Chi Nei Tsang & Taoist Abdominal Healing Course in Dharamshala, India

An ancient art of organ massage rooted in Taoist medicine. Learn to touch the body's deepest center with presence, precision, and care.

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Upper Bhagsu, Dharamshala

April 20- 24, 2026

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Application required. Early inquiry recommended.

Certified & Accredited bodywork training

This 5-day Chi Nei Tsang certification is an ISO recognised intensive for practitioners who are ready to bring abdominal healing into their work. Rooted in Taoist medicine and preserved through Thai healing lineages, it bridges organ-level touch with breath, energy awareness, and emotional release. The training is held in-person in Dharamshala, in a small, carefully held container.Please note: this training is open by application only to those with a background in yoga, somatics, bodywork, or sincere self-enquiry.

What You'll Learn

Entering the Belly with Presence

Chi Nei Tsang Foundations: Understand the Taoist map of the internal organs, how Qi moves through them, and why the belly holds what the mind has not yet processed.
Organ Mapping and Palpation: Learn to locate, read, and attune to each organ through touch, identifying tension, stagnation, and emotional holding patterns.
Breath as a Portal: Use conscious breathing as a co-regulation tool to help the receiver soften, open, and release held tension in the visceral body.
Emotional Anatomy: Understand how grief lives in the lungs, fear in the kidneys, anger in the liver, and how to work with these imprints safely and ethically.

Building a Complete Session

Touch Technique and Sequencing: Learn the specific hand placements, pressure gradations, and rhythms used in Chi Nei Tsang, from the navel center outward.
Contraindications and Safety: Know when to work, when to pause, and when to refer out. This includes working around menstrual cycles, digestive conditions, and trauma histories.
Co-regulation and Practitioner Presence: Develop your capacity to hold a steady, grounded field so the client's nervous system can soften and release.
Closing and Integration: Learn how to complete a session in a way that honors what has moved, and supports the client's integration afterward.

Why This Training Works

ISO-Certified Excellence

Gain a globally recognized certification that meets international standards and adds credibility to your work as a practitioner.

Rare Knowledge, Taught with Rigor

This training gives you access to a lineage that was once reserved for monastery practitioners, now taught in a structured, ISO-certified format.

Trauma Aware Approach

Understand how to work with the nervous system so your touch feels safe, supportive, and grounded for every body.

Small Group

Seats are limited by design. Mav teaches this work personally, in close proximity, so that you receive real feedback and real attunement throughout the five days.

What You’ll Walk Away With

You won’t just learn techniques. You’ll leave with a practice.

Chi Nei Tsang Organ Massage Technique
Emotional Anatomy and Organ Reading
Breath-Based Assessment Skills
Full Session Structure and Flow
Contraindication Awareness and Safety Protocols
Practitioner Body Mechanics

Curriculum

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Meet Your Instructor

Mav

Bodyworker, Facilitator and Teacher

Mav is a bodyworker and teacher with years of experience in Thai Yoga Massage, therapeutic bodywork, and somatic practices. He works with touch, movement, and awareness to help people reconnect with their body in a grounded and practical way.

His approach combines traditional Thai Massage with modern anatomy, fascia work, and trauma aware bodywork. Rather than teaching techniques in isolation, he focuses on helping students understand how the body moves, responds, and holds patterns.

His teaching style is clear, hands on, and easy to follow. He breaks down complex techniques into simple steps, helping students build confidence, sensitivity, and their own natural flow. His trainings are immersive and experience based, designed for yoga teachers, therapists, practitioners, and complete beginners who want to learn Thai Yoga Massage and bodywork in a practical and meaningful way.

Who Is This For?

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Bodyworkers and Massage Therapists

For practitioners who already work with touch and want to add organ-level depth to their sessions. This is the layer most bodyworkers never reach.

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Yoga Teachers and Breathworkers

If you work with the breath, the belly is already your territory. This training gives you hands-on tools to meet what breath practice begins to unlock.

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Healers and Somatic Facilitators

For those who hold space for others and want a more precise, embodied way to support emotional processing through the body.

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Couples and Intimate Partners

Chi Nei Tsang can be practiced between partners as a form of deep care and attunement. This work transforms how you relate to each other's bodies, breath, and emotional landscape.

Held in Trust

Feedback from our students

Jaime

Breathworker, England

As a breathworker, I thought I understood emotional release..until I experienced Chi Nei Tsang with Mav. This work revealed layers stored deep in the belly that breath alone could not access. Mav’s technical precision combined with his intuitive, trauma aware approach makes this training incredibly effective. It was simple to learn, yet profoundly powerful. This was not just the missing link in my practice, rather I would say it and one of the best investments I have made in my growth as a facilitator

Chloe

Yoga Teacher, Australia

I have been teaching yoga for years, but CNT completely transformed how I understand the body. The way Mav teaches clear, grounded, and deeply embodied, made complex concepts feel simple and intuitive. This work bridges the gap between movement, emotions, and internal organs in a way I have never experienced before. Everything made sense at the end of 5 days why this work is so powerful and important.My students are already feeling the difference. As a yoga teacher, this was the upgrade my practice has been waiting for.

Nthabiseng

Ancient Spiritual Healer, South Africa

I come from a family of ancient healers in south Africa and I had heard about Mav. I my lineage, we have always known the belly is where spirit and emotion meet. What Mav teaches through Chi Nei Tsang resonated deeply with ancient wisdom I have roots in. The way he holds space with integrity, sensitivity, and respect for everyone, is rare. This is not just bodywork, it is ancestral healing, transgenerational release, and reconnection to the body’s intelligence. I honour this work and see its importance for healers across traditions.

Joana

Women Empowerment Coach

This training changed the way I work with women. I now see how much trauma, shame, and emotional holding lives in the belly, and how powerfully it can be released through touch. Mav creates such a safe, non judgmental space that deep healing happens naturally. I understood visceral anatomy but also the interconnections of persona, childhood narratives. I must say one can experience breakthroughs faster, and I feel more confident guiding my clients. This was not just a course, it has expanded my capacity as a coach, healer, and woman.

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