Is jaw tension becoming part of your everyday life?
Some of the signs that you may be clenching your jaw or experiencing TMJ problems include constant tension through your jaw and cheeks. You may also have pain in these areas, particularly if that tension has been building for some time.
Headaches, facial pain and even symptoms around the ears can also be associated with excessive jaw tension. You may have tried massaging your jaw yourself and found that it helps for a while — but the tension or pain keeps coming back.
Why does the tension keep coming back?
Once the jaw begins to hold tension, it often can't easily let go of it. It can become the body's 'go-to' place for holding the stress and busyness of day to day life. And once that tension becomes well established, it can start to affect other areas too, which is why you may also begin to experience things like neck stiffness or headaches.
By working systematically with the muscles and fascia of the jaw, face and surrounding areas in this TMJ course, you can begin to unwind some of that tension and help ease your symptoms. After months or even years of tension building up, basic jaw massage may not be enough to create lasting change. That's why I'd like to show you the techniques and approach I use every day with patients in my clinic to help reduce jaw tension and address the areas that may be contributing to it.
Introducing
Unclench Your Jaw
A 6 week Course for TMJ, Facial Pain and Tension
Learn step by step how to use effective techniques to release tension and ease pain in your jaw, face and neck
Education • Practical Tools • Lasting Change
What You'll Learn Over the 6 Weeks
Release Jaw and Facial Tension
Learn practical myofascial release techniques for your jaw, face and neck that you can use yourself at home
Understand What's Driving Your Symptoms
Learn how muscles, fascia, the nervous system and everyday patterns can contribute to persistent jaw tension and pain
Help Your Nervous System Settle
Use simple techniques to reduce the stress and nervous system avtivation that can keep your jaw holding tension
Your 6 Week Journey
WEEK 1
Getting to Know Your Jaw
Understand the masseter, one of the main muscles involved in jaw tension, and learn about fascia before beginning your first practical myofascial release techniques and acupressure.
WEEK 2
Releasing the Temples
Explore the temporalis muscle and trigger points, then learn practical release techniques for this area alongside a simple breathing exercise to help with face tension.
WEEK 3
Tension Beyond the Jaw
Discover the role of the subbocipital muscles and the neck, and why these areas can be important when working with persistent jaw tension. You'll learn myofascial release techniques alongside a guided relaxation exercise,
WEEK 4
Working Inside the Mouth
How to work safely inside the mouth to access the masseter from a deeper place, alongside guidance on breathing and.tongue positioning.
WEEK 5
The Neck and SCM
Explore the sternocleidomastoid (SCM), its relationship with jaw, facial and head symptoms, and learn safe myofascial release and trigger point techniques.
WEEK 6
Deeper Jaw Release
Explore the pterygoid muscles and the area around the jaw joint with further myofascial release techniques. Then bring everything together with a plan for continuing your self treatment after the course.
Hi, I'm Elly
MEET YOUR THERAPIST
I'm Elly Lindsay, a Myofascial Therapist specialising in persistent jaw, facial and headache pain. I work daily in my clinic with people who are struggling with jaw tension and symptoms that can begin to affect much more than just the jaw.
My interest in this area has developed through years of clinical work, alongside my own research into TMJ pain. What I have found is that lasting relief comes from more than just massaging the area that hurts. My approach combines the myofascial release with an understanding of the wider muscular patterns and nervous system responses that can contribute to persistent tension.
I created Unclench Your Jaw to teach you the same principles and practical techniques I use in my clinical work, in a way that you can learn gradually and safely at home.
Is Unclench Your Jaw right for you?
This course may be a good fit for you if you:
• Regularly notice yourself clenching or holding tension in your jaw
• Experience persistent jaw or facial tension or pain
• Have headaches, neck tension or symptoms around the ears alongside your jaw symptoms
• Have tried massage or other ways of relieving the tension, but it keeps returning
• Want practical techniques you can use yourself at home
• Would like to understand why your jaw may be holding tension, rather than simply treating the area temporarily
What You'll Get
Step by Step Guidance
6 weeks of structured guidance with practical video demonstrations you can follow at home
Understand Your Symptoms
Learn about the muscles, fascia and nervous system involved in persistent jaw and facial tension
Tools for Lasting Change
Build a collection of techniques you can return to, with guidance for creating your own self treatment approach after the course
Plus, a 20 minute 1:1 Support Call
Your course includes an optional 20 minute Support Call with me, which you can book at any time during the 6 weeks. Use this time to ask questions, talk through anything you're unsure about and get personalised guidance on the techniques you're learning.
What Previous Participants Say
“I learnt the different muscle groups that can hold knots and tension and how to relieve them and thus relieve your symptoms! I had a reduction in neck, face and upper back pain. Try this and it will show you how to treat yourself rather than rely on others.”
- Sophie
“If you are considering this I am a graduate of January’s course, I’m not totally fixed but saw at least a 50% improvement up to now.”
- Thomasine
“All of my jaw and headaches I had been experiencing are significantly better and also my shoulders have never felt better, and no more pain in my jaw anymore. So thank you Elly!”
- Erika
Frequently asked questions
Ready to Start?
You don’t have to keep putting up with jaw tension day after day. Learn practical techniques to help you understand your symptoms, release tension and feel more confident managing your jaw yourself.
6 weeks of step by step lessons • Learn at your own pace • Optional 20 minute 1:1 Support Call