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GUA SHA is an ancient healing technique that involves the unidirectional press-stroking of a small jade or gemstone board to bring about a fundamental change in the skin by clearing stagnation and accumulation in the channel system that directly correlates and has a profound e and/or dysfunction of the skin. By venting the channel system and opening the pathways that feed the skin, we are able to ignite the skin's natural healing power and affect long term change.
GUA SHA is performed using gentle press-stroking massage movements to manipulate and stimulate specific energy lines and points along the face and body, which help break up stagnation, free toxic accumulation, promote lymphatic drainage, and increase the life force energy that runs throughout our body.
GUA SHA is an effective massage modality that directly affects the connective tissue and muscles to help untangle and iron out the fascia that is bound with tension and traps accumulated wastes from stressors of daily life. It helps unwind the tissue, restores mobility, and creates space for the optimal flow of blood, oxygen, lymph, and nutrients.
GUA SHA helps re-pattern the way our skin ages by softening deep-seeded facial expressions and emotions that impede the flow of nutrition and ultimately, the production of collagen and elastin. By relaxing tension, we encourage the tissue to settle into its natural space and geography, which allows the skin to function more efficiently.
GUA SHA creates movement that helps tone muscles and stimulates connective tissue and flow of nutrients that feed the skin.
GUA SHA relieves stress and taps into the parasympathetic nervous system that allows the body to use its resources to repair, rejuvenate, and restore vitality.
GUA SHA helps disband myofacial tension and free the layers of muscle and connective tissue that create adhesions in the underlying structures that cut off blood, nerve supply. Nerves consume 20% of the bodies’ entire oxygen supply even though they comprise only 2% of the body’s weight. Nerves need a continuous supply of blood and begin to lose function rather quickly with oxygen deprivation.
GUA SHA aids in the effectivness of the ingredients in topically applied skincare products. Gua Sha brings attention and healing to the areas of concern; puffiness, dark circles, deep lines and wrinkles, blemishes, redness, sensitivity, and tight muscles and tension caused by stress that are deeply held in the tissue memory of the muscles.
Reference: CJB Beauty Secrets
