258: Beautiful Skin, Naturally: "How to"
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
When you're a teenager, you get acne. As you age, you get wrinkles, sun spots, and sagging skin. No matter what age you are, your skin is probably something you think about each morning when you wake up and look in the mirror. Whether is redness, dryness, bags under the eyes, or just general age, we all want to look and feel our best. Skincare can be superficial, but its impact on our lives is undeniable. So how to do approach is with a yoga mindset? How do we do it naturally? On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet, Rachael Pontillo, who will share her research and personal experience transforming faces around the world.
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Listen & Learn:
- Why vitamin A deficiency can cause or contribute to acne
- How acne medications can be toxic and even cause birth defects
- Why rancid fats, inflammatory foods, grains, and dairy can cause skin problems
- Why skin care is often an "inside job"
- How to think holistically and not get overwhelmed by all the skin problem triggers in our modern world
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Rachael Pontillo is the bestselling author of the book Love Your Skin, Love Yourself, and co-author of The Sauce Code. She's a Certified Health Coach, licensed aesthetician; and natural skincare formulator and educator. She's the president and co-founder of the Nutritional Aesthetics™ Alliance, the creator of the the blog, Holistically Haute™, as well as the 6-week online course, Create Your Skincare.
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Canola Oil
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| 0:00.0 | If you're a regular yoga talk show listener, you'll definitely want to get on my email list. |
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| 0:21.4 | about the show, special offers, new courses, and valuable |
| 0:24.7 | information that I think you'll find useful. So go to yoga body.com forward slash |
| 0:28.9 | sign me up to claim your free prize now. If you've spent any time on Instagram you've no doubt seen yoga wheels. |
| 0:36.0 | Yoga wheels are all over the place, different sizes, different shapes, different designs. |
| 0:40.0 | I didn't pay much attention to them until I got my hands on an oversized jumbo wheel and we started |
| 0:45.4 | working on prototypes here at Yoga Body over two years ago. |
| 0:49.0 | What I found is most of the wheels are just too small and so it was a nice little way to roll out your back or to do kind of |
| 0:54.7 | supine stretches and your upper back and these kinds of things but you couldn't do a |
| 0:58.8 | full class on these little mini wheels so we started developing a jumbo wheel and the jumbo |
| 1:04.7 | oversized wonder wheel is what we call it. You can actually do loads and loads of |
| 1:09.5 | poses, hundreds of course, |
| 1:15.0 | concentration and you can do them in new and different ways. |
| 1:13.0 | The thing about yoga is that we're training strength, balance, and flexibility. |
| 1:16.0 | If we look at just the physical aspects, there's of course concentration and nervous system |
| 1:20.0 | that are extremely important, but if we're looking at the physical stuff, strength, balance, and flexibility, and balance for most people in most classes involves a couple of standing poses. |
| 1:31.0 | Maybe you do a standing forehead and knee or a standing bow or a balancing stick or a warrior. standing in terms of how your balance is challenged. It doesn't mean it's easy, but it's pretty simple. |
| 1:44.1 | Using the Wonder Wheel, you can challenge your balance |
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