the touch.
ONLINE COURSE
The Heart Edition
August 26, 2026 – September 16, 2026
THIS EDITION
Heart & Skin:
Touching Into Desire, Intimacy & Aliveness
August 26, 2026 – September 16, 2026
Awaken the intelligence of your heart and the radiant field that surrounds it. In this four-week exploration of self-touch, somatic awareness, and mindful movement, you’ll soften protective layers, nourish your chest and rib cage, and reconnect with the natural
aliveness that flows from an open heart.
Through gentle release techniques, breath and fascia work, and heart-centered movement rituals, we’ll explore the electromagnetic field of the heart — the subtle space where emotion, connection, and vitality are felt and expressed.
Whether you’re seeking to melt old armor, deepen intimacy with yourself and others, release tension in the chest, or simply live with more openness and presence, this program offers a grounded, embodied path to sensitivity, strength, and radiant connection.
5,000 Times Stronger:
Awakening the Heart’s
Magnetic Field Through Touch
Our hearts are more than muscles — they’re emotional landscapes, centers of connection, and powerful electromagnetic fields that reach far beyond the physical body. In fact, the heart’s field is about 60 times stronger electrically and up to 5,000 times stronger magnetically than the brain’s, making it a profound center of communication and felt connection. Yet for many of us, the heart space holds tension, protective armor, or unprocessed feelings.
Gentle chest opening, self-touch, and mindful movement can unlock this center. These practices support better posture and breathing, ease chronic tightness around the sternum and shoulders, and help release stored emotional and energetic blockages.
With consistent, loving practice, we build a new relationship with the heart — one of openness, sensitivity, and vibrant presence. This isn’t just about physical release; it’s about restoring connection, desire, and aliveness from the inside out.
In this course, we’ll explore:
Self-Healing Tools
Gentle somatic exercises, fascia release, breathwork, and self-touch techniques to soften the chest, improve circulation, and connect with your heart center.
Heart Awareness & Emotional Release
Practices to sense subtle holding patterns, work with the powerful electromagnetic field of the heart, and regulate the nervous system while creating space for emotional openness.
Movement & Integration Rituals
Fluid, heart-led movement sequences inspired by dance, Qi Gong, and the Gyrokinesis Method to cultivate radiance, sensuality, and ease in your upper 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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Week 1 - Foundations: Meet Your Heart Space
Introduction: Discover the heart and chest as a center of emotional intelligence, breath, and sensory connection.
Anatomy Focus: Sternum, rib cage, diaphragm, shoulder girdle, heart fascia, and the nervous system pathways supporting emotional regulation.
Exploration: How protection, posture, and past experiences shape the heart space and the electromagnetic field around the chest.
Practice: Gentle breath expansion, self-touch mapping around the sternum, and somatic grounding to build trust and safety.
Outcome: A felt understanding of your heart’s structure and sensations, beginning to soften tension and deepen inner connection. -
Week 2 - Softening the Armor: Emotional Expression in the Chest
Introduction: Meeting the subtle patterns of holding that form through fear, heartbreak, or performance.
Somatic Focus: The emotional diaphragm, nervous system states, and the language of the heart field.
Exploration: The relationship between openness, boundaries, and visibility. How the chest influences voice, intimacy, and desire.
Practice: Fascia release for the intercostals, guided emotional softening, and touch-based regulation.
Outcome: More space to breathe and feel. Permission to open without collapsing. Emerging sensitivity, warmth, and emotional flow. -
Week 3 - Sensual Aliveness: Heart-Led Movement & Connection
Introduction: Let desire, pleasure, and curiosity move through the heart space as a creative, relational force.
Movement Focus: Chest-led spirals, fluidity through the sternum–spine pathway, radiating movement from the heart field.
Exploration: Sensuality as presence. Connection through the skin. How touch transforms into expression.
Practice: Self-touch, dance-inspired movement, Qi Gong and Gyrokinesis elements for chest expansion and radiance.
Outcome: A vibrant sense of aliveness, sensual self-intimacy, and expressive confidence through the heart. -
Week 5 -Integration: Living with an Open Heart
Review: Revisit your physical, emotional, and energetic shifts through the heart center.
Practice Focus: Personalized rituals for daily life — breath, self-touch, and heart-led embodiment.
Exploration: How to sustain sensitivity while honoring boundaries, clarity, and pacing.
Outcome: You leave with a strengthened relationship to your heart, practical tools for vitality and intimacy, and a renewed connection to your inner guidance.
Osteopathy x
Self-Touch: Precision Meets Embodiment
This course blends the precision of osteopathic insight with the intimacy of mindful self-touch. 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
✓Heart Anatomy & Fascial Connection
Explore the relationship between the sternum, rib cage, diaphragm, neck and shoulders — and how they shape breath, posture and openness.
✓Heart, Emotion & Nervous System
Understand how protection, grief and emotion can show up in the chest, and explore gentle ways to soften holding patterns and create space.
✓Heart Mapping & Sensual Touch
Meet the heart space through self-touch, breath and micro-movement — noticing where you hold, protect and are ready to open.
✓Self-Healing Tools & Rituals
Learn fascia release, chest-opening movement, breathwork and supportive rituals to deepen sensation, circulation and connection to your heart.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT AFTER FINISHING THE FULL CYCLE
✓More Emotional Openness
Feel and express emotion while staying grounded, connected and safe within yourself.
✓A Regulated Nervous System
Cultivate greater calm, resilience and inner steadiness through heart-centered touch and breath.
✓Sensual Presence & Intimacy
Reconnect with sensitivity, pleasure and the felt experience of your heart and body.
✓Clearer Heart Boundaries
Open without losing yourself — sensing what nourishes you and what doesn’t.
✓Embodied Confidence
Create space for your voice, expression and the courage to be seen.
✓A Loving Relationship with Yourself
Bring more warmth, tenderness and heart-centered rituals into everyday life.
Heart & Skin:
Touching Into Desire, Intimacy & Aliveness
August 26, 2026 – September 16, 2026
Live & Guided Online
269 EUR
ONE TIME
During the next four weeks, we will release stored tension and experience emotional freedom by awakening the power of your jaw and face. In this transformative 4-week journey, you’ll learn to dissolve blockages, enhance self-expression, and restore balance to your body and mind.
✓ 4 LIVE classes with Q&A sessions
✓ 4 Short practice videos with potent self-massage techniques, movements, and exercises for daily use at home
✓ 3 Meditations
✓ Full replay access for 3 months
✓ Downloadable practice guide
✓ Tools for lifelong self-care
✓ Payment plan available
✓ BONUS: Rose Lip Balm Stick (shipped to your home, EU only)
Videos for Daily Practice
BONUS GIFT
A Sensory Companion
Touch deepens when the senses are involved.
As part of this course, you’ll receive the Rose Lip Balm as a sensory companion to support your jaw and facial self-touch practices.
Applied to the lips, jawline, or fingertips, it offers warmth, glide, and a subtle rose scent that supports presence, nervous system ease, and emotional softening.
Included as a ritual extra with your course enrollment
About Marie-Sophie Kiepe
OSTEOPATH & DESIGNER OF EMBODIED EXPERIENCES
Marie-Sophie is an osteopath, embodiment educator, and founder of the touch.® — a method rooted in the art of Touch, Movement, and Presence. After experiencing chronic pain at a young age due to thrombosis, she devoted her life to studying self-healing and the intelligence of the body. Her approach weaves osteopathic medicine, somatic education, and Daoist and Tibetan energy work into a refined philosophy of embodied care — guiding others to reconnect with themselves through awareness, intimacy, and touch. Read more about her here.
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 November 2026).
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We will meet each Wednesday at 6pm (Berlin time) for 75min 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.
