THEL smile trains with personal trainer. This is the latest trend for the Japanese who, after three years of pandemic and with masks always on their faces, they discovered that their face muscles were stiff and that they had to revive their smile.
In Japan the smile trains with the personal trainer
And so for rediscover the most positive expressions on your face they turned to a personal trainer to help them do it.
His name, as writes the New York TimesAnd Keiko Kawano and is a radio host who began to believe she could “train a smile” after discovering that “when she stopped doing vocal articulation exercises, her smile started to fade.”
You can learn to smile. And in Japan the personal trainer teaches it (Getty)
Exercise the muscles of the face not just those of the body
Thinking of a solution, at one point he tried to get busy «to try to lift the corners of the mouth» and smile. And it worked.
The trainer, who started teaching smiling at the gym in 2017 while working as an instructor for companies, is convinced that people «train the muscles of the body, but not those of their faces» which, on the other hand, needs to be well practiced.
Training courses in companies and nursing homes
Kawano started teaching how to smile in nursing homes and corporate officesto people who believed that a better smile could help them find a better job or even just improve their marriage prospects.
They also asked for his help the offices of IBM Japanwhere you held a training course, but then the pandemic hit hard, hiding everyone’s smiles behind the masks.
However, Ms. Kawano was occasionally asked for advice on how to be able to smile through masks and she in response explained that “the key to a distorted smile is lifting the muscles of the eyes”.
Post Covid in Japan, to smile you have to work there
The biggest surge in requests for his services came in February when the government has announced the easing of anti-Covid measuresthe moment in which «people started to realize that, since they didn’t use the muscles of their cheeks and mouth much» they suddenly couldn’t do it anymore but they had to work on it.
And so it was, which significantly increased Ms. Kawano’s business, writes the American newspaper, who will certainly smile even more.
The teacher also holds a one-day certified course for people who want to learn and then be able to teach themselves how to smile. The cost is 80,000 yen, about $650.
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