Skin Care – A Natural Way to Glowing Health Part 1 Elimination

By Susan Ni Rahilly

November is Healthy Skin Awareness Month, read this three part series on ways to help you have beautiful, healthy skin.

Healthy skin starts with elimination. To understand this we need some body awareness. And to teach this Yoga teachers often use skin awareness as a way of teaching body awareness and mindfulness. Focusing on a softness in the skin of the palms of the hands and soles of the feet in Yoga Nidra or Savasana brings a gentle relaxation to the Mindbody.

This is how healthy skin awareness started for me . . . 22 years ago I thought I had Cellulite. I started one of the most amazing mindbody plans involving detoxing, self-care and transformation – it was in a little paperback book which I’ve since lost, and the plan was practically free as I did it at home on my own. 4 years later I was having a massage following varicose vein surgery and asked the therapist why I still had Cellulite after all my self-care. She told me I didn’t have Cellulite. I said “ … what’s that then?” pointing to what I thought were little rogue fat cells on my inner thigh above the knee. She said “ …. that’s uneven skin elasticity . . . your skin elasticity is totally different in different parts of the body.” I said “Oh.”

I learned a lot in 4 years! I published a book on women’s wellbeing 13 years ago which included what I’d learned, my experiences, knowledge, and body wisdom. I just can’t imagine life without a natural healthy skin-care routine which supports my Yoga and Meditation Practice.

In this 3 part series there are some great, natural methods to include in your selfcare body routine will help you to show your body on the outside that you care about it on the inside. And the result in a very short space of time, is glowing good health.

The Skin-Body

I like the term skin-body as a way of increasing awareness. So, the skin-body: what does it do and why do we have it?

OM Times Magazine » syndicated