My philosophy
The purpose of this website is to enable you to enjoy looking your best, naturally.
The one thing I am passionate about is to enable people to feel better about themselves. Whatever therapy I use, the objective is to improve wellbeing: both physical and emotional. How people feel often has more effect on their lives than anything else - if it were possible to bottle the ‘feel-good factor’ it would be a worldwide bestseller.
Faceworks was developed in answer to the comments that I hear almost daily from clients: ‘Well, if you could just make me look better as well ... ‘It's usually said with a smile, and not always from people who appear to have any reason to be self-conscious.
About Elaine
I live and work in beautiful Buckinghamshire, running Faceworks courses alongside and combined with Kinesiology and Reiki.
From an early age, I have been inquisitive about the connection between man's physical and spiritual make-up. Careers combining both subjects were few and far between in the 70's when I left school, so for thirty years it remained a hobby. The official path took me from Art College into studio work through to advertising and eventually sales before I took a break to have a family. Health issues in the 90's brought me into contact with several remarkable therapists who showed me the missing link between hobby and career. The necessity to rebuild my own health from the basement up brought a profound understanding of the relationship between body and mind, and valuable first-hand experience of the process of healing. Although several therapists asked me to train with them, it was Kinesiology that proved to be the catalyst for a new beginning.
During training in Anatomy and Physiology, I had the idea to develop a face exercise system to form a part of my business: giving clients the option to improve how they looked as well as providing natural body therapies. Appearance is fundamental to self-esteem and confidence, and as my business grew it became obvious that there was a need for a facial therapy. Many clients wanted to look younger, have better skin, to ‘look beautiful again’.
I often bore my family rigid by my fascination with anatomy. This time I kept quiet and for several months sat and made faces at myself in my dressing table mirror. Then I asked for their opinion. ‘Definite difference’ and ‘more smiley’ were two comments. One friend said simply: ‘What have you been doing? You look fantastic.’ Over the next few months I worked out about thirty exercises, eventually pruning the workout down to the most effective. I knew they worked on me, but to find if they worked on everyone I turned to my existing clients. After three-months and a lot of laughter doing the exercises together, the results were unanimous: Faceworks really did work. I am indebted to the ladies who believed in the exercises enough to put them through their paces.
