How to Hack Facial Fascia for "Tensegrity" 🎙️ with Viktoria Mortensen by @jeroseland on 3Speak
For the past two months, I've been experimenting with an odd beauty hacking habit: 5-10 minutes daily of fascia manipulation techniques. In this episode, I interview the woman who introduced me to ...
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In architecture, there is a fascinating principle called tensegrity, a portmanteau of tensional integrity. It describes a structure that maintains its shape, not through heavy stacked pillars, but through a continuous web of tension. Think of a suspension. bridge or a geodesic dome. If you push on one side, the entire structure distributes the stress to remain stable. Well, it turns out the human face is a tensegrity structure. We aren't just skin draped over bones. We are a complex network of fascia and muscle that floats in a delicate balance of tension. When that tension becomes imbalanced, we don't just get tired, we age. Our faces literally begin to collapse inward. I'm Jonathan Rose-lined with Limitless, and as a nearly 41-year-old, new-ish dad, sleep deprivation, and perhaps even some facial collapse might be expected. But this might surprise you. I recently took a selfie and realized that my crow's feet around my eyes, those little lines around my eyes, have essentially vanished. And this has... something to do, I think, with some applied tensegrity techniques that I've been doing to rewire my facial tension, along with some other beauty hacking things that we'll get into in this podcast. And the woman behind this natural facelift is Victoria... Mortensen, and she's joining us today. Victoria is the exclusive sponsor of this episode. Thanks to her, there are no annoying ads interrupting this conversation. Listen until the end, where I'll explain why this kind of exclusive sponsorship is the highest integrity business model for doing what I do. She is a osteopathy-trained face and body architect. who has taken the ancient beauty wisdom of her native Ukraine and fused it with modern fascia science. She's the creator of the face plasticity method. Victoria, welcome to Limitless. Thank you. And for the audience, this is a podcast that you might want to actually watch. as opposed to just listening, as we're going to be doing some show and tell here. We are going to give you some techniques that will take a... just a minute or two a day to do, which will help to restore and enhance your tense security. And, yeah, if you're listening to the podcast version of this, you'll see the link below wherever you're listening. And that is going to be the page on LimitlessMinsetSyset.com, where some of these techniques, we're going to just embed those as videos there. So, yeah, do check those. out. Victoria, first question, to the average person, the idea that you can massage your way out of deep wrinkles, sounds like wishful thinking, but you approach the face like an architect rather than an aesthetician, can you explain the tensegrity of a human face and what is actually happening beneath My skin, when I do these techniques that make the anatomy of a 41-year-old dad respond so much, or nearly 41-year -old dad, responds so much faster than a $500 a night cream. Yes, I can. And the simple answer to this is no, you cannot massage your face into a new younger version. But I understand where you're coming from because massage is what we know. Now, you mentioned insecurity, and I was impressed at how you put yourself into the issue. It was very, very impressive. It was, you sounded like Buckminster Fuller, who actually invented the thing. He coined the word in 1955. But yes, massaging is one thing. Working in the whole complexity of a human body is another thing. So if you just massage is normally about muscles and fascia. We in my clinic, we work with bones as well. So bones are not a massage per se. Bones is something that you work with in osteopathy. And that's what I do. So, yes, you can work with the body, you can only, in my opinion, work with the body as a whole system, where, let's just say, take the Tensegrity notion, you work with the sticks. If you've seen the pictures of Tensegrity structural sculptures, there are sticks and there are small ropes connecting those sticks. So if you think of the sticks as bones and of fascia and muscles as ropes, sometimes invisible in those structural sculptures, then you have to work with all of them. And yes, if your problem is only in the muscles, you can work with muscles, not just massaging them, but actually... through palpation and energetic techniques, you can work with the muscles. But if the problem lies in the bones, then you have to work with the bones. If the problem lies in the fascia, you have to work with the fascia and muscles. So the first thing is determining where the dysfunction or imbalance or the asymmetry lies and direct your attention there. So I would include bones into that massage that you mentioned. Does that make sense? Yeah, so massage is kind of the wrong word for... Overall, yes, you can say it's an overall notion. If you want to say a non-intrusive method, yes, then it's massage, let's call it that, but it's more working with the whole bodily structure to rejuvenate the face, like you can work with your feet. and your wrinkles might disappear in your face. So it's not exactly massaging, but it's impacting the right points in your body that may affect your face. The thing is to discover where the dysfunction primarily lies. So if the dysfunction primarily lies in your hips, then you'll work with the hips and the whole body will be affected. So this is very much not a one -size-fits-all. In biohacking, there are certain things that are one-size-fits-all. Like, almost everybody would benefit from taking niacin. Like, I might look a little bit red right now, because I just took a big dose of niacin. And I take that because I want to protect myself from... EMFs and Nyacin helped our fertility so that we could have that beautiful baby boy at 40 years old. And then there's, for example, like, if people want to increase brain power, almost everybody would benefit from doing dual endback training or meditation. There's a few things that are one-size -fits-all in the world of biohacking. But this... There is a one-size-fits-all, and that's why when I start working with people, I don't say to them you have to work with the wrinkles on your forehead. I say to them you have to work with the breathing. And that's not because people don't breathe deeply, it's because they breathe wrongly. And that's a very fundamental thing to how the work starts. So if you breathe with your diaphragm, like, let's just say everybody knows what diaphragm is, right? It's a huge muscle separating your lungs and heart, let's just say, from the liver, kidneys, and what else is there, uterus, and so on and so forth. So normally a strong, very, very, healthy diaphragm looks like this. You breathe in, and it goes like this. So it massages this. It's your internal masseuse, so to say. So it massages your kidneys, liver, uterus, and so on and so forth. And then the breath, the air goes out. It goes up like this, and it massages your... lungs and your heart. If it's not healthy and it's not elastic, so to say, and it's not strong, then it hangs like this, like a sail. Yeah? So, when the air goes in, it hangs, it's still hanging. When the air goes out, it may just come up like this, and that's not healthy. That's universal. It's, it's a... It's one size fits all. So once we've gotten the diaphragm to the normal, strong normatonus, as I call it, then we can start working with your neck. It might affect your neck already. So, yes, there are parts in the approach that fits all. There are parts that fit all. Sometimes there are variations. Once you've gone through the fundamentals that fit basically all of us, then you differentiate. And then you, okay, well, bones are fine, then we work with the muscles. Muscles are fine, but there is a definite asymmetry in the face, so then we work with the bones. But yeah, the fundamentals are one size fits all. For people that are curious about this, What I suggest, actually, is to head over to Victoria's website, and it's going to be linked below wherever people are watching or listening to this. And everybody has a little bit different kind of facial asymmetry. Maybe there's a small minority of people that have perfectly symmetrical faces, but... Probably about 99% of us have some kind of facial asymmetry. But there are people who look at themselves every single day in the mirror and they see the nose that's a little bit lopsided and they want it done. So what they do is they go and they get a plastic surgery. Well, in my opinion, it's not enough because it's going to affect other parts of your face or other parts of your body. Well, that's just my personal opinion. Or else, you can, you don't have to pay a huge amount of money, and you have your fingers, and you have your hands, and you can correct it yourself. That's what I stick to. And the face plasticity, it actually kind, okay, so. When plastic surgeons do a facelift, for example, they are invasively doing what face plasticity accomplishes, just using our own fingers, if I'm understanding the mechanisms correctly. Absolutely, absolutely. And what I want to add to the plastic surgery, and I'm not... attack in any plastic surgeons at this point of time, but they will also tell you that it creates scar tissue, whichever surgery creates scar tissue. And scar tissue creates tension. So whatever gets directed in one place gets affected in another. So the fascia are going to be... tense and suspended or distended, so to say, because of the scar tissue. So, yeah, finally, it's anyone's individual decision. If they are happy with tensions, other places, but just what that knows, don't want to go for it, I'd say. But it shouldn't, it doesn't have to cost that much money, because there is another way. On the point of the individual side of this particular beauty hacking tool, I'll direct people to your website where what people can actually do there is you're going to set up kind of like a form and people can send a selfie to you securely, and then you are going to take a look at their face. And you, you already did this with me and my wife, oh, maybe it was about three or four weeks ago. And I may insert some clips from that. You did, like, a consultation with us and gave us the... like specific face blasticity exercises that we would want to do to correct our own imperfections. Yeah, that was, it was kind of fun, actually. So people can send you a selfie, and then you'll give them that feedback of which exercises they would want to do. I'm also, and you can do that via your website. I'm curious. Would you also take those kind of inquiries via social media? Like, are you on Instagram? Sure. Yes, I am on Instagram, and it's called Victoria underscore Naturopathy. So that, that's, there's that. And then there is a Facebook site called Victoria's... face and body architect. Okay, great. Through that as well. Okay, great, yeah, I'm going to have those, I'm going to have those linked below, and you were telling me so... Don't be scared if my bot answers you straight away in Danish, keep writing in English, and it's, you know, if my bot... comes there before me, I will be there in five minutes, but if my bot answers you in Danish, just keep writing in English, and it will, yeah, it will do the trick. Okay, okay, good, good to know, it's 2026, there is a bot involved, but, but you see all, you see all messages. Everything, yes, yes, yes. Okay. Okay, okay, that's good to know, and I'm going to have those social media links below wherever people are watching or listening. I'm, here's something I was also curious about, do you have a beauty hack for graying hair? Yes, I do. I thought you might. Yes, but, um. I'm going to mess up my hair now, okay? Anything having to do with hair has two parts in it. One part is eating. Forget those things that tell you that if you put some shampoo into your hair, it's going to grow or whatever, like crazy. It won't. But if you... if you consume enough oils of the right kind, it will. That's another, that's another issue. Now, everything that has to do with hair has to do with the scalp aponeurosis. Aponeurosis is basically the skin tissue and a little bit under it that covers our skull. So basically, that's everything you see here is your apnoosis. Not the face, but the rest. So our hair loves oxygen. It loves nutrients. So nutrients come basically from food, that I mentioned, but it also come from blood circulation. Sometimes your blood circulation is not enough. And it's a very, very simple beauty hack. You just take hold of your hair and you start to pull, not so that you tear it out, of course, but to start pulling like this. You pull it to the sides, you pull it up and down, until your skull begins to burn. Until your skull begins to burn. Probably just burn a little bit. well, I mean, yeah, within the sensible, yeah, but yeah, well, I have long hair, as you can see, and that's my hair, so I can even pull it like this, I can do this thing, until I feel warmth in the apnoirosis, and that's basically what covers my skull. and I can do it for three to five minutes, and that's enough, but you have to do it every day. That means your blood start circulating, your hair follicles begin to get the nutrients. It doesn't mean that the nutrients aren't there, it just means that your hair doesn't get them, because the blood doesn't flow enough. So if you just give it a good, good shake and a good pool, everywhere. That's already a very good start, but that is not to say that you have to completely exclude your nutrients, which is vegetable oils, avocado oil, perfect, great for your hair, nails, teeth, everything. That has to be there, but in addition to that, you can do the shaking and the pulling, and it's great for your hair, Even for gray hair. It is great. Another thing is, people wash it too much, too often. You don't have to wash your hair every day. And I wash my hair every eighth day. And this is how it looks. This is my day number, let me count, six. This is my... It's not fatty, it's not, I mean, it's not greasy, it's not anything. If you get yourself into the habit of washing your hair, not every day, and then later, not every other day, and then later, not every third day, and then your hair will grow strong, flexible, and shiny. But I understand that it's a tedious process, people don't... don't feel comfortable not washing their hair, but you can get there. The hair is stronger by not washing it every day. I think it was about 10 years ago, I saw a YouTube video, and it was on a YouTube account that talked about, like, pickup artist stuff, like seducing women's stuff, and it was a video that said, stop using shampoo. And so... And so I did. I stopped using shampoo on my hair. And, yeah, I discovered that I didn't need, that shampoo was doing absolutely nothing for my hair. And then, yeah, and then I ended up getting a wife and getting a baby. So that YouTube channel gave me some pretty good advice, clearly. Yeah, yeah. I'm thinking it's about what you're comfortable with, and on the other hand, what's healthy. If, well, basically, what can I say, beauty is relative. Perfection, as you mentioned before, is also relative, but happiness isn't. Hmm, okay. Happiness is objective. Okay, explain more. Basically, people feel the same when they're happy. And if your hair starts growing, but you don't feel happy the first seven days of not washing your hair, then you're probably going to give it up. So it's about the... Long-term vision, my hair is going to get stronger, it's going to look better, and so and so forth. But you have to get through the first seven days or three days of unhappiness. That's, and that's the price you want to pay. On, okay, on your website, you have a bunch of photos, a bunch of before, after. photos of, I think it's all women that have done the face plasticity, and yeah, maybe my face will be the first guy. Please. On, on your, on your, on your website. I did a, I took a selfie the first day I started doing it, but I realized I didn't take a profile selfie, the side view selfie. But yeah, so I'm going to do, maybe I should do a profile view selfie, like now, and then I can do another after photo, maybe in about another, in about another month. But I'll direct people to your website to check out those before, after. And I'm curious, what is the average amount of time that... People need to do the face plasticity exercises for it to manifest in their appearance. 10 minutes a day. 10 minutes a day for how long? Well, depending on what the dysfunction really is. Like if you have a scar tissue or if you have a very pronounced dysfunction of the face, then I would suggest all eight weeks. If, let's just say, your face is just sagging because of aging, let's just say, or losing weight, that's another great, that's another big issue. When you lose weight, your face starts sagging. So if you only have that, then I'd just say fundamentals and working with muscles would probably be, and fascia would be enough. Let's just say two weeks. And they will see results straight away. I can show you the results in five minutes when we do the exercise. But a lasting good result, ready to be noticed by others, you'll probably see in two weeks if bones are not involved. The first time that we talked, you said something interesting, which was that the... Your students online are mostly all women, but that in your clinic there in Denmark, you have more of a diversity of you men that come into the clinic. And yeah, I found that kind of interesting. And there's, okay, there's this person that I've heard of. I don't know him personally, but... I see him everywhere online named Clavicular. Have you heard of this guy? I've heard of him. I haven't seen any of the, like, videos. Where is he in on Instagram? He's everywhere. And this guy has risen meteorically to, I think, become, like, one of the biggest influencers of, uh... 2026, and what's interesting is that he's a male beauty, uh, beauty influencer. Yeah, he's a male beauty influencer. And that's, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a kind of an interesting thing that in, like, the current cultural, uh, milieu, that a male beauty influencer, would rise to the, would rise to be, like, one of the, the biggest stars of 2026 online. And I think this kind of, I think this example of this guy, and actually he kind of looks like an awful guy, like, he's not, like, a person that I would want to be associated with. But I think this is kind of a good example of the utility. of beauty hacking. A lot of people would see beauty hacking as, like, oh, you're just being, you're just being vain. But in the, okay, in the current year, the, the life hacker, the avaricious person, the ambitious person, the person that's trying to lead a meaningful life, is, facing an ultra-competitive world, like the, with whatever you want to do in life, whether you're an entrepreneur and you want to build a company, or you want to, you have some kind of moral mission, maybe you have like a nonprofit, maybe you have a company that's, maybe you have a, maybe you're a capitalist and you have a company that's driven by a moral mission, maybe you have, a really important story or philosophical message to bring to the world. Maybe you want to find, maybe you're a single person, and you want to find, like, your life partner. Whatever, whatever your, like, mission is, life in 2026, in the dystopian, technocratic... modernity that we face, life is more competitive than it has ever been. Getting a good job is more competitive than ever. Entrepreneurship is more competitive than ever. Trying to raise a family, well, okay, in my experience actually, like, I started my family with my son nine months ago. I guess, yeah, now that we have three of us, I could call that, we're like more of a complete family unit. That has turned out to be easier than I expected, but everything else in modernity is, like, dramatically more competitive. And so I think this clavicular example is, I think, one of the…