Taoist Massage

Chi Nei Tsang

Training and Certification Requirements

Chi Nei Tsang also known as Taoist Massage or Hara- or Healing Tao-Shiatsu combines well with other forms of healing and bodywork. You will also benefit from doing the first three Steps of the Foundations of Taoist Practice to understand the theory and to satisfy a distinctive requirement of a Chi Nei Tsang practitioner.

Training

Tuition and Practice is in FIVE parts to master the knowledge and techniques:
(1) Personal Chi Nei Tsang Seminars with Kris Deva North;
(2) Completing the first three Steps of the Foundations of Taoist Practice;
(3) Performing a number of Chi Nei Tsang Learning-Treatments
(4) Receiving Chi Nei Tsang Treatments from qualified CNT Practitioners
(5) Passing an Assessment in Theory and Practice

1. Personal Chi Nei Tsang Seminars At least three Personal Seminars spaced throughout your training. Each Seminar is two hours in duration. You take the first Seminar after completing Foundations of Taoist Practice Step 1, the second Seminar after performing, writing-up and sending in your notes on your first 20 Learning-Treatments, and the third Seminar after completing Foundations of Taoist Practice Steps 2 and 3, and performing, writing-up and sending in your notes on your next 30 Learning-Treatments. You may be required to attend additional Personal Seminars or perform, write-up and send in notes of additional Learning-Treatments.
2. Completion of Foundations of Taoist Practice Steps 1, 2 and 3 (total 48 hours)
3. Treatments
   • own-time 50 Learning-Treatments, presented as 7 to 10 case-studies on different people of varying age, gender and condition;
   • 8 treatments from CNT (click to find them) practitioners (total 10/12 hours. (These treatments to be spaced throughout your training)
4. Assessment on completion of the training and treatments of
   your knowledge of Chi Nei Tsang as in the book Chi Nei Tsang 1
   your ability to deliver Chi Nei Tsang as a treatment
5. Costs Each Personal Seminar: £300
   Foundations of Taoist Practice Steps 1, 2 and 3: For current rates and dates click here
   Treatments from CNT Practitioners, to be negotiated with the Practitioner. For list click here
   Assessment and Certification by Kris Deva North: £300

On satisfactory completion of the Assessment you are listed on the London Tao Centre Practitioner Register with the letters CNT following your name, you are eligible for membership of the Zen Shiatsu Society and for insurance as a practitioner of Taoist Massage. Your hours and treatments count as credit should you decide to undergo further CNT training (see below).

Registration, To register for CNT Training first complete Foundations of Taoist Practice Step 1 and then email to request your first Personal CNT Seminar.

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Books: Chi Nei Tsang I,

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click here for Kris's Article on Chi Nei Tsang published in Positive Health magazine

Taoist Massage or Chi Nei Tsang (also known as Organ Energy Transformation) is a form of Hara Shiatsu, an entire system of Taoist deep healing that works with the energy-flow of five major systems: energy-meridian, fasciae-tendon-muscular, nervous, vascular and lymphatic.

The navel area, the centre where all systems meet, connects - or separates - our upper and lower parts, left and right, front and back, inner and outer, mind and body - we feel our emotions here, causing internal blockage and distortions which often manifest as symptoms elsewhere.

Experiment: grab a handful of material of the clothes you are wearing, around the navel area, and twist. Feel where the tension goes. See where the material distorts - what is the most distal point? Imagine the turmoil inside, when just the surface tension is so dramatic - traumatic?

Even after we have mentally resolved the emotion, the physical effects can still leave knots, tangles, and congestion. When obstructed the internal organs store unhealthy energies than can seep into other systems. In search of an outlet these toxic energies create a cycle of negativity and stress, festering in the organs and overflowing into the abdomen, the body’s garbage dump. The energetic centre at the navel becomes congested and cut off from the rest of the body.

Experiment: sitting upright, relax so the abdomen is soft. Place the tip of your middle finger in your navel. Gently, and very slowly, keeping the finger rigid, push inwards towards your spine. How far can you comfortably go? When the finger can penetrate to the front of the spine, without pain, you are clear, free of the physical residue of long-past emotions.

Chi Nei Tsang can help resolve the aftermath of emotional trauma and its physical residue, freeing abdominal blockages and projecting healing energy throughout the entire bodymind.

Kris's Personal Testimonial: I have been involved in healing practices and meditation since 1972, experienced treatments by acupuncture, herbs, reiki and many different forms of bodywork all over the world, am a qualified practitioner of acupressure, Swedish and Thai massage, and a registered Shiatsu teacher and teacher trainer. In my own experience Chi Nei Tsang is powerful healing medicine, used on its own or to enhance many other therapies, and second only to Healing NLP in its power for transformational change.

Summary of effects of Chi Nei Tsang in my own practice

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