In Japan, the mask fell on Monday, after three years of the Covid-19 pandemic. But some residents, who were no longer used to living with their faces uncovered, chose to take courses to relearn how to smile and work on facial expressions.
seems happy and warm
Thus, about twenty participants -mostly women- met on Sunday in Yokohama for a smile training session, reports the JapanTimes. They had to make various jaw and facial movements to define what expression would make them appear as happy and warm as possible.
“Even if you think about smiling and being happy, if you don’t have expression, it won’t reach the public,” warned her coach, Keiko Kawano.
This former radio personality now focuses on his company “Egaoiku” (“smile education”) and his association “Egao Trainer”, which highlights the importance of “smiling face”. For her, the training to develop such an expression allows to obtain benefits in appearance, but also in the state of mind.
“Fear” and “shyness” before lifting the mask
For one of her students, Kyoko Miyamoto, 74, “there is a bit of fear and shyness” in removing the masks.
“People have been wearing masks for so long that maybe some have even forgotten what their friends’ faces look like,” he said.
The trainer has given courses to more than 4,000 people since the creation of her company in 2017. She has also trained 700 new “smile specialists” who in turn will be able to give these sessions. And her students could be more so after the pandemic, which gave Keiko Kawano the impression that “her smile was fading.”
With each development of the Japanese government on the mask policy, requests from students poured in, he told the Japanese newspaper. They came from both companies and individuals.
Source: BFM TV
