Ayurvedic face massage: a precious help

“Leave me all the wrinkles, don’t take off even one. It took me a lifetime to make them come ”, said the wonderful Anna Magnani. Because it is not a wrinkle that darkens a face, but the many contractions and stiffness that often grip it. Let’s see how Ayurvedic face massage can help

“ You wrote it on your face ”, warns a well-known saying: mirror of our feelings, eloquent as a thousand words cannot be, our face is the first part of us that we offer to the world and the most exposed .

The one that, not surprisingly, we are concerned with making up, taking care of in a particular way, adorning: because if the body can somehow disguise itself behind the dress, the face must leave the house every morning in the front line.

Let’s free the face from tensions

Ayurveda gives great importance to the face (and to the head in general) both because it contains all five sense organs , and because it represents a very important area in subtle physiology as the seat of specific points called marma .

Without going into this ancient knowledge, it is important to underline how facial massage ( mukhabhyangam ) can prove to be a help not to be underestimated not only (and not so much) for aesthetic reasons, but also to relieve widespread ailments such as headaches and headaches. . Often, even without being aware of it, our face is a tangle of tensions that alter even our expression.

Sometimes a wisely conducted yoga class is enough to give us a more relaxed face, even more so a specially designed treatment.

The mukhabhyangam is performed by a therapist and can be either included within the full Ayurvedic massage or done as a single district massage. It can be done in the classic way, that is with only oil , or it can be enriched by the use of specific Ayurvedic masks or creams .

Did you know that there is also yoga for the face?

A face that shines!

Apart from the benefits inherent in this or that preparation, those given by the expert touch of the masseur do not change. Often a lot of money is spent on cosmetic creams and services and the fact that a stiff face, no matter how beautiful, wrinkle -free and very clean, can never be radiant, is not given due consideration.

So let’s examine the many positive effects that this pleasant massage can give us:

the skin is brighter and more toned
facial muscles are more relaxed and there is general muscle relaxation
expression lines are smoothed out
brings complete relaxation to the body which promotes clarity and concentration
it can prove particularly useful for those suffering from stiff jaw