Turkey necks are attractive--if you're a turkey. If you're a human...maybe not so much. So what to do about sagging neck muscles? One option may be face yoga to tone and firm, according to yoga teacher Annelise Hagen, author of The Yoga Face.

How to firm your neck using face yoga

You want fuller lips, but you don't want to be injected with collagen or other fillers...so what do you do? You could try face yoga, as practiced by yoga teacher Annelise Hagen, author of The Yoga Face.

How to create fuller lips with face yoga

To botox or not to botox, that is the question. The answer? No botox, if face yoga techniques demonstrated by author and yoga teacher Annelise Hagen can work for you.

How to reduce forehead wrinkles with face yoga

Yoga works wonders for the muscles of your body, so why not your facial muscles, too? That's the theory behind Face Yoga.  Yoga teacher Annelise Hagen, author of The Yoga Face, demonstrates techniques to minimize wrinkles and sagging muscles around the eyes.

How to minimize wrinkles around the eyes with face yoga

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Who is Sandy Cheeks?

Healthy placement and use of the shoulders is crucial to developing a strong structural foundation. Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor shows you Downward Facing Dog, a great position to learn this ideal alignment and build the upper body strength needed for arm balances, inversions and healthy shoulders.

Ashtanga Yoga: Healthy shoulder alignment in Downward Facing Dog

Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor shows you a great movement to teach your hips how to lift their own weight. You'll also strengthen the forearms and develop the core strength needed to powerfully lift the body with its own strength.

Ashtanga Yoga: Lift your hips in Side Plank

Practicing Yoga involves much more than physical exercise. Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor talks about the commitment to live according to the Yoga lifestyle.

The Yoga Lifestyle

Thinking about starting to practice Yoga, but not sure what discipline is right for you? Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor explains Ashtanga Yoga, a comprehensive healing practice that includes physical and spritual transformation.

What is Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga?

Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor shows you how to safely enter Purvottanasana with the careful use of core strength and the Bandhas. This will help you set up the techniques for backbending later!

Ashtanga Yoga: Purvottanasana

Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor show you how to safely and effectively work Marichyasna A from the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series.

Ashtanga Yoga: Twisting in Marichyasana A

Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor shows you how to safely and easily enter Setu Bandhasana.

Ashtanga Yoga: Setu Bandhasana

Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor shows you how to work on lifting up into a floating arm balance from Utkatasana and discusses the correct flow of this posture in the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series.

Ashtanga Yoga: Handstand from Chair Pose or Utkatasana

Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor shows you an easy way to work on headstand. By breaking down this movement into simple steps, anyone can learn to balance on their head!

Ashtanga Yoga: Headstand for Beginner

Getting stuck while making the transition to jumping back can be really frustrating! Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor shows you a movement that will help you learn the missing key in the upper body and the core. Soon, your body will float all the way back through the vinyasas in the Ashtanga Yoga system!

Yoga push-ups for core strength

Asthanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor shows you how to use a yoga block to open and relax your back. Spending time in this posture either in the morning before you practice, or after you finish your practice will help release tension in your back!

Yoga block exercise: Passive Yin stretch

Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor discusses the technical and anatomical foundations of Marichyasana C in the Ashtanga Yoga Primary Series.

Ashtanga Yoga: Twisting for Beginners with Marichyasana C

Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor breaks down how to work on Chakrasana, backwards rolling from seated position.

Ashtanga Yoga: Backwards Rolling or Chakrasana

Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor gives the functional and anatomical foundation on healthy alignment in Chaturanga Dandasana.

Ashtanga Yoga: Chaturanga Dandasana Alignment

Ashtanga Yoga Instructor, Kino MacGregor goes over the best alignment for Triangle pose, known in Sanskrit as Trikonasana from the Standing Postures in the Ashtanga Yoga method.

Ashtanga Yoga: Triangle Pose or Utthita Trikonasana

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Who is the Face of Boe?

Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor shows you how to strengthen your shoulders for headstand and forearm balance, known in Sanskrit as Sirsasana and Pinchamayurasana. Keep the solid the foundation of the shoulders fully in place to support the neck!

Ashtanga Yoga: Headstand Forearm Balance

Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor talks about the strength it takes to practice the first posture on the Ashtanga Yoga Third Series well. This posture, called Vishwamitrasana, is not easy! It's all about steadying and concentrating the mind, so stay calm, apply the technique and have faith!

Ashtanga Yoga: Strength building for arm balances

Ashtanga Yoga Instructor Kino MacGregor guides you through a Boat Pose, or Navasana, variation that helps develop core strength. It's not the traditional Navasana in the Ashtanga Yoga method, so if you're doing a traditional class try doing it on your own before or after the practice to help develop integrity in the core muscles. Or, if you're not an Ashtangi then add it in whenever it works!

Ashtanga Yoga: Boat pose or Navasana variation

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If you'd try anything except a facelift to look younger, Face Yoga may be right up your alley. Yoga teacher Annelise Hagen, author of The Yoga Face, demonstrates simple moves that she says will sculpt and lift your cheeks and keep you younger-looking.

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