Lymphatic Flow 5 Minute Massage

A 5-Minute Arctic Firming Body Serum Ritual

A gentle, upward-flow, circulation-awakening ritual using the cooling clarity of Arctic botanicals.

Before you begin

Apply 1 pump of Arctic Firming Body Serum to your palms. Warm it lightly between your hands. Hold palms in front of your nose, take one deep breath in through your nose, exhale through your mouth, and soften your shoulders. The ritual begins.

Minute 1 – Awakening the Pathways (Ankles + Lower Legs)

🌬️ Think of this as “melting winter stiffness.” (re-pply serum to hands as needed.)

• Start at the inner ankle, sweep your hands upward toward the knee with light-to-medium pressure.

• Repeat on the outer ankle to knee.

• Use wide, upward strokes along the calf in a slow rhythm to encourage lymph to rise.

• Finish each leg with a gentle knee-circle motion, almost like opening a gateway.

Minute 2 – Sculpting the Thighs

💫 Imagine brushing warmth up through the hips. ( re-apply serum as needed.)

• Begin above the knee and lightly push fluid upward toward the groin lymph nodes, very gently in a pumping or wave motion.

• Use your forearm or flat palm to glide the serum upward in long strokes.

• Finish with both hands cupping the hip crease, holding for one breath.

Minute 3 – Lower Belly + Waist Release

🌙 This brings in feminine energy: soft, circular, intuitive.

• Apply 2 pumps of serum to the belly.

• Make slow clockwise circles around the navel (this follows natural digestive flow).

• Use sweeping motions from the hip bones upward toward the ribcage.

• Finish with a gentle waist sweep—hands traveling from back to front, like gathering your own energy inward.

Minute 4 – Heart Center + Chest Lift

💗 Picture rising light drifting north.

• Start at the solar plexus (just below the sternum).

• Glide hands upward toward the collarbone.

• Follow with short sweeps from the center of your chest outward toward each underarm—this clears the major lymphatic junctions.

• End with one cleansing sweep from shoulder to shoulder.

Minute 5 – Neck + Final Drain Down

❄️ The cooling, lifted finish.

• With fingertips, sweep upward from collarbone to jawline using very light pressure.

• Follow the natural lymphatic path: ear to base of neck, then gentle slides downward along the side of the neck.

• Repeat three times per side.

• Finish with one long, grounding sweep from jawline down to the heart, and from heart down to the belly.

Ritual Closing

Bring your hands to your heart for a single slow inhale and exhale.
Let the Arctic botanicals settle into the skin; imagine the lymphatic flow rising like a tide, taking heaviness with it and leaving the body bright and lifted.

Learning new practical rituals to help you “reset” is easy with our Arctic Membership, we send a detailed video from Lisa every Monday at 6:30pm. This early week ritual for us helps us make the most of our well-being going into the week.

xoxo,

Lisa

What rituals would you like to learn more about? Let me know by emailing me at lisa@islandskincare.ca