Introduction

If from birth we had perfect habits (chewing properly, swallowing saliva correctly without overactivating the wrong muscles, keeping perfect body and facial posture, breathing only through the nose, with the tongue always suctioned on the palate, lips and teeth gently together…) we’d all have grown into the best version of ourselves. Wide smiles, balanced faces, strong jaws, clear airways. That’s how the body is designed to work.

But for all of us, even the “healthiest” or “best looking person”, it didn’t happen that way. Nobody is truly operating at their genetic potential or feel the way they should. Soft diets, mouth breathing, bad posture from a modern sedentary lifestyle… years of those habits shaped us differently. And after puberty, it’s almost too late to fully undo that development by only correcting our habits, because fascia is too tight and the sutures are compressed and stiffer.

But here’s the good news: we can re-correct it, faster and more effectively, with the right tools.

This is where thumb pulling comes in

Thumb pulling might seem like a weird term, but it is a natural technique that helps restore the beauty and function your face was meant to have. Think of it as a catalyst, a speed boost that helps you catch up to your natural potential. It should be done every day by every single person in the world.

And here’s the thing: it’s 100% natural. Thumb pulling doesn’t create asymmetry, it doesn’t overdevelop the jaw, it doesn’t mess up your bite or worsen TMJ. Why? Because it’s biologically regulated by your own nervous system through your thumbs. When you chin tuck and push upwards with your thumbs, you’re engaging muscles and fascia that stabilize and support the body. The force is integrated with your system, not working against it.

Thumb pulling accelerates natural growth patterns, helps you recover mobility, and allows your face and posture to move closer to their optimal state. It can only create improvements, never make things worse.

Compare that to a palate expander

It forces bones apart without involving fascia or muscle. That’s like trying to “outsmart” the body, just like steroids or botox. You might get a quick effect, but there are unnatural side effects, and the results won’t last. You can’t deceive biology, and if you enter that vicious cycle of doing unnatural things, deep insecurities will start to grow, and you’ll never feel complete, you’ll be dependent and need more and more, it’s a business that is trying to keep you forever.

The only way to truly win is to work with your body, the way it was meant to function, while giving it the catalyst it needs. Just like diet coke is not the answer to drinking too much coke, the only answer here is to change your habits and speeding up the process via this natural technique.

That’s why we have better results in this community than nearly all palate expander or surgical cases, without doing anything unnatural. I literally compared the photos of the before and after and it always look better when done naturally.

It’s better than anything else you can do. Palate expanders relapse and break your sutures apart, you lose the crucial mobility between your bones, and you’re left with scar tissue to replace the hole that the device created, which gives this unnatural result. Thumb pulling allows gentle bone remodeling (more scientific explanation in the next part). It simply guides your bones in the natural direction.

Surgery relapses and can’t change the maxilla anyway, most of the time it only alters the jaw. Faces often end up looking unnatural as well. Remember: 1 mm can change absolutely everything. You can’t outsmart nature. Neither expanders nor surgery activate the muscles or fascia, and when nothing works in combination with the body, the results always look off, even uncanny. They’re also very expensive, while thumb pulling is completely free.

Thumb pulling is a corrective technique

It works with your body. It mimics and accelerates the exact habits nature designed for us, habits none of us kept perfectly since birth. Thumb pulling is the reset button for a modern world that’s broken those systems. It’s necessary to attain peak health, because without enlarging your maxilla and thus your airway, you can’t breathe properly.

Your capacity to breathe through your nose matters for your energy and brain function, because your mitochondria run on oxygen. And nose breathing brings in far more usable oxygen than mouth breathing. How well you can breathe through your nose depends on how developed your face is. If your upper jaw (maxilla) is narrow or recessed, it literally shrinks your airway.

Also, when bones are underdeveloped, fascia gets pulled and compressed in unnatural ways. This can restrict blood flow in key arteries that feed your brain and hair follicles. Over time, this can mean fewer nutrients, more inflammation, hair thinning, and brain fog.

And here’s the good news

Even if you’re already good looking, this won’t make you look “too” good. That’s impossible, because it’s just nature. All it does is bring you closer to your genetic potential. And trust me, nobody right now is at their best genetic potential, except maybe some tribes living naturally in the wild. It’s effortless because it doesn’t fight biology, it enhances it.

At the same time, you need to understand what thumb pulling really is: it’s re-correction. This isn’t something you’ll be doing forever until you’re 80 years old. It’s a catalyst that puts you back on track naturally and speeds up the process, so your body can hold the changes itself. Once fascia is released, posture aligned, and habits locked in, the system maintains itself.

That’s why thumb pulling is so powerful

• No side effects
• No artificial force
• No weird asymmetry

Just your body, working the way it was always meant to, but faster.

And all it takes is you and your thumbs.

To be clear this might be the most important guide ever shared in this community, the highest-ROI thing you can do to transform your fascial appearance.

Now let me explain the real science behind it so that you can do it properly.

The science behind thumb pulling | The mindset shift

If you’ve been mewing and thumb pulling but still haven’t seen the changes you’re looking for, it’s because one crucial piece has been missing.

Today I’m introducing you to an upgraded version of thumb pulling, a variation I’ve never revealed before. But before we get into that, you need a fresh, clear explanation of thumb pulling itself. Once you fully understand the principles behind it, you’ll be able to perform the technique correctly.

Your skull isn’t one fixed block

It’s actually 22 bones connected by sutures, and those sutures are meant to be mobile so that blood can flow more easily and nourish them to create bone naturally in the direction it was supposed to grow.

But in most people today, fascia and soft tissues around the face get tight and clamp those sutures shut. That kills mobility, blocks fluid circulation, and slows down growth.

Why modern solutions Fail

Orthodontists tried to solve this with expanders. But their patients were always relapsing.

And this is the whole way that nearly every modern industry (skincare products, supplements, medicine) operates: they help target symptomatic issues without allowing you to realize you were never meant to have any problems in the first place.

So why were their patients relapsing? Because they never understood the real mechanism: it’s not brute force that works. It’s mobility, posture, and tongue on the palate acting as a natural retainer.

Without that, the skull just snaps back. That’s why proper mewing, nose breathing, and body posture are so important.

How thumb pulling works

Thumb pulling solves a huge part of this by releasing pressure in the cranial sutures, just like NCR (Neuro Cranial Restructuring).

Instead of forcing bones apart, it:

• Loosens fascia
• Decompresses sutures
• Restores mobility
• Lets spinal fluid flow

That alone makes your tongue way more effective, bones less compressed, and growth much faster.

The new technique

Here’s the breakthrough: I’m adding today a new addition to thumb pulling.

This move allows you to release sutures even deeper and more effectively than before. It’s basically the next evolution of the technique. Same principle, but with a crucial adjustment that unlocks areas standard thumb pulling couldn’t reach.

That release is massive. It lets the fascia relax more fully, sutures open wider, and cerebrospinal fluid flood the brain with oxygen and nutrients.

Why Fascia Release Matters

Because fascia acts like strings on a marionette, we also combine thumb pulling with full-body fascia release before doing it. Otherwise, the bones will be pulled back into their old position.

That’s why osteopaths’ or chiropractors’ results often relapse so fast:

• They don’t release the fascia in the entire body like in NCR.
• They don’t align the body perfectly (with chin tucking against the wall in thumb pulling or with pads in NCR).

That’s why having perfect posture during the exercise is also key to improving in the right direction (more on that in the practical part of the guide).

The Upgraded Version

With this improved thumb pulling variation:

• The fascia system is relaxed before doing the exercise
• Posture is aligned during the exercise
• You experience less relapse
• You use a special technique to release more tension than before

This transforms thumb pulling into an osteopathic manipulation.

This isn’t just hype. It’s the evolution of everything you’ve already been implementing.

If thumb pulling was already powerful, this upgraded version, combined with perfect habits, is what takes it from “temporary relief” to stable transformation.

Loosening the fascia before thumb pulling

As I explained, it’s crucial that your fascia is relaxed before the exercise, this way you’ll experience the least possible relapse afterward (otherwise it will pull the bones back into their initial position) and your bones will also move more freely.

There are three key myofascial lines that control overall body posture: The Superficial Back Line, the Superficial Front Line, and the Deep Front Line. If these are tight, they can pull your skull and jaw back into the old position, no matter how good your thumb pulling technique is.

For a good release, you should implement these exercises before performing thumb pulling:

Cobra Pose (30–60 seconds) Hold to open the front line and chest.

Forward Fold (30–60 seconds) Hold to release the back line.

Neck and Shoulder Retraction (30–60 seconds) Pull your shoulders back and lengthen the neck by looking up to undo forward head posture. You can also protract the mandible for more release in the neck muscles.

These sustained stretches relax your fascia so the changes you make with thumb pulling hold better, and happen faster.

Doing Zygopulling before starting thumb pulling also helps (go and look the zygopulling guide in the skool) since the zygomatic bones are connected to the maxilla through sutures, this will help relax the sutures of the maxilla as well as the sutures of the entire skull. It will also release the tension stored in the zygomatics and make them more prominent, creating greater support under the eyes, through the same mechanism by which thumb pulling works.

The zygomatic bones can be reached directly from inside the mouth. Place your thumbs in front of your incisors and slide them backward along the jaw until you find the small bony pocket at the back and to the sides, outside the dental arch. These are your zygomatic bones.

Before starting, massage the zygomatic bones for about 60 seconds. Press deeply into the fascial tissue. Zygopulling can be painful because a lot of tension is stored in this area, but over time the pain subsides.

This step is crucial, don’t overlook it.

There are other ways to release fascia throughout the body, but it always needs to be personalized, and it only works when combined with learning the other key pieces. That’s why accountability and direct access to me are so important, so we can tailor the plan exactly to you.

Set up | How to do it

To begin, stand against a wall for stability, with your feet about 10 cm away from the wall.

Do a chin tuck with your head, creating as many double chins as possible, as if you were trying to slide a sheet of paper upward on the wall with the back of your head (a double movement backward and downward).

Now for the thumbs, we’ll look at the 3 positions where you’re going to pull. You can find more info on the effects of thumb pulling on facial appearance, and more details about these three areas, in the first thumb pulling guide on Skool:

The Front of the Palate (Near the Incisive Papilla) Thumb pulling here affects the premaxilla. Place your thumbs just behind the incisors.

Pulling the Middle of the Palate Here it leads to a widened maxilla. Place your thumbs along the gums at the center of the palate.

Pulling the Back of the Palate (Near the Soft Palate) Pulling on this area changes the downward and backward positioning of the maxilla. Place your thumbs along the gums at the back of your palate, just before the soft palate.

Let’s take the first position as an example: Place your thumbs just behind your incisive teeth, ensuring they rest on the palate and do not touch the teeth. Apply equal sideways/upward force, while resisting downward with the chin tuck to create an even greater resultant force. You should go hard on intensity, you shouldn’t be able to last more than 20 seconds before your chin tuck starts breaking.

When that happens, step away from the wall with two steps to create space between your body and the wall. Keep perfect posture with shoulders back, pelvis neutral, and feet straight. Release all the tension in your neck while driving your head back and pushing hard with your thumbs. Remember, this is a controlled movement, everything should be done slowly and with precision. The backward drive should last no more than 2–3 seconds. If you’re doing it properly, you’ll feel relief and hear small creaking sounds, like a door opening, as your sutures are releasing air. We aim to get as much creaking sounds as possible, they are not harmful at all, again its just your sutures releasing air, and a clue that you’re releasing everything. The more you released your fascia and worked your muscles beforehand to more creaking sounds you’ll hear. This is the new way of doing thumb pulling.

Set a timer for around 60 seconds for each position. Every time your chin tuck breaks, perform the new follow-up technique. Then pause the timer and rest for a bit. When you feel ready again, restart the timer and continue. You should do between 3 and 4 sets per position.

Because here’s the truth: thumb pulling won’t deliver real results if you don’t have the right myofascial habits. Your posture, your breathing, your chewing, swallowing… everything works together as one system. That’s why you need to understand the bigger picture if you want lasting change.

Full Routine and Frequencies

Ok, now that we’ve covered everything, let me give you the clear full routine.

Thumb pulling and zygopulling should be done at least twice per day, but you can do them as often as you like. Twice a day is the perfect baseline. The most important thing is consistency and staying regular over time.

Fascia release and myofascial exercises should be done once per day.

First Session:

1. Fascia Release

• Cobra Pose (30–60 seconds)
• Forward Fold (30–60 seconds)
• Neck and Shoulder Retraction (30–60 seconds)

2. Zygopulling

• Massage the zygomatic bones for about 60 seconds
• Do zygopulling for 90 seconds.

3. Thumb Pulling

• Massage the palate for about 60 seconds
• Do thumb pulling for 60 seconds per direction (3 directions in total) with the new follow-up method, 3–4 sets per direction

Second Session:

4. Zygopulling

• Massage the zygomatic bones for about 60 seconds
• Do zygopulling for 90 seconds.

5. Thumb Pulling

• Massage the palate for about 60 seconds
• Do thumb pulling for 60 seconds per direction (3 directions in total) with the new follow-up method, 3–4 sets per direction