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to discharge neck tension and realign our posture for greater ease and length is with this simple move, which may be performed before, after, or even during your sessions. The neck reset is helpful at relieving neck or jaw pain and can short-circuit and disrupt headaches. Follow these steps: 1. Lift your chin toward the ceiling. 2. With your chin elevated, lift the upper sternum and chest a little higher. 3. Maintain the elevated height in your chest and bring your jaw and chin back toward your throat as if you're holding onto an orange between your chin and sternum. 4. Repeat steps 1–3 three times or until you notice relief or a shift. This is a simple way to soothe the neck by creating more space between the cervical vertebrae, supporting optimal postural alignment, and activating the front neck muscles that tend to be tight and weak. Practitioners also report a bonus feature of toning loose or flaccid skin that can develop below the chin. SHOULDER RESET Not only do our heads tend to move forward when providing services, but our shoulders are also often dragged into a rounded or slouched posture, clinically referred to as excess thoracic kyphosis. Over time, this habitual positioning leads to significant increases in shoulder and jaw tension but may also contribute to the physical thickening of tissue behind the neck, leading to the appearance of functional hunchback. We can prevent or reverse this postural shape with regular practice. In yoga, it's often recommended to draw your shoulder blades down and together. That is a great muscular training technique. However, the moment we stop engaging the back muscles, those scapulae tend to wing out and assume the rounded shoulder position. The following practice puts your bones (specifically the humerus, clavicle, sternum, ribs, and scapulae) back into ergonomic and functional alignment and resets the distorted muscle imbalance of excessively tight pectorals and weakened rhomboid and latissimus dorsi muscles. True self-care is simple, even if devoting time to it is not. 84 ASCP Skin Deep Winter 2026 GET T Y IMAGES