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ONLINE COURSE
The Belly Edition
May 13 - June 03
THIS EDITION
Revitalize from Within:
A 4-Week Exploration to Cultivate Digestive Ease & Embodied Care
May 13, 2026 – June 3, 2026
Transform your gut health and reclaim ease in your body with a four-week journey into self-massage, somatic wisdom, and daily rituals.
Over four weeks, you'll learn the art of self-massage, somatic awareness, and practical rituals that awaken your gut intelligence.
Whether you're seeking relief, deeper connection with your body, or simply more ease in your daily life—this program offers a gentle, embodied path to inner balance and renewal.
Why Belly Massage?
Because your body doesn’t only digest food — it digests life.
Belly massage is a gentle but powerful way to reconnect with your center.
Through slow, intentional touch, you begin to:
✓ stimulate digestion and lymphatic flow
✓ reduce bloating and internal pressure
✓ soften held tension in the abdominal space
✓ support emotional release stored in the gut
✓ regulate your nervous system from within
With consistent, mindful practice, something begins to shift.
The belly softens.
The breath deepens.
Your system moves from holding into allowing.
This is not only about digestion.
It is about restoring flow, rhythm, and a sense of inner trust.
In This Course, We Explore:
Self-Healing Practices
Gentle somatic exercises, breathwork, and guided belly massage to reconnect with your core, soften internal tension, and restore a felt sense of safety within the body.
Abdominal Mapping & Emotional Release
A refined approach to sensing the belly through psychosomatic mapping, inspired by Daoist and Tibetan medicine. You’ll learn to recognize patterns of holding, understand their emotional and physiological meaning, and gently support release through touch, awareness, and breath.
Digestive Care Rituals
The integration of bitters, teas, oils, and simple nourishment practices to stimulate digestion, reduce inflammation, and support the body’s natural rhythms of assimilation and elimination.
Movement & Integration Rituals
Slow, nourishing movement sequences influenced by somatic practice, dance, and Gyrokinesis to integrate release, support posture, and restore fluidity, ease, and aliveness throughout the body.
Weekly Schedule
Practice with me each week and build strength while deepening your relationship with yourself and your body. Each class is offered online at 6 PM (CET/ Berlin time), and you don’t need any equipment other than a stool. Each 75-minute session includes time for Q&A, making space for all your questions.
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Foundations – Meet Your Belly
Introduction to the gut as a center of intelligence, intuition, and emotion
Basic abdominal anatomy (organs, fascia, diaphragm, nervous system)
The belly–brain connection (vagus nerve, enteric nervous system)
Breathwork to soften and create spaciousness.
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Core Techniques – Learn the Language of Touch
Safety, Structure & Activation
Understanding how to approach the belly with clarity and care. You’ll learn when to work, when to pause, and how to create the conditions for safe, effective touch.Foundations of Abdominal Massage
An introduction to the purpose, benefits, and contraindications of belly work — rooted in both anatomical understanding and somatic awareness.Techniques You Will Learn:
– Clockwise Abdominal Circles
Supporting natural digestive flow, peristalsis, and gentle internal movement.– I–L–U Sequence
A structured technique to stimulate the colon, ease stagnation, and support elimination.– Sun & Moon Sequence
Balancing, rhythmic touch patterns that regulate the nervous system and harmonize internal flow.– Intro to Chi Nei Tsang Principles
Understanding the relationship between organs and emotions, and how touch can support release, vitality, and internal coherence.– Optional Sound & Mudra Integration
Simple sounds and hand gestures inspired by Daoist and Tibetan traditions to deepen release, support organ function, and create a more meditative, integrative experience. -
Emotional Layers – Unlock & Soften
Emotional Digestion and Flow
How emotions are stored in the viscera
The connection between digestion, boundaries, and emotional holding
Deepening Chi Nei Tsang-inspired belly touch (organ-emotion relationships)
Self-regulation tools before and after touch work
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Integration – Intuition, Pleasure & Everyday Rituals
Theme: Reconnection, Empowerment, and Flow
Intuitive touch & energetic belly listening
Rewriting the narrative: from tension to trust
Creating personal rituals for gut care and emotional nourishment
Herbal, oil, and food allies for long-term belly vitality
Osteopathy x Self-Touch: Precision Meets Embodiment
This course blends the precision of osteopathic insight with the intimacy of mindful self-touch and sensual movement. Osteopathy gives us a deep understanding of structure and nervous system regulation, while self-touch practices help you feel into that structure, release holding, and learn to respond with nuance and presence. Together, they create a path of embodied ease — a process that is both grounded in anatomy and rich in felt experience.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
✓ Abdominal Mapping & Touch Practices
Develop sensitivity to your belly as a living landscape.
Learn to recognize areas of holding, stagnation, and vitality — and how to meet them through intentional, responsive touch.
✓ Nervous System Regulation Through the Belly
Understand how slow, mindful contact with the abdomen supports a shift from stress into safety — regulating your system from the inside out.
✓ Breath, Diaphragm & Core Connection
Explore how the diaphragm, breath, and abdominal space interact — and how softening the belly allows for deeper breathing, improved posture, and internal support.
✓ Emotional Awareness Through the Gut
Learn to sense and gently process emotional patterns held in the belly, building a relationship to your inner responses without force or analysis.
✓ Personal Belly-Care Rituals
Create simple, sustainable rituals using touch, breath, and supportive tools to maintain digestive health, emotional balance, and ongoing connection to your center.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT AFTER FINISHING THE FULL CYCLE
✓ A Softer, More Responsive Belly
Less holding, pressure, and tension in the abdomen — more space from within.
✓ A Regulated Nervous System
A deeper sense of safety, calm, and inner stability in daily life.
✓ Easier Digestion & Reduced Bloating
Support for natural digestive flow, less discomfort, and a lighter internal feeling.
✓ Deeper, More Spacious Breath
The diaphragm softens, allowing breath to move more freely through the body.
✓ Emotional Release & Fluidity
Stored emotions begin to move — without force, suppression, or overwhelm.
✓ A Stronger Connection to Your Center
A grounded sense of self you can return to — steady, clear, and embodied.
Revitalize from Within:
A 4-Week Exploration to Cultivate Digestive Ease & Embodied Care
May 13, 2026 - June 04, 2026
Live & Guided
Early Access — 269€
Regular — 349€
ONE TIME
Early access available until Sunday evening.
During these four weeks, we return to the center of your body.
Through belly work, breath, and intentional touch, we begin to release stored tension, support digestion, and soften the layers of holding within. This is a space to restore flow — physically, emotionally, and energetically. To reconnect with your core not as something to control, but as something to listen to.
What’s included:
✓ 4 LIVE classes with Q&A sessions
✓ Short practice videos of potent self-massage movement and exercises
for daily use at home
✓ Full replay access for 3months
✓ Downloadable practice guide
✓ Tools for lifelong self-care
✓ BONUS : Rose Lip Balm Stick (sent to your home, EU only)
BONUS GIFT
A Sensory Companion
For Your Self-Practice
Touch deepens when the senses are involved.
As part of this course, you’ll receive the Rose Lip Balm — a small, intentional object designed to accompany your self-touch rituals. In the Belly Edition, we move toward areas that often remain protected: the abdomen, the diaphragm, the deeper layers of feeling, digestion, and emotional holding.
Here, scent becomes a guide.
The soft aroma of rose gently invites the body to soften from within. It can support the belly in releasing tension, the breath in deepening, and the nervous system in shifting toward safety and receptivity. Applied to the lips, fingertips, or held close through your hands, it offers warmth, glide, and a subtle sensory layer that anchors your attention inward.
Over time, this object begins to hold memory.
Not just of touch — but of how your body feels when it is met with presence.
A quiet imprint of softness.
A material extension of your practice.
Included as a ritual companion with your course enrollment.
About Marie-Sophie Kiepe
OSTEOPATH & DESIGNER OF EMBODIED EXPERIENCES
Marie-Sophie is a passionate advocate for holistic health, with a rich academic background in physical therapy, osteopathic medicine, and public health.
Complementing her formal education, she has pursued extensive training in movement and Eastern practices, including Gyrotonic® & Gyrokinesis®, Tibetan Pulse, and Universal Healing Tao.
With over 17 years of experience in performing arts medicine, Marie-Sophie has collaborated with institutions such as the Vienna State Opera, State Ballet Berlin, Ballet Nacional del Sodre, and the Intercultural Medicine Institute, as well as Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, contributing to research exploring the relationship between osteopathy, movement, and artistic performance.
Her work focuses on guiding individuals back into connection with their bodies—supporting regulation, awareness, and a deeper sense of embodied well-being through sensory perception, presence, and spatial experience.
Based in Berlin, she works from her studio and online, offering courses and sessions that integrate science, body awareness, and sensory experience.
FAQ
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Whether you're completely new to self-touch practices or have some experience, this course is designed to meet you where you are. The techniques are easy to follow and adaptable for all levels.
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No worries! Each session is recorded, so you can watch and practice at your own pace.
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This online guided live sessions brings you back in balance, whatever you are experiencing right now. It increases circulation, stimulates organ function, helps your body detox and improves sleep. It also has many other potential benefits, such as slowing aging, nourishing your skin or preventing injury. It’s one of the most effective ways to calm modern life-induced anxiety, as well as leaving your skin looking smooth and radiant. It is also a great way to regularly check in with your body and get to know yourself, keeping an eye on changes, understanding your natural rhythms — especially for ovulating women. It is the perfect time to notice any new moles and do breast checks. The Touch – Self Massage Sequences is a supportive way of seeing yourself with all your senses rather than through the often critical way we consider ourselves in the mirror or through photos.
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These online guided live sessions are based on the philosophical approach of Taoism, Tibetan Energywork and Osteopathic Medicine.
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The online guided live sessions are created mainly for every body. However, it is not recommended for a person under treatment or facing a severe illness. Drugs can easily trigger unwanted and dangerous skin reactions on the body when using too much pressure. Physical illnesses weaken the body and increase its sensitivity. We recommend you to seek advice from your personal medical doctor if you are unsure.
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You will have three months access to the course (until July 2025).
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We will meet each Wednesday at 6pm (Berlin time) for 90min live session where we will go through a sequence of massage techniques and sensual movements. Once you have enrolled you will get access to the content. Furthermore, we will upload a replay after each live session for you, so you can repeat the session afterwards again whenever you have time and space.
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In this online guided sessions, you will find a self massage sequence to help you to get in touch with your body. This online guided sessions has been designed as an inspiration tool but cannot in any case be considered or replace advice from a medical practitioner.
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The beautiful side of crafting natural and holistic self-care rituals is that you don’t need much. You have your hands with you. For this online guided sessions, you will only need a stool, oil, water and a towl.
