CTM Session 5 (In-Person): Freeing Your Spine and Alleviating Chronic Pain
with Tim Regan

*Important Note: This is the in-person class registration. If you are attending online, you must register for the online class in order to get the Zoom link.

Explore key pillars of Chinese medicine for health and well-being.  Simple, hands-on lessons integrate therapeutic exercise (Daoyin/Qigong), breathing (TuNa), qi circulation (Xingqi), self-massage (Anmo), and fingertip acupressure (Zhiya) to experience the deep structure of the body from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine. 

Learn gentle yet deep spinal twists for releasing tension to relieve pain and weakness due to obstructions to the free flow of qi and blood. Strengthen your reserves and improve circulation to help relieve headaches, back and shoulder pain, joint pain and stiffness, and repetitive stress injuries of the wrist, arm, and shoulders, as well as improve range of motion, and invigorate your vision and hearing.

The CTM 1 certificate includes 50 hours of instruction across 33 weeks, with dozens of specific exercises and treatment strategies within the context of traditional Chinese medicine as well as a personalized approach to the most popular health maintenance routines. In each class, emphasis is placed on perceiving, understanding, and guiding qi for specific therapeutic benefit. 

Certification Program Details

  ●  Sessions can also be enrolled out of series but will not count toward certification (which requires the full sequence in order).

  ●  Upon completion of all CTM 1 workshops, a 50-hour certificate will be issued.

Purchase Passes:

Beginners will gain:

Movement instructors will gain:

Bodyworkers will gain:

Chinese medicine practitioners will gain:

Session 1: “Exploring the Two Qi: Integrating Breath and Body Channels"  (3 weeks)

Session 2: “Refreshing Your Lungs, Diaphragm, and Shoulders”  (3 weeks)

Session 3:  “Your Foot-Lumbar Pump as Wellspring ” (3 weeks)

Session 4:  “Securing Your Kidney Qi: Hormonal Balance and Aging”  (3 weeks)

Session 5:  “Freeing Your Spine and Alleviating Chronic Pain”  (3 weeks)

Session 6: “Easing Liver Qi and Your Stress Response”  (3 weeks)  

Session 7: “Digestion, Fatigue, and Muscle Health”  (3 weeks)

Session 8: “Settle your Spirit, Nourish Your Heart, and Invigorate Circulation"  (3 weeks)

Session 9: “Personalizing the Transforming Sinews Method (Muscle Changing Classic)"  (3 weeks)

Session 10: “Personalizing the Eight-piece Brocade”  (3 weeks)

Session 11: “Personalizing the Six Word Formula (Six Healing Sounds) and Developing New Routines”  (3 weeks)

About the Instructor:

Tim Regan, MA has been an instructor of Chinese therapeutic movement arts for over twenty years. He began practice in 1988 and has gone on to study both traditional and contemporary approaches to Tai Chi, Daoyin, Qigong, Xingyi and Bagua for both health promotion and self-defense. His longest tenure as a student has been with B.P. Chan and associated instructors Reggie Jackson, David Saltman, and Richard Satlow. Tim received his Masters in Health Arts and Sciences from Goddard College in 2006. He spent two years as a clinic assistant with Tom Bisio and was certified in Chinese bodywork through Zheng Gu Tui Na in 2009.

Tim heads the Movement and Respiration Studies curriculum for the University of Bridgeport Acupuncture Institute where he teaches both therapeutic Tai Chi and Qigong as well as Tuina bodywork. At UBAI, he has developed a practical, clinic-based Qigong method for acupuncture students to implement with their patients.

Student Testimonials:

Tim is extremely knowledgeable and able to communicate effectively. He has a great understanding of anatomy and physiology . With his ability to demonstrate the CTM principles with western scientific explanations his course speaks to me on several levels. It is an active class that allows the student to feel the process as he is discussing what is taking place in the body. For a serious student interested in studying the overlap of different disciplines that is based on empiric and scientific experience this is an outstanding class .

- Alan W.

Tim's courses are the fruit of extensive research and experience in both the health and martial arts fields. The quality of his teaching is unique, and you can feel that he has mastered the subjects he teaches with great generosity. I highly recommend his online courses, as his pedagogy is truly exceptional.

- Mohammed S. - Teacher in Qi Gong with 40+ experience

Tim Regan is an outstanding instructor of the internal Chinese martial arts and their relationship to Chinese medicine.  

- Michael W.

Tim's classes are accessible and simple—so a beginner can benefit from them. His classes are also deeply complex—there is always another layer to uncover and explore. 

- Louise F.