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.
become fluent
in your face.
start here.
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Face Forward
Monthly facial gua sha classes.
101: in our introductory classes, basic and foundational facial Gua Sha technique and anatomy are taught and practiced. This class is meant to be repeated.
201: in our advanced classes, muscular facial releases and strategic exercises are employed to be used in combination with what was learned in 101. 101 is a prerequisite for 201.
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Feminist Facial
Our iconic signature acupuncture facial, the Feminist Facial is a 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.
The aesthetic results are also undeniable.
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Brain Drain™
Brain Drain™ is a 90-minute facial acupuncture protocol designed to support your brain's natural waste clearance pathways through your face, scalp, and neck.
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Foundations
A self-paced introduction to the anatomy, energy flow, and daily practices that sustain your relationship with your face between sessions.
Before and Afters.
Visual results are an integral part to all of the Facial Re:Cognition work done here at Well Collab Acupuncture.
We hate the word anti-aging, but we respond to visual cues, we express a huge amount through the 42 muscles on our faces, and what we look like matters.
It doesn’t matter in the way patriarchal beauty wants you to think it matters, though.
The core idea behind Facial Re:Cognition, whether it’s an in person or at home class, or a 30 minute to 90 minute facial, is this:
aesthetic desire and somatic liberation don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
This is a framework that embraces that unavoidable wish to look better (whatever that even means!) 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.