POSTURE EXERCISES that changed my face... In 5 minutes?

The first time I found these exercises, I was blown away.

I was a 15 year old kid - insecure to say the least. Looking for any solution to my "long and narrow" mouth breather face that I didn't like. (This was pre-Mewing, by the way).

I would spend hours in the mirror, agonizing over the shape of my jaw. I would compare myself to friends with more attractive, square looking jaws and wonder... what happened?

I was desperate to fix this. And so I did what any teenage boy with an internet connection would do... I researched.

The first time I discovered these "tongue balancing" exercises, I was a skeptic.

I didn't expect much. They were just some stretches for the head and neck I found online. I was desperate to fix my "mouth breather face" and asymmetry, so I was experimenting.

But after I did them... I was blown away.

After stretching for 5 minutes, something felt different. My tongue was pressing more on my palate, and more evenly, without me having to "do" anything. I wasn't Mewing. I wasn't trying to push it more evenly. It just was.

"Could this be true?"...

I did them for another 5 minutes... then another 5 minutes. And every time I did them, I felt my tongue pushing more and more... It was magical.

Then when I looked in the mirror, I saw it. My jaw and neck area were looking better! Just from a few stretches!

I became a little bit obsessed with these exercises... I would do them all the time. Before going to parties, in the morning listening to music. I would do them in the mirror, and watch as my body changed in front of my eyes.

When I started the BFF Youtube channel, it was to share these exercises with the world. And the response was amazing. Some people completely fixed their asymmetry, just from a few simple exercises!

How is it possible, that stretching your neck, can change your face?

Needless to say, I started doing these exercises all the time. I would do them at University, before parties, because I knew they were making me better looking every time I did them. So it was like a pre-game routine. I did them so much, that my roommates would ask me "Is there ever a time not to stretch?" But for me, I knew it was making me better. And I was excited.

It wasn't until years later that I learned how these stretches actually work to change your face.

As I started learning about Mewing, and later working with Doctor's and dentists around the Toronto area, I realized what was happening:

Every time I did these stretches, I was changing my tongue's position on my upper palate. By improving my posture, there was a direct and noticeable change in my tongue's suction on my palate, which changes the appearance of my jawline, my neck posture, and even my actual jaws shape and position over time.

I was so intrigued by this, and I knew if it helped me... It could help others as well. And that's why I eventually started the Best Face forward Youtube channel.

When I shared these exercises, I was excited to find out that many people were experiencing the same thing. They got results, just from a set of exercises!

I spent the proceeding years experimenting with exercises. Meeting professionals, dentists, myofunctional therapists, for the BFF Youtube channel, and to try and find the best ways to help myself, and thousands of others improve. 

I also learned that the tongue can literally mould and shape our jaws and faces over time. 

So that, by improving this resting tongue position through these exercises, over time, as the tongue presses more on the upper palate, the jaws will begin to expand. 

I learned this from Dr. Mona Moy, who is an ALF practitioner. She taught me that our jaws can change at any age, and that even patients in their 60's are able to see gradual expansion over time as their tongue position and function improves.

As we put these exercises to the test on Best Face Forward, what we found was expected:

Many people were able to see changes in their facial asymmetry, gradual expansion, and facial changes from these exercises.

Along the way, and with their help, we've had over 600+ program members use these exercises to improve their facial shape, posture, and health. 

Imagine if you had a set of exercises that improved your tongue posture, and jaw every time you did them.

What would you do?

Not just in your head. Not like "I think this is working".

I'm saying, you finish the routine, and you immediately feel a difference.

Your tongue is pushing more on your palate, your posture, jaw, and face, all look better. After a simple set of exercises. What if you knew, that if you kept doing them, you'd improve more and more every day? You're achieving a new "personal best" for your facial structure and posture each day. How would you look and feel in 1 months time? 3 months? 1 year?

If you knew these exercises were working - you'd probably be excited. It wouldn't be an effort. It wouldn't be a struggle. You would want to do them every day.

That's how people in our program feel. They ask me "is it ok if I do them multiple times per day?". Because they feel themselves improving, and they want to go fast!

Now, these routines are available for you to try, in our best and most refined program yet.

Introducing...

The ALIGN Program

From Best Face Forward

These routines will not work for everyone. You have to have an open mind to try them, and you have to be inquisitive and curious enough to notice which exercises are working for you the best.

But if you can dedicate 15 minutes a day to doing these exercises, I can virtually guarantee you will feel the changes. And if you're like me, and countless others, you could experience such cool and amazing changes that you can't even believe - that a set of exercises can work to change your face in this cool and awesome way.

How the program works

Here's how the program continues after 30 days:

How is it possible that posture exercises can change my face?

It may seem quite extraordinary, that a simple set of stretches for your head and neck posture can lead to amazing changes to your tongue, jaws, and airway. However it's actually quite easy to understand what's happening, and why it actually is very possible:

1. When you improve your forward head posture, your tongue automatically works better

2. When your tongue works better, it automatically suctions up to your palate more effectively

Your tongue knows what to do. We've evolved over millions of years with tongue up. No Mewing necessary. If you remove the restrictions to your tongue working the way it knows how to, it will start suctioning up properly.

3. When the tongue suctions up more fully (AND EVENLY), it has immediate and longer term benefits

IMMEDIATE BENEFITS:

• - Your under chin area will automatically tighten up, and look better, because the tongue is connected to the suprahyoid muscles, that tighten the area under your chin
• - Your airway will likely improve. If your tongue is more effectively suctioned to your palate, that means its further away from your airway. So, it will block your airway less. This in short, means you'll likely feel you breathe better through your nose. And get more air with each breath
• - Your posture will look better. We are attracted to open posture, relaxed shoulders. And we are not attracted to forward head posture. Your body will look better. And this happens after every routine.

LONG TERM BENEFITS:

- Facial changes and palatal expansion: as your tongue is more suctioned to your palate, your actual jaws can start to change and improve! This happens because our jaws are always changing, at every moment, whether we know it or not, and at any age. As the tongue presses more against the palate, every time you swallow (thousands of times per day) it will begin to gradually expand the upper palate, and improve your facial shape over time.

- Long term sustained postural improvements: if the posture improvmeents are to "stick", it means the tongue position must be continuously improved. If the tongue stays on the palate more effectively, your posture will be improved in the long term - with no Mewing required, and no "stand up straight" or "be aware of your posture". No. Our ancestors did not have to do that, yet they hadall 36 teeth, wide arches, and good posture. It's not about your conscious effort, it's about the underlying balance of your muscles.

What's all included?

This program includes the SIMPLE and effective exercises to SEE AND FEEL CHANGES to your posture, tongue positon, airway, and therefore facial growth as well.

Included is:

1. 30 DAY JOURNEY... With prompts after each day to help pick the best exercises FOR YOU to continue doing (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, etc....)
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3. 1 YEAR ACCESS to pick the best routines for you
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   TOTAL WHAT YOU GET:
   1. 30 Day Journey with follow-along < 10-minute routines
   2. PROMPTS to determine which exercises give you the MOST Progress
   3. Educational modules with insights from program creators (Joe, Mona, Me)
   4. 1 year access after the initial 30-day journey, including
   5. 120 + video EXERCISE DATABASE
   6. CUSTOM ROUTINES to pick from
   7. MOBILE AND DESKTOP APP to access the program anywhere, anytime
   
   WHAT IF YOU DON'T GET RESULTS?
   14 day money back guarantee to try it out
   
   The price for all of this:
   
   ONE-TIME PAYMENT OF $99 (1 Year Access)

What's all included?

When you join the align program today, here's what you get:

• Initial assessment to measure your starting point
• 30 days of daily exercise routine stretching videos
• Daily prompts to track your progress, and choose your most effective routine
• Exercise library of over 120+ exercise routines you can come back to
• 40+ Personalized routines to choose from
• 1 year access to all routines so you can continue to improve

My goal with these routines, is I want more people to be able to expeirnece the amazing benefits of them.

So if you want to start levelling up your face, posture, and tongue position using these exercises, you can try them now and see the effects for yourself, because the cost is only $99 one-time fee, which gives you a full year access to the entire library of exercises, prompts to track changes, and routines.

You also have a 14-day money back guarantee, so you can try them for yourself, and see the effects first-hand.

These routines are what started me on the path to levelling up every day, and I'm so excited for you to try them too.

To sign up today, click the button below.

Have a great day, and keep putting your best face forward

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How is this different from Mewing?

The problem with Mewing, is it's asking you to exert conscious control over somehting that our bodies ALREADY control subconsciously. Our tongue's have a certain resting position and function. When you go to sleep every night, yuor tongue goes to this position. To try and force it, generally only causes tension, anxiety, and increased sympathetic tone. This program is completely different because we are using exercises to level up the resting position of your tongue. So without you trying, you are "Mewing" differently, and better. And that is the goal. Nobody with ideal tongue position and facial structure ever had to "do Mewing" to get there. The tongue knows what to do, if we release the restrictions to it doing so, and functioning how it knows how to. That is the goal of this program, daily, small, levelling up, incremental improvements to your tongue posture that you can feel immediately after you finish doing the routines.

Where Mewing Fails:

Our ancestors all had well-developed, wide palates, airways, and straight teeth. They had "perfect Mewing" without having to try. There were no orthodontists. And they had all 32 teeth (wisdom teeth included). Our bodies have evolved over millions of years, with our tongue's on our palates, perfect posture, and nasal breathing.  
  
So when I hear people say "I've been Mewing for 3 years, but still no changes"... It reminds me of something a great dentist said to me:  
  
"This is not something you have to do - it's the natural way our bodies are supposed to be, so if your tongue isn't on the roof of your mouth, the question is: what's stopping it?"  
  
Mewing is not something you "do" it's something that you are.   
  
Do you have to try and grow nails out of your fingers?

No.

And so, if your tongue isn't on your palate in the right way, or you're not breathing optimally, the question isn't what do you have to do. Or watching another tutorial on Mewing the "right way". Your body knows at a deep intuitive level the right way to function. And if there's nothing stopping it from functioning correctly, it will.  
  
So the question is...  
  
What's the block?

Why did our bodies and jaws develop in this way?  
  
And the second question, is how to get it back to its natural structure and function?  
  
And the answer to both, is habits.   
  
Our habits shape and form us into who we are. The word habit, comes from the latin word habere, which means "have, consist of," and habitus, which means "condition, or state of being." Our habits form who we end up becoming. This is true on the mental level, and the physical level.  
  
A good example is swallowing. We do it 1000 times per day. Every time you swallow, it affects your facial structure. Every time you breathe. Every time you chew. How you use your body (or don't). The habitual resting position of your tongue. These are things we do SEVERAL times per day. And, we do them subconsciously. You don't try to swallow. You don't try to breathe.  
  
And you don't "try" to put your tongue on the roof of your mouth. It just is...  
  
Or it isn't.  
  
Or it's asymmetrical. OR, only part of it is on your palate.  
  
If you improve these subconscious daily habits... You can start to go the other way. You can start to move towards your genetic potential, or as I sometimes call it - your genetic destiny. This is the way your body is supposed to be - healthy, powerful, and beautiful. And how do you improve these habits? Well, it's not through Mewing 8 hours a day. This can cause stress, and if you don't feel gradual improvements - it's probably not working.  
  
Instead, deliberate exercises can improve these habits.  
  
Tongue exercises can improve your swallowing pattern. Posture exercises make it easier for your tongue to function correctly. Osteopathic techniques can gradually expand your palate, and help your tongue "do it's thing".  
  
And this is not an overnight process, especially if you're grown.

It will take time, and the older you are, chances are the longer it will take. But the question is, what other option do you have?  
  
As I've gone down this path, I've slowly realized that any "external method" of expanding the jaw - can cause problems. But that's a topic for another e-mail.  
  
Even if it takes time - it is a thrilling and exciting experience to notice the daily changes. Even if they're small - as long as you're feeling the improvements, you'll be happy. Imagine if you felt your palate expanding slightly every day? If you felt your "natural resting tongue position improving? While you sleep, when you wake up in the morning, at all times.  
  
No Mewing, no effort, no struggle, and no stress.  
  
And once these exercises become a habit, in 1 month, or 1 year - you won't recognize the previous version of yourself, because each level of your body has improved and levelled up. And it happened because day by day you chose to do something to improve your habits.  
  
If you want to get started on the daily process, check out our Align Program. It's 5-15 minutes per day.  
  
You've just got to get in the daily habit, and amazing things can happen over time.  

What changes can I expect from this program?

 There is obviously no "guaranteed" results, because everyone is different, and it's important to do the right exercises for you, and your body. With that being said, the goal of these exercises is to feel immediate improvements. And I mean IMMEDIATE improvements. As in, right after you finish the exercises for that day, you feel a change. As you do each exercise, you feel more and more of an improvement. What improvements you ask? Here are the most notable, and most important:
1. A change in your "resting tongue posture". This is the biggest one I noticed when I started doing them. RIGHT AFTER you finish the exercises, you feel your tongue is "different". It's more easily, and fully suctioning up to your palate. This happens because as your posture improves, it makes it easier for your tongue to work correctly. Your tongue knows what to do. You just need to remove the restrictions to it doing so. In this program, we do this with the daily exercises. So you'll likely feel:

- Your swallowing pattern is slightly different, and more improved. Your tongue is suctioning up to your palate more fully. Your under chin area may look tighter, and your jaw may look more defined. 

- Your posture will likely improve very quickly. Your neck and trap area may feel more relaxed, and look more attractive as well.

What about expansion and bone growth?

- If you improve your tongue position on your palate, so that it's pressing against your maxilla more fully, especially the inside of your pre-maxilla behind the first 6 teeth, then your maxilla is likely to expand, and you'll see this change visually in the mirror. This is the second order consequence. Meaning, the first and most important change, is your resting tongue position, and posture. If that tongue position improves, and stays in an improved position, your jaws will expand over time. How long? It really depends. However if you feel the change in tongue, you will see the change in your jaws, and in our experience, this happens very rapidly if a true change is achieved. 

What about for fixing asymmetry?

This program is designed to help fix asymmetry. Because facial asymmetry is almost always connected to a full body alignment issue. When the jaws are uneven, it is almost always caused by the tongue being uneven, and pushing unevenly on your upper palate. As you improve your tongue balance through the posture exercises, you can feel your tongue pressing more on the weaker side of your jaw, and face, and therefore expand it, and  bring it out and forward in 3-dimensions. Fixing asymmetry is one of the main use cases for this program. Although again, not guaranteed, and varies depending on your case. 

What if it doesn't work?

If you feel 0 changes or improvements to your posture or tongue position, you can get a fully refund within the 14 day period.

Also, if you choose to stay Ryan can help you figure out exactly what may be limiting your results, or potential other exercises you can do, or treatments/appliances you can try.