Mini facelift - with hands

Sit or stand upright.

Open your chest and relax both shoulders.

Place your right arm at a 45 degree angle from your side, and breathe in gently as you raise the left arm straight up towards the ceiling. As you exhale, bend the left elbow without bending your head. Keep looking straight ahead.

Place the middle finger against your temple and the ring finger on your upper lid. Open your chest and inhale. Without moving your head, pull the middle and ring fingers up. Bend your head to the left, exhaling all the way through your nose. As you do this feel the stretch in your neck.

Inhale and open your chest. Extend your left arm at a 45 degree angle. Stick your tongue out to the bottom left. Exhale through the mouth while making a “haaaa” sound. Feel the stretch in your neck and shoulders as you do this.

Inhale and make a fist with your left hand. Exhale and push your thumb out and keep breathing through your mouth while making a “haaa” sound. Inhale and push out your pointers and exhale and make another “haaa” sound through your mouth.

Inhale and stick your little finger out and as you exhale make another “haaaa” sound. Inhale and lift your wrist and move your arm behind your back as you breathe making the “haaa” sound again.

During the exercise feel the stretch from your head to your neck, and from your neck to your shoulders. From your shoulders to your arm and then to your fingertips.

Get out of the pose and close your eyes. You will feel the difference between your left and right sides of your body and in your face.

Now repeat this with your other arm.

Benefits: It lifts the side of the face, reduces drooping eyelids, nose folds and a double chin.

Tips: Body posture is crucial and so is where you place the fingers. Good technique gives the best results.