About Ana

Certified face yoga teacher and creator of Face Dance. I help people who feel tense when being seen release facial tension so they can feel at home in their face without overthinking, fixing, or controlling their appearance."

✨ From hiding my face to helping others feel safe being seen ✨

Certified face yoga teacher and creator of Face Dance

 I'm Ana , a certified face yoga and gua sha teacher, and the creator of Face Dance, a music-led method that helps people release facial tension and feel at home in their face. I teach online in English and Portuguese, working with people who feel tense or self-conscious when being seen and want a natural, expressive way to change that.

My Story

I was born with severe hearing loss in a world that assumed everyone listened the same way.
From early on, I learned to pay attention differently. I watched faces closely. I felt vibration before I understood words. I noticed what people held, what they hid, what they could not quite say. And I noticed my own face doing the same thing. Years of trying to appear normal, to lip-read perfectly, to perform ease I did not feel. Years of saying yes when my body was saying no. All of it lived somewhere in my face, a closed jaw, a guarded expression, a look in the mirror I did not recognise. When I found face yoga, something shifted. Not just in how my face looked, but in how I related to it. I stopped trying to fix what I saw and started listening to what it was holding.

Music came next, because movement without rhythm felt incomplete. When the two met, something changed. The face softened in a way that exercises alone had never managed. Not because of technique, but because the nervous system finally had permission to let go. That is how Face Dance was born. Not from a strategy. From a return.

Today I teach online in English and Portuguese, working with people who know what it feels like to be tense in their own face and who are ready to feel at home in it.

As seen in 

In March 2026, I was featured in the Zenler Creator Stories, sharing how Face Dance was born
and how I built it as an online practice.

Work with me

If you're curious about Face Dance, the best place to start is free: the Glow Up Express guide takes just a few minutes a day and gives you a real sense of how the practice feels.

If you're ready to go deeper, a 1:1 session via Zoom is a personalised 60-minute experience tailored
to where you are right now.

To understand the method before booking, start with How to Release Facial Tension Naturally or Face Yoga with Music.

Training and certifications