Deep Lymphatic Facial Drainage & Buccal Massage

Deep Lymphatic Facial Drainage & Buccal Massage is an intensely stimulating yet deeply relaxing massage on both the inside and outside of your face, to release at depth, the build up of tension and stress that contorts and ages the face.
Stress interferes with the smooth flow of vital nutrients and innervation to our facial nerves which govern our body. Stress is also ageing!

What is the Deep Lymphatic Facial Drainage & Buccal Massage trio?

Breathwork & Lymphatic Drainage, Sculptural & Modelling, Buccal Massage, Head Massage & 360 Wellness

Our face is that part, we want to look its best. Heart-felt breathwork, lymphatic drainage and facial work, inside and out, plus more are the perfect combination, to restore and rejuvenate your whole body and mind. Life is best with our best face forward!

The Healing Practice is delighted to offer our new deep and glowing treatment, a true healing of body and mind. True Beauty emanates from inside ourselves, and we work with you to support that to the best of our ability. The philosophy behind Neolifting technique mirrors that essential belief: when we feel good in our skin, we radiate confidence and a sense of ease in our outward lives. Our bodies hold all our emotional history, and our faces more so than any other part, no matter how hard we might train ourselves to stay calm, cool and collected!

Our new treatment, Deep Lymphatic Facial Drainage & Buccal Massage, taps into that easing away of tension in your facial muscles, opening up new pathways of expanded breath, and undoing patterns of emotional holding in the body.

This is it:

Starts with breathwork to stimulate deep and relaxing breath in your body and mind.
Followed by lymphatic drainage on your face, chest, neck and abdomen to mobilise fluid and toxins into the circulatory system, liver and kidneys.
Spinal massage to innervate the spinal pathways sending sensory information to brain and body
Neolifting techniques skillfully manipulate the soft tissues of your face, neck and decolletage; easing areas of held tension in the musculature, toning and sculpting other areas.
Lastly, intra-oral / buccal techniques reach gently inside your mouth and outside at the same time to locate and mobilise tension to release facial musculature, notably around the mouth and jawline, and gentle joint adjustments.
Deep scalp massage releases the last vestiges of tension from your cranium, front and back, to let go even more.

This is a complete body and mind restorative treatment where you can experience letting go at a deep and comfortable level, feeling nourished and held during this blissful experience.

What are the benefits of Deep Lymphatic Facial Drainage & Buccal Massage?

Releases at depth, the build up of tension and stress that contorts and ages the face
De-stresses the face and allows increased flow of vital nutrients and innervation to our facial nerves which govern our body function
Lymphatic drainage increases circulation to your overall systems
Manipulates the fascia (connective tissue) where it connects with the facial muscles, your neck and the facial nerves (all 12 of them, including the famed Vagus Nerve, which connects from your abdomen to your brain. (See below *CN 0 to CN XII)
Resets the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest part of our nervous system)
Buccal massage may also assist with bruxism, which can alter the contour and shape of the lower face. This happens from teeth grinding and tightening the lower jaw giving it a squarer, more masculine look. Try bringing your teeth together and clenching your jaw and you will feel the tension immediately. The masseter muscle is the culprit here and it’s important for the person to learn different methods of coping with stress rather than it ending in bruxism.
Transmandibular jaw dysfunction (TMJ) is mostly related to tension in the jaw and buccal massage can greatly assist
Buccal Massage, also called intra-oral release: Both the inside and the outside of your face are worked at the same time, to feel where the fascia tissue is tight and to gently mobilise and release it. You may have experienced buccal release work at your dentist or osteopath or chiropractor. However, that is likely to have been specific and localised work for bite issues or jaw problems like TMJ (transmandibular jaw dysfunction).
Fascia is everywhere in the body. It surrounds muscles and tendons and supports joints and skeletal parts(hard tissue) to soft tissue parts and organs. It is an extraordinary innervated network that keeps everything connected at both the superficial and deeper layers of the body.

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How the Lymphatic System is Complementary to the Circulatory System?

Female Client receiving the cupping part of a Buccal Release Massage

THP Client receiving a Buccal Release massage with Cupping therapy

Lymphatic drainage moves wastes from your circulatory system into the bloodstream. It also drains into the great neck veins, the thoracic duct and the right lymphatic duct just beneath the clavicle (collarbone).
These are the areas where a good décolletage drainage is given, draining and increasing the circulation in your overall systems
Your diaphragm and lungs (circulatory system again) are exercised in a comfortable lying down (supine) position.
Fluid that is moved out of the bloodstream during normal circulation is filtered through lymph nodes to remove bacteria, abnormal cells and other matter. This fluid is then transported back into the bloodstream via the lymph vessels.
Generally speaking, if your circulatory system is functioning well, then so should your lymphatic system.
However, when illness enters the body and is sustained for any length of time, then the immune system and the lymphatic system can be compromised.

Therefore activity to mobilise the body is important and to reduce triggers and stressors that impact on the various systems.

What can you expect from the Deep Lymphatic Facial Drainage & Buccal Massage?

Your needs and expectations are primary to a successful treatment according to your levels of safe disclosure, comfort and consent.
Proper levels of hygiene are used at all times and double gloving is done for lower and mid-face intra-oral (buccal) work
You will be invited to connect with your breath, so you can let go into a space of relaxation to stimulate your parasympathetic nervous system (the rest and digest part of your parasympathetic nervous system / PNS).
Mostly, this treatment will be done in a calm state of quiet, as that is how you will be able to go comfortably deeper into your body and mind. If anything of discomfort does come up, then a refocus on the breath will normally settle that down and create a gentle release as well.
Hands are the main ‘tool’ of choice as they remain the most sensitive and finely tuned instruments we have, to palpate and improve facial tissue. with deeper and lighter pressure adjusted as needed.
Some facial tools are used depending on your skin and presentation.
This is a therapeutic treatment which includes facial drainage, followed by sculptural NeoLifting techniques of the deep facial fascia,to ease out deeper pockets of muscular tension and restore the face to a resting calm face.
Buccal massage provides another level of gentle release and stretch work in the buccal area. Overworked muscles are mostly: the buccinator (suck in your cheeks and you will feel your buccinator working), masseter (elevates mandible /lower jaw bone and helps with chewing food), and clavicular (collarbone) and sternum areas (from lifting up shoulders or rounding chest and not breathing the best ways for you).
The jaw also has links to the pelvis and in women, such as after childbirth / postpartum, there may be some gentle movement or realignment that might happen spontaneously during a treatment. This is to be welcomed in a safe and trusted space, if you are able to allow it.
During pregnancy, this treatment would be assessed beforehand to check this is the right time for you, according to your gestation (how many weeks you are) or altered to fit with your wellbeing and comfort.
The neck or cervical spine is a major carrier of stress and tension and lymphatic drainage and gentle neck stretches will release any residual tension.
A deep scalp massage lifts and releases tension from your cranium.
Facial oils are used to enhance your treatment and any techniques will help their absorption into your skin.
LED (light emitting diode)Therapy maybe used at the end of the treatment to calm down any inflammation that may occur during the treatment.

You can expect to feel deeply relaxed and rejuvenated in both body and mind, especially your face, neck, chest, abdomen and spine.

A female client receiving part of the Buccal Facial Massage on the interior of her mouth and cheeks with the therapists double gloved hands at The Healing Practice

A female client receiving part of the Buccal Facial Massage on the interior of her mouth and cheeks with the therapists gloved hands at The Healing Practice

What products do I use for your treatment?

I am very fond of Living Libations (a Canadian company that makes exquisite facial oils and a huge range of other products too)
Ritual Moringa facial oil
At the moment I am enjoying Antipodes range (a New Zealand company that produces an organic range of excellent products)

Who cannot be Treated?

Please stay home if you are sick especially with a respiratory condition
You have an inflamed facial condition
Had Botox or other facial injectables in the last 2 weeks

How to pronounce Buccal (in case you’re interested?)

The proper pronunciation is like: buckle with a softer sound on the c and a slight pause before you say the c. Bu-ccal. Its origin is Latin and means cheek.

What’s so interesting about the Vagus nerve ?

The vagus nerve, also called vagal nerve(s) with no clear distinction as to which is more correct, however both are used to mean the same thing, whether singular or plural. I like to write correct information however it appears to be both. Confused? Moving right along, it’s actually a pair of nerves that originates in the brainstem, travels or wanders (the latin meaning of vagus), down the left and right sides of the body, through the neck, chest and finally abdomen.

The vagus nerve, also known as the tenth cranial nerve, cranial nerve X, or simply CN X, is a cranial nerve that carries sensory fibers that create a pathway that interfaces with the parasympathetic control of the heart, lungs, and digestive tract.^[1]

The vagus nerves or vagal are the main nerves of the parasympathetic nervous system. It used to be called the pneumogastric nerve which strikes me as more satisfactory in terms of its wandering location from brain to abdomen, and its various functions in the systems it works in.

Functions of your vagus nerve or vagal nerves subsystem

Your vagus nerve is triggered when you are satiated (full, without being overfull, hopefully) and enjoy a good meal. It sends that somatic happy response to your brain.
The vagal system has about 80-90% ‘afferent’ (sensory) nerves that relay information about the state of your body’s organs to the central nervous system. That sensory information involves your sense of touch, vision, smell, taste, hearing as well as pain and temperature.
The vagus nerve supplies motor parasympathetic fibers to all the organs (except the adrenal glands), from the neck down to the second segment of the transverse colon. Important to know this if you have any large intestinal discomfort so your intestinal area can be gently treated, if possible.
The vagus nerve is also responsible for regulating inflammation in the body, via the inflammatory reflex.^[7]
The vagus nerve is also responsible for varied tasks, such as heart rate,
Gastrointestinal peristalsis (intestinal motility, the movement of contraction of the bolus (digested food) through the gut from stomach to rectum)
Sweating
Muscle movements in the mouth via the laryngeal nerve, including speech
Innervates the outer ear and part of the meninges (protective layers around the brain and spinal cord)
It’s responsible for the gag reflex and can cause vomiting
Stimulation of the vagus nerve in the cervix uteri (as in some medical procedures) can lead to a vasovagal response. That response can look like: light-headedness, nausea, urgent need to sit down or lie down to aid recovery and will pass.

*12 Nerves:

CN 0 – Terminal
CN I – Olfactory
CN II – Optic
CN III – Oculomotor
CN IV – Trochlear
CN V – Trigeminal
CN VI – Abducens
CN VII – Facial
CN VIII – Vestibulocochlear
CN IX – Glossopharyngeal
CN X – Vagus
CN XI – Accessory
CN XII – Hypoglossal