Medical Abdominal Massage Certification Program (LEVEL 1)

Explore traditional Chinese medicine by contrasting internal and external approaches, highlighting herbs, foods as medicine, and therapies like acupuncture, cupping, and massage for balanced health.

Explore Chi Nei Tsang to balance emotions, improve digestion, and unlock body awareness through qi flow, abdominal circulation, and personal healing practices.

Explore the gut brain axis from a Western perspective, revealing how the enteric nervous system, vagus nerve, and gut microbiome influence mood, digestion, and emotional resilience.

Explore the gut–brain axis from an eastern perspective, linking the mesentery, dantian, and Ming men to digestion, immunity, and emotional health through abdominal massage, qigong, and energy anatomy.

Identify and replenish emotional expenditures by reframing negative self-talk, managing stress from social environments, and balancing emotions through Qi-centric practices like qigong, Tai Chi, meditation, and mindful nutrition.

Explore Daoist principles applied to medical abdominal massage, balancing emotions and recognizing organ-stored emotions to cultivate and conserve qi, including healing love practices.

Explore the five element theory and how each organ system aligns with fire, earth, metal, water, and wood, storing positive and negative emotions and guiding imbalance diagnosis for song practice.

Explore the inner smile and six healing sounds with Taoist breathing and voice resonance to trigger physiological and hormonal changes, boosting immunity and healing organs.

Transform negative emotions using the six healing sounds, each linked to a specific organ, to restore vibrational frequency and promote yin yang balance, detoxification, and improved organ function.

Cultivate inner smile meditation by opening the third eye, visualizing organ-specific colored mists, releasing negative emotions, and storing energy in the dantian for future practice.

Balance qi through meditation and self-care to keep emotions from hindering patient healing, then clear negative energies with inner smile and six healing sounds to hold space.

Set up the belly massage session for comfort and consent by using loose clothing and coverings, a supported position with knees bent, a warm room, and clear permission to touch.

Position the patient for medical abdominal massage with comfortable table height and bent knees, then reveal the belly from rib cage to pubic bone using a sheet to maintain modesty.

Observe the navel and abdomen to detect heat or cold indicating disharmony. Gently contact the belly, keep the patient comfortable, and note their response.

Explore the abdominal fascial release protocol, including clockwise circles, cat paws, and skin rolling, and how hydration supports fascia health and detoxification of the skin.

Learn the chin song breath, a nasal inhale into chest and belly, then exhale from belly to chest, to stimulate qi and aid digestion detoxification while anchoring emotions for clients.

Practice Chin Song breath, a two-part inhale into chest and belly, then a two-part exhale from chest to belly, to move the diaphragm and massage the organs for lung function.

Demonstrates gentle abdominal massage techniques, starting with gentle circles clockwise to support digestion, then transitioning to cat paws and hand-over-hand kneading while monitoring client comfort and breathing.

Demonstrates the cat paws technique and gentle circles for abdominal massage, emphasizing hand-over-hand kneading, constant skin contact, pressure checks, and diagnostic assessment of congestion, adhesions, and blockages.

Demo the Lee four corners technique to open the large intestine using a three-point j stroke from the pubic bone toward the navel on both sides.

Perform the mousing technique, a large intestine technique that wraps the pinky to form a little mouse around the abdomen, moving from the exit and exhaling to break up constipation.

Press and mobilize the ribs using a two-part breath technique to open the diaphragm, alternating under and over hand positions, repeating three cycles on each side.

Demonstrates rib compressions using the knife hand under the rib cage, push under, pull back on exhale, push over, inhale to finish, on both sides with gentle circles.

Discover diaphragm release to improve deep breathing and oxygen delivery, supporting digestion. Learn three techniques—thumb over thumb, sustained thumb pressure, and hand over hand—around the rib cage and psoas.

End the session with three strokes moving kidney energy toward the navel, cross over the navel, then release with a quick hand separation and patient inhale-exhale to signal completion.