The Best Yoga Postures that can actually help Improve your Skin

Thought yoga was just to improve your muscle tone and help you relax? Think again. There are particular yoga postures that can actually help improve your skin, depending on the skin issue that you may be having at any given time.

Yes, this may seem a bit silly to some, but these yoga postures have offered significant improvement for women and their skin.

If you have tried every cream on the shelf to try and help your skin, or if you are looking for a more holistic way to improve your skin’s texture and tone, yoga is the way to go.

•How to Get Rid of Dry Skin with Yoga

To help cure your dry skin woes with yoga, start off by sitting on the floor while taking care to keep both you back and your chest straight. Close your eyes and your mouth by drawing your palms over your face and bring your palms down. Breathe in slowly and deeply, and exhale slowly and fully. Continue with this until you feel that your body and your mind are completely relaxed (this may take some time for beginners). You can do this by using your index finger to close off one nostril and making you breathe from the other. Alternate every few seconds, always making sure that you are breathing from the open nostril. Continue with this process up to 5 times.

•How to Get Rid of Oily Skin with Yoga

If you have oily skin, chances are that you will do anything to get rid of it. To get rid of oily skin through yoga, begin by sitting straight. Close your eyes and your mouth, and relax. Make sure you stay in a relaxed state for at least 5 minutes. After that time, take one long breath and hold it for 5-15 seconds. When you are ready to release the breath after those 5 seconds, squeeze your abdominal muscles. Now loosen the muscles and then release all of the breath from your nose. Continue with this process for 5-10 times.

•How to Get Rid of Sensitive and Acne Skin with Yoga

The best way to start this off is to sit on the floor and become completely and fully relaxed. Keep your mouth wide open and curl your tongue so that it forms a tubular shape (if you cannot curl your tongue, try stretching it out as long as you possibly can on the inside of your upper jaw). Try to not allow the tongue to come in contact with the teeth while you are doing this. Now close your mouth and bring the tongue back to its normal shape while also breathing out of your nose. Do this for up to 3 minutes a day and you should find that your skin is far less sensitive than it was previously, and you should notice that any pimples are fading away.

You may feel a bit silly doing these poses at first to help improve your skin, but even just taking those 10 minutes or so every day to relax will do wonders not only for you physically, but mentally as well.