revitalizing facial acupuncture

Ageless Face

What to Expect 

How Ageless Face Sessions Work

Assessment

In your first session we will do a thorough assessment of your health and concerns you have about your face. We will assess what type of skin you have from an Ayurvedic perspective: Dry, Oily, Hot, or Combination. From there, I devise a generalized treatment plan that incorporates your facial doshic analysis with your underlying, internal environmental constitution that is enabling and perpetuating that pattern. The points I needle and the products I use are chosen with your internal environment/constitution in mind and how that presents through your skin.

Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda recognize the body and mind are one, not separate. Like the chicken and the egg, so to speak; like oil mixed with flour. Sometimes our physical, emotional, and mental bodies are co-perpetuating our mental and physical issues, which is why we treat you as a whole. I will offer lifestyle suggestions that may include food therapy, exercise, visualization, breath work, exercise, or herbal recommendations.

treatment

Each session begins with a back treatment. The points along the back of the body access areas of the mind and body that balance individual internal organs, specific tissues, and even help us to process emotional states. There are points for helping us to transform the energetics of anger, fear, sadness, worry, and shame. When carried, these states emerge on the face as lines and wrinkles in their associated organs’ respective area of the face. 

The back treatment is also wonderful for moving you directly from any place along the spectrum of fight or flight by settling the nervous system and allowing for rest and digest to dominate helping you to feel more relaxed so your body and brain can detox and heal. 

When you turn over, I will look at your tongue, take your pulse, and read how your energy is moving through you. The table can be heated, or not, to your preference. Many people’s feet can easily cool so I also offer an infrared heat lamp over the feet and a heated table. I will then have a good look at areas of concern on your face more closely, and use a skin type appropriate, whole ingredient, organic Ayurvedic product for your acupressure therapy. This is an Ayurvedic Marma Therapy/Acupressure face treatment which will help you to relax even more. It increases circulation to the face, stimulates drainage from the head to the body, and relaxes the facial and jaw muscles.

After the acupressure treatment the face needles are applied. These locations are chosen by you based on what you’d like to work on, and by me, based on what other points support and enhance the areas you’d like to address. 

I then use a low ohm tuning fork on supporting points on the head and body that helps you to ground fully after the needles are placed and reminds you to settle in for deep relaxation. These points are left to work their magic while you rest.

Then, the needles are removed. I apply a skin type specific Ayurvedic oil to nourish and protect the skin. I then apply gentle gua sha followed by jade rollers to help cool and soothe the skin, and prevent stagnation by improving drainage from the face. Lastly, I will help you to reground before you leave the space.

Follow up

A minimum of 10 sessions is recommended, followed by 10 monthly treatments. This approach allows you to go 3-5 years before repeating the process. Recommended protocol is: Two sessions a week for the first two weeks. One session a week for six weeks. One session a month for the remainder of the calendar year.