Oct '25 • General discussion
30 minute Scalp Neck and Face Relaxer
This massage can be performed in any order as you intuitively feel what your clients biggest concerns are. This is just one possibility of how a session could go but definitely feel free to follow your instincts and follow the subtle clues and cues from your client.
You may want to begin before putting any oil on your hands, with a very gentle slow approach.
As your client rests in the supine position, land like a butterfly and wrap your wings (palms and fingers) around their head.
Very gently sliding down to land in a position with two fingers in front of and two fingers behind each ear.
Make tiny circles with your palm as your fully contacted fingers stimulate the lymphatic system in front of and behind the ears.
Each circle should gradually get a little bit deeper contact, remember we landed like a butterfly and then spread our wings.
As the contact gets deeper gradually your circles will get bigger and you will eventually come out to where you are doing circles with your fingers all over the scalp and just generally relaxing the entire Galea apeneurotica and temporalis.
Once this is achieved, I like to get a little bit of argan or jojoba, with a touch of castor oil for deeper penetration, and a nice facial essential oil blend.
I usually use copaiba, vetiver, tangerine, lime and ginger.
I will make a custom blend for a client if that's not something they like.
With a few drops of this magical elixir on my fingertips and palms, I will put the palms of my hands on either side of their forehead and slide my fingers down onto temporales to spread the oil gently and lightly. Again like a butterfly.
I will spread the oil over their entire face coming back up to frontalis, doing a few sweeps through getting that tension out of the eyebrows, maybe doing a little bit of skin rolling and pinching on the eyebrows.
As that area softens I'll move laterally down on each side coming into the zygomatic area hitting some of the sinus points, sculpting up around the nose and doing circular motions around the eye sockets.
Then onto the chin I love doing little pinches around the chin and long, gentle, sculpting strokes along the jawbone to get platysma and the scalenes nice and loosened. This goes a long way in releasing the area.
Using pin and stretch techniques to open SCM and the scalenes can be very helpful. You definitely do not want to forget the attachment sites on those first two ribs and along the collarbone.
These play very heavily into neck tension and start playing tug of war with the jaw and can make people very uncomfortable.
And speaking of the jaw, that would be my next stop.
Coming in around the joint and soothing and stretching masseter, mobilizing the mandible, and bumping up all of that lymphatic stimulation around the ears one more time.
From there I would go down to encourage a little bit of neck mobility and see if loosening the jaw helped to get the SCM and scalenes released.
If not I would work a little bit more in there, and if my job was done I would then delightedly head to the occipitals to get those traps some relief.
With occipital work stillness is generally the key.
We want to slide up into the attachment sites and just allow all of the muscles to melt over our fingertips.
As they do if you listen really closely they will start popping out and you may get the urge to move your fingertip just slightly.
When you do this you may notice that there will be a change under your other hand and you may feel called to make a micro adjustment. Do it and see what happens. Follow the trail as those tiny little attachments unwind.
And why are they unwinding? Because they feel supported and they feel heard. Stillness and listening are the key.
When the occipitals are happy it's time to say hello once more to the scalp stimulate the lymph a little bit more around the ears come up do some scalp circles if you would like to add in a little head hug with a full palm or even some hair tugs that can be a nice touch.
And then thank your client.
End the Session.
Ground your Energy.
Rebook. 🪄✨
As I said these can be done in any order and you can use anything from a featherlite touch to a deep contact in any of these areas as long as you are not causing a sympathetic nervous system response in your client. And obviously avoiding the anterior triangle endangerment site as well as the eye socket endangerment sites.
Feel free to vary your level of touch throughout the session depending on what the tissue feels like it's asking for.
Don't forget to listen.
Thank you so much.
Go forth and relieve tension.
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30 minute Scalp Neck and Face Relaxer
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