Graceful Neck - Sculpting a Charming Neck

Graceful Neck - Sculpting a Charming Neck

The aging of the neck skin is a frustrating issue as it exposes our privacy to the world in broad daylight.

The neck skin often reveals a woman's age before anything else, which makes women think twice about exposing their necks while showcasing their sensuality. They don't want people's gaze to linger on their necks instead of continuing upward to appreciate their beautiful faces and expressive eyes.

The neck skin ages faster than the facial skin not because it's fundamentally different or more vulnerable to daily damage. The main reason is that people tend to overlook the daily care and exercise of their neck skin. Now, let's learn some techniques to keep our age hidden!

1. Neck Massage

Benefits

• Reduces neck wrinkles, enhances skin elasticity, and gives you a smooth and slender neck. Provides thorough massage to neck muscles, nerves, and ligaments, relieving stress and tension in the brain and improving mental clarity. Effective for relieving tension and headaches.

Steps

Best Time to Practice: Morning after waking up, 2 PM in the afternoon

Recommended Frequency: 3-5 times

Convenience Level: ★★★★★

1. Choose a comfortable sitting position in meditation posture, inhale, and straighten your spine.

2. Exhale and lower your head while exhaling, allowing your chin to approach the collarbone. Pay attention not to arch your back. Feel the stretch in the muscles at the back of the neck.

3. Inhale and slowly raise your head, then exhale while tilting your head backward. Stretch the muscles at the front of the neck and bring the back of the head closer to the spine.

4. Inhale, return your head to the center, looking straight ahead. Exhale, bring your head toward the right shoulder, making sure not to lift your shoulder. Feel your right ear approaching the right shoulder, stretching the left side of your neck. Inhale, return your head to the center, and then exhale while tilting your head to the left side, feeling your left ear close to the left shoulder. Return to the center and relax your body.

Tip

Perform the movements slowly and gently, being careful not to strain the neck muscles excessively. Stop when you feel comfortable. Each set consists of stretching in all directions while holding each position for 2 breaths, repeated 3-5 times.

2. Cat Stretch II

Benefits

• Stretches the neck muscles, enhances the neck's appearance, and creates a swan-like graceful neck while sculpting a graceful body curve.

Steps

Best Time to Practice: 6 AM

Recommended Frequency: 3 times

Convenience Level: ★★★★★

1. Start in the basic standing position, take a small step forward with your left foot, and point your toes to the ground. Place both hands on your lower back, interlocking your fingers.

2. Inhale and stretch both arms backward, trying to make the shoulder blades touch each other.

3. Exhale, bend your left knee, lower your body, raise your hips, tilt your head backward, and try to find the ceiling with your chin. Keep your hands on the ground, and your toes should be touching the ground. Hold for several breaths, stretching your back.

4. Inhale, push the body up, extend the arms in front of the chest, palms together, trying to make the raised arms parallel to the legs. Only the hips and the head should touch the ground, and the normal breathing should be maintained for 15-50 seconds.

5. Keep both legs straight and close together, tighten the muscles of the thighs, exhale, and slowly lift both legs with the insteps stretched straight.

Tip

Keep both legs together and do not separate them.

3. Cobra Pose

Special Reminder↓↓

While practicing this pose, avoid excessively using arm strength to lift the body, as it may strain the back. Remember to engage all parts of the spine gradually in the exercise.

Benefits

• Stretches the front side of the body, tightens the neck skin, provides more firmness and elasticity, nourishes the kidneys, and enhances beauty.

Steps

Best Time to Practice: 8 AM

Recommended Frequency: Once

Convenience Level: ★★★★

1. Lie face down, place both hands on the sides of the body, palms down, legs together, and toes touching the ground. Lift your chest slowly, looking forward.

2. Exhale, bend your elbows, place your hands on the floor on both sides, with fingertips pointing forward.

3. Inhale, push your body upward, stretch your spine upward, straighten your elbows, lift your abdomen and both hips off the ground, keeping your shoulders away from your ears.

4. Exhale, raise your head as high as possible, look at the ceiling, expand your chest, relax the area below your navel, gently stretch your toes, and strengthen the stretch of your legs. Hold for a few breaths.

Tip

If you find it challenging, bend your elbows slightly and keep your arms close to your body. People with hyperthyroidism, intestinal tuberculosis, gastric ulcers, hernias, and pregnant women should avoid this exercise.

4. Half Headstand Pose

Benefits

• Regular practice strengthens neck muscles, improves low blood pressure, balances the nervous system, increases blood supply to the brain, and tightens facial skin.

Steps

Best Time to Practice: 3 PM

Recommended Frequency: Once

Convenience Level: ★★★

1. Kneel, bend forward, place both hands on the ground, palms flat on the floor, and keep your back straight.

2. Place your forehead on the ground, both hands on both sides of your head, and lift your toes off the ground.

3. Inhale, press your toes against the ground, lift your hips, and keep both legs straight.

4. Put your hands behind your back, interlock your fingers. Exhale, extend your hands behind your back, take a few seconds to breathe naturally, and then return to the starting position, fully relaxing.

Tip

Perform the movements within your abilities and gradually increase the duration of the exercise. People with high blood pressure, dizziness, or discomfort in the neck should avoid this exercise.

5. Fish Pose

Benefits

• This pose stretches the neck, improves blood circulation to the head, and relieves discomfort in the throat. Additionally, it stretches and relaxes the back and hip joints. It also enhances the activity of the kidneys, pancreas, and adrenal glands and helps prevent gastrointestinal issues.

Steps

Best Time to Practice: 7 AM, 2 PM

Recommended Frequency: Twice

Convenience Level: ★★★

1. Lie on your back with both legs straight and together, heels touching the ground. Place both hands on the sides of the body, palms down.

2. Inhale and lift your chest, looking forward.

3. Exhale, slowly arch your torso backward, lower your head to the ground, straighten your elbows, and lift your abdomen and both hips off the ground, keeping your shoulders stretched upward and bending your elbows. Arch your back as much as possible. Breathe calmly and maintain this position for about 1 minute. Then inhale, lower your waist and back, release your hands, and straighten your legs, lying down to relax.

Tip

Do not practice this pose after meals. Avoid this pose if you have had abdominal surgery.