Chi Nei Tsang (CNT) Abdominal Organ Massage Therapy
What is Chi Nei Tsang?
Chi Nei Tsang is an ancient form of therapeutic abdominal massage originating from Taoist healing traditions in China.
The name translates as “working with the energy of the internal organs”, and that is exactly what it does: a gentle, hands-on practice that supports the flow of chi (life force), blood, breath, and emotions through the organs and connective tissues of the abdomen.
Often called the body’s “second brain”, the belly houses the enteric nervous system, deep emotional memory, key digestive functions, immune activity, and the energetic centre known as the hara or dantian.
When this area becomes tense or stagnant. Through stress, trauma, lifestyle, or emotional suppression. The whole system can feel off-balance.
Chi Nei Tsang works directly here, helping the body unwind from the inside out.
The touch in Chi Nei Tsang is called “lazy touch”: the guiding hand of the practitioner is fully relaxed and straight (for direct flow of Chi) and the other hand is guiding the pressure.
How Does Chi Nei Tsang Work?
CNT combines gentle touch, focused breath, and energetic principles of Chinese Medicine to release congestion around the organs and soften the fascia that surrounds them.
During a session, your practitioner works mainly around the navel and abdominal region, where tension, old patterns, and unprocessed emotions often accumulate.
The navel is considered a key gateway: our original connection to nourishment, ancestry, and life itself - - and can hold energetic imprints that shape how we digest food, emotions, and experience.
As the belly softens:
• The diaphragm releases
• Breath deepens
• The nervous system shifts into rest and repair
• Emotional holding begins to melt
• Circulation and organ motility improve
The essence is simple: when flow returns, health returns.
What Chi Nei Tsang Can Support
People often come for physical reasons and stay for the emotional clarity and inner spaciousness that follows.
Digestive + Abdominal Health
• Bloating
• Constipation
• IBS
• Slow gastric emptying
• Reflux / heartburn
• Tension around diaphragm and solar plexus
Female & Reproductive Themes
• Period pain
• PMS
• Pelvic tension or stagnation
• Postpartum abdominal recovery
• Softening adhesions (e.g., in endometriosis)*
*supportive, not a medical treatment
Stress, Anxiety & Emotional Release
CNT helps the body process emotions stored in the gut-brain axis. This may support:
• Reduced anxiety
• Emotional clarity
• A sense of grounding
• Nervous system regulation
Pain & Tension Patterns
• Lower back pain connected to abdominal tension
• Scar-tissue softening (post-surgery, postpartum, etc.)
• Chronic tightness or "armoring" in the belly
General Wellbeing
• Improved sleep
• Increased energy and vitality
• Clearer breathing
• A sense of lightness, spaciousness and inner flow
Why the Belly Holds So Much
Each organ in Chinese Medicine relates to specific emotional energies.
For example:
• Stomach/Spleen hold worry
• Liver holds frustration
• Lungs hold grief
• Kidneys hold fear
When these emotions are not processed, they often lodge in the tissues.
CNT helps the body digest what the mind has not been able to.
A somatic unwinding that can feel both gentle and deeply transformative.
What a Session Looks Like
Sessions focus primarily on the abdomen, with possible supporting work on hands, feet, or limbs to help clear released energy.
You remain clothed except for the abdominal area. Organic oil is used for comfort (special oil blends used and available for purchase on request).
A typical session includes:
• Gentle palpation and deep listening into the organs
• Working with the breath
• Soft unwinding of fascia and tension around the navel
• Releasing blockages along energetic pathways
• Integration touch to support the whole body
Most people experience a mix of relaxation, emotional release, warmth, tingling, deeper breathing, or unexpected clarity.
Some feel a profound drop into the parasympathetic system, others a lightness or lift afterward.
Aftercare
For the next 24–48 hours, it’s recommended to:
• Drink extra water or herbal tea
• Eat simple, nurturing food
• Rest when possible
• Do gentle movement, not intense exercise
• Take a warm bath or epsom salts if helpful
• Allow emotions or insights to move naturally
Mild fatigue, temporary digestive changes, or emotional release are normal signs of detoxification and rebalancing.
Who Should Avoid Chi Nei Tsang
CNT is not recommended:
• During pregnancy
• Immediately after large meals
• Within 6–12 months of abdominal surgery (depending on the procedure)
• With undiagnosed abdominal lumps/masses
• Active cancer
If unsure, please ask before booking.
Regarding women on their moon, it is every woman’s own body and choice to make whether she’d like to receive the abdominal touch.
Is Chi Nei Tsang Right for You?
CNT may be especially supportive if you:
• Feel disconnected from your body
• Experience chronic gut issues
• Hold tension in your belly or lower back
• Are going through a transition or emotional period
• Want to reconnect with your centre
• Are doing inner work, therapy, or somatic practices
• Feel called toward a deeper relationship with your own energy
It is both a therapeutic modality and a self-awareness practice. A way back into your own intelligence, softness, and inner spaciousness.
Ready to book into your Chi Nei Tsang yourney?
90 minutes · In Person only
A deeply restorative Taoist abdominal therapy combining bodywork, breath, and emotional release. It restores communication between the organs and emotions and works gently yet deeply, unwinding tension and awakening vitality from the center of your being.
I’m offering the first 10 sessions free of charge as an investment into deepening my practice and refining my hands-on work. Sessions 11–20 will be available at 50% off (€60) before moving to the full rate of €120.
Each session includes 45–60 minutes of treatment, plus 15 minutes of intake and 15–30 minutes of integration to land and rest. The massage works on the physical organs and the energetic points with an invitation to soften, release, and return to your own flow.
For when your body holds what your mind can’t name.