6-Day Training · Costa Rica

Chi Release & Dearmoring

An immersive training in the ancient Taoist art of abdominal massage and emotional release. By the end, you will carry the skill to practice this work on your own.

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The Lineage

Chi Release & Dearmoring

This work is rooted in the ancient Taoist practice of Chi Nei Tsang — abdominal massage developed by Taoist sages who observed that humans store energy blockages in their internal organs, creating knots and tangles in the belly. These obstructions sit at the center of the body's vital functions and constrict the flow of chi, our life force.

What we teach at Flourish Within Sanctuary — Chi Release and Dearmoring — is our own expression of this lineage. This training teaches you to carry this work with skill and reverence — honoring its Taoist roots while bringing it through in our own form.

Chi Release session at Flourish Within Sanctuary

The Curriculum

What You Will Learn & Receive

Six days of teaching, hands-on practice, and personal embodiment — woven into a single immersive container.

i.

Taoist Foundations

The lineage, the philosophy, and the energetic map of Chi Nei Tsang — how the Taoist sages understood the belly as the seat of stored emotion and life force.

ii.

Abdominal Anatomy

The physical landscape of the belly — organs, fascia, energetic centers — so your hands learn to read the body with precision and care.

iii.

Hands-On Chi Nei Tsang

Daily hands-on practice giving and receiving full-protocol sessions, guided closely by Michael until the work moves through you with confidence.

iv.

Dearmoring Technique

The deeper layer of the work — meeting stored armor in the body's tissues with skilled, consensual touch that invites release rather than forces it.

v.

Live Demonstrations

Watch full sessions from start to finish — see the timing, the listening, the way the practitioner holds space when the body begins to move and emote.

vi.

Daily Embodiment

Breathwork, somatic movement, and meditation each morning — your own nervous system must be regulated for your hands to transmit that regulation to others.

vii.

Holding Emotional Release

How to stay present, grounded, and unshaken when grief, rage, fear, or ecstasy moves through someone on your table. The art of the witness.

viii.

Integration Circles

Each evening we circle — sharing what moved, what opened, what asks for more time. The training metabolizes through community as much as through technique.

ix.

Sanctuary & Nourishment

Six nights at Flourish Within Sanctuary — jungle-wrapped, organic meals, sauna and cold plunge, the natural world holding the container of your learning.

Outdoor Chi Release session
Hands-on abdominal work
Sanctuary training in motion
Practitioner holding the field

Investment

Chi Release & Dearmoring · 6 Days

$3,800
per person · all-inclusive

Includes the full 6-day training, all teaching and hands-on practice sessions, live demonstrations, daily embodiment practice, integration circles, accommodation at Flourish Within Sanctuary, and all meals.

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Spaces are strictly limited to preserve the depth of the container. Inquire via WhatsApp to check availability and dates.

The Medicine

What This Work Releases

The belly holds what the mind cannot articulate. Chi Release reaches what talk therapy and surface-level bodywork cannot.

Stored Trauma

Old grief, old fear, old freeze responses held in the gut for years — sometimes decades — finally given a way out.

Energetic Blockages

The knots and tangles the Taoists spoke of — physical and energetic obstructions that have been constricting the flow of chi.

Armored Tissue

The layers of protective holding the body wears as armor — softened gradually, with consent, until the original aliveness returns.

Ancestral Patterns

What lives in the body but did not begin with you — inherited tension, inherited posture, inherited grief — meeting its release.

Nervous System Charge

The chronic activation of an over-stimulated nervous system finally finding the parasympathetic ground it has been searching for.

The Skill Itself

You leave with this medicine in your hands — able to offer it to your partner, your clients, your community for the rest of your life.

Step Into the Lineage

Carry this medicine in your hands

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