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SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials + Modul 1 - 10-day Thai Yoga Massage Course

Tenerife : 4 - 14 December, 2025

Tenerife : 4 - 14 December, 2025

SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials + Modul 1 - 10-day Thai Yoga Massage Course

Discover the healing power of conscious touch

Start Your Bodywork Journey with SOUL IN TOUCH: Essentials & Module 1

10-Day Thai Yoga Bodywork & Intuitive Touch Training

Welcome to a training that’s not just about learning techniques — it’s about rediscovering your ability to truly feel, connect, and hold space for others through mindful, intuitive touch.

Over the course of 10 immersive days in Tenerife, you’ll experience the heart of the SOUL IN TOUCH method: a unique blend of Thai Yoga Bodywork, Qi Gong, conscious movement, and breath-led practices designed to reconnect you with yourself and others.

Whether you’re completely new or already experienced in massage, yoga, or holistic practices, this training offers you a meaningful, solid foundation in holistic bodywork while guiding you into deeper presence, awareness, and authentic connection through touch.

Course Outline & Key Components of SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials

From the very first day, we’ll focus on cultivating awareness, grounding, and embodied presence. You’ll learn how to prepare your own body, breath, and mind before giving a session — because your state of being shapes the experience you offer.

You’ll be introduced to the philosophy and principles behind the SOUL IN TOUCH approach, centered around compassion, mindfulness, and conscious touch.

As your confidence and sensitivity grow, you’ll gradually move into hands-on practice — learning a beautiful, flowing sequence of bodywork techniques inspired by Traditional Thai Yoga Massage.

Throughout the training, we’ll explore:

  • How to center yourself and work from a place of awareness

  • The art of conscious, compassionate, intuitive touch

  • How to feel and follow energy lines and read the body’s subtle language

  • Safe and effective techniques using hands, forearms, elbows, and feet

  • Assisted stretches, and dynamic movements

  • Body mechanics for longevity and ease as a practitioner

  • Mindful preparation before and grounding rituals after a session

To support your inner and outer practice, Qi Gong sequences, and YogaQiFlow — my own signature blend of Yoga and Qi Gong designed specifically to prepare bodyworkers for intuitive, energy-based work — are woven into the daily rhythm of the course. These mindful movement practices help regulate your nervous system, deepen your ability to listen, sense, and hold space, and cultivate the inner presence needed to truly connect.

Your Gateway to the SOUL IN TOUCH Academy

This 10-day immersion (Essentials + Module 1) also serves as the foundation for those wishing to continue on the path within the SOUL IN TOUCH Academy, officially launching in May 2026. If you’ve already completed the SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials Course — whether as a 1-day workshop, 2-day course, or online — your investment will be fully credited toward this 10-day training. During the immersion, we’ll revisit and deepen the Essentials content together, allowing space for refinement, new insights, and perhaps a few fresh elements added since your last experience. This ensures that everyone, whether new or returning, moves forward on the same page — connected, grounded, and prepared for a beautiful journey back to an ‘human being’ rather than a ‘human doing’.

What’s SOUL IN TOUCH?

SOUL IN TOUCH is a bodywork method, that unites different healing arts to touch someone’s soul essence and to reveal the healing power of human to human connection.

Being present and aware of the food we eat, gives us the possibility to really feel into ourselves what foods we need at any given moment of our lives.

As we remain present & aware with nature, we will learn more about ourselves, and how we are closely connected with her. Practicing in nature will offer a feeling of inner contentment, which has a natural effect on your well being.

No matter if in between family members, friends or couples, to gift someone else with your attention and pure presence is already healing in many ways.

Through Bodywork, we relearn to just be, and actively listen, to give another the feeling to be heard, to be seen and to offer care from the heart.

The learnings of the SOUL IN TOUCH ESSENTIALS RETREAT can be adapted into your daily life, for instance:

  • the way we physically approach others
  • the way we communicate to others
  • the way we respond rather than react, remaining in our center, no matter what occurs.
  • what food our body is asking for
  • understanding more the natural connection in between human to human and human to nature
  • creating inner contentment with the healing power of being in a safe community

The healing power reveals through conscious touch, more so than simply applying  technique. Technique comes with experience, but the lasting nourishing effect is due to the care and presence you are able to offer. In the SOUL IN TOUCH method we practice a soft, gentle, at the same time profound touch. A touch that consists of pure presence and awareness, the hand melts in the other and starts to become one.

As we would ask for permission to enter into someone’s space or body, that’s where touch becomes meaningful, with a memorable blue print. A co-created healing space where the feeling of oneness unfolds organically.

This may sound an unachievable task, but you will be amazed how fast you will be able to practice to touch consciously, and incorporate this quality into your daily life.

Conscious Touch is the oldest existing healing power of humanity, we just need to come back into the feeling body.

For whom is SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials?

  • Yoga, Qi Gong & Pilates Teachers
  • Massagetherapists who want to dive deeper into the world of bodywork
  • Energy Workers
  • Reiki Practitioners

  • For anyone curious about learning conscious touch and seeking to reduce stress and anxiety in their lives

This course is open to anyone drawn to the healing power of touch and mindful connection. Whether you’re a Yoga, Qi Gong, or Pilates teacher, a massage therapist wanting to deepen your bodywork skills, or an energy worker and Reiki practitioner looking to expand your tools — you’ll feel at home here. It’s also perfect for anyone simply curious about conscious touch, intuitive healing, and finding new ways to reduce stress, regulate the nervous system, and reconnect with themselves and others.

For those already working in holistic fields or aspiring to become professional bodyworkers, SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials + Modul 1 also serves as a foundational step into the SOUL IN TOUCH Academy, beginning May 2026.

Accreditation & Certification Path

This training is internationally accredited by IPHM (International Practitioners of Holistic Medicine).

Please note:
The Essentials + Module 1 Training is designed as a strong foundational course for personal enrichment or to integrate selected techniques into your existing professional holistic or movement-based practice.

It is not a standalone certification to professionally offer SOUL IN TOUCH sessions.

If you are an experienced practitioner and, after completing your 10 massage logs and a final supervised treatment, we both feel confident in your skills, you may professionally integrate what you’ve learned into your current practice — without using the SOUL IN TOUCH name.

To officially offer certified SOUL IN TOUCH treatments and use the name, you must complete the full Anatomy Module, Module 2, and enter the SOUL IN TOUCH Academy pathway.

We choose this format because SOUL IN TOUCH stands for quality, depth, and integrity in holistic bodywork. Our aim is to provide not just techniques, but a solid foundation of embodied awareness, presence, and compassionate touch. This gradual and supported progression ensures that those who eventually offer professional SOUL IN TOUCH treatments do so with genuine skill, sensitivity, and a deep understanding of both body and soul.

Be in community

We humans are made to be in community. Experience the beauty of practicing with others, sharing touch, movement, and presence. Sing together, laugh, and feel held in a loving, safe environment where connection is celebrated and everyone is seen.

SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials Course – at Casa el Riego, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Casa El Riego

Casa rural el Riego is a 120-year-old house on an ecological finca on the Eastern side of the beautiful island of Tenerife which is still authentic and very calm. The house offers 6 guestrooms with private bathroom each and a 4x12 meter salt-water pool for common use with splendid views on the mountains and the sea. The finca and the house are maintained in a sustainable and ecological way. We eat what we find in our gardens (and other ecological gardens), freshly prepared and with love. 

Camino las Coloradas, 29, 38500 Güímar, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Program

  • Learn the essence of Qi Gong — a beautiful, grounding practice that teaches you body mechanics, breath awareness, and presence. 

  • YogaQiFlow sessions, my signature movement practice blending Qi Gong, Yoga, and embodied breathwork to prepare you physically, mentally, emotionally, and energetically for the bodywork we’ll practice.

  • Deepen your skills in Module 1, where you’ll learn a complete 90-minute Thai Yoga Bodywork-inspired sequence, including assisted stretches, energy line techniques, and conscious, compassionate touch.

  • Enjoy daily fresh, vegetarian brunches and dinners prepared with produce from our finca and local farms — because how we nourish ourselves is part of the practice.

  • Receive your SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials + Module 1 Course Manual to support your continued learning and personal practice after the course.

  • This 10-day immersion lays the foundation to join the SOUL IN TOUCH Academy starting May 2026. 

8 days of SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials + Module 1 Course practice + 1 x Manual + 1 x Excursion
Meeting like minded people & getting nourished by each other

Schedule

Example schedule:

07:00 – 09:00 Morning practice (Qi Gong / YogaQiFlow / Qi Exploration Exercise)
09:00 – 10:30 Silent Brunch
10:30 – 14:00 SOUL IN TOUCH Bodywork practice

14:00 – 15:00 Fresh Fruits / Snacks / Rest
15:00 – 18:30 SOUL IN TOUCH Bodywork practice

18:30 - 19:30 Dinner

19:30 - 20:30 Optional Evening Activity (Meredian Healing, Yin Yoga etc)

* Schedule subject to change.

Regular Pricing

€1888

Previous SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials Courses (online & offline) will be accredited

incl food, shared accommodation + Course

Pricing Early Bird

€1833 - until 4 September 

Save €55 on your tuition when you book by 4 September.

Bonus: If you’ve previously completed a SOUL IN TOUCH Essentials Course (online or offline), your course fee will be fully credited towards this 10-Day Training — meaning even more savings for you.

incl food, shared accommodation + Course

 

 

Marco Bartolomeo :: Thai Yoga Bodywork, Yoga for stress relief, Forrest Rock Qigong - Namaste

Namaste, my name is Marco and I’m an Italian from Munich who is passionate about sports and their meditative aspects. Growing up in Germany I became an avid soccer player and finished my professional formation as an industrial clerk. My life has taken an unexpected turn when I decided to leave my corporate job and step out of my comfort zone in order to discover my true purpose in life. This search led me to Thailand where I studied Thaï Yoga Massage and to San Diego where I studied Holistic Health, Bodywork, Yoga & Qi Gong.

Fusing them all together I created a bodywork healing therapy called SOUL IN TOUCH and a signature style yoga called YogaQiFlow. Today I am a Holistic Health Professional, Bodyworker, Yoga & Qi Gong Teacher based on the beautiful canary island Tenerife teaching courses sharing my healing gift and guide people towards discovering the inner power within themselves and re-connecting to their natural being.

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