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Chi Nei Tsang & Taoist Abdominal Healing Course
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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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. 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
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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