Medical Abdominal Massage Certification Program (LEVEL 1)

Explore Taoist foundations and emotional health in medical abdominal massage, practice inner smile, six healing sounds, and qigong basics to detoxify skin, open lungs and large intestine, and balance emotions.

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.

Learn qi basics and the foundation of qigong, including internal and external medicine and medical, martial, and spiritual approaches to healing, and move the body for circulation.

Explore real world integrations of qi and qigong in media, citing Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Avatar The Last Airbender, and The Matrix to show energy flow and acupuncture.

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

Trace the origins of Chi Nei Tsang in Taoist monks who found emotions affect digestion, and learn how qi transformation and mindful qigong link body, mind, and digestion.

Discover medical abdominal massage that blends eastern and western medicine, Taoist philosophy, and hands-on techniques to release gut emotions, ease digestion, detoxify, and support reproductive health and energy flow.

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.

Learn basic qigong practices from Master Chia's Universal Healing Tao, including inner smile, six healing sounds, microcosmic orbit, iron shirt, and healing love to transform negativity into vitality.

Balance your own emotions and hold space for clients with the inner smile qigong meditation, covering four organ-emotion parts, six healing sounds, and cleansing steps.

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.

Balance energy across the upper, middle, and lower sanjiao using meditation, tracing the vagus nerve, releasing negative energy through hands and feet, and storing qi in the dantian.

Practice the inner smile and six healing sounds meditation to transform negative energy into positive vitality, smiling to organs, using qi, ending with sand jow cleansing and wu chi rest.

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.

Explore demonstration techniques for level one medical abdominal massage kinesiology, including Chinese techniques, assessment through palpation, breathing, fascia and diaphragm release, with safety contraindications and session closure.

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.

Learn to examine the navel to identify organ imbalances by observing pull directions across eight sections, linking meridians and acupoints with abdominal massage techniques.

Observe the belly to detect imbalances by checking temperature above the abdomen and noting signs such as dryness, rashes, discolorations, or scar tissue, then inquire before touching.

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.

Demonstrates skin rolling to assess fascial connections and adipose tissue, identify belly tension, and guide patients in self-care for detox and potential weight loss.

Learn to open the exits by detoxifying the body and moving toxins through the bowels, focusing on the large intestine and its corners with wave mousing and rib compression clockwise.

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.

Master the vibrational mousing technique for abdominal massage by wrapping a becand around the pinky, starting below the navel and tapping quickly toward digestion.

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.

Learn to release the diaphragm through three under-rib techniques—hand-over-hand and thumb-over-thumb—using inhale and exhale cues to soften the diaphragm and improve breathing and abdominal massage outcomes.

Three techniques open the large intestine exits to clear toxins, using the wave technique with optional rib compression. Self-massage includes sustained pressures, general strokes, or targeted points, performed lying down.

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.

Conclude the session with gentle circles and cat paws, bring kidney energy to the navel with three, eight, and nine strokes, then breathe, shake gently, and finish.

Demonstrates full medical abdominal massage sequence—from gentle circles and cat paws to skin rolling and rib compressions—opening the large intestine toward the exit and moving kidney qi toward the navel.

Chinese song practices build emotional awareness in the body, guiding you to notice digestion, emotions, and sleep shifts after massage as circulation improves and level one body awareness deepens.