Secret geisha’s gymnastics

Makko Ho If you want to look young and attractive, feel well and keep an active lifestyle, you should do daily exercises which will take you about 5 minutes and tone your muscles.

Japanese geishas have been considered to be the model of femininity and beauty. Every Japanese woman dreamt of becoming a geisha to provoke men’s admiration and learn the secrets of preserving youth. At the age of 50 these women looked as if they were 35 and first wrinkles appeared at the extreme old age. How to preserve youth isn’t a secret today. These are some exercises which are to be your habits that will let you keep strength and young look for long.

The first and main habit is Makko Ho gymnastics, which aims to make your spine and pelvic joints flexible, to improve blood microcirculation. While doing these exercises, growth promoter somatropin, exuding into blood, slows aging. Having removed toxins your body resists free radicals activity and utilizes dead cells. Makko Ho helped the oldest inhabitant of our planet Misao Okawa to live to be 116.

Exercise #1 Warming-up

Being standing, twist your wrists, feet, knee- and pelvic joints.

Exercise #2

“Makko” means “straight, steady” and “Ho” means “a rule”. So, your rule is to be straight, steady and calm. Try to relax and stop thinking about troubles. Sit down on a yoga mat or on the floor, stretch your legs forward, keep your back straight, lean your chin downwards, rest with your hands against the floor. Stretch with your vertex upwards, breathe deep, and keep in such position for 5-6 breathes.

Exercise #3

Not changing the position, inhaling, pull your feet. Keeping the back straight, exhaling, lean down and touch your feet. If it’s difficult for you to do at first, bend your knees a little. Keep in such position for 5-6 breathes. Lean back while inhaling, keep your back straight. Do the exercise 10 times. 

Exercise #4

Bend and pull your knees, place your feet 10-15 cm from the pelvis. Knee down and turn your feet up. Keep your back straight. While exhaling, stretch as down as you can, and keep in such position for 5-6 breathes. Lean back while inhaling. Do the exercise 10 times.

Exercise #5

Sitting on a mat, move your legs apart, keep your back straight, lean down and stretch forward. Keep in such position for 5-6 breathes for your muscles and joints stretch too. Lean back while inhaling.

Exercise #6

Having bent your legs, lie on the back, stretch your arms upwards, keep in such position for 5-6 breathes.