ONLINE COURSE

the touch.

November 12 – December 10

THIS EDITION

Heart & Skin:
Touching Into Desire, Intimacy & Aliveness

November 12, 2025 – December 10, 2025

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.

BEGIN THE UNFOLDING

  • "the touch. is a brilliant practical tool of self care every human being with a womb needs to learn. Marie-Sophie combined her extensive clinical experiences with the wisdom of eastern spiritual teachings into a very compact, deepening practice of self-love."

    Corry Angwar, Artist and Kindred Meditation Facilitator

  • "The "touch" series taught me to respect and love my own body."

    Oliven Adi, Gyrokinesis(R) and Gyrotonic(R) trainer

  • "I can highly recommend the course for every woman who wants to learn to work with her body and mind and explore new ways of healing."

    Katharina Galladé, Senior Director Galerie Droste

  • "Marie Sophie's THE TOUCH is clear, compact, comprehensible and deeply pleasant for one's own salvation."

    Stephanie Bothor, Conceptual Artist and Researcher

Soften the armor, expand the breath, and let love move freely again.

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.

OPEN YOUR HEART 🫀

Bonus Session
Ceremonial Tea Journey with Jade Brunel

As part of our Heart & Skin journey, tea practitioner Jade Brunel will guide us through a meditative tea ceremony — a gentle ritual to open the senses, quiet the mind, and attune to the heart.

Founder of WAOTEA and author of “Tea, Remembering the Essence of Life,” Jade bridges Daoist mysticism, mindfulness, and somatic awareness. Her work supports others in navigating life’s transitions with grace, presence, and intimacy.

Weekly Schedule

Join me each week to build strength and deepen your connection with yourself and your body. Every class is held online at 6 PM (Berlin time), and all you need is a mat, a stool, and your body—no fancy equipment required. Each 75-minute session includes a Q&A, so there’s plenty of space to address any questions you have.

  • 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 4 – Tea Ceremony with Jade Brunel

    Ritual Connection to the Heart

    A botanical and sensory journey into presence and receptivity.

    A ceremonial grounding to integrate openness with inner peace and tenderness.

    Soft space for reflection, connection, and heart nourishment.

  • 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.

Self-Touch x Movement: Unlocking Healing and Empowerment from Within

This course goes beyond technique—it’s an invitation to rediscover the deep connection between you and your body. Blending the precision of osteopathy with the intimacy of self-touch and conscious movement, it empowers you not just to release tension, but to truly feel, listen, and respond to your body’s needs.

Self-touch and movement become a language of healing—cultivating trust, emotional release, and a deep sense of safety within your own skin. Rather than following rigid methods, you’ll be guided to move with intention, curiosity, and fluidity, honoring your body as your greatest teacher on the path to embodied freedom.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Heart Anatomy & Fascial Connection
Understand how the sternum, rib cage, diaphragm, cervical spine, and shoulder girdle work together to support breath, posture, circulation, and emotional regulation.

The Heart–Emotion Connection & Nervous System Softening
Explore how protection, grief, or unexpressed emotion can manifest as tightness in the chest and upper body. Learn somatic and trauma-informed practices to release holding patterns while cultivating emotional safety, presence, and vulnerability.

Heart Mapping & Sensual Touch Techniques
Navigate the heart space as a sensitive landscape. Through gentle self-touch, breath, and micro-movement, discover where you guard, where you long to open, and how to expand your heart field with softness and clarity.

Self-Healing Tools & Heart-Centered Rituals
A practical toolkit including fascia release for the sternum and intercostals, chest-opening movement, breathwork, and supportive botanicals/oils to enhance circulation, deepen sensation, and reconnect with the radiant field of the heart.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT AFTER FINISHING THE FULL CYCLE

A Softer, Freer Heart Space
Release of chronic tightness around the chest, diaphragm, and shoulders leading to more easeful posture and deeper breathing.

More Emotional Availability & Trust
An ability to feel and express emotions without shutting down, while staying grounded and self-connected.

A Regulated Nervous System
Improved resilience and steadiness through heart-centered breath and touch practices that support calm, clarity, and safety inside the body.

Sensual Presence & Felt Intimacy
A renewed connection to pleasure, sensitivity, and desire through touch that awakens the skin and the subtle field around the heart.

A Clearer, Stronger Heart Boundary
Openness without collapse. You will sense what supports you and what drains you, and advocate for your needs from a centered place.

Embodied Confidence & Radiance
A relaxed chest creates space for voice, expression, and the courage to be seen in your fullness.

A Romantic Relationship with Yourself
More warmth, tenderness, and daily rituals that nourish connection from the inside out.

Heart & Skin:
Touching Into Desire, Intimacy & Aliveness

220 EUR

ONE TIME

For five weeks, we’ll explore the heart as a gateway to softness, aliveness, and inner harmony. Through tender yet transformative practices, you’ll release held emotions, open pathways of breath and circulation, and awaken the deep intelligence within your heart — nurturing emotional clarity, vitality, and connection from the inside out.

What’s included:

  • 5 LIVE classes with Q&A sessions

  • Short practice videos of potent self-massage movement
    and exercises for daily use at home

  • Replays

  • A downloadable guide

  • BONUS : Live Tea Ceremony with Jade Brunel

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About Marie-Sophie Kiepe

OSTEOPATH MSc, MPH & EMBODIMENT COACH

Marie-Sophie is a passionate advocate for holistic health, boasting a rich academic background in physical therapy, osteopathic medicine, and public health. Complementing her formal education, she has pursued various qualifications in movement certifications and eastern medicine, including Gyrokinesis® & Gyrototonic® Methods, Tibetan Pulse and Universal Healing Tao.

With over 17 years of experience in performing arts medicine, collaborating with esteemed institutions such as the Vienna State Opera, National Sodre Montevideo, State Ballet Berlin, and the Intercultural Medicine Institute in Mexico, Marie-Sophie has honed her expertise in fostering a holistic approach to healthcare. Her path led to pioneering research on dance therapy and osteopathy for musicians in collaboration with the Medical University Charite, Berlin. Operating from her studio in Berlin, she educates online and guides individuals towards reconnecting with their bodies and achieving holistic health.

FAQ

  • Whether you’re new to self-touch and heart-centered practices or already familiar with somatic and sensual movement, this course meets you exactly where you are. It offers essential insights into heart health and emotional regulation, with simple yet profound techniques that are easy to integrate and suitable for all levels. This journey serves as a foundational introduction to the heart center—bridging modern science with ancient wisdom. While it speaks especially to the female body and experience, it’s open to anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of the emotional, physical, and energetic intelligence of the heart—whether you’re a practitioner, teacher, or someone on a path of healing and reconnection.

  • We will meet each Wednesday at 6pm (Berlin time) for 75min live session where we will go through a sequence of massage techniques and specific 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.

  • No worries! Each session is recorded, so you can watch and practice at your own pace.

  • In these online guided sessions, you'll gain access to the latest scientific insights on hip health, integrated with energetic and spiritual awareness. You’ll receive self-massage sequences and exercises to help you reconnect with your body. However, please note that this course focuses on health promotion rather than clinical diagnoses.

    This course is designed to inspire and empower, but it should not be considered a substitute for treatment from a qualified healthcare professional.

  • You will have three months access to the course (until February 2026)

  • 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 and Movement 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.

  • These sessions are based on the philosophical approach of Taoism, Tibetan Pulse, Osteopathic Medicine, Physical Therapy, as well as Gyrokinesis® and Gyrotonic®. They are further informed by my professional experience of more than 17 years as a practicing therapist.

  • 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 your hands, your body, a stool, a mat and an oil.

  • Due to the nature of this offering, a live, guided online experience, refunds are NOT available. I appreciate your understanding and recommend making sure the dates and times feel right for you before booking.

We are Touch

Touch is the first sense we grow in the womb.
It is the pulse of our essence,
always with us, always alive.

Our hands extend the heart —
they hold, release, and dance.

To touch is to move,
to be in touch is to flow,
with ourselves, with each other,
with life itself.

We are touch.

- Marie-Sophie Kiepe