New Yoga Class focuses on Crow's Feet, more than Downward Dog

"Om" your way through wrinkles with the latest yoga craze, Revita-Yoga, a class that has debuted at The New York Health and Racquet Club.

RealSelf has clued you in to the benefits of facial exercises and facial workouts you may do on your own, but classes such as Revita-Yoga promise to leave you with a smile on your face in a group setting, while helping to ward off wrinkles, sagging and frown lines.

The New York Times interviewed the class instructor who explains,  “The resistance is what firms the muscles... each pose, stretch or exercise is designed to relax the muscles and release the patterns people unconsciously etch into their skin.”

Plastic surgeons and even some yoga gurus are skeptical that the results of the class will ever appear on your face.

The doctor's stance on the topic is:

“Jowls, sagging under the neck, creases at the mouth, are all signs of aging that most probably will not be helped by a yoga class. If you make the muscles in your face bigger it will not make sagging skin tougher or tighter, nor will it help remove fatty deposits. Only a face-lift can do that."

The yoga guru adds:

“Yoga will add radiance to your face and relax you, which will make you look younger, but to just focus on the face is too specific and sounds more like a marketing ploy.”

However, the bottom line of this class is to help women put their best, happiest face forward, and that's a huge positive in my opinion. I did a search for classes in Los Angeles, and came up fruitless. I'm shocked that the Mecca of plastic surgery has yet to offer this alternative, but perhaps it says something about its validity or people's desire to view it as a reasonable option.

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