Chi Nei Tsang Healing Center

Karen has changed my life! I started seeing her for weekly sessions a little over three years ago and the results were profound on every level. I have experienced a lot of body work, as a body worker myself, and her skills are particularly unique.
Even after just one session– I went in with very severe issues and came out not only with complete relief, but feeling more like myself than I had in years, and able to expand in my life and do things I didn’t have the energy to do before.
Since abdominal massage goes way beyond working at a physical level but also provides a lot of spiritual and emotional healing, it is important to work with someone that you trust and has done a lot of that type of healing themselves. Karen creates an environment that feels safe enough to open to this type of deep work. Due to her depth of experience, she also knows how to adapt to your personal speed and needs at different moments within a session and over the long term. She has the ability to truly listen to the body and respond appropriately. She is very good at guiding you to find the healthy resources and smart choices that are necessary to break significant unhealthy patterns. She really guides YOU to find YOUR unique way.
Karen is a true healer, which is hard to come by these days. She is honest, humble, kind, direct, and very wise. Some people have found what they are meant to do and she is one of them.

Chi Nei Tsang with Karen has improved my life. Karen’s skillful hands and gentle nature put me at ease, and allow me to receive the benefits of our work together. I have visited Karen on and off for nearly ten years. There have been periods where I would see her weekly, sometimes bi-​weeky, and sometimes I’ve taken breaks and then started up again. One thing I know for sure is that when I take the time to nurture my self and work with Karen, I feel better and I am more connected. I have recommend friends and family to Karen over the years. I am happy to recommend Karen to anyone interested in feeling better and being more connected to life.

Karen is one of the leading practitioners of Chi Nei in the Bay Area and organizes their continuing education classes whenever she can. I had chronic digestive issues and since seeing Karen they are largely resolved. Her work is all about the connection between emotional upheaval and the body — especially the digestive tract — the well known mind/​body connection. I find her work perfect for those times when I need to understand and process a psychological or «in the body» issue in a non verbal way. Afterwards I have felt deeply relaxed and pensive, as though a burden was lifted. Not sure why or how… but I trust the experience. Karen is also an artist and I have found her to be intuitive, sensitive, kind and respectful.

Rather than try to detail the wonderful work Karen does, my suggestion is that you read her own description of the work and if there’s any part of it that sounds like it would be beneficial for you, make an appointment to see this wonderful practitioner!
Karin does all she enumerates and the other reviewers mention — especially listen and respond skillfully to the individual need. Thankfully, one does not need to know how it works to benefit from the work!

Karen’s Chi Nei Tsang has done wonders for me. I came to her suffering from the effects of a very traumatic childhood. Her gentle and compassionate nature helped me to relax so that I could more readily benefit from her massage treatment. My being able to «trust» was very important to me, since I had previously experienced post traumatic stress.
I don’t know how Chi Nei Tsang works, but I do appreciate that the individual performing the massage is a very important ingredient to its effectiveness. For me, it was more than just a mechanical procedure. It was the kind, gentle, compassionate, understanding person that performed the treatment that was very important.
I suspect that the artistry and sensitivity expressed in her mosaic work carries over to her massage practice.
I too have recommended Karen to friends and they have benefited from her work.

Through doing Chi Nei Tsang with Karen I learned more about the vast life inside my abdomen. I have been able to connect with and integrate parts of myself that had previously been outside the realm of my felt experience. Her gentle touch and compassionate presence make it a safe (and pleasurable) experience. I highly recommend this wonderful work.

Abdominal massage might sound strange, but it has roots in Chinese Taoist traditional healing. This you can read on Wikipedia :)
Karen Pearle is a very skillful practitioner. Her talents for listening and for healing combine to create an experience in which I felt attended to, cared for, and ultimately healed. Karen’s holistic approach is refreshing, and yes, as good as it gets. I’ve referred friends to Karen, and they all reported excellent results. A necessary resource in the field of alternative medicine.