Name: Gua Sha

Size: 9 x 5 cm

Styles Available: Rose Quartz | Obsidian | Kansa

Price: Rose Quartz $19.95 | Obsidian $19.95 | Kansa $39.95

Rose Quartz is the stone of universal love. It restores trust and harmony in relationships, encouraging unconditional love. Rose Quartz purifies and opens the heart at all levels to promote love, self-love, friendship, deep inner healing and feelings of peace. Calming and reassuring, it helps to comfort in times of grief. Rose Quartz dispels negativity and protects against environmental pollution, replacing it with loving vibes. It encourages self-forgiveness and acceptance invoking self-trust and self-worth.

Black Obsidian is a powerful cleanser of psychic smog created within your aura and is a strong psychic protection stone. The energy of these stones may stimulate the gift of prophesy. This black stone is excellent to assist you to release disharmony that has built up in your day to day life and during work on yourself, including resentment of others, fear and anger. Obsidian is a natural glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava from volcanoes.

Kansa (bronze) is known, in Ayurveda, as the healing metal. It is believed to remove the toxicity from your skin, relieve stress and help the energy flows also known as prana. The Ayurvedic goodness of the Kansa is combined with the ancient Chinese technique of scraping the skin to increase lymphatic flow, tighten your skin and relieve stress.

Gua Sha is a facial massage tool that enhances beauty rituals by promoting the lifting and smoothing of the skin, leaving the face lifted and radiant after use.

Gua sha is a traditional East Asian and Chinese technique used to invite well-being, circulation and remove stagnant toxin build-up in the body. Gua means scrape and sha means sand, and this practice has been used for thousands of years. The tools used in gua sha practices range from a Chinese soup spoon, to an animal bone, to rose quartz, to bronze.

The stroke pattern used awakens the meridian lines (lifeforce path) to activate the body’s natural healing abilities. For the skin, gua sha encourages collagen production, sculpts and tones the face shape, allows inflammation to drain and muscles to become free of tension — allowing them to do their supportive jobs properly. It also helps the skin return to its most radiant state as circulation is increased, sending nutrients to areas that may have been starved because of blockage.

Gua sha’s effect is more than skin deep. Because the meridian lines are enlivened, organs such as the stomach, liver, spleen, heart and kidneys also receive great benefit. Working with gua sha tools over the area of the face connected to the kidneys, for example, sends a message down the meridian line of the kidney inviting them to let go of their toxins, relax and receive nourishment. This enables them to function at optimal capacity.

What are the benefits?

+ Carries nutrient-rich and oxygenated blood (food for the cells) to the skin and tissues

+ Drains lymph fluid (which is often filled with toxins and waste) out of the cells to be cleansed

+ Eliminates or greatly reduces wrinkles

+ Treats and prevents sagging skin (lifts and tightens the skin)

+ Aids in eliminating dark circles around the eyes

+ Aids in breaking up and releasing the skin from dark spots and hyper-pigmentation

+ Brightens the complexion

+ Greatly speeds the healing time of breakouts and pimples, helping these skin issues overall

+ Has the ability to heal and relieve rosacea

+ Aids in product penetration

+ Treats TMJ disorder and migraine headaches

Instructions for use:

Cleanse face and hands

Apply facial oil

Warm your gua sha tool slightly by rubbing it between your hands. This also greases the tool up a bit, so it doesn’t pull on your skin in the areas that didn’t receive as much oil.

Sweep up your neck on both sides.

Sweep under your chin from the middle of your face out to your earlobe, keeping your tool flat. If you’d like, hold the skin under your chin with your other thumb as you glide the tool back to your earlobe in the opposite direction.

Sweep from the middle of your chin over your jawline back toward your earlobe. You can gently jiggle at your ear to encourage the fluid to drain down the neck to the lymph nodes at the base, just above your collarbone.

Sweep underneath your cheekbone, really picking up a lot of fluid that tends to be stored here, and direct it toward your hairline. You can lightly and gently jiggle your tool at your hairline.

Sweep over your cheekbones, finishing at the hairline.

Very gently sweep under your eyes. I love sweeping from the corner of the eye moving in toward the midline. The muscle contracts in this direction and the lymph has little rivers flowing down from the eyes all the way from the inner corner of the eye to the outer corner. But if it feels better to sweep from the inner corner of the eye to the hairline, then do that — this is a more traditional direction for gua sha.

Sweep over the eyebrow out toward the hairline and up from the brow bone (up the forehead) finishing at the hairline. When you sweep up, do it in tiny sections, moving along the eyebrow in three to five sections.

Sweep from between the eyebrows over the third eye and up to the hairline. Notice if your clairvoyance feels more activated after this stroke!

Sweep from the middle of the forehead out to the hairline. Sweep from the middle of the forehead, continue into the hair, behind the ear and down the neck.

Now caress the other side of your face, starting again with your neck and working through the steps.

Slide down the side. When you’ve finished the other side of your face, finish the treatment by sweeping down the neck to assist with lasting drainage. Keep your tool very flat and hug underneath your jawbone. Lovingly sweep down the neck to the collarbone.

Take stock of your work. Does the one side look or feel different than the other?

Key tips to make the most of your practice:

+ Sweeping each area at minimum three times. For a longer practice, sweep up to 10 times.

+ Keep your tool almost flat to your skin (about 15 degrees) rather than having the edge of the tool at 90 degrees to your skin.

+ When your tool starts to drag or pull on your skin, add a little more oil for better slip.

+ Have fun experimenting with which side and shape of the tool best fits with your face. Remember, what feels good to you may look different than how it looks in videos.

How often should I practice gua sha?

Incorporate gua sha into your self-care routine as often as you can, even daily. But as soon as it starts to feel like a chore, take a break. Applying love to yourself is sacred — it doesn’t need to become another check on your nagging to-do list.

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