of energy and oxygen throughout the body. It facilitates the smooth blood supply to the brain and the entire body and ensures the functioning of every cell in our body. It also helps to remove waste products such as carbon dioxide and other toxic gases from the body. Thus, the practice of this breathing yoga exercises overall helps in making the skin healthy.
Wonder tips for healthy glowing skin
- Drinks adequate quantity of water: Take sufficient quantity of lukewarm water. It helps to flush out the body toxins and ensure fairer skin.
- Do brisk walk: Doing it on regular basis ensures sweating profusely. It takes away the dirt and unwanted substances from the body.
- Green vegetables and fruits: The focus should be on fresh and green vegetables and fruits. One should try to take those fruits and vegetables, which are rich in vitamin C.
- Sound sleep: Sound sleep and sleeping on time is also one of the utmost criteria to make your face glow. One should try to take at least 7-8 hours of sleep.
- Keep yourself natural: One should follow the natural way of keeping oneself fit and healthy. Wash your face twice or thrice a day. Use oil, which is rich in Vitamin E. Massage is also recommended to make the skin soft and supple.
- Laughing: It is one of the important therapies, which makes you rejuvenate, lively and fresh. Laughing helps to energize each and every cell of the body. It keeps your skin young.
- Meditation & Yoga Nidra: It acts as a stress buster and mood elevator. It makes the system holistically refined from the inside.
- Cheeks exercise: Inhale through the mouth and continuously distend your cheeks with the inhaled air. It will facilitate a better look to the cheeks.
Indeed these above mentioned Yoga poses are helpful in order to get glowing skin but one can only have it with few of Diet rather a bit of Detoxification once a week. It helps not only in getting a clear glowing skin meanwhile enhances immunity too.