facial

re:cognition

The practice of re-learning how to see, feel, and interpret your own face.

Our faces are living records: maps of expression, lineage, and adaptation.

Facial Re:Cognition unfolds through layered ways of working.

Each offering meets you at a different point in the re-learning process, from tactile care to structural awareness to full-body repatterning.

All share the same purpose: to help you inhabit your face as a living part of your intelligence.

Aesthetic desire

and somatic liberation

don’t have to be mutually exclusive.

This is a framework that embraces the wish to look better and metabolizes it. Patriarchal beauty standards have our attention; let’s use that aesthetic desire as a doorway back into agency.

Every expression you make is a conversation between structure and story.

Under patriarchal beauty culture, the conversation between structure and story — aka what your face looks like — gets hijacked. Instead, faces become performance.

Facial Re:Cognition is the rewrite.

It’s a system of 1:1 sessions, group work, and self-guided study that helps you understand what your face is saying, and teaches it new ways to speak.

Through fascia, breath, posture, and pattern awareness, you’ll learn to:

  • Rebuild facial tone without self-punishment.

  • Recognize how cultural pressure shows up as micro-tension.

  • Re-educate your nervous system toward softness, safety, and expression.

  • Reclaim beauty as relational, not extractive.

the ecosystem.

  • Feminist Facials

    Hands-on structural sessions that blend acupuncture, fascia release, and nervous-system restoration.

    These treatments repattern how your face receives touch, metabolizes stress, and remembers softness.

  • FACEWORK

    A one-to-one exploration of your facial patterns.

    Facework builds the bridge between facial anatomy and emotional patterning, helping you re-learn how your face moves, feels, and relates to the world.

  • Face Forward

    Small-group Gua Sha learning sessions that teach the foundations of Facial Re:Cognition within the collective field of shared practice.

    You learn to witness your own changes while seeing them mirrored in others.

  • Foundations

    A self-paced introduction to the anatomy, energy flow, and daily practices that sustain your relationship with your face between sessions.